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Kaiser Permanente has been steadily shrinking its local office presence in recent years, contributing to quieter streets and struggling small businesses in the city's core.

"I'm sorry we couldn't keep it going longer - god knows we've tried," said co-owner Miles Palliser. "Thank you for everything you've done for us; it's been a wonderful ride. We've opened a few businesses over the years, and we've had to close a couple. And I don't know if any of them have hurt as much as this one."

Her backyard shop, which she started during the COVID-19 pandemic, has been closed since the end of December in order to focus on her new place, and the regulars have noticed. "They're eager to come in and have the food, and have been calling nonstop for the past few weeks," Varela told Nosh in an interview a few weeks prior to soft opening, as she was setting up her new restaurant.

Local nonprofit For The People presents a free special screening of Oscar-nominated documentary The Alabama Solution, a gripping inside look at how incarcerated men risk everything to expose injustice-using footage captured behind prison walls. The screening will be followed by a conversation with justice leaders focused on solutions. Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.

"better align the parking operations of the City with revenue and collections processes housed in the Department of Finance, and abandoned automobile abatement functions housed in the Oakland Police Department." "[It will] streamline and improve the citations collection process," he said in the report. "Delays or inaccurate data in citations result in high rates of delinquency and decreased collectability revenue." He also said the move would facilitate traffic ticket payment plans, improve customer service, and strengthen financial management.

Travon Troupe, 39, of Hayward, allegedly drove drunk through a red light at Foothill Boulevard and 68th Avenue in Oakland, smashing into a big rig that had the right of way. The July 13, 2020 crash caused a fire, and Oakland police said they only realized Troupe was drunk after pulling him out of his burning car, where flames were spreading to the driver's seat.