Tag Archives: Oakland

Oakland at Work: A sailor’s life for me

Pro­duced for Oak­land North’s new series, “Oak­land at Work.“ Though Mary Swift-Swan has tra­versed the Bay Area’s many estu­ar­ies and coast­lines since she was 3 years old, she didn’t set­tle into the non­stop, unpre­dictable life of a sailor until she was well into her 30s. Now, as a licensed cap­tain and the owner of Afterguard […]

Infographic: The Costs of Occupy

Check out this info­graphic I made for Oak­land North, which illus­trates some of the costs incurred by the City of Oak­land as offi­cials attempted to man­age the Occupy Oak­land protests. Byrhonda Lyons did the report­ing: A week after Occupy Oak­land pro­test­ers were evicted from Frank Ogawa Plaza for the sec­ond time, the city is still […]