Fourth Annual “Bad Art” Fundraiser for Oakland Animal Services

"Since 2020, we’ve brought you over 1,600 *ahem* unique portraits of your pets! If you missed out, now’s your chance. Or perhaps, you need to add to your collection of bad art. Whatever your reason, now’s the time to get that special masterpiece."

"Here’s how it works: beginning August 21, for a donation of $50, you’ll receive an electronic masterpiece of your BFF. And for $125, we’ll mail you the hard copy of the artwork."

#oakland #oaklandanimalservices #oas #AlamedaCounty #rescuedog ##rescuecat

#SanLeandro, #Calif. Apr. 1942. Girls bunching young tomato plants on an #AlamedaCounty farm for one of the last shipments to market prior to evacuation of persons of #Japanese ancestry and housing in #WarRelocationAuthority centers for the duration of the war

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2021647297/

#Centerville, #Calif. Apr. 1942. Young workers of #Japanese ancestry picking peas on a farm in #Alamedacounty, before evacuation and, later, housing for the duration of the war, in #WarRelocationAuthority centers

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2021640373/

#SanLeandro, #Calif. Apr. 1942. Bunching young tomato plants on an #AlamedaCounty farm for one of the last shipments to market prior to evacuation of these workers of #Japanese ancestry and their housing in #WarRelocationAuthority centers for the duration of the war

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2021647295/

#SanLeandro, #Calif. Apr. 1942. Girls watering young tomato plants on a farm in #AlamedaCounty, prior to evacuation of persons of #Japanese ancestry and assignment to #WarRelocationAuthority centers for the duration of the war

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2021647296/

#California > #Firefighters are battling a 25-acre fire at I 580 X Grant Line Rd in the #Altamont area of #AlamedaCounty. The fire is named #GrantFire

Photo by @CHPDublin

Anabel Sosa of CalMatters details how 988, California's mental health crisis hotline, has received more than 280,000 calls since last year's launch, and how they will offer Spanish and more services soon.

https://alamedapost.com/news/a-lifesaving-tool/

#988 #alameda #hotline #california #MentalHealth #AlamedaCounty

#AlamedaCounty considering bad and possibly unconstitutional law punishing being within "200 feet of a #sideshow" with up to six months in jail. https://oaklandside.org/2023/06/14/sideshow-ordinance-spectators-alameda-county/

@transbay @RideACT

Here's a bicycle ride I did that I called the Three Tunnels Ride. It visits either ends of the Caldecott, (car) Redwood Peak (Sacramento Northern, train) and Kennedy (car) tunnels.

https://ridewithgps.com/trips/123513538

https://photos.app.goo.gl/cw1MuKGgTZcgxYYz5

https://oaklandwiki.org/Caldecott_Tunnel

https://oaklandwiki.org/Redwood_Peak_Tunnel

https://oaklandwiki.org/Kennedy_Tunnel

#Oakland #AlamedaCounty #ContraCostaCounty #history #tunnels #bicycle #sfbayarea #transit #tour

Sheriff's deputies and juvenile detention officer criminally charged. This is the type of creepy shit that former #AlamedaCounty #DistrictAttorneys #Orloff and #OMalley happily overlooked.

https://www.ktvu.com/news/2-alameda-county-sheriffs-deputies-juvenile-detention-officer-face-criminal-charges

The crew of gringos felling all the #redwoods above #Oakland in the 1850s served their own justice, calling themselves the Redwoods Regulators, distinct from the town of #Oakland. There are no newspaper archives for Oakland from this period, so echos of news from remoter papers are all that's available. #AlamedaCounty was 2 years old, when this was published.

"Arrested.— The county authorities of Alameda county, have arrested a man named Henry Hastings, the leader of the Redwoods Regulators, who assisted in hanging Henning in San Antonio last Sunday. The authorities seem determined to deal severely with all those engaged in that transaction. Other arrests will no doubt be made."

