More than a dozen nursing students from Oakland head to Southeast Asia next week to give needed medical assistance to residents of a Laotian village. The students, and some faculty members from Samuel Merritt College in Oakland have been to Laos the past two summers.
On Wednesday August 6, a claim for $53 million was filed against the City of Oakland, by 53 residents of the California Hotel who believe that some city officials may have been involved in a scheme to violate their rights.
Art.com Inc., an online vendor of reprinted artwork, plans to move its framing business from Oakland to a 48,000-square-foot building in Hayward.
Robbery took place at about 8:45 p.m. when three masked men wearing hooded sweatshirts and ski masks entered the King of King Chinese restaurant on the 1100 block of East 12th Street. One was armed with a gun.
Related: Another Oakland takeover robbery - Chinese eatery hit, San Francisco Chronicle
Only about five of the 30 to 60 gallons released when construction workers unearthed an old heating tank Wednesday morning actually made their way into Lake Merritt, a fire official said.
Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums and two city officials allegedly tried to sway vote by promising not to make college district pay.
The Oakland man started making T-shirts as a way to raise money for a skateboard with a built-in turn signal that he has a patent on, but his T-shirt company, “See What I’m Saying,” developed into full-time project. Now McCowan, 58, is revamping SeeWhatImSaying.com and traveling to festivals and fairs, spreading a message of motivation one cotton shirt at a time.
Ava Carrie Jones and her daughter have turned a one-time flower business and a Tarot card shop into a bustling coffeehouse in East Oakland.
Jones said she would have never predicted starting a family business serving up lattes.
A pizzeria was robbed Tuesday night in the latest holdup of a restaurant in the city, Oakland police said Wednesday. Three masked men entered Skyline Pizza on the 4400 block of Keller Avenue about 9 p.m.
Related: Pizzeria latest Oakland restaurant robbed, Oakland Tribune
Readers have come to expect me to poke fun at Oakland’s city government, but even I base my commentary on the assumption that they are at least trying to do what’s best for those who elected them.
Now I’m starting to question that very basic assumption. (more…)
Yesterday morning, I was headed to downtown Berkeley for, somewhat ironically, a transit meeting before going to work. I looked at NextBus and saw that I was just about to miss a 1 and a 1R down Telegraph and the next bus (a 1R) wouldn’t arrive for another 20 minutes. Sometimes NextBus is wrong (I don’t […]
Oakland Unified proved an solid stepping stone for Fred Brill, a network executive officer who supervised half the district’s middle schools for the last two years and helped design the Alternative Learning Community.
The Lafayette school board is expected to announce tonight that Brill – former principal of Lafayette’s Stanley Middle School – will be the district’s new superintendent. Lafayette has about 3,000 students, and five schools.
Ever since I started covering this beat, people who follow OUSD goings-on (including school board members) have complained that they have only a vague idea of what Expect Success is, other than a punchline for district critics.
They knew the district was spending millions of dollars in private funding on the initiative (or platform, or project, or slogan, or whatever it is), but the specifics remained a mystery.
There was a small fuel spill on Lakeshore Ave. today, caused when an old tank was removed from the ground. About 5 gallons of fuel got into a drain that feeds into Lake Merritt. Obviously this isn’t great news for the water quality or the wildlife, but what really caught my attention was the location:
Hi there. My name is Vivek B, and as I’m writing this guest post since VS is taking the week off but we still need our fix. First, a quick few sentences about who I am. I’m just a regular citizen who works in a totally unrelated field, and has lived in Rockridge for about 7 years. I got heavily involved in home security a few years ago when we had a big crime wave in 2006. We had a ton of armed robberies within 1-2 blocks of my house, so I taught myself how to replace & beef up my security system, and put in a security camera network. That helped a little, but I wanted to know how I should feel about whether crime was getting better or worse. I started monitoring the weekly OPD stats that are published. A year ago, I realized that although I knew what the weekly numbers were, I didn’t know whether to feel good or bad. Is 10 stolen cars in a month really bad? Is it good? How does this compare to how it was a few years ago?
We are looking for four to five Frida Kahlo impersonators over the age of 18 who can bring the artist to life with honor and passion. All models should audition as Frida Kahlo and commit to taking part in a public performance.
I got this interesting release which I’ll show below as it’s chocked full of information. It’s on an event to take place this Saturday at 11 in the morning at the old Key System building at 11th Street and Broadway in downtown Oakland.
Did you know that jazz great Dave Brubeck used to live in Montclair? Brubeck had been given a steep lot by his father, and built a cantilevered home. Apparently there was a large boulder that held it all together.
I’ve heard of principals quitting weeks before the start of school, but the door to the front office at Crocker Highlands Elementary is revolving so fast it might come unhinged.
Benjamin Redmond – who was recently hired to replace outgoing principal Chelda Ruff – quit yesterday, less than three weeks before the start of school. He was previously the principal at Lafayette Elementary School in West Oakland.
Here’s how Redmond announced the news to Crocker staff:
The “Outstanding Teachers for All Oakland Students” tax, as the name implies, would raise the pay packages of the school system’s more than 2,000 teachers — but not its custodians, its secretaries, its teachers’ aides, or its attendance clerks.
Which, of course, raises the question of equity: For the school system to improve, shouldn’t all school employees benefit equally?
Most of the speakers at last night’s hearing — which drew a decent sized crowd for Aug. 4 — seemed to think so. Noel Gallo, the only school board member who supports OUSD’s latest parcel tax initiative, made an intersesting counterpoint.
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