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Wilmington announces business and economic development chief
The city of Wilmington announced on Thursday the hiring of Louis Starks as its new business and economic development manager. According to a news release, the role focuses on strengthening Wilmington's business ecosystem, supporting entrepreneurship and advancing strategic economic growth. "In this role, Starks will collaborate with residents, local businesses, community groups, educational institutions and regional partners to promote investment, workforce development, and innovation for businesses of all sizes," the release stated. "He will also help connect small businesses with City procurement opportunities, cultivate public-private partnerships, and lead initiatives that promote long-term economic vitality." Starks has more than 20 years of experience in economic development, urban planning, housing finance, workforce development and public policy, according to the release. Most recently, he served as manager of business development for Oakland County, Michigan, "where he led teams focused on business retention and expansion and financial services for one of the nation's most economically diverse regions. During his tenure, his teams supported billions of dollars in business investment initiatives while helping create thousands of jobs," the release stated. He holds a law degree and master's degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Iowa, as well as a bachelor's degree from Duke University. He is also a Certified Economic Development Professional. Starks is expected to begin his Wilmington position on July 27. “Louis has built his career around helping individuals, organizations and communities reach their full potential,” stated city manager Becky Hawke in the release. “Whether supporting entrepreneurs, managing complex redevelopment projects, or bringing together public and private partners, he has consistently focused on creating opportunity and delivering results. He understands that a strong economy creates opportunities for everyone. By supporting local businesses and fostering innovation, his work will help ensure the benefits of Wilmington’s growth are felt throughout the community, creating jobs, strengthening neighborhoods, and improving quality of life for residents.”
Oakland pop-up restaurant owner pauses business after home break-in, sexual assault of 16-year-old son
Oakland police are searching for a suspect following a terrifying Monday morning break-in that ended in the sexual assault of a 16-year-old boy.
Health inspectors find violations at Novi eateries
Oakland County health inspectors found mold, expired food and untrained staff at several Novi restaurants.
President Donald Trump to travel to Michigan ahead of swing state's primary election
President Donald Trump is expected to rally in Oakland County on Monday as early voting begins in Michigan’s Aug. 4 primary
President Donald Trump to travel to Michigan ahead of swing state's primary election
President Donald Trump is expected to rally in Oakland County on Monday as early voting begins in Michigan’s Aug. 4 primary | 830 WCCO
Arenado Hits 2,000, Joins Elite Baseball Club
Nolan Arenado reaches 2,000 career hits with a double against Oakland, becoming just the sixth active player to achieve this rare feat.
This Week: Muni 1 Bus Improvements, Car Free Happy Hour, SF Politics 101
Here is a list of events this week. Tuesday Park Presidio and California Evening Pop-Up. This SFMTA project aims to improve the Muni 1 California bus route from 33rd Avenue to Steiner Street. Come learn about it. Tuesday, July 21, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Corner of Park Presidio and California, S.F. Tuesday East Bay Car Free Happy Hour. Whether you’re car free, car light, car free curious, or just want to hang out with fun people and have nerdy urbanist conversations, everyone is welcome. Tuesday, July 21, 5:30-7 p.m., Drake’s Dealership, 2325 Broadway, Oakland. Wednesday SF Politics 101 with Joel Engardio. SF Politics 101 is an entertaining look at how local politics work and the history that shaped San Francisco — brought to life with visuals and narrative storytelling. Wednesday, July 22, 6-7:15 p.m., SPUR Urban Center, 654 Mission Street, S.F. Friday Woman and Non-Binary Morning Ride. Join the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition for a socially distanced bike ride for women and nonbinary cyclists. Friday, July 24, 7:15-8:45 a.m., McLaren Lodge, 501 Stanyan Street, S.F. Saturday Smart City Cycling 3 — Road Practice. In this class, you’ll go on a guided group ride to practice street-riding skills on increasingly high-volume streets. This class is the third in the Smart City Cycling sequence, and Smart City Cycling 2: Maneuvering is a prerequisite. Saturday, July 25, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., Arguello Extension, Arguello Blvd and Lincoln Way, S.F. Sunday Adult & Teen Learn-to-Ride Workshop. This three-hour workshop is for adults and teens who have not yet learned to ride a bike or would like a refresher on the basics of balancing, pedaling, and steering. Sunday, July 26, Alameda Waterfront Park, 2151 Ferry Point, Alameda. Got an event we should know about? Drop us a line.
