Following yesterday’s sudden and unexpected cancellation of the City Council’s Special Finance Committee meeting to discuss the City’s budgetary situation, Councilmember Janani Ramachandran (District 4) is highlighting a report issued last Friday by the City’s Finance Department that outlines severe current and future fiscal dangers Oakland is now facing.
Abstention from sex with men until a reversal of the Supreme Court’s recent decision on Roe Vs. Wade cometh.
By Dana Feeney The House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump for the second time in his four-year term as president, which started in January of 2017. He is the third president to be impeached and the first president ever to be impeached more than once. This second impeachment comes shortly after […]
A recent study has found that moms are not more likely than other women to support gun control efforts. In fact, this new study finds that parenthood doesn’t have a substantial effect on the gun control views of men or women. “Everybody ‘knows’ that moms are more politically liberal on gun control issues,” says Steven […]
Joe Biden’s election victory is one for working families throughout this country. It brings with it a renewed sense of optimism that they will once again have their voices heard in the revered Oval Office. As we celebrate this victory, we know there is much work to be done, and we, the Office and Professional […]
Presidential candidate Joe Biden has declared California Senator Kamala Harris his Vice President running mate. Former Vice President Joe Biden’s selection of Senator Kamala Harris Harris shows Biden doubling down on his long history of excessive law enforcement and support for the war on drugs. In a year of national uprising against police violence, Kamala […]
By Eamonn Burke Last month, 65 people were shot in New York City and 87 in Chicago over the course of the 4th of July weekend. Six children were killed that weekend as well. The holiday may have been a peak in homicides, but numbers of shootings and deaths have been trending upward as the […]
By Emmet McGeown On June 29, 4-year old LeGend Taliferro was killed by gunfire in Kansas City, Missouri. He had fallen asleep inside his pillow fort and at around 2am he was murdered in a targeted shooting of his apartment, according to the Kansas City Police Department. Having been diagnosed with a heart defect shortly […]
By Eamonn Burke The CARES act instated in March that protected renters across the country from evictions ended on Friday. The 12.3 million households under federally backed mortgages can now be given 30-day notices and evicted in August. The end of this protection, as well as the end of additional unemployment payment will make it […]
By Eamonn Burke Civil rights icon and Democratic John Lewis will lie in state in Washington D.C. following his death on July 17. The funeral procession, which began on Saturday, included the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where a state trooper broke Lewis’ skull during a march, and a stop in Selma. It culminated in the arrival […]
