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Broken Promises — Oakland's Measure E
Oakland keeps asking voters for new parcel taxes — and keeps failing to deliver what those taxes promised. What voters should weigh in deciding Measure…
May 7
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Oakland Report
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Oakland Police Commission is at a crossroads
Oakland voters overwhelmingly support police oversight, but a documented pattern of Police Commission dysfunction, mounting legal costs, and misaligned…
May 6
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Alex Montana
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Only around 32% of city employees live in Oakland. Their unions are campaigning for taxes that most city workers don’t pay.
Most Oakland city workers don’t live in Oakland and don’t pay local taxes. Yet their unions have spent nearly half a million dollars to campaign for…
May 4
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Oakland Report
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Oakland: the politics of emotional blackmail
For years, city leaders and advocates have repeatedly claimed that the city’s failures are someone else’s fault, criticisms are personal attacks, and…
May 2
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Oakland Report
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April 2026
Lawsuit filed against City of Oakland over Measure E
The lawsuit accuses the City of using SEIU Local 1021 to “front” what should have been a Council-sponsored parcel tax — and burying the evidence by…
Apr 30
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Oakland Report
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The elephant in the classroom
Oakland Education Association has spent over $239,000 to elect a school board majority friendly to the union’s financial interests. Those board members…
Apr 30
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Sean S. Reinhart
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There’s something about Rebecca
The City of Oakland just can’t seem to quit Rebecca Kaplan. After she left elected office, the city gave her a publicly-funded $149,000 per year job …
Apr 27
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Oakland’s police commission could be headed for reform
A new proposed charter amendment would change how commissioners are chosen, move the Inspector General under the City Auditor, and remove the…
Apr 25
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Alex Montana
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Only 35% of Oakland’s rental housing is rent-controlled — and parcel taxes raise their rents, too
Oakland’s ‘rent control’ covers a much smaller slice of the rental market than most people realize — and studies have shown that parcel taxes are…
Apr 23
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Sean S. Reinhart
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‘A decision-making problem’: County schools chief warns Oakland Unified is at risk of running out of money
Alameda County Superintendent Alysse Castro warned in an April 16 letter that the Oakland school board keeps making new spending promises "without a…
Apr 21
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Oakland Report
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Oakland taxes hit deep East Oakland's homes up to 48% harder than Rockridge's
The Measure E parcel tax, if approved by voters on June 2, would continue a historic trend of disproportionately burdening East Oakland neighborhoods.
Apr 20
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Sean S. Reinhart
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'Where is my tax money going?': KTVU 2 News interviews Oakland Report
Television station KTVU invited Oakland Report managing editor Sean Reinhart to talk about Oakland's many taxes.
Apr 18
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Oakland Report
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