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The latest Oakland Power Poll finds widespread concern for the state of downtown as it emerges from the depredations of the pandemic Nine out of ten Oakland Power Poll participants believe it is time for the City of...

It was well-known throughout the Jewish community in the 1950s that Stanford University discriminated against Jewish applicants, despite the university routinely denying biased admissions practices. Seventy years later, the university is finally admitting that it purposefully limited the...

Oakland Power Poll, regarding six statewide measures on the November ballot, finds almost universal support of constitutional protection for contraception and abortion access An overwhelming 96% of Oakland Power Poll respondents said they will vote in November to...

Of the millions who dream of being an astronaut as a child, only a tiny few ever make it into space. But Space Explorers: THE INFINITE, the virtual reality experience opening at Richmond’s Craneway Pavilion Oct. 13,...

As a child growing up in Los Angeles, Xavier Buck had never heard of the Black Panther Party. “I learned very little Black history other than slavery, Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks,” he said. But his journey...

Gary Bryant Jr. exchanged gunfire with a man in an Antioch apartment parking lot on a July afternoon in 2014. Both were struck by bullets. Bryant survived and the other man died. Police said it was part of...

With her dog at her side, Laura Bramble spends a lot of time at the picket lines in front of Kaiser Permanente in Walnut Creek these days. She stands in solidarity with the striking National Union of...