Shaky political "science": breakdown of the peer review process
[This article is the latest in our “Shaky Political Science” series. In our 38 page report, “Shaky political ‘science’ misses mark on ranked choice voting,” released in December 2025, we examined over 40 studies focused on ranked choice voting (RCV). Many of these studies suffered from puzzling research methodologies, poorly constructed surveys, unrealistic simulated elections, cherry picked data and faulty analyses that often were contradicted by results from real-world elections (a link to our full paper is here). Here are links to the first four articles in our series: the first one summarizing the overall results of our report; the second one analyzed a study co-authored by University of Minnesota academic Larry Jacobs, which was one of the most error-prone of all the research we reviewed in our report; a third article showing an admirable example of two political scientists holding two other political scientists accountable for their flawed, sloppy research; and a fourth article that analyzed seven studies sponsored by New America’s political reform program that deployed flawed methodology based on “simulated” elections instead of real-world elections, which when combined with some basic misunderstandings of RCV, produced odd and misleading results]. In this fifth article in our “Shaky Political Science” series, we examine two flawed studies on the impact of RCV on voter turnout authored by San Francisco State University professor Jason McDaniel. McDaniel’s research in these two papers stands out for its puzzling methodology, inadequate and cherry-picked data, and faulty analyses that not only misunderstands ranked choice voting but reflects a basic misunderstanding of politics in general. The first of the McDaniel studies actually passed through a peer review process and then was subsequently published by the Journal of Urban Affairs, despite its obvious errors. It is perplexing that a jury of peer political scientists did not catch the errors and send it back to McDaniel for a rewrite or outright rejection. This calls into question the credibility of the peer review process itself. The peer review process is supposed to represent the intellectual pinnacle of the profession – a way for academics to certify the quality of each other’s work, and to act as a check against sloppy research. In the case of the McDaniel study, the peer review process failed. Yet his flawed study has been cited dozens of times by other political scientists in their own flawed works — an unvirtuous circle of academic research. Here is the first Jason McDaniel study that we analyzed: “Writing the Rules to Rank the Candidates: Examining the Impact of Instant-Runoff Voting on Racial Group Turnout in San Francisco Mayoral Elections,” by Jason McDaniel, 2016, Journal of Urban Affairs. This study covered San Francisco’s use of ranked choice voting (RCV) in mayoral elections, purporting to show that RCV reduces voter turnout overall, increases voter errors, and has a negative impact on “marginal populations,” i.e. racial minorities, mainly as the result of the alleged complexity of RCV asking voters to rank candidates and having to be familiar with multiple candidates and related dynamics. McDaniel reached these conclusions by examining five San Francisco mayoral elections taking place in odd years (i.e. where there are no federal or state races on the ballot) from 1995 to 2011, comparing three earlier non-RCV races (in 1995, 1999 and 2003) with the later two RCV races (in 2007 and 2011). Only two RCV races were studied, and as McDaniel acknowledged, only the contest in 2011 was “competitive” (that contest in 2007 was the first mayoral election using RCV, and incumbent mayor Gavin Newsom won easily in the first round of counting, earning 74% of first choices and far ahead of the second place candidate who had just 6.3% of first choices). Yet even the allegedly competitive contest in 2011was won by an incumbent with a landslide margin of nearly 20 points. No other elections were studied by McDaniel, even though San Francisco elects 17 other offices besides mayor with RCV, including the 11 seats on the Board of Supervisors (the name for the city council) in even years, and six other citywide offices in odd years. Previous academic research has found that competitive elections can stimulate greater voter involvement and higher turnout. For unexplained reasons, this study ignored at least 34 other RCV races between the years 2004 to 2011, many of which were very competitive and had high voter turnout. Instead, McDaniel’s analysis based its conclusions on data from only a single, marginally-competitive mayor’s race using RCV. These 2007 and 2011 mayoral elections were the only two RCV elections that McDaniel used as the sole basis for his small data set to determine the impact of RCV on voter turnout. Despite having no meaningful data to inform his study, McDaniel nonetheless concluded that RCV lowered turnout when compared to the previous three mayoral non-RCV elections using two-round runoffs. Then, using the same inadequate database of San Francisco elections, McDaniel also found that “Instant-runoff voting is associated with a significant decline in Black voter turnout and White voter turnout…On average, Black voter turnout decreases by 18 points and White voter turnout decreases by 16 points …” But how could he credibly arrive at that conclusion when his study was based on voter turnout in two RCV contests that were not even remotely competitive? Beyond that, McDaniel