Arlington, VA – Thanks to Sean Maher, from the City Of Oakland’s press information office, this media release has the details behind last night’s Oakland City Council meeting and the…
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City Of Oakland Committee Approves William Bratton Contract; Bad Move
The City of Oakland’s Public Safety Committee has approved the contract to hire the controversial William Bratton in a special consultant role, helping, but not replacing Howard Jordan, the current…
Is Chief William Bratton The Answer For Oakland’s Police? MOBN
Oakland is bringing in William Bratton as a public safety consultant. Bratton made his name nationally as New York City police commissioner. During and after his tenure, New York significantly increased police…
Oakland News: Oakland A’s At Top 2012 Stories, NYE Tips
Oakland News is back but this may not be the last one of 2012 just yet. As this blog is made, this blogger’s visiting his mother in Chicago. Christmas was…
Oakland Councilmember De La Fuente Called Homophobe By LGBT Club
Oakland Councilmember Ignacio De La Fuente’s in hot water over a campaign approach that overstepped the bounds of appropriate taste in his battle for the current At-Large City Council seat…
Four Years From Now In Oakland – Mario Juarez
At the end of my first term I ,Mario Juarez, running for Oakland District Five Councilmember,hope we have a safer city. I believe that Oakland’s biggest challenge is crime. Our…
A Safer City; A Safer Oakland
A Safer City; A Safer Oakland Our campaign for Oakland City Council has focused on improving Public Safety, Creating Jobs and Smart Growth and Restoring Essential Neighborhood Services. Some people…
Occupy Oakland: 1,127 Complaints Against Oakland Police
In a press release sent today, moments ago, the City of Oakland reports that there have been 1,127 total complaints related to the Oakland Police and Occupy Oakland. That’s not…
Alan Blueford Murder Could Alter Oakland Politics
Was Alan Blueford killed by the Oakland Police? There’s a small, but growing, group of people who say the Skyline High School student was. But chances are you’re reading this…
Oakland News: Mayor Quan Invites Councilmembers To Mua For Drinks; Budget Items
Oakland Mayor Quan tried for a Kumbaya moment Thursday June 28th, and got it, to a degree. And that after a Wednesday July 27th press conference that went badly off…
City Of Oakland: Oakland Police “Flawed Response” To Occupy Oakland Oct 25th Protest
The City Of Oakland admits what many have known for months, and almost cost Oakland Mayor Jean Quan her job, a successful recall effort would have given her one of…
Pat Kernighan: Occupy Oakland Targets Oakland Councilmember
Pat Kernighan, the Oakland District Two Councilmember who has, in this blogger’s view, ably served the people of her area for three terms. However, and even with that, Councilmember Kernighan…
Oakland Police Hold Open House Friday, May 4th
Another step in the Oakland Police Departments work to rebuild its relationship with the Oakland Community – and this is a good one. Read from Oakland Local: Meet Oakland Police…
Oaksterdam Univ, Richard Lee’s Home Raided By Feds In Oakland
Chaos. While Oakland Police and Oakland City Officials were dealing with one crisis over in East Oakland, the death of six college students at the hands of an ex-student of…
Oakland’s Deanna Santana’s Insensitive Remark To Question About Homeless
Oakland City Administrator Deanna Santana made a statement that, had I been her communications representative, I’d step in to clean up, and then give her a private tongue-lashing for doing.…
Oakland CVS Pharmacy, Police Search For Armed Gunman This Morning
This from an email: Alert: Police perimeter- 5100 Block of Broadway, CVS Pharmacy. Armed Gunman believed to be inside; all employees evacuated Nixle Users, The below Twitter messages were sent…
Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan On Police Redeployment
[caption id="attachment_16537" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan"][/caption]Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan, concerned that the public has the wrong idea about the redeployment of what the City of Oakland cal...
Oakland Police Surround, Threaten To Taser, Autistic Teen
Oakland, CA – This happened just before I entered Gold’ Gym last night and at about 7:45 PM from reports. From the statements, and now accounts on Facebook, a teenager…
Find Apple iPhone App Helps Oakland Police Catch Robbers
You read that correctly: “Find Apple iPhone App Helps Oakland Police Catch Robbers” I recently purchased an Apple iPad for my Mom, with an eye toward buying her an Apple…
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Recall – Ken Pratt Rips Quan
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan is facing two things: a recall signature gathering process and the wrath of Oaklander Ken Pratt. This blogger literally ran into Mr. Pratt at last night’s…
Occupy Oakland Website Down As Of 11:23 PM PDT
For some reason, the website at the URL http://www.occupyoakland.org – the online home of the Occupy Oakland movement – is down. To be more specific, this blogger discovered that not…
Oakland Police Association Tells Occupy Oakland To Leave, Mayor Blasted On Twitter
In an amusing blog post (and for its pure hubris), The Oakland Police Association has stated in a new blog that it’s time for Occupy Oakland to go. Frankly, releasing…
Oakland News: Jesse LaGreca At Occupy Oakland; OPD Confused
A bit of catching up to do on Oakland News, so here we go. Occupy Oakland Occupy Oakland continues to “occupy” the collective minds of Oakland and much of America,…