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Oakland has the #1 property crime rate in America
Oakland also has the #1 violent crime rate in California — and the lowest reported rate of solved crimes of any major city in the nation.
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Sean S. Reinhart
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July 2026
Rough cut: Our video montage missed the mark
Our recent video compilation fell short. We did not meet our own standard of “no implicit bias”
Jul 31
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Oakland Coliseum: An open letter to Oakland council member Janani Ramachandran
A District 4 constituent asks his council member to reconcile her vote for the Oakland Coliseum sale with the ‘culture of enforcement’ she has publicly…
Jul 27
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Oakland Report
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Oakland: trash is cash, garbage is gold
How Oakland built a problem it cannot clean up — and how to fix it.
Jul 26
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Oakland Report
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Oakland public school enrollment fell 35% — far more than the shrinking child population
Enrollment in the public schools OUSD runs has fallen 35% since 2000, while Oakland’s school-age population fell only 23%. Meanwhile, charter schools…
Jul 23
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Oakland Report
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When a loan is not a ‘loan’: city officials use wordplay to elide the truth about the Coliseum sale
Oakland lends its Coliseum buyer half the price — and the buyer plans to immediately flip the Arena for cash. We map the deal to the city's own…
Jul 21
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Alex Montana
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Oakland city whistleblower responds to Oaklandside ‘hit piece’
Transportation director Josh Rowan responds to media stories that named him as a whistleblower using records the city provided, which he alleges…
Jul 17
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Oakland Report
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OUSD spent its pandemic 'inheritance'— but it won’t show the receipts
Oakland Unified received $129.9 million in final-round federal pandemic relief. How three East Bay districts handled one-time money and falling…
Jul 15
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Tarini Kakkar
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‘Oakland’s greeting card’: Fox Theater anchors Uptown economy the city is belatedly moving to protect
The landmark performance venue anchors a district of dozens of bars and restaurants, and pays over $157,000 per year into neighborhood safety and…
Jul 14
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Eric Urbach
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Oakland set to give Ray Bobbitt’s company public financing at below-market interest rate to buy the Coliseum
We compare the proposed loan to what commercial lenders charge — and estimate the below-market public financing is essentially a giveaway of roughly $45…
Jul 13
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Alex Montana
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A $9.2 million gift to fight illegal dumping made headlines. The city audit questioning its main strategy mostly didn’t.
How the San Francisco Chronicle, CBS News, KTVU, SFGate, and Oaklandside covered Crankstart’s grant for illegal dumping surveillance cameras — compared…
Jul 11
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Phoebe Vo
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Sean S. Reinhart
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The Bank of Oakland: City to loan $60 million to developer Ray Bobbitt’s company
Committee reviews plans to front the money for purchase of the Oakland Coliseum Complex. The County is also considering giving a loan.
Jul 9
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Alex Montana
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