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The Key System in Oakland and Berkeley 1945 - March of Progress;

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I found this video at TruStack's channel on YouTube. TruStack reports: Before there was BART, before there was AC Transit, there was the Key System, a series of train/bus routes in the east bay and SF. Of, GM bought them up and shut them down. This is a great video. About 20 minutes long. It was made in 1945 and contains a kind of history of the development of transportation in the East Bay. It discusses the "pre-bridge" era of transport, then the opening of The Bay Bridge and how it had a level for trains. The video has great scenes of trains zipping through Oakland and Berkeley low hills areas. It also has scenes of downtown Oakland in that day. You can recognize the 18th and Broadway intersection, for example. It's worth taking time to view the video.
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John Russo: Oakland's Lawyer Sues Housing Authority: Press Conference

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This press conference was held to announce the settlement between the City of Oakland and the Oakland Housing Authority last fall of 2008. This is the only full-length video of that press conference. Oakland City Attorney John Russo sued the Oakland Housing Authority for not meeting its city-established housing mandates. But unlike most lawsuits, this one ended in an agreement that helped all sides.
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A's Fremont Stadium Dream Fading Away With Credit Crisis

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This video show how the City of Fremont went from being an enthusiastic player in the matter of building the new high-tech stadium for the Oakland's A's to a set of city officials not willing to commit land near a planned Warm Springs BART extention for the stadium. Fremont has changed in four months from a town that wanted the proposed privately financed stadium to one with a now-powerful citizen's group opposed to it. Why? Because, as I've said before, the A's plan will and now does call for public financing. Rather than smartly pulling back on the proposal, A's managing owner Lew Wolff is trying to steam forward with this plan. He's also reopened talks with the City of San Jose and Santa Clara County about a stadium there. What's really not smart about that approach is the Major League Agreement has not been altered to allow the A's to move to San Jose, and there's no guarantee that San Jose would 1) be able to get public approval for a s...
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East Bay Express Gets News From Sanjiv Handa - Robert Bobb Was Worried About Cynthia Dellums

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More at EBX : “Robert Bobb should have been Oakland's new city administrator. He was easily the most qualified candidate, and was Mayor Ron Dellums' first choice. Last month, the two men were talking salary and benefits, as they closed in on a deal to bring Bobb back to the East Bay. But then Oakland's respected former city manager changed his mind, and decided to take over the financially troubled Detroit public school system. What happened? According to knowledgeable sources, there were several reasons for why Bobb decided to turn down Dellums, and one of them had to do with Oakland's other "mayor" — Cynthia Dellums.” -- Look, this source is none other than Oakland's leading City Hall Gossip Authority Sanjiv Handa. I know this because Gammon doesn't normally pop-out with articles like this, and the only person who has the level of detail Gammon presents is Sanjiv. Period. As to the story itself, it's true. The way the Mayor's Office is r...
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