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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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6
2
'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
10
4
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Swept away: Oakland announced a 20% drop in homelessness – but encampment sweeps obscured the real numbers
Alameda County reports its largest homelessness reduction ever, including a 20% drop in Oakland.
May 21
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Alex Montana
12
3
3
Mayor Barbara Lee says meeting Measure NN’s minimum police staffing requirement now depends on voters approving a second parcel tax: Measure…
The city of Oakland aims for Measure E tax funds to pay for services already funded by Measure NN, the tax voters approved in 2024. It also diverts…
May 17
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Sean S. Reinhart
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10
1
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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4
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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
13
15
2
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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12
6
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
10
6
1
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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14
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Shrinkflation: Oakland is charging residents more and giving them less
Two decades of rising government costs, escalating tax burdens, and stagnant services.
Apr 15
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Sean S. Reinhart
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25
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The city of Oakland has broken its promises to voters in three of the last four parcel tax measures
What the city promised voters new taxes would do, and what the city actually did with the money: a multi-part series.
Apr 8
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Sean S. Reinhart
13
9
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