Over the past decade, Oakland has suffered a brutal triple blow: the Raiders to Las Vegas, the Warriors across the Bay to San Francisco, and the A’s preparing to leave for Nevada. As a Bay Area native, each departure is more than athletic reshuffling; it’s an unraveling of my home’s identity. Economically, the losses are […]
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Playing Fair with Stadiums
Last July, Inglewood residents received flyers in the mail from an organization known as IRATE Inglewood – Inglewood Residents Against Takings and Evictions. These mailings, as one might guess, were opposed to a new neighborhood development –– the potential construction of a new basketball arena. It was decidedly doom-and-gloom. People would lose their homes to […]