tacitly admits that the key determining factor driving Black voter turnout was not RCV vs non-RCV elections, but the presence of a viable Black candidate. McDaniel wrote, “Black voter turnout was about 17 percentage points higher for the two elections that featured an African American candidate compared to the three elections that did not” — but one of those three elections did not use RCV. The same dynamic was present for White voter turnout, in which higher turnout was not correlated with RCV vs non-RCV elections, but the presence of a viable White candidate. Beyond that, McDaniel’s voter turnout results, whether correlated with the race of the candidates or RCV vs non-RCV elections, showed no clear patterns. In his Figure 1, he shows low Asian voter turnout in the non-RCV elections in 1999 and 2003 when there was no viable Asian candidate running, but in the 2007 mayoral election using RCV, there is still no viable Asian candidate, yet Asian turnout increases dramatically. For Latinos, voter turnout is virtually the same in 1999 (no viable Latino candidate, non-RCV elections), 2003 (leading Latino candidate, non-RCV elections), 2007 (no viable Latino candidate, RCV elections) and 2011 (leading Latino candidate, RCV elections). Meanwhile White voter turnout increased dramatically from a low in the 2007 mayoral election, in which the leading candidate was a white incumbent, to the 2011 election in which there were no leading white candidates that finished any higher than sixth place with 5.6% of the vote. Clearly other factors were determining voter turnout than either the race of the candidates or RCV vs non-RCV elections. Despite these inconsistent findings, McDaniel boldly marches forth to render conclusions about the impact of RCV on different groups of racial voters, even though his conclusions are not remotely supported by his data. This looks like the worst kind of “data cherry picking” to cover up a puzzling conclusion based on a poor data set involving only two RCV elections, neither of which were remotely competitive. McDaniel’s cherry picking didn’t stop there. In calculating voter turnout for the three non-RCV mayoral elections in 1995, 1999 and 2003, he failed to mention that in each of these years there was a two-round runoff election, with a first round election in November in which no candidate garnered a winning majority of the vote, followed by the decisive runoff in December. So there were two non-RCV elections in each election year. But McDaniel only decided to include one of the two elections in his data set, apparently the December runoff in each year (which had higher turnout in two out of the three mayor’s races, and lower turnout in the third). So he ignored the November 1995 election, the November 1999 election when turnout was only 45 percent, and the November 2003 election when turnout was only 45.7 percent. This is flawed methodology based on blatant cherry picking, since McDaniel simply omitted three elections worth of data that did not fit within his frame. His study should never have made it through a peer review process, and it is an embarrassment to political science that not only was it approved for publication, but it has been uncritically cited by dozens of other political scientists. Share A “study” without wider context or credible data Lacking a data set that included even a single competitive RCV mayoral race, McDaniel declared that RCV lowered voter turnout in 2011, when turnout was 42.5 percent. But he also ignored -- or did not realize -- that voter turnout in mayoral elections during 2011 had sharply declined in all big cities, including far more steeply in nearby Los Angeles and other cities. In fact, San Francisco’s election in 2011 had the second highest turnout of any mayoral election in the nation’s 22 largest cities from 2008-2011. Was 2011 just a particularly low turnout year all across the country, perhaps because the country was still reeling from the aftermath of the housing market collapse in 2008-2010? McDaniel ignored this factor and did not search for alternative explanations beyond his flawed thesis. Furthermore, while McDaniel suggested that RCV leads to more “overvotes” – which is an invalidated ballot in which a voter, in either a non-RCV or RCV race, makes a mistake and selects two candidates for a single choice – he failed to address that in the June 2012 US Senate primary contest, which used the typical “one-choice” plurality method and did not use RCV, there was more than five times as many overvotes in San Francisco and Oakland than in the RCV mayoral elections in those cities. Additionally, turnout had been significantly higher and more representative in RCV elections for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors races -- that McDaniel didn’t even bother to study -- as compared to previous “delayed two-round runoffs” for those offices, often higher by as much as 40% in the RCV races. Perhaps the most surprising irony was that an earlier study co-authored by McDaniel (Overvoting and the Equality of Voice under Instant-Runoff Voting in San Francisco by Francis Neely and Jason McDaniel, 2015, California Journal of Politics and Policy) found that overvotes are often more common in lower-income precincts, but that the pattern of overvoting is similar in both RCV and non-RCV contests. Wrote Neely and McDaniel: “[Overvote] errors appear to be a function of complexity in general and not IRV per se…. the pattern of overvoting is similar in both IRV and non-IRV contests…Even among votes cast in a top-of-the-ticket race like