FOLLOW US
.News & Opinion
.News
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
Top Pot ‘Cop’ Evolves Cannabis Stance As Is Her Job
So-called “concerns” about President Joe Biden’s mental acuity have been ginned up by the right-wing propaganda machine with the enthusiastic help of an increasingly indistinguishable mainstream media.It’s all incredibly stupid and destructive. By most accounts from White...
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...
Feb 6, 2024
Prohibitionist Republicans’ Latest Irredeemably Stupid Cannabis Policy
Navigating the partisan politics of cannabis can be challenging because there are Republicans and Democrats on both sides of most reform initiatives. That makes cannabis politics almost unique in these days of Republicans automatically opposing any reforms...
.News
Feb 6, 2024
Oakland Coaches Trained to Support Young Athletes’ Mental Health
This article was produced by Capital & Main and is copublished here with permission. Sign up for Capital & Main’s newsletter.
When gunshots ring out around the parks where Oakland Soccer Club practices, the teenage athletes keep their focus on...
Jan 30, 2024
MedMen’s Downfall By Hubris
It might be tempting to write off the astonishing implosion of MedMen as being just another instance of a weed business falling victim to the faltering cannabis economy, especially in California where MedMen is headquartered and where...
Jan 30, 2024
Bystander Intervention Engages BART Riders in Safety Protocol
A little over five years ago, 18-year-old Nia Wilson got on BART in Concord with her sisters Latifah and Tashiya for the last time. John Lee Cowell, then 29 and three months out of treatment at a...