PHOTO/Shane Bond ILLUSTRATION/Steven Tavares THE SUNDAY COLUMN | Oakland Civil Rights Attorney Michael Siegel stood before the Alameda County Board of Supervisors’ Public Protection Committee last Valentine’s Day and told them what he thought about a proposal by the Sheriff’s… Read More ›
//storify.com/eastbaycitizen/ebc-livetweeting-of-alcomtg-on-domestic-drones-in.js[View the story “EBC LiveTweet of #alcomtg on domestic drones in Alameda County” on Storify] EBC LiveTweet of #alcomtg on domestic drones in Alameda County Alameda County Sheriff Greg Ahern’s plan to purchase drones to aid in search and rescue… Read More ›
ALAMEDA COUNTY | The Alameda County Sheriff’s Department says strict guidelines will be used to ensure the use of drones for law enforcement purposes will not be used to violate the privacy of county residents. The sheriff’s department laid out… Read More ›
Nate Miley in his cannabis t-shirt. ALAMEDA COUNTY BOS | Either Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley is a visionary when it comes to medical cannabis or a political pariah. On Tuesday, Miley handed out county proclamations honoring the work of… Read More ›
ALAMEDA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS | As a former Oakland City Council member, resident and current Alameda County supervisor for a portion of the city, Nate Miley is worried about his crime-riddled city. “It’s a culture of lawlessness, I think, in Oakland,”… Read More ›
HEALTH CARE | Sutter Health’s long-held intention to shut down San Leandro Hospital will not happen this year, says the director of the Alameda County Health Care Services Agency, but as early as spring 2014. The reason for the delay, says… Read More ›
HEALTH CARE | Even as the public was led to believe a three-pronged plan to keep San Leandro Hospital open as a acute care general facility with a 24-hour emergency room had great potential, letters between Sutter Health, the Alameda County Medical… Read More ›
>>CHAN TO EXAMINE SUTTER’S SUBSIDY AT EDEN>>”Rehab Is Dead. ACMC Deal Is Dead.”HEALTH CARE | The potential deal to maintain current services at San Leandro Hospital for, at least, three years is no longer on the table, says Alameda County… Read More ›
>>COUNTY FOUND FUNDING TO MEET PAYROLL AFTER MAHONEY’S EXIT>>”Mahoney moved on to work for Tri CED, non-profit recycling center founded by Alameda County Supervisor Richard Valle.”HEALTH CARE | Sometime in March 2012, the then-CEO of Hayward’s St. Rose Hospital saw… Read More ›
2012 YEAR IN REVIEW | What a year it was for the East Bay Citizen. Through hard-hitting coverage of the 2012 election season you could not find anywhere else in the Bay Area news media to the unfortunate, yet glorious,… Read More ›
INSIDE THE STORIES OF 2012 | Curiously, Nadia Lockyer saved her biggest announcements this year for quasi-holidays. She entered rehab for drug and alcohol dependency on Valentine’s Day last February and offered her resignation from the Alameda County Board of Supervisors… Read More ›
Scott Haggerty – We swear this list was made before news reports last week cited Haggerty for shady business dealings with a Livermore developer. Full disclosure: he was originally listed fifth, but shot to the top of the charts like… Read More ›
1. Eric Swalwell – All you need to know is he literally ran from me during a forum at Cal State East Bay–a brisk walk that morphed into a weird trot. And, earlier this year he repeatedly ignored my questions before and after… Read More ›
Although Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley cruised to re-election in June, it did not come without a flurry of his well-noted temper and lack of self-control even against a political novice from the county’s probation department, Tojo Thomas. At… Read More ›
10.12Mary Hayashi unleashes a barrage of attacks on Richard Valle eliciting no response from the practicing Buddhist. Supporters of Valle and haters of Hayashi go nuts urging him to go on the attack armed with her shoplifting conviction, but he… Read More ›
04.12Eric Swalwell gets much-deserved attention for his poignantly retro reformulation of Pete Stark’s 1972 mini-debate with George P. Miller. Hoping to play off the end of an era theme Stark used 40 years ago, the mock-up cements the potent theme… Read More ›
Linda Lye, attorney for ACLU in Oakland before Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. ALCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS | The Alameda County Sheriff’s Department says the placement of an agenda item before the Board of Supervisors Tuesday morning requesting approval for… Read More ›
ALCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS | The American Civil Liberties Union is asking the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to remove a controversial request by its sheriff’s department to purchase an unmanned aerial aircraft at Tuesday’s meeting. The request is buried… Read More ›
Prime’s Dr. Prem Reddy HAYWARD | While the health care system in Alameda County undergoes significant growing pains in the run-up to Obamacare coming in 2014, the questionable acquisition of St. Rose Hospital by a group with close ties to… Read More ›
Supervisor Wilma Chan in less cozy times with ACMC SAVE SAN LEANDRO HOSPITAL | The Eden Township Healthcare District is steaming mad following a letter from Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan and San Leandro Mayor Stephen Cassidy hinting at the possible… Read More ›
ALAMEDA COUNTY | Former Alameda County Chief Probation Officer David Muhammad arrived in 2011 among much fanfare. He left in an equally spectacular cloud of disgrace and revile earlier this year amid allegations he forcefully sexually assaulted an underling at… Read More ›
ELECTION ’12//ALCO SUPERVISOR DIST 2 | The Sacramento Political Action Committee with it sights set on thwarting Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi’s smooth sailing campaign for Alameda County supervisor has a rather comical and viciously biting name, but no money, as of… Read More ›
ELECTION ‘12//ASSEMBLY/ALCOD2 | Is Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi like one of those sports fans who become supporters of teams once they become winners? An Associated Press article Thursday showed California legislators altered over 5,000 votes this past session. Hayashi led the… Read More ›
ELECTION ’12//ALCO SUPERVISOR DIST 2 | Sometime before Richard Valle was appointed to replace disgraced Alameda County Supervisor Nadia Lockyer in June, Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi was already lurking in the background, gauging political support in advance of her likely campaign… Read More ›
ELECTION ‘12//ALCO SUPERVISOR DISTRICT 2 | Even as the Alameda County Board of Supervisors enacted limits on campaign fundraising last year, they never imagined a candidate with as many connections as Mary Hayashi. A large billboard towering over Foothill Boulevard… Read More ›
SAVE SAN LEANDRO HOSPITAL | A commitment by the Eden Township Healthcare District to help subsidize the short-term operations of San Leandro Hospital was unanimously approved this week even as the facility’s future remains in serious doubt following the transfer… Read More ›
ELECTION ’12//ALAMEDA COUNTY SUPERVISOR DIST 2 | Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi and appointed Alameda County Supervisor Richard Valle are nearly neck and neck in fundraising for the District 2 supervisorial seat, according to recently released campaign finance reports. Hayashi barely scraped past Valle with… Read More ›
ELECTION ‘12//ALCO SUPERVISOR DIST 2 | The catatonic demeanor of Alameda County Supervisor Richard Valle is not a new thing, says Union City Mark Green. The two worked together on the Union City City Council for over a decade ending… Read More ›
ELECTION ’12//ALCO SUPERVISOR DIST 2 | The hardscrabble fight between Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi and Supervisor Richard Valle for District 2 has oddly been missing the largest target for attack of all–Hayashi’s sordid tale of shoplifting $2,450 worth of clothes from Neiman… Read More ›
ELECTION ‘12//ALAMEDA COUNY SUPERVISOR DIST 2 | In one of the first contentious forums thus far between Alameda County Supervisor Richard Valle and Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi, the challenger, repeatedly used a grand jury report that came down hard on the… Read More ›