U.S. Senate, overvoting occurs in an uneven fashion” (IRV, or ‘instant runoff voting,’ is another name for ranked choice voting in single-winner contests). So McDaniel not only contradicted his own conclusion in his earlier study with Neely, but the earlier study had been an important corrective for one of the most frequently made mistakes made by anti-RCV political scientists – a continual failure to provide crucial context by pairing a comparative analysis of real world RCV elections with an analysis of real world plurality or other electoral methods. Unfortunately McDaniel’s earlier study does not get cited much by other researchers, and McDaniel did not even cite it in his own flawed study analyzed above. Incredibly, McDaniel cherrypicked McDaniel, even as his flawed study has been cited dozens of times. Despite being a textbook example of poor political “science,” featuring both inadequate as well as cherrypicked data, the shelf life of McDaniel’s study has been extended endlessly by other political scientists and media outlets who have cited it uncritically. Equally troubling, the Journal of Urban Affairs put this paper through its peer review process and published it despite its numerous flaws. McDaniel gets it wrong, Part II Not content with producing one shoddy, confused paper, McDaniel produced another one a few years later, here is the link: Electoral Rules and Voter Turnout in Mayoral Elections: An Analysis of Ranked-Choice Voting by Jason McDaniel. San Francisco State Univ. (McDaniel, 2019). In this paper, McDaniel extended his previous flawed research focused on San Francisco, about voter turnout and voter impact, to multiple RCV cities through the 2018 elections. In his data set he included San Francisco, Minneapolis, St Paul, Oakland, Berkeley, San Leandro and Santa Fe. He then compared their turnout in mayoral elections to non-RCV cities, and to mayoral elections in those cities held before first RCV usage, and concluded “a significant decrease in voter turnout of approximately 3–5 percentage points in RCV cities after the implementation of RCV.” But he replicated many of the same mistakes as his first study presented above. While in this study McDaniel attempted to distinguish between various factors, such as odd year vs. even year elections, competitive races vs. noncompetitive, contests with open seats and other factors, the analysis is superficial and inadequate. He attempts to incorporate so many often-conflicting variables that his conclusions are once again unsupported by the actual data, and ultimately unconvincing (this second study never underwent a peer review process). For example, McDaniel declared that for RCV cities “in elections that are more competitive than average (margin of victory less than 20%), there is no significant RCV effect on voter turnout.” Yet McDaniel is a professor in a city, San Francisco, in which the 2018 special election using RCV to fill a mayoral vacancy was exceedingly close, decided by a margin of only one percentage point, and resulted in the second highest turnout in San Francisco history for a mayoral election. Illustrating the complexity involved in assessing the critical factors in turnout, that special election was held on the same election day as federal and state offices, which tends to boost turnout. Yet more voters participated in that RCV mayoral election than voted on the same day in the non-RCV primary for governor in which former San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom was running. Even more puzzling, in this study McDaniel inaccurately cited his own previous study from 2015 with Neely. McDaniel wrote, “Neely and McDaniel (2015) examine individual ballot image files within a natural experiment, and find higher rates of ballot errors in RCV elections compared to non-RCV elections” (emphasis added). However, we quoted from that 2015 study several paragraphs above, and in actual fact Neely and McDaniel actually concluded the opposite -- that the pattern of overvoting – which is the most common form of ballot error – is similar in both RCV and non-RCV contests. McDaniel also ignored the fact that in Bay Area RCV elections held in even years – at the same time as federal and state elections, when turnout is highest -- the “undervote” (that is, the dropoff in ballots cast for governor or mayor) has declined, which contradicts his thesis that the act of ranking ballots in RCV elections is too complex and presents a barrier for certain demographics of voters. To his credit, McDaniel actually acknowledged another contradiction in his own paper, which found a negative RCV turnout effect in some odd-year elections but not others, admitting that “may present a challenge to the theory that increased complexity [from RCV] will have a marginal negative effect on voter turnout.” But he tried to wallpaper over that contradiction by blaming it on an unlikely source -- bad election administration. McDaniels wrote, “This would suggest that the negative impact of RCV on voter participation may be alleviated by high quality election administration,” without presenting any data or even anecdotes to support such an unfounded theory. While competent election administration of any election, whether RCV or non-RCV, is crucially important, there is no credible research that supports the far-fetched notion that the quality of election administration has much of an impact on voter turnout in US elections, whether using RCV or otherwise. Upgrade to a $5 subscription The unvirtuous circle of academic research It is puzzling how McDaniel’s first study