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  • Oakland Voices
    New COVID-19 test site opens in Chinatown
    17 hours ago
  • Oakland Sidewalk Stamps
    Sidewalk maker: Karl A. Johanson
    6 days ago
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    In search of McAdam’s quarry
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    Roll Call
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    Coalition for Police Accountability Praises Measure to Strengthen Police Commission on Fall Ballot
    3 weeks ago
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    Sedie da gaming: le tre migliori proposte del 2020
    1 month ago
  • allaboutgeorge
    ThreadReader app via Micropub to blog
    2 months ago
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    Sorry
    2 months ago
  • Foster Youth Museum Blog
    What Being Chosen Means During a Global Pandemic
    5 months ago
  • Burrito Justice
    SF Parallax
    5 months ago
  • Aspire and Achieve
    Black Graduation At Oakland Technical High School
    6 months ago
  • Back To Oakland
    I'm running for School Board in Oakland
    8 months ago
  • Matt's Writing
    First West Coast Reading of Burning Man: The Musical
    8 months ago
  • MISS JONES MEDIA
    JOIN HERE >
    9 months ago
  • Lives of the Dead
    Dr. Selah Merrill (1837-1909): Clergyman; Anti-Semitic U.S. Consul to Jerusalem
    10 months ago
  • Jingletown Arts and Business Community
    13th Annual Jingletown Winter Art Walk and Open Studios
    1 year ago
  • The Conduit
    In Case You Missed It (9/28/2018)
    1 year ago
  • Oakulture
    Hiero Day VII: The Seventh Seal [Review/Photoset]
    1 year ago
  • Shift Local
    Introducing Mael
    1 year ago
  • Loving Life in Oakland
    Buzzard’s Roost @ Big Basin State Park
    2 years ago
  • "Just Housing"
    The Journey Begins
    2 years ago
  • Oakland Daily Photo
    Monday Mural: Gandhi's words
    2 years ago
  • Ain't nothin' like the Town
    Macroaggression 5,978,234,109…
    2 years ago
  • Scenes From Oakland
    Oaklanders Worry About the Future
    2 years ago
  • themacinator
    Rollie (Rawlings) B. 2007 (or 2009) - 10/6/17
    2 years ago
  • Oakland Momma - Lifestyle Made Locally
    Calm and Contemplation in Sibley’s Labyrinths
    2 years ago
  • I'm Jame :)
    My 2016 in books + 2017 goals
    3 years ago
  • Oakland Spokes
    Don’t hold my seat, dad.
    3 years ago
  • The Solar-Powered Yogi
    A Fallow Year
    3 years ago
  • Living in a Tamale World cuz I am a Tamale Girl
    My little Lady, my Mama Natividad Ramos August 1, 1931 - October 23, 2016
    3 years ago
  • Oakland Neighborhood Project
    November Neighborhood Focus
    3 years ago
  • Cohen-Bray House
    The English Gardener of Oaktree Farm (Part I)
    3 years ago
  • East Bay Redeveloped
    Oakland: 2015 & 2016 Telegraph - Two New Towers to Redefine 20th and Telegraph
    3 years ago
  • Havenscourt Homestead
    Amaranth Harvest
    4 years ago
  • Tight Sainthood
    Tight Sainthood, Continued
    4 years ago
  • sanity check
    Deconstructed bike helmet, Broadway, Oakland.
    4 years ago
  • [historical] Oakland proud
    Oakland, California est. 1852 on Instagram:
    4 years ago
  • projet en vue
    Constructing An Online Profile To Market Your Enterprise
    4 years ago
  • LOAKAL
    The People’s Athletics?
    4 years ago
  • Penn's Station
    TDK: The Dream Kontinues (Full Movie)
    5 years ago
  • Love, Health and Advocacy
    Email to City Council, Mayor and Police Chief re Protests.
    5 years ago
  • Blog Winstead | Stuff I write goes here.
    Should I update this blog more often? Probably.
    5 years ago
  • OG Told Me...
    When I asked Kenny “Famous Wayne” Bowens if I could take a...
    5 years ago
  • Eat Drink Oakland
    Join master fermenter Bryan ’Swifty’ Josephs at...
    5 years ago
  • 38th Notes
    Assassi-Nation: A Poem for The Jacka
    5 years ago
  • Pueblo Lands
    Mothballing the Blog
    5 years ago
  • Oaktown Art
    Officially Shutting Down
    5 years ago
  • Living in the O
    November 2014 endorsements: Libby for Mayor, Abel & Annie for Council, and more
    5 years ago
  • faces of oakland
    Back in #Oakland in December. Will post more beautiful #Oaktown...
    5 years ago
  • macksmack
    Mack Football Trucks Through Salies
    5 years ago
  • Oakland's Own
    Oakland's Own Don't Miss of the Week - 5/5/14
    6 years ago
  • forage oakland
    ‘Oakland Originals’ Trailer: Forage Oakland short at the Oakland International Film Festival
    6 years ago
  • Oaktown Life
    Downtown’s Department Store: Sears / Capwell’s
    6 years ago
  • Fragmentary Evidence
    Support street improvements on Park Boulevard!
    6 years ago
  • Oakland 12th Street Project
    Erik's Photo Book Documenting the 12th Street Reconstruction Project Now Ready for Orders
    7 years ago
  • At The Intersection
    Twitter Emerges as Powerful Tool in Wake of Zimmerman Verdict
    7 years ago
  • Sweeeeet Oakland
    Goodbye For Now Oakland!
    7 years ago
  • Economic Edge
    My Pregnancy As Mediated By a Taco Truck by Kim Ip
    7 years ago
  • Oakland Streets
    The Bike Lane Bottleneck
    7 years ago
  • City Homestead
    What we’ve been doing all this time…
    7 years ago
  • The House Files
    Only in Berkeley
    7 years ago
  • monteskewed
    Blogging Towards the 2nd Sunday of Advent, December 9, 2012
    7 years ago
  • the DTO
    First Friday, SOBO surfing, and the end of an era in Uptown
    8 years ago
  • Today in Montclair, 94611
    Stomper, First Cat Mayor Of Montclair Wins
    8 years ago
  • oakland space academy
    Gentrification and its Discontents
    8 years ago
  • Mr. Oakland
    Gettin' While The Gettin' Is Good!
    8 years ago
  • A Better Oakland
    Greg McConnell: Is Oakland Worth It?
    8 years ago
  • FutureOakland
    Why defend the indefensible?
    8 years ago
  • Oakland Grown
    Untitled
    9 years ago
  • Oaklandish
    Oaklandish x Favianna Rodriguez
    10 years ago
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  • Scouting Oakland
  • Walk Oakland Bike Oakland
  • One Day in ___________ by Alden Olmsted
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