Month: August 2012

“After seeing all the discrimination and segregation, I became determined to serve the Asian community. I do not want to be famous, but help people with the least talk.”

By Debora Gordon Debbie Koppman, an artist-in-residence at Sequoia Elementary School, teaches art to students in grades 3-5, where students make art out of “trash and scavengeable materials.” “At the beginning it was literally taking

By Ronald Owens It’s a common marketing ploy among professional sports franchises to figuratively return their teams to a bygone era for a game, with an eye towards reaping enormous profits from the sale of “throwback” uniform jerseys

By Debora Gordon Boku Kodama became a teacher at the age of 50. In a way, it was the latest venture in  Boku’s life as a self-described “serial entrepreneur.” His organization Urban Financial Intelligence, Responsible Entrepreneurship (Urban

By Michael Holland Alameda County residents who are receiving food stamps, cash and other forms of public assistance as an Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) can now purchase prepared meals at Pizza Hut and Dorsey’s Locker

By Howard Dyckoff  It was a beautiful Saturday in Oakland. And that made it only harder to sit with coders and civic activists, planning and prepping mobile and web applications, behind glass walls as the

By Howard Dyckoff National Night Out (NNO) is happening tomorrow and Oakland is on track to establish another record for neighborhood get-togethers, according to Mayor Jean Quan and OPD Chief Howard Jordon. There will be

By Michael Holland I decided to do my own survey. A “man-on-the-street” sample. No margin of error, no questionnaires, no statistics. Just one simple question that gets right at the heart of some pain going