Chairman Fred Hampton Was 21 Years Old…
“A lot of people think the Breakfast for Children program is charity. But what does it do? It takes the people from a stage to another stage. Any program that’s revolutionary is an advancing program. Revolution is change.” – Chairman Fred Hampton. “I Am A Revolutionary!” These...
HUD’s December Section 8/Housing Choice Voucher Program funds are delayed
HUD’s December Section 8/Housing Choice Voucher Program funds are delayed. Times are very uncertain for Section 8-Housing Choice Voucher tenants at the moment, and many are at great risk being a HUD subsidized housing tenant at the moment. The landlord’s subsidized housing shortfall payments for the Section 8...
Recalled Alameda County DA Pamela Price says she plans to run again
Former Alameda County DA Pamela Price, who was recalled last year, said she plans to run again.
McDonald’s closes downtown Oakland site and backlash follows
The only McDonald’s in downtown Oakland has shut its doors, and the fallout is landing hardest on the workers and customers who depended on it. What might look like a single franchise decision is instead turning into a flashpoint over worker treatment, public health failures, and the fragile state of the city’s core...
Teachers strike in large Bay Area school district, demands include help with H1B visas
The strike was the first for teachers in the district’s 60-year history, and could be the first multiple teachers strikes in the Bay Area.
False earthquake alert that alarmed California was ‘unprecedented’
The alert for a 5.9 magnitude Nevada earthquake was a false alarm, and the report was deleted from the U.S.G.S. quake list shortly thereafter.
Claude the alligator’s cause of death revealed: ‘There was nothing we could have done’
As Bay Area residents mourned the death of Claude the albino alligator this week, the California Academy of Sciences received the results of a necropsy.
Animal rights activist Zoe Rosenberg sentenced for taking 4 chickens from North Bay farm
Rosenberg will spend 30 days in jail and 60 days in a jail alternative - like a halfway hour or home confinement.
Dog dies in Oakland high-rise fire
A dog died in an Oakland high-rise fire on Tuesday night. Officials say the animal perished from smoke inhalation. The apartment complex was on 3rd Avenue, not far from Lake Merritt. Firefighters managed to get the fire under control.
Bartender Races To Berkeley Police HQ After Man Allegedly Trails Her From Bay Bridge
A woman in her 20s who works as a bartender did not go home when she realized a car was following her off the Bay Bridge into Berkeley on Saturday. Instead, she steered straight to the Berkeley Police Department, where officers quickly intercepted the trailing vehicle and said they found a loaded gun and drugs inside.
