It’s the Best and Worst of Times in Oakland
As Presidential Hopeful Kamala Harris Reaches New Heights, Her Hometown Is Filled With Despair
If Dickens were to rise from the grave tomorrow, I bet he’d head straight to the East Bay.
Because we are watching a tale of two Oaklands.
One Oakland is advancing on this country’s greatest political prize. The other Oakland is circling the urban drain. The two Oaklands demonstrate just how little space there is between top and bottom, between power and powerlessness.
Read the headlines, and in Oakland it is the best of times, the epoch of belief, the late summer of light.
A proud daughter of Oakland has emerged unexpectedly as a …