The Placer Herald - Rocklin, #California · Saturday, July 14, 1855

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-placer-herald-arrested-redwoods-re/124062005/

#history

Arrest warrant issued for Oakland Police officer accused of perjury, threatening witness.

The officer worked on hundreds of cases in the past decade and the legitimacy of those cases could be called into question.

#oakland #opd #AlamedaCounty

https://www.ktvu.com/news/arrest-warrant-issued-for-oakland-police-officer-accused-of-perjury-threatening-witness

TALL TREES GREW HERE AWAY BACK - Redwood Forest Reached for Oakland Sky - Oakland Tribune 01 May 1952

http://fastestslowguy.blogspot.com/2020/04/tall-trees-grew-here-away-back-redwood.html

#Oakland #history #redwoods #logging #oldgrowth #ContraCostaCounty #alamedacounty #parks #hills #giants #JoaquinMillerPark #RedwoodRegionalPark #EBRPD #tribune

Alex Shultz: Bay Area media members thirst for the recall of Alameda County DA Pamela Price

"Barely three months into Price’s term, a handful of media members have fixated on the new DA, posturing as if they’re doing objective, community-oriented journalism — and even worse, adopting the holier-than-thou stance that their beliefs and biases aren’t shaping whom they choose to interview and how they choose to report stories. They’re using loaded, pro-punishment rhetoric about “public safety,” boldly assuming the very constituency that just elected Price would of course immediately find her policies to be out of step…"

#alamedacounty #districtattorney #palmelaprice #california
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/media-coverage-of-alameda-county-da-pamela-price-17891024.php

#TRAFFICALERT: A lane reduction is in place on State Route 84 at Ruby Hill #AlamedaCounty due to road repairs. For live traffic conditions go to Caltrans Quickmap ▶️quickmap.dot.ca.gov

What's the story behind this SAVE OAKLAND'S SEQUOIAS pin? Read about it here:

https://fastestslowguy.blogspot.com/2020/04/oakland-sequoia-mountain-park-part-1.html

"To have stricken of immediately 20,000 buttons at a cost of $100 to be sold for one dollar each, these buttons to bear a picture of a redwood tree, the letters "S. O. S. and "Vote Yes, August 29." The initial cost of the buttons was underwritten by Fred E. Reed, president of the Oakland real estate board."

https://fastestslowguy.blogspot.com/2020/04/oakland-sequoia-mountain-park-part-2.html

Pin found on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/144981481181

#oakland #redwoods #history #JoaquinMillerPark #ContraCostaCounty #AlamedaCounty #bond #parks #civics #buttons

#UPDATE: Three lanes of EB I-580 are currently closed to allow crews to continue working on storm related repairs. The work will conclude at 1:30 p.m., but the two right-hand lanes of I-580 will remain closed at least until Friday, March 24. 🧵 #AlamedaCounty #CAwx

I’m extremely distressed to learn that #AlamedaCounty no longer excuses #SelfEmployed people from #JuryDuty, even if we can show that serving would be an extreme hardship. They force people to show up in person with documentation (losing work) to try getting excused. No wonder 20% of people ignore summons.

'WORLD'S OLDEST ACTIVE COWBOY' TO MARK 94TH BIRTHDAY - Oakland Tribune - October 20, 1949

'SUNOL, Oct, 20. - When most pioneers pass the 75-year mark, society is content to let them retire to a rocking chair and spin tales of the "good old days."'

#California #history #AlamedaCounty #Californio #cowboy #Oakland

https://fastestslowguy.blogspot.com/2023/03/worlds-oldest-active-cowboy-to-mark.html

UC Berkeley student Raksha Rajeshmohan writes in with recommendations for CalFresh program improvements after a very disjointed experience which delayed services.

https://alamedapost.com/op-ed/alameda-county-calfresh-program-needs-to-address-backlog/

#Alameda #CalFresh #FoodStamps #AlamedaCounty #SocialServices #SupportServices