Alameda’s Trish Herrera Spencer was the self-proclaimed “people’s mayor,” but voters dismissed her from office two years ago […]
Category Archive: Alameda City Council
In the wake of an embarrassing incident in which Alameda police officers arrested a black man for dancing […]
Alameda’s first city park will no longer be named after President Andrew Jackson. The Alameda City Council voted […]
Alameda has one of the lowest reported rates of the coronavirus infections in Alameda County. Perhaps, Alamedans are […]
Alameda’s Measure A, a charter amendment approved by voters in 1973, to ban new multi-family housing in the […]
Alameda officials took steps to defy Alameda County Sheriff Gregory Ahern’s five-day countywide curfew on Tuesday night when […]
With the state and county’s shelter in place extended through the end this month, Alameda’s long-running and popular […]
The push in the East Bay, started earlier this month in Hayward to delay a scheduled minimum wage […]
We could make this a third rail of local politics or have an intelligent discussion looking at the issue from all sides.-Alameda Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft on the council's discussion on Tuesday for possibly delaying the city's minimum wage increase.
Alameda city staff is proposing a delay in raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour for one […]
Alameda officials approved a 60-day emergency moratorium on evictions, along with a prohibition on landlords shutting off utilities […]
Alameda became one of the first city’s in the East Bay to approve gun-safety ordinances that regulate safe […]
We're a very safe community, but there are folks who do some pretty horrendous things that pass through here.-Alameda Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft in support of a referral that could bring mounted license-plate readers near at bridge and tunnel entry points, and some intersections.
Alameda elected officials backed early consideration for a proposal to could bring mounted automated license plate readers at […]
Six Bay Area municipalities and more than a dozen nationwide have passed bans on the use of facial-recognition […]
The Alameda City Council will decide Tuesday night whether to become the latest in a growing list of […]
Audio of a secret recording made by Alameda’s former city manager of a meeting between her and two […]
A certain segment of Alameda clamoring to learn the contents of a secret recording made of two councilmembers […]
Alameda Councilmember Malia Vella said the transcript of a secret audio recording set to be released soon by […]
A secret audio recording by Alameda’s former City Manager Jill Keimach made two years ago in hopes of […]
Alameda resident Arminda Graca received her file last week from the Alameda Housing Authority, a thick stack of […]
An Alameda City Council referral calling for a town hall on the issue of gun violence was unanimously […]
Just prior to the State Legislature approving a landmark bill last week that reclassifies gig-workers and freelancers as […]
Thieves snagging Amazon packages from doorsteps in Alameda, and other violators of misdemeanor-level crimes often have a good […]
A loophole in Alameda’s recently enacted just-cause ordinance was closed Tuesday night after the City Council approved an […]
When Alameda’s former city manager made shocking allegations two years ago that Councilmember Jim Oddie threatened her employment […]
Former Alameda Mayor Trish Herrera Spencer is contemplating a return to the City Hal, she told the East […]
