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 E (June 2026).
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Broken Promises: Oakland’s Measure E
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Good grief, this is some of the best reporting I've seen out of Oakland in decades. I suggest one of the primary reasons we are in this downward spiral is because Oaklanders don't read this. Wear all the booster denial stuff (Oaklandish) you want. As Adlai Stevenson once famously said "people get the kind of government they deserve."