In our community here in oakland and grew up in oakland and has been here in oakland all his life. Welcome, paul cox. It is a pleasure to be here today. Great to have you. Tell us a little bit about your background. I was born in oak lan, my parents come from oklahoma and mississippi. Uhhuh. I was born in oakland, i have attended schools in oakland and i have had the opportunity to travel all over the country as a journalist and as an activist and participant in the civil rights struggle and as an advocate for change. You told me earlier that you had not taken a course in journalism but you are gifted in writing detail is. No, i did not take any courses in journalism, i got great grades and english and writing and composition and i remember as a youngster, i was a spelling bee champion and i have alway scarbbling. When you start to realize you have that gift, what made you to work in the community as you did so. My mother used to tell me i was named after the great paul dunbar and she
Notwithstanding the amount, which is huge, of course . Well, look, its 4. 4 billion, but a lot of it is also deferred maintenance, whether its our roads, whether our parks and Recreation Centers and all of it libraries so its important what were doing to make sure that we can focus on our infrastructure. But there are also other aspects. You know, theres one thing, which is maintenance and cleaning up the skin. Its also to exfoliate to sort of grow and generate new skin, which is the, you know do we have any stake in robotics, advanced manufacturing . Do we have any stake in any other future economy machine learning, et cetera . Which we dont. And if we dont if we have our feet grounded firmly in the wet cement of history and preservation of today, eventually that cement hardens. And you have to also think about the future, use the foundation as a jumping board for the future. And i dont think we are doing that right now. Its not the mayors fault, its just, you know, how much money do
We are a community that lost our manufacturing backbone. We were the home of one of the largest textile companies in the world and we watched some bad policy out of washington d. C. Force those jobs overseas so we lived for a decade and a half in a tough economy. We saw generation fall into poverty for the first time in the communitys history and was very refreshing to see our community pull together in an effort to bring advanced manufacturing back in the automotive manufacturing. We landed the kia plants. Its been a remarkable turnaround. Weve learned jobs are so important. You were a dentist for 20 years before you entered politics. Is that why you wanted to run for mayor because of what was happening in your community. I was content practicing dentistry and raising my children and having our family see some level of prosperity, but what we realized was because of the changes going on in our community, we had to get involved in Public Service. Thats when i iran for mayor. We got inv
Congresswoman anchor patrick who were critical of nelsons hierg met with her today. Kirkpatrick said in a statement she left feeling better than when she walked in. Mechanic kirkpatrick trying to oust mccain from a senate seat. Meanwhile, bad news for cardinals fans, and ill tell you why right there. Carson palmer is out for tomorrows 49ers. K507 49er coop with the scoop right here. Coop, again, this is all about that injury that he suffered over the weekend. Better safe than sorry . Id say so. No doubt about it. We all saw it, palmers helmet slamming hard into a ground after a sack in the 4th quarter of sundays loss to the rams. Palmer left the field with a concussion chl he did not return and has since been going through the league mandated concussion protocol. Today, palmer was officially ruled out for thursdays game. San francisco this afternoon. Our cameron is in San Francisco with the cardinals and has more. Coop, good evening. Its a sight you must see when you come to the bay ar
Bravest and most humble and gifted people who lure new he was treated as the child of an intellectual as a wonderful governor of connecticut as the tough alcoholic to be the mayor of boston were one the hillary hunt in then she said dont worry we would not send her parents back to mexico her and it appears to the better angels of our nature. Michele obama. With those democratic socialist values with the new politician Bernie Sanders after renominated Hillary Clinton if that is and i dont know what is. [applause] i hate the polls to see that america is on the wrong track volume river here is doom and gloom. Look at how we have been with open changing in stronger together. Nine yes you can or i can but this is who we are that we are optimistic and strong and brave nobody personifies that better and nobody better than that tim kane. [applause] i know hell be the next Vice President their many reasons why hillary chose him but but the layperson to have that wisdom and sense of character bu