OAKLAND — The A’s have no plans to part with an ownership stake in the Oakland Coliseum, even though the franchise no longer believes the property is fit for professional basebal… Read More

At Shutters on the Beach, a luxury hotel in Santa Monica, guests staying in $1,500-a-night rooms can get pristine views of white-sand shores and the Pacific Ocean, hot stone massages, afte… Read More

The A’s and the city of Oakland are divorcing, but the team continues to cling to its ownership share in the family home. While billionaire ballclub owner John Fisher has declared his… Read More

Eugene “Gus” Newport, a cherished progressive organizer, international social justice activist and two-term Berkeley mayor, died Saturday evening, according to his family. He pas… Read More

For Republicans, the investigations into Clarence Thomas and his friendship with Harlan Crow, a Texas billionaire, are just pretexts for an attack on the legitimacy of the Supreme Court. &ld… Read More

This past week was a busy one for Bay Area theaters as a plethora of new shows opened, many with lively musical ensembles. Related Articles Local News | Curtain Calls: The par… Read More

California Supreme Court Gave Oakland Eminent Domain Right To Raiders With Proof Of Public Use California Supreme Court Gave Oakland Eminent Domain Right To Raiders With Proof Of Public Use… Read More

Mayor Schaaf Announces Plan To Take Oakland Raiders By Eminent Domain (LS) The City of Oakland will file an injunction in Alameda County Superior Court to stop the Raiders move to Las Vegas… Read More

SFGateHe liked redevelopment as mayor, he explained to the League of California Cities, but also: “I didn’t quite understand it. … The Kelo ruling emboldened cities like O… Read More

Montgomery Street, San Francisco, 1850This year, 1850, was about the time that Michael Stinson Cooke arrived in the United States from Ireland. He spent some brief time in New York and then… Read More

Even first time tourists know that preparing to go to someplace you have not seen yet nothing beats obtaining some convincing insider secrets. The state of California is unquestionably an ar… Read More

Viewing cities as spontaneous orders and not as works of art helps to explain the tradeoff between scale and order, as well as the role of time in softening the severity of that tradeoff. Co… Read More

I have watched city after city I have lived in gentrify.  First it was Oakland and the improvement were I lived was tied to Ikea.  Once it came the rest followed.  When Jerry… Read More