[Translate] Oakland Mayor Jean QuanMayor 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 Times article that touted our new restaurants, which are great, don’t get me wrong. But the writer still felt he had to refer to our “grit.”...
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[Translate] Oakland Food Truck Pods Coming to a Neighborhood Near You! After three years of sometimes contentious discussions, the Oakland City Council is poised to propose a pilot plan to allow Oakland’s numerous and varied food truck offerings a chance to set up in “pods” that is, groupings where few restaurants or other food services already exist, and be...
[Translate] As Oakland Lakeshore Business Improvement District head, I, Pam Drake, went out to survey the business owners along Lakeshore and around Oakland. All want free holiday parking for the Christmas shopping season. Hopefully the City of Oakland hears the wishes of the many merchants and shoppers of Oakland and allows this. Too many good Oakland citizens...
[Translate] I am a poster child for the 99%. I am a woman, an older person with no retirement savings, and I raised two kids by myself. My kids experienced chronic illnesses as children and one of them still struggles with medical issues and the costs associated with them. I do my best to help on my part-time job. I was on the verge of despair over the combination...
[Translate] Green Party activists Don MacCleay and Wilson Riles along with Occupy Oakland activist Vicki McGuire and small business owner and former Mother of the Year, Naomi Schiff, held a press conference today calling on the City “not to proceed with a forced eviction.” MacCleay, a recent mayoral candidate, said that there is “plenty of room for dialogue”...
