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Oakland budget reduces police overtime after Measure E fails
Oakland’s newly approved midcycle budget reduces police overtime and patrol funding after voters rejected Measure E, a parcel tax city leaders said would have helped close the budget deficit.
The roughly $4 billion budget, approved June 12 in...
‘Wood Street’ documentary brings Oakland’s homeless encampment story home
A crowd gathered under the multicolored bulbs of Oakland’s historic Grand Lake Theatre on July 15 for the sold-out red carpet premiere of Wood Street, a feature-length documentary portraying the eviction of what was once the largest...
West Edge Opera illuminates forgotten histories
As Oakland’s always-innovative West Edge Opera gears up for the 2026 season in August, two of its choices this year look back in time to spotlight the lives of people who defied society’s rigid sexual categories—and were,...
Free Will Astrology: Week of July 15
It's Cancer season: Make a list of your five greatest pleasures...
Greenling Fish Market champions local seafood
Since last fall’s crabbing season, Greenling Fish Market has sold locally caught fish—halibut, cod, rockfish and salmon—at the South Berkeley Farmers’ Market. The Greenling setup has...
Bake Sum balances expansion with employee well-being
In 2021, Joyce Tang started Bake Sum at the Bread Project’s commissary kitchen. Five years later the bakery moved into a second location in Alameda. Since...
