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Hand-picked: the political and personal ties between mayor Barbara Lee and her Oakland "charter reform working group"
Mayor Barbara Lee’s eight-member panel consists of her transition advisers, her campaign’s institutional backers, a funder of its own process, and…
Jun 16
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Alex Montana
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Oakland city council pay raises: the charter reform provision no one is discussing
Oakland's charter reform could raise council pay up to 125%, pushing total compensation past $300,000 — yet the provision has been nearly absent from…
Jun 15
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Alex Montana
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'Our babies are drinking lead and we wonder why they’re fighting at First Friday'
Oakland city council argues over budget amendments and declares a "severe and unanticipated financial event" for the fourth year in a row, ten days…
Jun 13
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Oakland Report
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Oakland’s ‘unanticipated’ financial emergency set to enter its fourth year
City council intends to once again declare a ‘severe and unanticipated financial event’ — suspending multiple voter-approved mandates in order to divert…
Jun 12
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Late-night crime spikes 44% on First Fridays. The city says it has a new plan to curb it.
Oakland’s First Fridays festivals have been followed by unsanctioned, chaotic after-hours gatherings in the streets near the official event area for…
Jun 5
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Oakland’s charter reform process: the questions it was built not to ask
Mayor Barbara Lee’s charter reform ‘working group’ was hand-picked to diagnose Oakland’s dysfunction. But the group was set up to rule out the reforms…
Jun 2
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Alex Montana
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Oakland city union warns of a strike if city council does not approve pay raises, other demands
"I stood in a photo with you before I knocked doors for Measure E on Saturday." IFTPE Local 21 union members remind council members who "worked really…
Jun 2
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Oakland Report
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May 2026
'Death and taxes': Oakland City Council is the one who knocks. (Flashback)
Oakland's Measure E didn't start as a "citizen" initiative. It started at City Council months earlier. Then it was handed off to unions to put it on the…
May 30
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Oakland Report
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‘Oakland deserves better’ — Alameda County approves Coliseum buyback term sheet
Developer Ray Bobbitt submitted last-minute changes to ‘carve out’ the Oakland Arena from liability for environmental issues at the Oakland Coliseum…
May 29
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Alameda County is back in the Oakland Coliseum business — set to buy back from A’s, sell to developer
Developer Ray Bobbitt has missed nearly every major payment to the City of Oakland. Now the county is stepping back in to help after selling its share…
May 28
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Oakland Report
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Oakland is beautiful, but encampments – and the city’s inequitable response – are holding it back
The city of Oakland’s encampment ‘sensitivity areas’ map perpetuates a long legacy of injustice by once again placing an inequitable burden on West and…
May 27
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Oakland Report
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It’s legal to lie in campaigns – but that doesn’t make it right
Oakland Measure E campaign’s claim that it results in “lower tax rates” is a misleading statement — in common terms, a lie. Nothing in the legal text of…
May 24
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Oakland Report
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