could have survived the peer review process for the Journal of Urban Affairs. The mistakes in McDaniel’s first study above should have been obvious to anyone with a basic understanding of ranked choice voting as well as elections in general, and elections in San Francisco specifically. It undermines faith in the credibility of the peer review process to think that a jury of peer political scientists did not catch the egregious errors and reject McDaniel’s sloppy research and paper. And it remains a black mark on political science that this thoroughly discredited study has been cited dozens of times by other researchers. Indeed, in our research paper it became apparent that many political scientists cite each other’s flawed research to pad their list of citations and to legitimize their own flawed research, creating an unvirtuous circle of political science. More broadly, McDaniel’s voter turnout studies, like other studies evaluating RCV’s impact on turnout, lacked a recognition that no credible opinion or research can claim that RCV increases voter turnout merely because so many voters are excited to vote for their favorite candidates instead of “lesser evil” candidates without worrying about spoilers. Instead, with respect to turnout, the advantage of RCV has always been that, in most places where it has been used, it has eliminated a pre-November primary or post-November runoff, which usually saw about half the turnout of the November general election. This is especially true during even years when there are state and federal elections on the ballot which substantially drive turnout more than local contests. Any study that does not adequately account for this non-November primary/runoff vs November general election dynamic, or odd year vs even year election factors, is simply not credible. Both of McDaniel’s studies largely failed on those grounds. Steven Hill and Paul Haughey Share Upgrade to a $5 subscription Thanks for reading DemocracySOS…your digital portal for the pro-democracy movement. Subscribe for only $5 per month to receive full benefits and to support our work. Subscribe
How street festivals help Oakland’s small businesses
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Stephen Curry receives Muhammad Ali Sports Humanitarian Award for 'Eat, Learn, Play' foundation
Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry has received the Muhammad Ali Sports Humanitarian Award for his work with the Curry family's "Eat, Learn, Play" foundation, based in Oakland.
Stephen Curry receives Muhammad Ali Sports Humanitarian Award for 'Eat, Learn, Play' foundation
Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry has received the Muhammad Ali Sports Humanitarian Award for his work with the Curry family's "Eat, Learn, Play" foundation, based in Oakland.
Stephen Curry receives Muhammad Ali Sports Humanitarian Award for 'Eat, Learn, Play' foundation
Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry has received the Muhammad Ali Sports Humanitarian Award for his work with the Curry family's "Eat, Learn, Play" foundation, based in Oakland.
Breaking Down the A's Alarming Trends Heading Into the Break
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Kotsay on A's Misplay vs. Tigers, Ginn Injury Update
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A's Catcher Shea Langeliers Leaves Game with Thumb Contusion
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Foundation Friday: Building bright futures & mental health through fitness
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All the songs on Ariana Grande's Eternal Sunshine Tour
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Ex-NFL player Doug Martin's family sue Oakland police, allege restraint asphyxia in fatal mental health crisis
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Oakland Athletics Partners with Motion Sports
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The surprising science of how fatherhood changes the brain
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Auto glass repair businesses suffer as Oakland break-ins decline
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Fewer car break-ins in Oakland means less business for repair shops
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Berkley and Royal Oak Students Studying Science Earn DAR Scholarships
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Bay Area Host Committee Celebrates Opening of Sports for All Hub at LIFE Academy and United for Success Academy in Oakland
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Photos: Ariana Grande’s ‘Eternal Sunshine’ world tour opens in Oakland
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Oakland First Fridays seeks sponsors as funding challenges force entertainment cuts
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New LGBTQ business in Oakland helping revitalize cultural district
Free program, free meals: Oakland's Ahmed Muhammad launches summer science program for kids in his hometown
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Oakland Chinatown launches $2 evening parking program to boost business
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More girls are playing sports at OUSD than ever. It took a Title IX fight to get here
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Dozens of Oakland sports events to catch in June
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Early 2000s star brings first solo album in 12 years to Oakland
Rapper Juvenile is set to bring his Boiling Point tour to Oakland’s Fox Theater this summer.
