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Source: Mercury News By: Bay City News Date: August 13, 2015 Bay City News reports on efforts by Oakland United coalition, which includes Public Advocates, to ensure that the development of [...]

Source: The Sacramento Bee By: Dan Walters Date: August 17, 2015 Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters writes about the current debate over how California’s schools are to be evaluated, now [...]

Source: KPFA 94.1 Date: July 18, 2015 Related Staff: Samuel P. Tepperman-Gelfant A closed City Council meeting ruled against building a luxury apartment complex in the Eastlake neighborhood. This [...]

Source: Oakland Tribune By: Mike Blasky Date: July 16, 2015 Related Staff: David Zisser Critics of a seemingly illegal residential tower proposal near Lake Merritt for months have asked the city [...]

Report on the city of Oakland’s decision to re-open the process for receiving proposals to develop a city owned parcel of land on E.12th St. near Lake Merritt after intense community [...]

Source: Oakland Post News By: Tulio Ospina Date: July 8, 2015 In a confidential legal opinion issued in February to the City Council, Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker told councilmembers that [...]

Source: East Bay Express By: Darwin BondGraham Date: July 8, 2015 Related Staff: David Zisser The second and final vote on a deal to sell city-owned land to developer UrbanCore for construction [...]

Source: San Francisco Business Times By: Roland Li Date: July 7, 2015 Related Staff: Samuel P. Tepperman-Gelfant If Oakland sells public land near Lake Merritt to a private developer to build a [...]

Source: Education Week By: Andrew Ujifusa Date: July 6, 2015 A California lawsuit filed last week claims that the Los Angeles Unified School District is failing to abide by the state’s [...]

Source: East Bay Express By: Darwin BondGraham Date: July 6, 2015 Related Staff: David Zisser, Samuel P. Tepperman-Gelfant In this article, based on a leaked confidential legal opinion, Darwin [...]