February 23, 2014 Animated Map of Shootings and Homicides in Downtown and West Oakland, 2006-2011 Homicides are in yellow, injury and non-injury shootings are in red.
March 15, 2012 ACLU argues Occupy Oakland stay away orders are unconstitutional My account on NBC Bay Area: Attorneys for Occupy Oakland protesters are charging that stay-away orders to keep them away from Frank Ogawa Plaza…
March 3, 2012 Three Occupy Oakland protesters charged with robbery, hate crimes Three Occupy Oakland protesters have been charged with robbery and hate crimes for an incident at a bank action on Feb. 22, police said…
February 23, 2012 Oscar Grant’s cousin shot by Oakland police, disputes police account My article on the Oakland police shooting of Oscar Grant’s cousin, as published in The Bay Citizen: An attorney for a man shot by…
February 22, 2012 Covering Occupy Oakland In the eight months since I last updated this blog, I began working as a daily reporter for the Bay Area-based wire service Bay…
June 12, 2011 Repainting a wrongfully destroyed mural in Richmond Gompers Garden is a wide sunny patch on the Richmond Greenway, a long, winding park following an old railroad line with a blacktop path for…
June 1, 2011 Adult Education Dismantled Oakland is the seventh largest recipient of adult education funding in California, but its once plentiful slate of programs has been almost entirely decimated….
May 22, 2011 Photos from the Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival The 11th annual Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival was held on May 21 in Oakland’s San Antonio park at 16th Ave and Foothill Blvd….
May 13, 2011 Seven teachers arrested at Wells Fargo protest in Oakland Furious over cuts to education and linking the budget shortfalls in California to the recession caused by risky lending, the Oakland Educators Association staged…
