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Mar 26, 2024
‘Richmond Renaissance’ Vision Ignited
Imagine walking up Richmond’s Macdonald Avenue, from the RYSE Center to the Richmond Museum of History & Culture, and seeing “asphalt art”—open studios and galleries, maybe even a live theater performance in Civic Center Plaza. Long-disused buildings...
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Mar 19, 2024
New Components in Housing Equation
When Bishop George Matthews of Oakland’s Genesis Worship Center talks about the 17 new units of transitional housing on church property, and the rehabbed house across the street now providing room for five more formerly incarcerated people,...
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Mar 5, 2024
The Higher Cost of Rising Health Insurance
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For most California residents, and the vast majority of the state’s lower-income workers, the cost of health insurance has been running away...
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Feb 27, 2024
Prepping for the Primary Election
As the March 5 primary election approaches, many voters are just now considering their choices. Below is information about some of the most impactful races—nationally, statewide and locally.
United States Senate
With the death of longtime senator Dianne Feinstein,...
Feb 20, 2024
Mental Health Advocates Rate Prop 1 a Zero
Julia Ford was in the third trimester of her pregnancy when she moved out of an abandoned school bus in Oakland and into the Healthy Babies Project transitional housing. The shelter came with a treatment program founded...
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Feb 20, 2024
AG Bonta Talks ‘People Power’ in Oakland
On Feb. 8, Rob Bonta gave the keynote speech at the Barbara Lee and Elihu Harris Lecture held at Beebe Memorial Cathedral in Oakland. During his speech, Bonta shared his journey from being a “brown boy born...
Feb 13, 2024
Ava DuVernay’s New Film Makes the Caste Connection
What does the act of a racist vigilante have to do with the caste system in India that works to the detriment of the Dalits, Jewish people during the Holocaust and the system of slavery that’s in...