GM adds 842000 vehicles to ignition switch recallHonolulu Star-AdvertiserDETROIT >> General Motors on Tuesday doubled to 1.6 million the number of small cars it is recalling to fix faulty ignition switches linked to multiple fatal…
Los Angeles TimesIn a rare public apology, General Motors acknowledged Tuesday that it may have reacted too slowly to a safety issue linked to 13 deaths. The delayed response could potentially cost GM tens of…
Column 1: State of the City, Olympics & OaklandMartinez News-GazetteTHANK YOU, Mr. Mayor, for a terrific State of the City message delivered at the breakfast. I was not able to be there, but the full…
SportingNews.comAt 6-5 and 266 pounds, Clowney will surely prove to be one of the fastest linemen at the Combine. It’s his speed that has allowed him to blow by offensive tackles en route to the…
CBSSports.comWhile the buzz in Indianapolis remains centered on Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel and Missouri defensive end Michael Sam, the best player in the 2014 draft — South Carolina pass rusher Jadeveon Clowney — began…
Boston GlobeIt is a bonus for baseball fans that Derek Jeter’s final season as a New York Yankee will be one that Alex Rodriguez spends in baseball banishment. Jeter will be feted in 2014, A-Rod…
New York Daily NewsIn so many ways, there has not been a Yankee who mattered more to the Yankees than Derek Jeter, not since Babe Ruth. This does not make Jeter bigger than Ruth in…
Jeff Orr Says He Called Marcus Smart “Piece Of Crap” Nothing Racial Marcus Smart, the Oklahoma State star basketball player who shoved Jeff Orr, a fan in the stands near by, was reportedly told to…
Cléver Jiménez , in a shocking story from Plan V, says that Ecuador President Rafael Correa wants to kill him. If you recall, Cléver Jiménez is an elected official in Ecuador who was accused of,…
USA TODAYDETROIT — Tesla Motors said today that it expects its fourth-quarter sales to come in 20% over its previous guidance, but executives here at the North American International Auto Show were hazy about when…
USA TODAYGeneral Motors is recalling 303,000 of its new 2014 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra full-size pickup trucks in the U.S. to reprogram software to prevent them from catching on fire. So far, eight fires…
ABC NewsThe United States said Friday it was withdrawing a diplomat from India in hopes it would end a bitter dispute that started with the arrest and strip search of an Indian diplomat in New…
BBC SportNewcastle Falcons recall Warren Fury at scrum-half and bring in Jamie Helleur and James Fitzpatrick at centre. The only other change from the side that were brushed aside 16-3 by Exeter sees Will Welch…
USA TODAYJOHANNESBURG — For all his years of struggle, imprisonment and political leadership, it was Nelson Mandela’s capacity to embrace his former oppressors without bitterness in order to achieve a multiracial national reconciliation that stands…
Ruoyang Wang is not a celebrity, not someone this blogger knows, not anyone who you’ve heard of. But to his parents in China, Ruoyang Wang was their son. Their promise. Their hope for the future….
The New Parkway Oakland at 474 24th Avenue in the Uptown District, is something to see. It’s kind of tucked way in a warehouse that’s much larger than it looks, and is just around the…
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan has a terrible habit of operating the Office Of The Mayor Of Oakland as if it’s Mayberry RFD: a small town where she drives herself around, or has her husband Dr….
The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders are an American pop-culture phenomenon. The squad, started by sports marketing legend and Cowboys General Manager of lore Tex Schramm, has produced two generations of models who have gone on to…
Amanda Bynes latest plot for attention, posting topless photos of herself on Twitter, is far less extreme than any of her actions in 2012. Consider, that in 2012, last year, Ms. Bynes got arrested, charged…
Coldwater, the movie that was the result of the production and directoral effort of Vincent Grashaw, made its debut at South-By-Southwest Festival in Austin tonight. In fact, as this blog post is typed, the movie’s…
“Dear TMZ” goes the top Twitter Trend for today (one of them) because TMZ has said there are photos that have Justin Bieber and Lil Za, and Lil Twist with codine and Sizzup. But they…
The NFL has released the Super Bowl XLVII injury report from Wednesday, and it has a few surprises with Niners Linebacker Ahmad Brooks and Aldon Smith seeing limited action in practice due to a shoulder…
WOW! This is great news. If you recall from a past post, City Slicker Farms, one of Oakland’s great non-profits, is having a ground breaking of its planned and now underway West Oakland Urban Farm…
Julie Buehler, who readers may recall has the radio show Buehler’s Day Off at KXPS 1010 Palm Springs, CA, and where I co-hosted the show last July 2nd, is in New Orleans for Super Bowl…
An update in the news about what’s called the Excalibur murder-suicide of Vegas.com’s Jessica Kenny via the gun of Eddie Brandt last Friday at the registration desk of the hotel-casino. According to KNTV Las Vegas,…
Robert Griffin III is not only impressive on the field, as Quarterback for The Washington Redskins, he’s equally impressive off of it. Bascially RG3 is a smart, emotionally balanced, disciplined young man with a wicked…
When last we checked, Stephanie Thorpe had just secured the rights to develop new versions of the modern classic ElfQuest. If you recall, I met Ms. Thorpe at this year’s Comic Con: But Stephanie, proving…
Ross Mirkarimi has dodged a bullet this week, since legendary Retired Navy Cmdr. Zoe Dunning (pictured), anti-DADT Activist, and Green Bay Packers Fan who won a seat on the San Francisco Democratic Central Committee (DCC),…
If you remember or have recently seen the 1994 hit movie Forest Gump, starring Tom Hanks, you certainly recall the man named “Bubba.” Forest Gump’s Vietnam War sidekick, and later business partner back home in…
Video streaming by Ustream Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook Founder and CEO who’s had a roller coster five years, was the featured interview target of TechCrunch Founder and CEO, now “Uncrunched” blogger and head of CrunchFund,…
