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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 candidate profile was about Mike Hutchinson, but it offered none of his explanations. 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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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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Sean S. Reinhart
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I got 5: This week’s Newsstand headlines
Oakland city workers attend union “strike school”; Janani Ramachandran lures city job-seekers to her campaign website; the real reason Caltrans may open…
Sep 3
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Oakland Report
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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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Introducing Newsstand — a free public service for our readers
Oakland Report's Newsstand is a daily roundup of Oakland news and stories from across the spectrum — a one-stop destination for readers to keep abreast…
Aug 29
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Oakland’s Achilles heel — Letters to the editor
Wondering why a council member behaves like a nightclub act; who’s missing from the Sheng Thao witness list?; gross mismanagement at Oakland Unified …
Aug 25
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Oakland Report
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Cancel Piedmont — or break up Oakland?
A campaign to ‘cancel’ the wealthy city surrounded by Oakland raises a mirror-image question about Oakland itself.
Aug 11
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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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