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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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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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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 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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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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Oakland is “high sensitivity” — Letters to the editor
Homeless industrial complex; pay raises for city council and unions; who’s actually in charge of the city; you get what you pay for — and more letters…
Jun 25
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Oakland Report
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Hand-picked: the political and personal ties between mayor Barbara Lee and her Oakland "charter reform working group"
Mayor Barbara Lee’s eight-member panel consists of her transition advisers, her campaign’s institutional backers, a funder of its own process, and…
Jun 16
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Alex Montana
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Oakland city council pay raises: the charter reform provision no one is discussing
Oakland's charter reform could raise council pay up to 125%, pushing total compensation past $300,000 — yet the provision has been nearly absent from…
Jun 15
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Alex Montana
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'Our babies are drinking lead and we wonder why they’re fighting at First Friday'
Oakland city council argues over budget amendments and declares a "severe and unanticipated financial event" for the fourth year in a row, ten days…
Jun 13
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Oakland Report
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Oakland’s ‘unanticipated’ financial emergency set to enter its fourth year
City council intends to once again declare a ‘severe and unanticipated financial event’ — suspending multiple voter-approved mandates in order to divert…
Jun 12
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Sean S. Reinhart
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