Birmingham restaurants flagged for health violations
Oakland County health inspectors found violations like improper storage and temperature issues at Birmingham eateries.
Pontiac’s comeback: A new chapter led by partnership and purpose
Oakland County leads downtown Pontiac revival with major public and private investment, creating jobs, housing and renewed opportunity for residents.
Oakland: Health Workers, Activists Protest H.R. 1 Funding Cuts, Call For Billionaire Tax
Around 80 people participated in a symbolic "die-in" in East Oakland on Thursday to protest federal funding cuts to healthcare.
Visualizing Teen Mental Health: Oakland Students Highlight Caregivers Through Photography
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‘Still shakes me’: Contractor recounts finding human skull in crawl space of Rock Hill business
The remains were discovered around 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday at a business along Oakland Avenue near North Trade Street.
Possible human remains found in crawl space of Rock Hill business
Officers were called around 11:30 a.m. to a business in the 300 block of Oakland Ave. after workers renovating the property found the remains in the crawl space.
Possible human remains discovered at Rock Hill business: Police
The Rock Hill Police Department is investigating the discovery of possible human remains in the crawl space of a business on Oakland Ave.
What's next for Oakland County residents and businesses after water main break
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Trump And Kennedy Seek To Relax Safeguards For AI Healthcare Tools
By Darius Tahir and KFF Health News HealthDay ReportersTHURSDAY, May 14, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Paul Boyer, a psychotherapist for Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California, is experiencing the AI revolution firsthand. He’s a little underwhelmed. The health giant has rolled out a new suite of ...
Oakland approves police contract with Israeli company that does business with ICE
Did city leaders ignore a law prohibiting contracts with vendors that work with federal immigration agencies?
Pipe replaced, more businesses reopen after massive Oakland County water main break
Oakland County businesses working to move forward amid water main break repairs
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Oakland County business moving forward amid water main break repairs
Oakland County water main break causes business closures
Most people could understand restaurants that require water for cooking and cleaning needed to be closed – but it was harder to understand why retail stores, and a music shop would have to be closed.
Water main break forces Oakland County businesses to close during busy weekend
A water main break forced businesses along South Broadway in Lake Orion Township to close during one of their busiest weekends, costing some owners thousands of dollars in lost sales and canceled reservations.
Lake Orion businesses face financial strain from Oakland County water main break
Oakland County businesses scramble to adjust amid water main break
Caribbean restaurant in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood hit with consumer alert by health department
Oakland’s businesses are struggling. Voters will decide on giving them a tax break.
The ballot question will appear before voters just months after City Auditor Michael Houston found that Oakland’s own tax collectors failed to fetch millions of dollars.
20 Oakland sports events to catch in May
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Who should be on the Mount Rushmore of Oakland sports?
It’s impossible to pick just four all-time greats. But over a dozen super sports fans we spoke with tried.
The party where nobody looks down on anyone
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Oakland lost a shared language when its sports teams left
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Oakland to host free workshops, networking events for small business owners
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Oakland Celebrates Small Business Week May 3–9
The City of Oakland’s Economic & Workforce Development Department announces Oakland Small Business Week 2026, running Sunday, May 3 through Saturday, May 9. This year’s theme — This Is Town Business — is a direct nod to the small businesses that define Oakland’s neighborhoods and drive its economy every day.
Oakland County deputies warn of fake summer camp donation flier targeting local businesses
A fight for transgender inclusion in high school sports comes to Oakland
The California Interscholastic Federation’s gender inclusion policy has drawn a federal lawsuit. Bay Area families asked its leaders to push back.
