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Oakland’s roads are in disaster: 871 sections of the street don’t have any lifespan left. However there’s additionally progress: Bond cash is lastly flowing in, bollards on Worldwide Boulevard have eradicated pedestrian deaths and velocity cameras are coming on-line.

Oaklandside site visitors security reporter Jose Fermoso takes us deep into the information, the success tales and what’s subsequent for Oakland’s streets.

Additionally on this episode: Oakland wants 200 extra volunteers for its homelessness rely, MetWest Excessive Faculty’s spectacular tutorial progress, town’s lack of ability to publish transparency reviews, Floyd Mitchell’s refusal to talk to the press, new cafes and bookstores, and Sunday’s protest towards ICE raids.

Tales we cowl on this episode

Cowl Story: The Roads of Oakland

Homelessness

Training

Metropolis corridor transparency and authorities accountability

Immigration enforcement

Meals & tradition


Discover all these tales and extra at Oaklandside.org. Do you will have any suggestions or story concepts? E mail us at editors@oaklandside.org.

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Tasneem Raja is editor-in-chief of The Oaklandside. A pioneer in information journalism and native nonprofit information startups, she co-founded The Tyler Loop, a nationally acknowledged neighborhood information platform in East Texas. She was a senior editor at NPR’s Code Change and at Mom Jones, the place the workforce she led helped construct America’s first-ever database of mass shootings. She started her profession as a reporter at The Chicago Reader and The Philadelphia Weekly, and lives in Oakland together with her husband and daughter.

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