Tech-based companies have proliferated across the Bay Area, but Oakland is getting stuck with the dregs of the tech…
By Paul Goodman
I originally wrote the piece below for The Greenlining Institute’s blog in mid-March, and almost immediately after posting it I started to wonder if I was just being starry-eyed and foolish. So much bad seemed to be happening — some of it…
Her name is Maria. She’s a U.S. citizen, having immigrated legally from the Philippines over a decade ago.
In February, on the way home from visiting friends in Mexico, she was detained and questioned…