Measure C: Oakland business tax relief, explained
At the June 2 primary, voters will decide whether to give one-year tax breaks to small and new businesses in the city.
OAK’s Restroom Renovation Program wins Airport Business News’ 2026 Project of the Year
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Michigan Democrats pick Savit over McDonald for attorney general nominee
Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit defeated Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald at a Michigan Democratic Party state convention on Sunday.
Desperate search continues for missing Oakland business owner, Amy Hillyard
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Desperate search continues for missing Oakland business owner, Amy Hillyard
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Search intensifies for missing Oakland mother and business owner
The search is intensifying for an Oakland mother and business owner who has been missing for almost a month.
Search intensifies for missing Oakland mother and business owner
The search intensified for an Oakland mother and business owner who has been missing for almost a month.
Amy Hillyard: $10,000 reward posted for info on missing Oakland business owner
Amy Hillyard, 52, left her home near Oakland's Lake Merritt on March 25. She is considered at-risk due to an undisclosed medical condition.
Bay Area fans celebrate Artemis II splashdown with a roar at Chabot Space Center in Oakland
When the astronauts of the Artemis II splashed down off the coast of San Diego on Friday, cheers were heard around the country -- even in Oakland. Hundreds came out to the Chabot Space and Science Center in the Oakland Hills to celebrate the historical event.
Artemis II returns: Oakland science center celebrates end of historic moon mission
THE CHABOT SPACE AND SCIENCE CENTER in Oakland hosted an event on Friday to celebrate the Artemis II mission ahead of the touchdown of the project’s
Splashdown party at Chabot Space and Science Center
The Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland hosted some of the brains behind the Artemis II operation from Nasa for a community-wide watch party of Orion's splashdown.
Science lovers celebrate Artemis II splashdown at Oakland watch party
Missing Oakland woman's husband gives details on her mental health
Amy Hillyard, 52, has been missing since March 25.
Fuel price impacts felt by truckers, small businesses as inflation's grip tightens
The impact of the war in Iran is still being felt in the Bay Area, whether its at the pump or the Port of Oakland. Some industries are being hit harder than most.
Future uncertain for Oakland Park business after car slams into building
Shocking crash caught on video: Car slams into Oakland Park business
Shocking crash caught on camera: Car slams into Oakland Park business
Surveillance video shows car crashing into 40-year-old business in Oakland Park
New surveillance video captured the moment when a car crashed into a longtime Oakland Park business overnight, destroying its entrance and left the owner worried about what comes next.
Video shows vehicle crash into Oakland Park business
A vehicle slammed into a Broward County business early Sunday morning.
Oakland audit finds troubling gaps it business tax collection system
While auditors point out that it's difficult to say exactly how much tax revenue the city lost out on, they estimate that about $9 million to $12 million would generally be referred to collections or liens annually.
Oakland: Audit Finds Troubling Gaps In City's Business Tax Collection System
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Oakland made a big financial mistake failing to collect business taxes, audit finds
The city may have missed out on millions of dollars in revenue from a bureaucratic shuffle in 2022.
Skunk tests positive for rabies after biting Oakland County resident, health officials say
Can Congress keep US sports teams from leaving their cities?
From Brooklyn to Oakland, relocations have left scars. US senators Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar now want to give communities a chance to fight back
Search continues for missing Oakland mom and business owner
The search for a missing Oakland mother and business owner continues.
They found a lifeline to global health in their own backyard
Northeastern Oakland's first Global Health Consortium showed students how local communities need global health strategies too.
Oakland sports calendar: Roots, Falcons, Storm seasons kick off; the Ballers’ ‘Battle of the Bay’
Plus women’s NCAA watch parties, the Oakland Spiders’ ultimate frisbee season opener, and a free Oakland Skates hockey scrimmage at the Ice Center.
New business could be coming to former In-N-Out site in Oakland
A new business could be coming to the site of the Oakland In-N-Out that closed because of crime.
Pulse of Politics: Iran war poll & DHS funding fight
A new AP/NORC poll shows Americans say U.S. military action against Iran has gone too far. Oakland University Political Science Professor Dave Dulio weighs in on that, as well as the Department of Homeland Security funding fight on Capitol Hill.