>"We're working hard on everything that you need to make the quality of life that you deserve real, okay?" said mayor Lee to the picketing workers as she entered city hall.

"So we're working day and night, myself, the city council, and we're gonna continue until we get a fair contract for you," Lee said.

Public sector unions IFPTE Local 21 and SEIU Local 21 picketed outside the mayor's state of the city speech amid contentious negotiations over the unions' contract.

The city is grappling with projected $100+ million budget shortfalls in each of the next five years.

The unions say they are preparing to hold a strike authorization vote later this month; they last went on strike in 2017, which lasted a week.

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/video/oakland-city-workers-protest-during-mayors-state-of-the-city-address/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h

>"After 23 years in federal court, the future of police accountability comes back home. Now the conversation returns to Oakland."

https://www.oaklandreport.org/p/as-the-nsa-ends-the-conversation

>"Caltrans says the case for lifting the ban is about relieving pollution on I-880. But its own modeling shows keeping the I-580 ban in place would result in lower diesel pollution overall by 2035.

>"The trucking industry has pushed to lift the ban for nearly 60 years — and it now has the only industry seat on the Caltrans study’s advisory committee."

https://www.oaklandreport.org/p/the-real-reason-caltrans-580-big-rigs

“The fire department’s implementation of GPS-based dispatch provides a possible model for a policy that remains unresolved at the police department.”

https://www.oaklandreport.org/p/oaklands-fire-department-gps-police

>"Laney’s art gallery is losing 78% of its space. So students created their own."

👉 https://www.oaklandreport.org/p/laney-gallery-students-build-their-own

>"Oakland also has the #1 violent crime rate in California — and the lowest rate of solved crimes of any major city in the nation."

https://www.oaklandreport.org/p/oakland-highest-property-crime-in-america

A District 4 constituent asks his council member to reconcile her vote for the Oakland Coliseum sale with the ‘culture of enforcement’ she has publicly championed.

>"Why was preserving this particular purchaser considered preferable to reopening the process and inviting competitive bids?"

https://www.oaklandreport.org/p/open-letter-janani-ramachandran-coliseum

>"Oakland clears 20 million pounds of illegally dumped trash a year. Oakland's own transportation director says the crisis is self-inflicted — by policy, not residents."

https://www.oaklandreport.org/p/oakland-illegal-dumping-trash-is-cash

>"Enrollment in the public schools OUSD runs has fallen 35% since 2000, while Oakland’s school-age population fell only 23%. Meanwhile, charter schools grew to 22% of public enrollment."

https://www.oaklandreport.org/p/ousd-enrollment-decline-district-run-schools

>"Oakland lends its Coliseum buyer half the price — and the buyer plans to immediately flip the Oakland Arena for cash. We map the deal to the city's own documents."

https://www.oaklandreport.org/p/oakland-coliseum-loan-wordplay