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Oakland’s police contract could raise pay 14%. Other city unions got bigger annual raises in the last round.
City council is set to vote on a contract that would make police pay a portion of their health premiums but would not cap overtime.
Sep 14
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Oakland elections: No one wants to catch the “falling knife”
This year, the stakes are higher than ever in Oakland’s local elections — so why are so few candidates running?
Sep 8
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Seneca Scott
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Oakland’s Achilles heel — Letters to the editor
Wondering why a council member behaves like a nightclub act; who’s missing from the Sheng Thao witness list?; gross mismanagement at Oakland Unified …
Aug 25
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Oakland Report
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Oakland still has the #1 property crime rate in America
Oakland also still has the #1 violent crime rate in California — and the lowest reported rate of solved crimes of any major city in the nation…
Aug 15
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Oakland deserves a real contest for mayor. The job is too important to wave in.
Oakland's last two mayoral elections were decided by slim margins. With two days left for candidates to qualify for this November's election, incumbent…
Aug 5
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Flashback: There’s something about Rebecca
Why isn't former Oakland council member Rebecca Kaplan on the Sheng Thao witness list in her upcoming trial? We published this overview of Kaplan's long…
Aug 4
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Oakland has the #1 property crime rate in America
Oakland also has the #1 violent crime rate in California — and the lowest rate of solved crimes of any major city in the nation.
Aug 2
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Rough cut: Our video montage missed the mark
Our recent video compilation fell short. We did not meet our own standard of “no implicit bias”
Jul 31
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Oakland Coliseum: An open letter to Oakland council member Janani Ramachandran
A District 4 constituent asks his council member to reconcile her vote for the Oakland Coliseum sale with the ‘culture of enforcement’ she has publicly…
Jul 27
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Oakland Report
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Oakland: trash is cash, garbage is gold
How Oakland built a problem it cannot clean up — and how to fix it.
Jul 26
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Oakland Report
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When a loan is not a ‘loan’: city officials use wordplay to elide the truth about the Coliseum sale
Oakland lends its Coliseum buyer half the price — and the buyer plans to immediately flip the Oakland Arena for cash. We map the deal to the city's own…
Jul 21
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Alex Montana
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Oakland set to give Ray Bobbitt’s company public financing at below-market interest rate to buy the Coliseum
We compare the proposed loan to what commercial lenders charge — and estimate the below-market public financing is essentially a giveaway of roughly $45…
Jul 13
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Alex Montana
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