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I got 5: Sheng Thao "catch and kill" story allegations admissible in trial, judge rules
City drops another $3+ million to clear sunken boats from Oakland estuary; Oakland city workers prepare for a strike at union-led “strike school” — and…
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Oakland Report
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Oaklandside again checked one candidate's claims but not the other's — and the same side came out ahead.
It gave Nate Adams the benefit of evidence, but not council member Charlene Wang. Its previous school board profile gave it to Jennifer Brouhard. The…
Sep 25
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Alex Montana
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Oakland’s teachers union backs Jennifer Brouhard — and her own party doesn’t. Oaklandside's profile mentions neither.
The profile gave Brouhard 59% of the space compared to her challenger; misstated a Stanford study and Prop 39; and supplied evidence for one side only …
Sep 23
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Charlene Price
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Carroll Fife said Oakland data center “is not the large-scale mega facility that people have expressed.”
Four weeks later, Fife has proposed a moratorium citing data centers using 5 million gallons of water per day. We estimate this one as using only 5,000…
Sep 21
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Alex Montana
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Oakland moved abandoned auto enforcement out of the police department. What happened next?
Three years after transferring the work to OakDOT, the city is still sorting out the roles of transportation and police as service delivery has…
Sep 19
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Rajni Mandal
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I got 5: This week’s top headlines
Oakland’s “data center” moratorium battle; City to spend $150K on trash-seeking AI drones; federal monitor says city fell behind on investigations of…
Sep 17
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Oakland Report
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Oakland’s police contract could raise pay 14%. Other city unions got bigger annual raises in the last round.
City council is set to vote on a contract that would make police pay a portion of their health premiums but would not cap overtime.
Sep 14
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Police commission: How to overturn a vote you couldn’t cast
Police commissioner Omar Farmer used an ethics complaint to nullify a police armored vehicle decision he had spent years opposing
Sep 13
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Rajni Mandal
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I got 5: This week’s Newsstand headlines
Oakland police officers charged with fraud; councilman Kevin Jenkins requests “more bitches”; Oakland schools trustee VanCedric Williams gets paid by…
Sep 11
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Oakland Report
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Oakland’s police commission broke open-meeting laws. The commission still hasn’t fixed it.
The public ethics commission hasn’t ruled on the matter yet — ten months after the incident — and its enforcement chief admits that they have no way to…
Sep 10
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Alex Montana
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Oakland Unified’s general fund cash shrank by $100 million last year
OUSD still hasn’t identified $30 million in cuts it passed to balance its 2026-27 budget — and it’s now two months into the new fiscal year
Sep 9
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Oakland elections: No one wants to catch the “falling knife”
This year, the stakes are higher than ever in Oakland’s local elections — so why are so few candidates running?
Sep 8
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Seneca Scott
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