Oakland City Council To Vote On Tenant Relocation Help Ordinance July 10th
The Oakland City Council’s Community and Economic Development Committee voted to advance an an ordinance to help tenant relocations last Tuesday, June 30 2018, and…
June 2018
Mark Davis Las Vegas Stadium BBQ Slab In Oakland Raiders Fans Face
On Thursday of this week, Oakland Raiders Owner Mark Davis personally served barbeque to 700 Las Vegas Stadium construction workers. It was Mr. Davis’ way…
Libby Schaaf Oakland Mayor 2018 Oakland City Council Race Endorsements
Libby Schaaf , The Mayor of Oakland elected (no pun intended) to release her annoucement of 2018 Oakland City Council Race endorsementss early. Check the…
Comcast Outage Impacts Oakland, Internet And Xfinity Non-Operational For Some
Comcast Outage is Oakland? For the most part, yes. Approximately two hours ago to this point in time, Comcast, the giant Internet Service Provider (ISP)…
Who’s Pamela Harris, The Candidate For Oakland City Council District Four 2018?
Pamela Harris? Oakland City Council? Who’s Pamela Harris? UPDATE: Pamela Harris Gets Nancy Skinner Endorsement for Oakland City Council District Four Seat. Well, Pamela Harris…
Jameis Winston Suspended By NFL For Three Games For Violation Of Personal Conduct Policy
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Quarterback Jameis Winston was suspended three games for violation of the National Football League’s Personal Conduct Policy. To show how it pays…
Can Community Fund LLC Be Fined For Evicting 92-Year-Old Lela Madison?
What to do about Community Funds LLC and Lela Madison? Can a real estate company be fined for evicting an elderly woman, even though she’s…
Oakland Raiders Lease Extension Proposal Done By Coliseum JPA Today, Off To Raiders
UPDATE: In 2019, after delays, the Oakland Raiders restart Coliseum JPA Lease Extension negotiations. The Oakland Raiders Coliseum Lease Extension to 2020 is almost finished….
Harlan Ellison Died – San Diego Comic Con Tweets In Remembrance
Harlan Ellison, one of the most famous science fiction writers of our time, died today at the age of 84. Star Trek fans will remember…
Natasha Middleton, Oakland City Council District 6 Candidate, Gets Union Endorsement
Natasha Middleton, who is a candidate for the Oakland City Council District 6 seat held by Councilmember Desley Brooks, sent over this announcement that she’s…
Nickelodeon Returns To San Diego Comic-Con 2018 With Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
For San Diego Comic Con 2018 Nickelodeon is bringing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, INVADER ZIM and more to life with unique virtual and real-world…
Igor Tregub Kicks Off Berkeley City Council District One Campaign
Igor Tregub, who’s running for the Berkeley City Council District One seat, has been fighting the good fight in the East Bay and Berkeley for…
McDonald’s Bacon Smokehouse Burger – Samuel L. Jackson Would Love It
FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. – McDonald’s Bacon Smokehouse Burger represents a new approach for the American food company. The company says the Smokehouse Burger has a quarter-pound…
Rebecca Kaplan Files To Run For Mayor Of Oakland, But Says She’s Not Running
Rebecca Kaplan, the Oakland At-Large Councilmember, would not have taken time to have a neat logo made that reads “Rebecca Kaplan for Mayor of…
“Rampage” Coming To DVD; “George” Jason Liles Will Be At San Diego Comic Con 2018
Rampage, the special-effects movie that is a kind of cross between a giant monster movie and a Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson movie, is coming to…
Oakland Responds To Supreme Court’s Janus Decision To Strip Unions Of Ability To Finance Themselves
Oakland, California has been a “union town” for as far back as I can remember, and I’ve been in Oakland since April 8th of 1974….
