About Us
We started Oakland Report as a volunteer endeavor to capture and publish high quality articles by and for the citizens1 of Oakland and neighboring communities.
Our goal is to provide reasoned, evidence-based, and well-sourced analyses and critiques of the policies, actions, and inactions of our city, county, and state governments.
We seek integrity, accessibility, and quality in the articles we publish. We seek truth.
We don’t expect everyone to agree with everything that is published, but we do expect that the articles are grounded in verifiable evidence and logic so that all observations and conclusions may be rationally challenged.
We aim to sustain this effort through volunteer article submissions, with no paid executives or editorial staff. This is to avoid the conflict of interest that arises from sponsor or member supported jobs. If no decision-makers are being paid, there is less incentive to publish content that only tells people what they want to hear.
We welcome submissions from anyone in Oakland and neighboring communities. Email us at oaklandreport@substack.com. Articles will be reviewed and collaboratively edited for adherence to the principles herein.
Or just share thoughtful reflections and ideas in the comments section.
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— Jacob Rukin and Tim Gardner (co-founders of Oakland Report)
oaklandreport@substack.com
"Citizens" does not refer to citizenship in the legal sense, but instead refers to anyone and everyone who resides in our city and is eager to engage thoughtfully and critically in our politics and future. As citizens, we have a duty to engage civically, and with knowledge. This is, after all, our home. We can’t leave the job of tending it to “someone else.”
