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Betty Mendoza, Livermore I am writing today about our Oakland A's baseball team and the possibility of them moving away. We have lost the Oakland Raiders, and the Warriors found a new home in S.F. Now, the only professional sports team we have here on our side of the Bay could be moving out of state, which leaves us with no professional sports teams here at all. I was born and raised in Oakland 78 years ago, my three children also were born in Oakland. We all now reside in Livermore, but our hearts are still with Oakland and our A's, and the last thing we want to see is them move away.

California stimulus checks: Newsom proposes giving two of every three California residents $600 as recall campaign heats up CNN 5/11/2021 By Maeve Reston, Katie Lobosco and Tami Luhby, CNN © Justin Sullivan/Getty Images OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - MAY 10: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (L) speaks during a press conference as Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff (R) looks on at The Unity Council on May 10, 2021 in Oakland, California. California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a $100 billion economic recovery package for the state that would include a new round of $600 stimulus checks for low-i...

Fantastic Negrito raps about Storefront Records, his new label and community space in West Oakland By Freedom has come to Xavier Dphrepaulezz. It has come not through his third Grammy, won last month for his third studio album as alter ego Fantastic Negrito; not from the key to the city of Oakland given to him by Mayor Libby Schaff in 2020. It's come not from the fame and recognition showered on Dphrepaulezz since erupting onto the music scene after winning NPR's Tiny Desk Concert in 2015 but from a former liquor store on a forgotten corner of West Oakland in a neighborhood the ...

Adrian Spinelli March 14, 2021Updated: March 15, 2021, 10:50 pm Fantastic Negrito talks with friends and family after learning of his Grammy win during a watch party for the 63rd Grammy Awards outside Store Front Records in Oakland. Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, The Chronicle On the corner of 32nd Street and San Pablo Avenue in West Oakland, a small homeless encampment stretches along the edge of a parking lot of a building that used to be a seedy liquor store in the neighborhood where blues musician Xavier Dphrepaulezz, best known as Fantastic Negrito, grew up. Today, that build...

After several attacks on members of the Asian-American community in the Bay Area, a rally was held in Oakland to promote multicultural healing Saturday.