Visit Oakland’s Mark Everton Says Hotel Development Costs Too High, Tourism #2 Employer
In an Oakland that seems to be bent on giving away the development store to tech companies, guess what the second largest employer is? Give…
LakeFest Oakland At Lake Merritt A Reborn Success Thanks To BBQ Becky
LakeFest Oakland was an attempt to restore the fun brought to the Lake Merritt neighborhood, and in particular Adams Point, by the great event of…
Oakland Lake Merritt Changed By Measure DD – New AC Transit Bus Stop At Grand, Parkview Terrace
Oakland Lake Merritt is slowly being cleaned up and transformed by the large number of projects big and small that comprise Measure DD. Measure DD…
The Oakland City Council Takes Up Public Lands, Affordable Housing, And #PeoplesProposal
Hungry, it seems, to push out poor people of color, (just being honest) The City of Oakland and the Oakland City Council has embarked on…
Supergirl On The CW Returns To San Diego Comic Con 2018 But No Chris Wood
Supergirl On The CW, starring Melissa Benoist in the title role as Supergirl / Kara Danvers, is returning to San Diego Comic Con for 2018….
NFL Names Jocelyn Moore First Black Female EVP For Communications, Public Relations
Jocelyn Moore is an NFL executive who’s making a career crossover jump of sorts. When she was introduced to this blogger at the NFL Annual…
In Oakland City Council District 4 Race, Chris Young Gets Annie Campbell Washington Endorsement
Chris Young, who this blogger has known since the 2008 Obama For America campaign, threw his hat into the ring for the nine candidate (so…
City Of Oakland To Hear Councilmember Kaplan’s Proposals On Labor Unions, Uber Tax
The City of Oakland Rules and Legislation Committee of the Oakland City Council will hear two important items this Thursday, June 29: a resolution urging…
Judge William Alsup Dismisses Oakland, San Francisco Climate Change Lawsuit
Federal Judge William Alsup dismissed Oakland, San Francisco climate change lawsuit. The City of Oakland and City and County of San Francisco’s very misguided attempt…
Judge William Alsup Dismisses Oakland, San Francisco Climate Change Lawsuit – Full Text Of Ruling
On Monday, Judge William Alsup made a ruling that shocked some, but was expected from the perspective of legal scholars. The San Francisco Federal Judge…
Spritz SF Named Salesforce Transit Center San Francisco Bay Area Marketing Partner
Spritz Marketing and Salesforce Transit Center announce a new relationship. Spritz Marketing, a San Francisco-based integrated marketing and creative agency started by long time Zennie62Media…
City Of Oakland Working With Jim Quinn On Lawsuit Against Oakland Raiders, NFL
This blogger was personally informed today that The City of Oakland is still working with famed sports lawyer Jim Quinn on the paperwork associated with…
The Academy’s 2018 Membership Diverse, Includes Kendrick Lamar, Daisy Ridley – Full List
Kendrick Lamar? Daisy Ridley? Academy members? Yes! The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released its list of 928 invited new members, and a…
2018 SF Pride San Francisco From A Social Media View
Related News: Spritz SF Named Salesforce Transit Center San Francisco Bay Area Marketing Partner This was a different year for SF Pride San Francisco. Different…
Baked Cheese Tart San Francisco Westfield Shopping Center’s New Craze – News
There’s a sweet movement at Westfield Shopping Center San Francisco. Literally. Baked Cheese Tart is all the rage. If you go to the mall nearUnion…
Testing The WordPress App On iPhone 8
This is a test of the WordPress App on my iPhone 8. For whatever reason the first attempt to post an entry crashed. It happened…
New San Francisco Mayor Breed Honors Glide’s Cecil Williams At SF African American Chamber Dinner
Cecil Williams, the revolutionary pastor of Glide Memorial Church, was the focus of an incredible event Friday night: the San Francisco African American Chamber of…
Community Fund LLC Evicting 92-Year-Old Lela Madison From Home Should Be Illegal
UPDATE: Can Community Funds LLC be fined for evicting 92-year-old Lela Madison? The news brought to me by Richmond Councilmember and California Assembly District 15…
San Francisco 49ers Fumble Relationship With Santa Clara Due To NFL Team’s Management Of Levi’s Stadium
