oakland budget - Zennie62 News

Oakland Mayor Quan Supports William Bratton OPD Contract

[Translate] Oakland Mayor Jean Quan issued a letter than may or may not bee seen or cared about as Oakland ponders Lance Armstrong and Manti T’eo....

Oakland A’s – NY Yankees Series Draws 106,142

[Translate] The Oakland A’s – New York Yankees four game home stand at The Oakland Coliseum did more than show the young A’s are on track for the playoffs, it showed that winning cures attendance ills at the ballpark. Especially beating the NY Yankees. The Oakland Coliseum saw 106,142 people attend the four games, with the most seeing the A’s...

Oakland City Council District 3 Race: Sean Sullivan, Ken Pratt, Lynette Gibson McElhaney

[Translate] This video was made on the evening of the June 12th Oakland City Council District Three Candidates Forum. This blogger was fresh in town...

Oakland Police Chief Jordan Talks Problem Solving-Officer Redeployment

[Translate] Oakland Police Chief Howard JordanOakland Police Chief Howard Jordan, concerned that the public has the wrong idea about the redeployment...

Oakland Green Party Candidate Launch A Success

[Translate] Thursday, February 9th was the Oakland Greens, the local Branch of the Alameda Green Party held a press conference. On the steps of City Hall, the Green’s candidates for Oakland City Council District 1, Don Macleay; At-Large, Teresa Anderson; District 7, Randy Menijvar; and School Board District 3 Vincente Cruz addressed a small crowd of media, supporters,...

Joel Young: Judge Grants Oakland’s Jason Overman’s Restraining Order

[Translate] Oakland AC Transit Board Member Joel Young is in hot water again, as an Alameda County Superior Court Judge just granted a restraining order filed on Monday against him and by Oakland City Council Aide Jason Overman. All of this stems from an incident at Make Westing Bar at Telegraph and 18th Avenue in Oakland’s Uptown District on Saturday, January...

Golden State Warriors Owner Disses Oakland On Channel 5 KPIX

[Translate] Oakland Warriors Last night, Golden State Warriors Co-Owner Joe Lacob was a guest on Dennis O’Donnell’s sports show on KPIX TV, Channel Five in San Francisco. Dennis asked Lacob about the possibility of moving the GS Warriors to San Francisco. Rather than defend Oakland, Lacob did not rule out the possibility, he just said that the Golden...

Oakland News: Carson Palmer To Raiders, CEDA Lawsuit, Sidebar, Oakland Hills Fire

[Translate] The Oakland News is dominated by the Oakland Raiders trade for now-former Cincinnati Bengals Quarterback Carson Palmer. In case you missed it, here’s the first seven minutes of today’s press conference at Raiders Headquarters: What cracked me up about the start of the press conference was that Coach Jackson said “There’s a report...

Oakland City Council Budget Hearing Brings Out Nasty Divisions

[Translate] The City of Oakland has a fast approaching deadline of 12 AM, Friday July 1st to pass a budget, then go out and spend money on the artists involved with Oakland Art Murmur. And a number of Councilmembers wanted to pass a budget on Tuesday, but here we are. And it’s not clear, yet, that Oakland will get the union concessions that appear to be on...