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Oakland nonprofit gives park stewardship for 30 years — as the city breaks its parks tax promises
Friends of Sausal Creek nonprofit plays a major role in preserving and improving 140 acres of Oakland’s vital watershed — but not every city-owned park…
Oct 8
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Phoebe Vo
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Oakland is fixing more potholes than ever. So why are so many 311 requests still open?
Oakland reports repairing nearly 60,000 potholes a year. An analysis of 311 requests shows why that number doesn't necessarily match what residents…
Oct 5
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Rajni Mandal
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OEA teachers union rep caught posting political attack flyers outside high school’s main office
The flyers come a year after school principals reported union threats and intimidation. The union, Oakland Education Association is the biggest outside…
Oct 1
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Charlene Price
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Oakland school board profiles: Oaklandside put all the negatives on one candidate — the one the teachers union opposes
Every unflattering sentence in its District 4 profile was about Mike Hutchinson, but it elided his reasons for the votes it described. The challengers…
Sep 29
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Charlene Price
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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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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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Oakland school board director VanCedric Williams was paid by California teachers union. He denied it, then voted to approve teachers union…
The California Teachers Association reported paying Williams in each of the last three years for which it has filed. His disclosure forms list no income…
Sep 6
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Charlene Price
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Which violent crimes become news?
A review of one year of Oaklandside’s public safety coverage shows how a changing local news landscape can affect what readers see.
Sep 2
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Rajni Mandal
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The real reason Caltrans may open I-580 to big rigs
Caltrans says the case for lifting the ban is about relieving pollution on I-880. But its own modeling shows keeping the I-580 ban in place would result…
Aug 31
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Alex Montana
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