Yes, Oakland has lots of stadium problems and some teams are leaving our town. And, yes, there’s lots of blame to go around between the…
Chevron Ecuador Fraud Lawsuit Hits Roadblock In Brazil’s Supreme Court of Justice
Chevron Ecuador Update: Donziger loses in Argentina The fraudulent lawsuit against San Ramon-based Chevron in Ecuador has hit a giant roadblock in the form of…
Jameis Winston NFL Suspension Uber Driver Story Questionable, Follows Institutionally Racist Media Pattern
An ESPN media reporter named Jeff Cameron of ESPN Tallahassee gets on radio and says that “people in Jameis Winston’s camp” are bracing for an…
Rebecca Kaplan On City Of Oakland Mid Year Budget Amendments
At this week’s City Council Meeting, which lasted well past midnight, the Oakland City Council and grassroots community advocates accomplished some major milestones. The Council…
City of Oakland To Celebrate Jason Kidd In NBA Hall Of Fame
The City of Oakland has announced that it’s celebrating its home-grown, Cal-Berkeley star, NBA legend, and now NBA Hall of Fame member Jason Kidd. The…
Jovanka Beckles Lands Endorsement Of Mayor Of Berkeley In CA Assembly District 15 Race
The race for California Assembly District 15 Seat is now down to two people: Jovanka Beckles vs Buffy Wicks, and Beckles comes out of the…
Is IFTTT Support For WordPress Users A Thing Of The Past?
IFTTT stands for “If this, then that,” and is forms the basis for many programming lanquage. Basically it describes two primary conditions that exist depending…
Mayor Schaaf Major Step Toward A’s Ballpark: AB734 CEQA – Oakland Sports And Mixed-Use Project
Oakland and its Mayor Libby Schaaf took a major step toward construction of a new ballpark. A new baseball stadium for the Oakland A’s with…
Buffy Wicks Talks California Assembly District 15 Campaign Over Coffee In Oakland
I met Buffy Wicks, who’s running for the California Assembly District 15 seat that was occupied by Tony Thurmond, today, at my favorite place to…
Oakland Raiders Las Vegas NFL Stadium Hotel Tax Revenue Still Less Than Needed For Bond
In the past months, and going back to April 2017, this blogger has asserted that the Clark County Stadium Tax Rate of .088 of 1…
Zennie Abraham Met And Talked To “Jogger Joe” Henry Sintay At Oakland City Council
It was a weird chance meeting, tonight. I just finished interviewing Mark Everton, the President and CEO of Visit Oakland, in the outer entrance landing…
City of Oakland Department Of Transportation Pissing Off Oaklanders Left And Right
Wow. The City of Oakland Department of Transportation is just about two years old, and it’s already gaining media – the negative kind and from…
HIVEN A Community Co-Working Startup That Uses Your Home, Comes To Oakland
The man in the video above is Andrés López, Community Manager with co-working startup HIVEN. While I was visiting Perch, a local Oakland Adams Point…
Rugby World Cup Sevens San Francisco Hosts ‘Nations Welcome’ Event To Open Tournament
In 2015, World Rugby granted hosting rights of the largest international sevens tournament to USA Rugby. And that year, San Francisco was named the host…
Oakland’s Grand And Bellevue Intersection At Lake Merritt Finally Gets Traffic Control Lights
The Oakland Grand and Bellevue Intersection Traffic Control Lights are on, and click here for an update. On September 17th of 2017, this blogger made…
California Affordable Housing Act Qualifies For The November 6 2018 Ballot
This November, residents in Oakland and other California cities and towns will have a chance to alter the market that’s created housing costs so high,…
Jovanka Beckles Statement On CA Assembly District 15 Primary Election Victory Forgets Buffy Wicks
Jovanka Beckles forgot Buffy Wicks. Jovanka Beckles and her campaign staff were so happy to win the race for second place in the “top two”…
Donald Trump Was For Flag Burning, Now Attacks NFL Protests In “Southern Strategy”
Before Donald Trump became President of the United States, then attacked NFL Protests of the National Anthem, he supported flag burning. On the NFL Protests,…
Oakland Coliseum JPA To Hold Special Meeting On Oakland Raiders Lease
The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Joint Powers Authority plans to hold a “special meeting” on the proposed extension of the Oakland Raiders lease at the stadium….
