Proposed Oakland Tenant Protection Ordinance Goes To City Council November 7th
[caption id="attachment_13024" align="alignleft" width="300"] Rebecca Kaplan[/caption]
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[caption id="attachment_13024" align="alignleft" width="300"] Rebecca Kaplan[/caption]
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On September 29th, California Governor Jerry Brown put pen to the paper of what he called “15 good bills” designed to respond to the state’s affordable housing crisis. But will they really help Oakland’s affordability problem? They are as follows according to the press release from the Governor’s Office:
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[caption id="attachment_13192" align="alignleft" width="300"] Oakland Warehouse Fire Photo Courtesy of CBS News[/caption]
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[caption id="attachment_13024" align="alignleft" width="300"] Oakland Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan[/caption]
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Libby Schaaf is officially running for re-election as Mayor of Oakland – not new news at all. Let’s take a look at where the 50th Mayor of Oakland, and first white woman to run the City of Oakland, stands in her quest to retain her seat as of this moment in time. Preliminarily, one has to say she looks pretty good, particularly from a fund-raising and competitors standpoint.
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Buffy Wicks is someone I’ve known since 2007, and because of her job as field organizer with the Obama For America campaign. After the successful 2008 Presidential Election, Buffy landed a position in the White House working for President Obama.
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Nancy O’Malley, the Alameda County District Attorney, has filed charges against seven Oakland Police Officers that were responsible for the sexual violation of Jasmine Celese Abuslin, who’s commonly known as Celeste Guap. You can read more about the charges filed here, but the DA did not release the names of the officers.
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[caption id="attachment_22" align="alignleft" width="300"] Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan[/caption]
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Tony Thurmond, Rob Bonta, And The Metropolitan Transportation Commission
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Since 2004, when I started Oakland’s first true blog (and not a news website) Oakland Focus, Oakland has seen the following online publications come and many go:
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