{"id":156645,"date":"2026-01-30T15:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156645\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:23:08","slug":"what-minneapolis-means-for-oakland-plus-a-devastating-downtown-fire-on-the-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156645\/","title":{"rendered":"What Minneapolis means for Oakland, plus a devastating downtown fire…on the podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"

News editor Darwin BondGraham reflects on what\u2019s happening in Minneapolis\u2014where federal immigration agents have killed two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti\u2014and what it means for Oakland, where ICE has already injured residents, chased people near our schools, and taken people from our courthouses.<\/p>\n

Plus: Housing reporter Natalie Orenstein reports on a devastating fire at a downtown Oakland apartment building that displaced 50 residents, and the landlord\u2019s controversial response of immediately terminating their leases.<\/p>\n

Also in this episode: Oakland hires a new cultural affairs manager, Oakland Airport sees troubling passenger decline, hot dogs return to an iconic Temescal building, and thousands of Kaiser nurses go on strike.<\/p>\n

Stories we cover in this episode:<\/p>\n

Immigration enforcement<\/p>\n

Reflections on Minneapolis and Oakland: Federal immigration agents have killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis while approximately 3,000 agents occupy the Twin Cities. ICE has already injured<\/a> people in Oakland, entered<\/a> our courthouses, and chased<\/a> people near schools. The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted<\/a> to ban ICE from county-owned properties.<\/p>\n

Housing<\/p>\n

Culture and Nosh<\/p>\n

Transportation<\/p>\n

Police oversight<\/p>\n

Labor<\/p>\n

Find all these stories and more at oaklandside.org<\/a>. Have feedback or story ideas? Email us at editors@oaklandside.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“*” indicates required fields<\/p>\n

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Tasneem Raja is the Editor-in-Chief of The Oaklandside. A pioneer in data journalism and local nonprofit news startups, she co-founded The Tyler Loop, a nationally recognized community news platform in East Texas. She was a senior editor at NPR’s Code Switch and at Mother Jones, where the team she led helped build the first-ever database of mass shootings in America. She started her career as features reporter at The Chicago Reader and The Philadelphia Weekly, and lives in Oakland with her husband and daughter.<\/p>\n

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