City of Oakland Councilmember McElhaney To Ask For Funding For Homeless Problem In Budget Talks
Oakland District Three Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney issued her newsletter for the week, and in it, pointed to the June 19th Oakland City Council Meeting…
City of Oakland Seeks Oaklanders Input For Capital Projects For Funding
News from The City of Oakland in the form of this press release on seeking Oaklanders input for capital projects. Zennie62Media posts this in service…
Oakland Coliseum JPA Meeting On Oakland Raiders Lease Extension Cancelled – July Set
UPDATE: Oakland Coliseum JPA to set special meeting date on Oakland Raiders lease. The planned meeting to review the Oakland Coliseum JPA / Oakland Raiders…
Martavis Bryant Suspension? Cortland Sutton Was Better Choice For Oakland Raiders
At the 2018 NFL Annual Meeting, I went to great the Oakland Raiders General Manager and recent NFL Executive of The Year Reggie McKenzie. I…
“Beyond Imagining” Oakland Museum Event In VR Saturday June 16th
The producers of an Oakland Museum of California event called “Beyond Imagining – a Virtual Experience of Justice and Healing” have asked me to tell…
Oakland Museum Of California Events And Special Programs For July And August 2018
UPDATE: “Beyond Imagining” Oakland Museum Event In VR Saturday June 16th The Oakland Museum of California (where our fearless leader Zennie Abraham is shown above…
Outside Lands 2018 Complete List Of Presenting Musicians And Food Providers
Outside Lands, the now 10-year-old music festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, August 10-12, 2018, may have an SF Bay Area economic impact of…
Oakland Raiders Coliseum Lease Extension Up For Closed Session Talk By JPA, Friday
UPDATE: Oakland Coliseum JPA Meeting on Raiders Lease cancelled until July. Raiders remain without an agreement beyond 2018. A cat-and-mouse game and odessey that started…
Jodi Whitaker And Doctor Who Cast At San Diego Comic Con 2018 Hall H For First Time
Jodi Whitaker, the first female Doctor, will participate in another first for the BBC America sci-fi television show. As the headline Zennie62Media was sent says…
Outside Lands Music Festival Economic Impact At $75 Million For SF Bay Area, Study Says
$75 millon. That’s the number the Outside Lands Music Festival contributes in economic impact to the San Francisco Bay Area. $75 millon’s the number generated…
Henry Sintay “Jogger Joe” Out Of Jail In Oakland, Charged With Robbery, Sale Of Marijuana
Thanks to a tip from a viewer via Facebook, Matt McDuh, this blogger learned that Henry William Sintay AKA “Jogger Joe” was released from…
The Best Restaurant For Breakfast In Oakland, California
Best breakfast restaurant in Oakland? That’s a personal question. This post is meant to start a fight that needed to happen long ago. What’s the…
London Breed Elected San Francisco’s First African American Woman Mayor – Is That Good For Black SF?
London Breed is the new Mayor of San Francisco! After a roller-coaster-ride of voting lead-changes, Breed’s voting advantaged surged to the point where Mark Leno,…
Oakland Uber And Lyft Riders Will Pay 50 Cents More Per Ride Under Kaplan Tax Proposal
Given the success of Uber and Lyft ride-share tech companies (or what are called “transportation network companies”) more and more cities, towns, and municipalities have…
Oakland’s Matt Nelson, Who “Jogger Joe” Henry Sintay Robbed At Lake Merritt, Issues Statement
Henry William Sintay AKA “Jogger Joe” was arraigned in Oakland this Wednesday June 13 morning on one count of 1st degree robbery. If you recall,…
Blue Shield Of California Supports San Francisco Pride 2018 (SF Pride)
It’s nice to see that soon-to-be Oakland-based company Blue Shield of California is a major sponsor for the fourth year in a row of the…
Oakland To The Gaza Border For “Right Of Return” Protests – Morgan Bach
Morgan Bach, Zennie62 vlogger and Oakland Adams Point – Lake Merritt resident, is in Gaza, and posted this livestream video-blog three hours ago, today. “This…
