Nik Wojcik - East Bay Editor

02 Aug 2018

Bay News: Legends, rallies, scandals, infernos and rolling fish

Locals lost a legend this week, fires ripped through the Golden State, Pelosi takes aim the Navy and EPA, some rally may or may not be happening and we’ve some got ideas for your leisure time (fish and basketball anyone?). Let’s go… Rally rollback and rules, just in case It

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26 Jul 2018

This week in Bay news: Nia Wilson, civic engagement and lunar viewing parties

This was a tough week in the Bay Area, period. We’ve chosen to leave all the national news alone for this wrap, although there is plenty to report on there, including today’s deadline for family reunifications. But there is enough for us to digest here closer to home that speaks

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23 Jul 2018

Sisters attacked in Sunday double stabbing on BART: 18-year-old Nia Wilson killed

Two sisters were attacked on BART Sunday night near the McArthur station in Oakland around 9:45 p.m., leaving one dead and one injured in a seemingly random double stabbing incident. The suspect is still at large. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, police are searching for a heavy-set white male

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19 Jul 2018

This Week’s News from the Bay and Beyond

We have locals kicking gentrification arse, the shakeup of a landmark publication, the best possible outcome in the Permit Patty situation and a president that just went balls-deep in diplomacy destruction. Let’s go. Around the Bay Hasta Muerte Puts Down Oakland Roots The building Hasta Muerte Coffee leased from was

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12 Jul 2018

Bay News: A New SF Mayor, Berkeley to Build Housing, And an Arsonist in Concord

It’s been a big week here at home and abroad. San Francisco got a new mayor, Berkeley is trying to build some housing, an angry Concord man gets to go to prison and Trump is making a lot of fans in Europe. Let’s dig in. San Francisco welcomes a (sort

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05 Jul 2018

One crazy, Fiery Week in the Bay Area

Welcome to your week in Bay Area news. We’ll hit on some key stories that matter here and give you some ideas as to what to do to decompress after a week of crazy. Here goes… Ghost Ship defendants take minimized plea deal Max Harris and Derick Almena entered no

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30 Jun 2018

Federal Government Threatened to put Detainment Camp in Concord. The City Fought Back

They say the city of Concord is “Where Families Come First”. This past week put that commitment to the test. It was June 22 when Time published a story that rocked the city and surrounding Bay Area with news that the U.S. Department of the Navy was considering a detainment

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