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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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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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'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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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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'We have a spending plan... that is a plan.' Mayor Barbara Lee, public unions hold a rally for Measure E
Today mayor Barbara Lee, council President Kevin Jenkins, and firefighters union boss Seth Olyer spoke at a rally with public employees to gin up…
May 19
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Oakland Report
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'We have a spending plan... that is a plan.' Mayor Barbara Lee, public unions hold a rally for Measure E
Today mayor Barbara Lee, council President Kevin Jenkins, and firefighters union boss Seth Olyer spoke at a rally with public employees to gin up…
May 19
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Oakland Report
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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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Treasurer Henry Levy concedes he didn't know if Measure E will 'lower tax rates for most homeowners' when he endorsed it
Alameda County treasurer Henry Levy backed away from his definitive 'lower tax rates' claim about the Oakland Measure E parcel tax in the county's…
May 15
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Oakland Report
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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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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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