April 11, 2018 No accountability for Interchange Counseling Institute founder Steve Bearman Before Bearman was sued by six women for alleged sexual assault, a state licensing board failed to investigate reports of his misconduct.
April 4, 2018 Fire and Fortune A year after a fire killed four people at a San Pablo Avenue building for low-income people, many of the former residents are still suffering. The owners of the building? Not so much.
March 21, 2018 Housing for North Berkeley BART? BART and city leaders recently took the first steps toward a mixed-use housing development on the station’s parking lots, but there’s still a long road ahead.
March 14, 2018 West Oakland’s food desert remains A shopping plaza where the city and community partners have been trying to open a supermarket for more than a decade was sold in the fraud case against the former Tribune Tower owner.
March 7, 2018 Permanently Temporary Oakland views itself as a progressive city, but it has increasingly relied on low-paid, part-time employees who have no job security. And workers say city services have suffered.
February 14, 2018 Tough times for Holy Names University The 150-year-old Oakland institution suffered a huge loss in enrollment and is facing a challenging financial outlook and a bitter legal fight with a former professor.
January 31, 2018 What ever happened to the Rotary Nature Center? The storied center of Lake Merritt’s wildlife refuge closed for refurbishing last year. And it remains shuttered, raising doubts about its future.
January 24, 2018 The Tribune Tavern couldn’t escape owner’s fall Court records reveal how the restaurant at the base of Oakland’s most iconic building became a casualty of Tom Henderson’s collapsing empire.
January 21, 2018 Women’s March Oakland 2018 Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Oakland for the second Women’s March on Saturday, the anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Oakland police estimated the…
January 11, 2018 Rape report data from Berkeley, Concord and Oakland police departments In my latest story for Oakland Magazine, I report that three East Bay police departments — in Berkeley, Concord and Oakland — have some…
