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8 Feb 2024
This is the most important story I write for The Oaklandside, sadly, every year: Those who die from traffic violence. In 2023, 33 died while driving, biking, and walking. All had interesting, complicated, full lives and histories people should know about:
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The Senegalese 🇸🇳 delegation gets this treatment on arrival in the USA. Full tarmac searches, shoes off, bags turned inside out like criminals.
This is straight up humiliation and a disgrace. They’d never put white boys through the same.
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Jun 2
In January and March, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee hosted high-powered meetings to end 2 years of near-incessant lobbying by politically connected residents over a street-slowing project. The lobbying role of Buffy Wicks, state assembly member, angered many
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Federal judge William Orrick said today that if Oakland maintains its police reforms through September, he’ll end OPD’s 23-year-old federal court oversight. That means full local control and no monitor.
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May 27
EXCLUSIVE
A year ago, the Trump admin announced it was creating an Office or Remigration—named for a racist plan to expel immigrants, popularized by European far-right groups
It has since said nothing about it.
But @WIRED found out what it's doing...
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Apr 2
earthquake. got the detection notification like 3 seconds before feeling it.
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Jan 30
Oakland's Rev. Bautista starts the process to sue the government for getting shot in the face with chemicals.
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Jan 24
A tech exec and Oakland resident, who supported Tesla's goals and was excited about the Cybertruck, told me he became disillusioned and then angry with the company when a CT door scarily unlatched next to his baby as he was about to get on the freeway: oaklandside.org/2026/01/23/t…
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23 Dec 2025
I traveled all over Oakland to find its worst streets. The city paved 18.6 miles in '25, so the searchable list of 3,304 road sections here, based on an independent survey of paving quality, is thorough. Find your road and paving score and post it here.
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9 Dec 2025
Oakland sold $285M in Measure U bonds over the last week for parks, housing, and road infrastructure after 2 years of concerns about its financial outlook, which led to a credit downgrade last year. With the sale, the city says its finances are looking up
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3 Dec 2025
California law requires police to disclose recordings of “critical incidents” in 45 days. Oakland police argue the “brief struggle” that led to former NFL star Doug Martin’s death was not a critical incident.
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21 Nov 2025
A day after ICE showed up near Hoover Elementary, Oakland parents felt nervous and defiant.
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6 Jun 2025
I spoke with the family of Castlemont teacher Marvin Boomer, including his girlfriend (who was with him at the tragic collision), his mom and dad, and his sisters. They're in shock, mourning the passing of a man they call "extraordinary." New story:
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6 Jun 2025
Marvin Boomer’s family mourns loss and girlfriend slams CHP for deadly Oakland chase.
Boomer’s family will hold a church service for the beloved Castlemont teacher at Acts Full Gospel on Friday.
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22 May 2025
Last week, I got to follow people cycling all over the city for Bike to Wherever Day, which bike advocates and regular folks used to advocate for safer streets. Did you participate?
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21 May 2025
I went to the Oakland Ballers' opening game last night and spoke to a lot of people who were happy to move on from the A's era, which we all know ended in heartbreak.
New story: oaklandside.org/2025/05/21/o…
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10 May 2025
A network issue took down BART earlier today. Infrastructure to improve the decades-old control system is still in process.
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1 May 2025
A new report from UC Berkeley researchers has found what many suspected for years: that deadly collisions increased on International Boulevard and businesses were lost because of the planning and construction of AC Transit's bus-rapid transit project. oaklandside.org/2025/05/01/t…
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25 Apr 2025
Because the finance department has not issued new bonds, Oakland's transportation department has been unable to set up new contracts for paving jobs for nearly three months. Latest:
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24 Apr 2025
Billboard gun ad in Oakland taken down.
The gunmaker and billboard company behind the massive pistol ad towering above I-880 didn't obtain a necessary city permit.
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24 Apr 2025
The family of Krysta Tsukahara filed a lawsuit in Alameda Superior Court against the estates of Soren Dixon and others, whom the family says were “legally responsible" for her death. Tsukahara and Dixon died in the Cybertruck crash last Thanksgiving
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