Charlie Sheen’s Twitter account, @CharlieSheen which this blogger reported as up-and-running again six hours ago, and after being closed since June, was at just over 4 million followers – now a refresh of the page…
The San Francisco Herb & Natural Food Company, a firm that creates herb products, is embroiled in an unfortunate situation that’s caused it to recall its food products. On July 26th, a voluntary recall of…
The Oakland Army Base Project has a new enemy: Gene Hazzard. Yes, the same Gene Hazzard who designed the initial effort to recall Oakland Mayor Jean Quan that fizzled under a wave of what makes…
A Wednesday 4th Of July is just plain weird, mostly because the entire day caught me totally by surprise. Yes, this happens once every seven years, but that’s just long enough to recall the last…
Here’s the video – a classic: For the record, Larry Reid is the President Of The Oakland City Council and after his initial reaction to Oakland Mayor Jean Quan’s claim that she backed the Oakland…
This video was made on the evening of the June 12th Oakland City Council District Three Candidates Forum. This blogger was fresh in town from what was my fifth trip back to Atlanta, Georgia this…
For Oakland politicos, Joe Tuman has become a household name. The San Francisco State Professor and San Francisco CBS Channel Five Political Commentator made a name for himself in 2010 with an aggressive, if late-starting…
If you recall, Carson Daly, host of The Last Call With Carson Daly, and the latest guest of CNN’s Piers Morgan tonight, left a bag of clothes he left on Saturday’s flight from LAX to…
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan can rest now. The effort to recall Mayor Quan is officially dead (along with the website photo that gives her green lipstick) according to its originator, Oakland’s long-time enabler Gene Hazzard….
The Avengers, Marvel Entertainment’s blockbuster epic, premiered at Oakland’s Grand Lake Theater at midnight, Thursday, and it did not disappoint. Marvel has spent a good six years developing the concept for The Avengers, as well…
The National Football League released the 2012 schedule, which includes that for the Oakland Raiders, on Tuesday. What’s interesting is, the Raiders Schedule doesn’t look much different than the one for 2011 or 2010 –…
The blog post called “Mayor Jean Quan Had Affair With Ron Dellums In 2009” and released on April Fools Day Sunday, was widely seen by readers and observers as an April Fools joke, which it…
This movie Malizia, an Italian film made in 1973, features actress Laura Antoneilli in a scene that has to be, as least to this blogger, the most erotic ever in cinema. What’s cool about it,…
The very successful Oakland Running Festival got off to a great start Sunday at Snow Park as Oakland Mayor Jean Quan lead the race countdown by ticking off the seconds in Chinese, as the Oakland…
This blogger has a ton of Oakland News to catch up on, including big Joel Young news. First, sorry for the blog platform, as whatever HostGator, the blog server host, has got me into, I…
Tech observers will recall how TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington got on CNN and said that he didn’t know any black entrepreneurs and then essentially said that Silicon Valley was mostly White and Asian because it…
Davy Jones passing at 66 years old brings up a lot of memories for this fan of the singing group ‘The Monkees.’ Yes, there goes another signpost on The Zeitgeist. There are a lot of…
I ran into Oakland Activist and Oakland Post photographer Gene Hazzard while with my colleague on Grand Avenue, and he was gracious enough to give me the opportunity to make the video above. Gene’s new…
The City Of Oakland is facing the State of California’s effort to eliminate California Redevelopment with moves that could only be called cold and draconian. This blogger was just informed that long-time Oakland KTOP Station…
Richmond beats Alameda and Oakland for LBL Second Campus After a tough, competitive battle for the right to play host to the long-planned-for second campus of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, it was announced at…
Mayor Quan with friends at Chabot event It’s an old cliché that almost everyone who writes about Oakland feels they must use. You know, it’s a gritty city. The latest one was the New York…
Your Ad Here Last night at 9 pm the Republicans debated at St Anslem College for the first time without Bachmann, and this morning at 9 a.m. they debated in New Hampshire’s capital. Two debates…
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan undoubtedly fears the recall effort launched against her, but from what this blogger has learned, it’s currently marred by not two, but three (yes, 3) competing efforts, backbiting, and the appearance…
Re: A Recall is Divisive and Harmful As you may know, the Greens have not yet taken a position on this recall effort. As far as I know, we are the only group to invite…
On December 15th, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, or someone working on her behalf, elected to announce to the World that the Mayor’s Facebook Page would be, in their words, “disabled.” Not to be insulting, but…
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 benefit for Occupy Oakland, and…
Oakland’s Terrance Candell never stopped running for Mayor of Oakland. His website, Candell For Mayor, is still up, but and unlike the other eight candidates (Joe Tuman’s “Tuman For Mayor Facebook Page” is still named…
Say what you will about Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, one thing’s for sure, she’s gone from being called ‘Mayor Quan,’ or ‘Oakland Mayor Jean Quan,’ to just ‘Jean Quan,’ and that means Quan’s become a…
This is a follow-up to this blogger’s earlier blog post on the effort to recall Mayor Quan, and focuses on two well-known Oaklanders. Well, at least to people who are intensely involved in Oakland politics…
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[caption id="attachment_13222" align="alignleft" width="235" caption="Oaklland Mayor Jean Quan"][/caption]Is the Oakland Business Community really behind the planned recall effort of Mayor Jean Quan? As one blo…
