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Public safety updates: a look ahead to 2026
Oakland is beautiful and we deserve better - Letters to the Editor
We ask for your support this holiday season to grow Oakland Report and keep it free for all to read.
Oakland’s quarterly financial report is delayed until March, amplifying budget risks
Get in the Mix with Oakland Report on January 8: Announcing a $15,000 donation match challenge
Oakland Should Return to the Model City Charter: Commentary
Counterpoint: Billboards over Lake Temescal
City council decision on Flock Safety overshadows a potentially even more impactful vote
Agenda watch: Flock Safety cameras are back on the Oakland city council agenda
Dear Oakland school board: Dinner’s on us
Oakland school board (OUSD) approves $102.5 million in budget cuts in 5-2 vote
A day of budget reckoning for Oakland Unified School District
Yes, it is possible for Oakland to achieve its potential - Letters to the editor
Sean Reinhart, our new managing editor, leads our mission for citizen-powered media
Commentary: When educators become school bullies
Get in the mix with the Oakland Report: our first reader social is January 8
Oakland schools budgeting 101: how OUSD spends money
City set to forgive $8 million loan to affordable housing landlord
The bird next door: the time an Oakland turkey rose to captivate the world
Editorial and submission guidelines
Oakland’s culture of apathy is costing us all
City’s cash management report shows $192 million loss since June 30
Letters to the Editor - November 17, 2025
The city that sues itself: how the Privacy Advisory Commission enables conflicts of interest
Oakland schools budgeting 101: how Oakland schools are funded
Outgoing police commissioners accuse police chief and blame city for "anti-commission harassment"
Oakland’s police commission - when does oversight become obstruction?
City of Oakland gives Rebecca Kaplan, former city council member a $149,000-per-year job
Oakland Agenda Watch - November 4, 2025
Letters to the Editor – November 1, 2025
Oakland schools budgeting 101: a primer on OUSD’s budget process
Oakland could pay $674 million in damages in disastrous coal terminal lawsuit
"Death and taxes" - Oakland City Council is the one who knocks
Measure NN’s oversight commission wields unprecedented citywide power
A letter to Oakland Report readers
Policing the police: Oakland's push to remove Internal Affairs from the police department
Leadership Vacuum at Oakland’s Human Services Department Exposes Systemic Failures
Oakland Report Radar: May 26th, 2025
Oakland Report welcomes its first managing director, Joe Turner
Twenty years under watch: will Oakland police finally exit federal oversight this year?
Election results follow long-established voting patterns in Oakland
Oakland releases police staffing study—it says a minimum of 877 officers are needed
Oakland is withholding a 2024 police staffing study that cost residents $310,000
“Our officers have been conditioned to do as little as possible—to stay out of trouble”
District 2 candidates lay out their priorities
Frustrated Oaklanders prioritize the basics: a clean, safe, affordable city
Oakland's MACRO missed all of its pilot project goals—so the city expanded it
Oakland Police Department can’t escape oversight—one man stands in the way
Oakland City Council used illegal votes to change city ordinances
Oakland mandates all city employees to return to in-person work
Detroit’s ShotStoppers violence intervention program pays for outcomes—and it works
Oakland Police Commission punts on the pursuit policy—Chief Mitchell takes charge
Oakland Report chat room on Oakland's budget