Will Kane
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Oakland, CA, United States
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Cozy-Eating Restaurateurs Cross The Bay With 'Paradise Park Café'
The partners behind the Park Café eateries are opening their first location in the 510 next week. → Read More
Car Theft Investigation Leads To Bay Area Crime Sweep, 75 Arrests
Officers in tactical gear fanned out across the city in one of the largest local criminal investigations in years. → Read More
Merchants head downtown as Oakland gains new luster
In the last five years, 140 ground-floor retail stores have opened in the downtown and Uptown areas of Oakland, said Steve Snider, district manager of Lake Merritt/Uptown District and Downtown Oakland associations. Merchants who once avoided the downtown and Uptown areas are now drawn by available storefronts, easy access to transit, and a growing number of shoppers who discover the stores at… → Read More
Oakland seeks to diversify, 'legitimize’ its thin blue line
The black youth told his mom he wanted to be a police officer. âCommunities that have a higher degree of trust in the police department have a lower degree of crime,â Whent says. [...] even as Oakland strives to do better by its residents, Harris and the 34 other recruits from the 170th Oakland police academy face a daunting task. In 2009, four Oakland police officers were killed in a single… → Read More
Final Oakland votes show Libby Schaaf won with 63 percent of vote
Libby Schaaf won, according to the final results posted by county officials late Wednesday, after 15 rounds of ranked-choice voting with 63 percent of the votes, easily beating her closest rival, Rebecca Kaplan. Nearly 102,000 Oakland residents cast ballots in the contest, about half of the registered voters in the city. → Read More
Jean Quan says she’s proud of her work as Oakland’s mayor
The news conference, organized by Quan, was a chance for the one-term mayor to defend her legacy and underline her successes as mayor: stabilizing the cityâs budget, she said, dropping violent crime and improving Oaklandâs economy. Schaaf, acknowledging Quanâs long hours as mayor, added: I only hope that I can keep up with the work ethic that Mayor Quan is famous for. Speaking about… → Read More
Jean Quan loses Oakland mayor’s job to Libby Schaaf
Schaaf cruised to victory early Wednesday, holding a consistent lead as ballots were counted and Alameda County poll workers ran a ranked-choice voting formula that eliminated all but two of the 15 candidates running for mayor. âI can't wait to run Oakland the way that we ran this campaign,â the bleary eyed councilwoman told a dozen jubilant supporters gathered at her campaign headquarters… → Read More
Libby Schaaf takes lead in Oakland mayor’s race
None had the necessary 50-plus percent of the vote to win the race outright so an instant runoff will take place later this evening after all of the precincts votes have been counted. Poll workers will then have to count the thousands of vote-by-mail ballots dropped at polling places on election day â" a tedious process that could last days, said Tim Dupuis, the county registrar. Housing prices… → Read More
Uncounted ballots could cause delay in naming new Oakland mayor
Uncounted ballots could cause delay in naming new Oakland mayor Unlike the 2010 mayoral race, elections officials in Alameda County say they will be able to run the entire ranked-choice voting tabulation in one night to determine who emerges with the majority vote. The combination of an extremely close race and thousands of uncounted ballots could make it impossible to declare even an unofficial… → Read More
Backers of Measure Z in Oakland raise specter of police layoffs
[...] are the stakes, supporters say, over Measure Z, which asks voters to extend for 10 years two taxes that pay for police and anticrime services â" a $100-per-year parcel tax on single-family homes and an 8.5 percent parking tax on drivers who park in lots or garages. Measure Y called for 739 police officers and promised to make Oakland safe but, critics say, after 10 years and $220 million,… → Read More
U.S. Sen. Boxer endorses Schaaf for Oakland mayor
Boxer is not registered to vote in Oakland, but noted that her two grandchildren go to public schools in the city and she and her husband own a downtown condo there. âShe has the experience, she has a record that speaks to a word that is so needed here â" leadership â" and she is optimistic and realistic,â Boxer said of Schaaf. The surprise endorsement could give Schaaf momentum just a… → Read More
Oakland tenants say bully landlords taking advantage of market
The statistic is at heart of a push in Oakland to pass a law that protect tenants from bully landlords, who, tenant advocates say, are harassing rent-protected tenants until they move out and make way for new renters with deeper pockets. The ordinance, which will be voted on by Oaklandâs City Council on Tuesday night, bans Oakland landlords from interfering with a tenantâs right to privacy,… → Read More
Oakland’s shrug-inducing, overstuffed, unexciting mayoral race
A surprising 39 percent of Oakland voters havenât made up their minds about who should run the city with less than a month to go before election day, according to a recent survey. Interest is half of what it was in 2012 and half of 2010, Metz said, pointing to statewide polls that found just 32 percent of voters said they are âextremely interestedâ in the November election. The voter… → Read More
$225 million lottery winner in San Mateo
A lucky lottery winner in San Mateo won a $225 million Powerball jackpot Wednesday night, the California Lottery said in a tweet. A person in San Mateo matched all six numbers â" 7, 14, 21, 24, 41 and 26 â" during the evening drawing, the lottery said. Another person in Stockton won an $11 million Super Lotto jackpot. The identities of the winners were not immediately revealed. Will Kane is a… → Read More
Oakland OKs waste contract compromise
The Oakland City Council ended the cityâs bitter argument over a 10-year garbage contract late Tuesday, voting to give back a large portion of the billion-dollar deal to the nationâs largest garbage hauler after city leaders accused the company of being a bully. The unusual deal would return the job of collecting garbage and compost in the city to Waste Management, one month after the Texas-based… → Read More
Oakland's Lake Merritt drawing new residents, pushing up rents
Joggers with white earbuds and spandex sprinted by while young women sipped wine from paper cups on a blanket near a pile of bicycles. "In the last 18 to 24 months we've seen an influx of 20- to 35-year-olds who are moving from San Francisco because they are getting pushed out because their rents are too high," said Brandon Geraldo, a vice president at the real estate company Colliers International… → Read More
Crowded field a challenge for Oakland mayor, voters
A gun-toting Army vet who wants everyone to carry guns. Among the rest, there's a dialysis business executive, a politics professor, two city councilwomen, the city's auditor and a tax preparer. In just 10 weeks, Oakland voters will have to sort through the herd of candidates and rank their favorite three in a field that's the most crowded anyone can remember. At forums, street festivals and house… → Read More
Sonoma County declares quake disaster
The declaration, made almost a week after the quake struck American Canyon, will allow the county to receive state and federal recovery assistance if it is made available. Federal aid would likely help home and business owners without insurance repair damaged buildings, find temporary housing or receive low-interest loans. → Read More
Northern California earthquake: Preparedness put to the test
Napa County's main trauma hospital quickly set up triage for people injured by chimneys, glass and other debris that showered onto homes and streets in downtown Napa when the quake hit at 3:20 a.m. Firefighters improvised a work-around to douse a blaze at a Napa mobile home park after a broken water main cut off supplies, but not before six residences were consumed. [...] many other problems were… → Read More
Northern California earthquake causes major damage in Napa
At 3:19 a.m. Sunday, Napa Valley was still its placid self, the leafy wine capital of America. Silent but for a few night owls, its upscale stores sat locked, the usual weekend rush of tourists still hours away. That all transformed in less time than it takes to pull a cork. Six miles away and nearly 7 miles beneath the Earth's surface, one of the area's spiderwebs of earthquake faults woke with… → Read More