since a city law prohibited him from working as an attorney on the side, which he had done in the decades he spent in the state assembly. “He is the straightest and poorest of all the politicians I know,” Pak says. “Before he left the mayoral thing, I knew he was in trouble...
It’s the last few at-my-limit-and-beyond miles of the Oakland marathon, the path around Lake Merritt that I’ve run hundreds of times. Marking the path is red, white, yellow, black, in a circle, looking like compass points, marking the path, marking the land on which peoples from ...
The Raiders indelibly stamped Oakland on the national psyche, simply by being on television (first on ABC, then NBC, and now CBS) every week of football season with an audience of millions for over 50 years. Starting in 1963 when he took over the then-pitiful team as coach, Al Davis tr...