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Nov 5, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Hannah Wiley |Alana Minkler |Daniel Hennessy
Outside a modest yellow bungalow in West Berkeley, some dealt with their election day anxiety by making a pilgrimage to Kamala Harris' childhood home to snap selfies, hoping they would turn into treasured memories of the day the nation elected its first women President. "We're very proud," said Diana Shapiro, 53, who lives about a block away from the apartment where Harris spent part of her childhood.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
oaklandnorth.net | Alana Minkler |Daniel Hennessy
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will face off for the first time in a highly anticipated debate on Tuesday. With such high stakes, people from across the political spectrum will be gathering to watch history unfold. Here are three places where you can find debate watch parties in Oakland.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
oaklandnorth.net | Daniel Hennessy
The Oakland Athletics affiliate Coliseum Way Partners announced Monday that it has agreed to sell its stake in the Coliseum for a $50 million profit. The deal, which still needs to be approved by the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, would provide the African American Sports and Entertainment Group with complete ownership of the storied sports complex in East Oakland.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
oaklandnorth.net | Daniel Hennessy
Oakland has officially sold its stake in the Coliseum, setting aside concerns that the city’s adopted budget relied too heavily on a deal that had not yet gone through. At a news conference on Tuesday, Mayor Sheng Thao, City Administrator Jestin Johnson and Ray Bobbitt, managing partner of African American Sports and Entertainment Group, signed an agreement that would finalize the $105 million sale.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
oaklandnorth.net | Daniel Hennessy
After spending a combined 62 years on death row, two men will likely have their sentences reduced because of alleged prosecutorial misconduct at the Alameda County District Attorney’s office. During a July 16 news conference, District Attorney Pamela Price, who campaigned on a promise to not seek the death penalty, announced that Ernest Dykes and Keith Thomas will be resentenced. The move is the first tangible outcome of a judge-ordered review of death penalty cases in the county.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
streetinsider.com | Daniel Hennessy
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
oaklandnorth.net | Daniel Hennessy
A two-day toxic blaze that blanketed Oakland in smoke last summer has resulted in criminal indictments for Radius Recycling. “Under my leadership, this administration will not allow corporate criminals to poison our community recklessly, to create vulnerabilities for our community and for those who serve our community and just walk away having made a profit and get off with a slap on the wrist,” Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price said in a news conference on Tuesday.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
oaklandnorth.net | Daniel Hennessy
When photographer Malcolm Ryder first moved to Oakland, the place he saw through his camera lens was different from what he saw on the news. “I became super sensitive to the incredible disparity between what was actually in Oakland and how it is usually portrayed in mass media. The mass media portrayal is not just borderline hostile, it is outright hostile. It doesn’t even make room for the possibility that the city could be or can be a better place,” he said. So he set out to amend the narrative.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
oaklandnorth.net | Daniel Hennessy
As the state expands its law enforcement presence in Alameda County, Gov. Gavin Newsom and District Attorney Pamela Price are expressing disappointment in each others’ handling of the partnership. Speaking at a news conference in Oakland Thursday, the governor announced that the state Attorney General’s Office would be stepping in to handle more cases originating in Alameda County. This will accompany a fourfold increase of California Highway Patrol personnel operating in the county.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
oaklandnorth.net | Daniel Hennessy
In the face of mounting political pressure, the Oakland City Council reversed course Tuesday and voted in favor of a November ballot measure that would beef up the Public Ethics Commission. Citing Oakland’s substantial budget shortfall, the council had previously turned down a proposal that includes a slate of reforms meant to modernize the city’s watchdog agency and give it more investigative muscle. Just under two weeks later, Councilmembers Carroll Fife and Rebecca Kaplan changed their minds.
