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  • Nuna Phillips-McKee Celebrates 100 Years: ‘A Century of Faith, Family and God’s Amazing Grace!’

    OAKLAND POST — Nuna’s life has been one of Christian service. A longtime member of Wings of Love Maranatha Ministries, now Incredible Church, she serves as director of Community Services and is actively involved in the church’s Food Ministries. The post Nuna Phillips-McKee Celebrates 100 Years: ‘A Century of Faith, Family and God’s Amazing Grace!’ appeared first on BlackPressUSA.

  • D.A. Ursula Jones Dickson: Terminix to Pay $3.15 Million Over Illegal Disposal of Pesticides, Customer Records

    OAKLAND POST — District attorney investigators examining Terminix facilities throughout California between 2021 and 2024 found hundreds of pesticides and other hazardous-waste items that had allegedly been disposed of unlawfully, according to Jones Dickson’s office. The post D.A. Ursula Jones Dickson: Terminix to Pay $3.15 Million Over Illegal Disposal of Pesticides, Customer Records appeared first on BlackPressUSA.

  • REPORT: Community Level Policy Is Impacting Homelessness and Drug Abuse in California

    OAKLAND POST — The report compiled by the Public Policy Institute of California found that counties that added more permanent housing beds per capita saw larger decreases in homelessness, while areas with larger declines in incarceration following Proposition 47 saw greater increases in homelessness. The post REPORT: Community Level Policy Is Impacting Homelessness and Drug Abuse in California appeared first on BlackPressUSA.

  • OPINION: AI Needs to Know Who Is the Boss

    OAKLAND POST — AI is software running on computers. However startling the conversation may feel, the machine does not have my childhood, my mother, my father, my mistakes, my embarrassments, my loves, my grudges, my Filipino American history, my aging body or my accumulated sense of what matters and what doesn’t. The post OPINION: AI Needs to Know Who Is the Boss appeared first on BlackPressUSA.

  • Goldi-Locs and Two (or Three) Bears in the Forest in California Hills

    OAKLAND POST — My husband has anticipated 99% of our needs – tents, saws, canopies, batteries, shovels, rakes, axes, picks, etc., and Goldi-Locs instructs and reminds us how to get from step A to B, but there is nothing like the experience you gain on your own. Meaning: you don’t how to do it until you do it. No matter what you read, what somebody says, until you do it, you don’t know. The post Goldi-Locs and Two (or Three) Bears in the Forest in California Hills appeared first on BlackPressUSA.

  • Democratic Clubs Interview Candidates for Oakland School Board

    OAKLAND POST — For the first time, the interviews were jointly sponsored by the John George Democratic Club, Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club, Oakland East Bay Democratic Club, Black Women Organized for Political Action (BWOPA), Niagara Democratic Club, Block by Block Organizing Network and Oakland African American Chamber of Commerce. The post Democratic Clubs Interview Candidates for Oakland School Board appeared first on BlackPressUSA.

    As water reuse expands, proponents battle the ‘yuck’ factor

    By Jim Robbins – Black Headline Newswire When Janet Cruz lost an April election for a Tampa City Council seat, she became a political casualty of an increasingly high-stakes debate over recycled water. During her time in the Florida Legislature, Cruz had supported a new law allowing the use of treated wastewater in local water

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