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Or should we turn the scofflaw company into a public agency?
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Putting the "street" back into "street food."
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Plus hirings in Alameda and at Oakland A's and victories for Ro Khanna and the memory of Oscar Grant.
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The Oakland Roots has signed its first player — Oakland native Devante Dubose. The acquisition is one more sign that pro soccer is returning to The Town.
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The new owner of The Big Blue Haus, a beloved Oakland space for queers and artists, is evicting all the tenants, and renters say he told them he plans to turn it into an Airbnb.
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The new owner of The Big Blue Haus, a beloved Oakland space for queers and artists, is evicting all the tenants, and renters say he told them he plans to turn it into an Airbnb.
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Sports medicine is not just for athletes. It's for anyone who wants to lead an active lifestyle and be their best self.
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After a year plagued with challenges and slow progress, equity applicants are learning to manage expectations and lean on others for resources and support.
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After years of delay, the city is finally taking action to retrofit thousands of seismically unsafe soft-story apartments.
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No metric factually supports the oft-repeated falsehood about the so-called “global Raiders brand.” And this delusion could have destructive results for Mark Davis, the NFL, and Nevada taxpayers.
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The new owner of The Big Blue Haus, a beloved Oakland space for queers and artists, is evicting all the tenants, and renters say he told them he plans to turn it into an Airbnb.
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No metric factually supports the oft-repeated falsehood about the so-called “global Raiders brand.” And this delusion could have destructive results for Mark Davis, the NFL, and Nevada taxpayers.
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After years of delay, the city is finally taking action to retrofit thousands of seismically unsafe soft-story apartments.
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Under its agreement with UC Berkeley, the online giant can seek to block the release of public records or redact parts of them.
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Cannabis businesses say the city’s high tax rate could force them to close. But if Oakland lowers the tax, it might not be able to afford city worker raises.
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Re: “The Chamber's Flawed Minimum Wage Measure”
The East Bay Express, Schaaf, and Kernighan should get their facts straight. First, the independent corporations that run Subway and Jamba Juice at the airport have always paid their workers the Oakland Living Wage, even though they are not required to do so since they are exempt under the law. Secondly, these independent corporations are in no way "part of [the] large corporation[s]" that they pay franchise fees too. If we are going to respect the corporate form in this country (and the Supreme Court has said that the corporate form should be respected even to the extent that a corporation can be said to have "free speech rights" and the "right of religious expression") then there is no reason to ignore the corporate form for these small businesses just because it happens to affect the wages of some workers. Just because corporation A pays license and other fees to corporation B for the use of its name and other benefits does not make corporation A part of corporation B.