From the Oakland Convention Center in downtown to Everett and Jones near Jack London Square, and in bars and homes across the city, Oakland resident united in anticipation as they awaited Barack Obama’s fate.
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Tagged: california, election 2008, oakland, Oakland North
Cheering, honking, weeping mobs overtook the streets of North Oakland tonight when Barack Obama became the next president-elect of the United States. When the news hit at 8 p.m., the city went wild.
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Tagged: california, election 2008, oakland, Oakland North
They come from the hills and they come from the east. Every Halloween, children from all over Oakland descend in the hundreds on Rockridge’s Lawton Street.
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Tagged: california, feature, halloween, holidays, oakland, Oakland North
Hundred of Oakland residents filled the city council chambers to hear exactly what services would be cut and who would be fired to make up for the city’s $42.5 million budget deficit.
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Tagged: council meeting, oakland, Oakland North, politics, taxes