The FPPC will decide this week if Fremont Mayor Lily Mei will pay a $1,406 fine for violating campaign finance rules. FREMONT CITY COUNCIL Fremont Mayor Lily Mei violated state election law after failing to report almost $24,000 in late campaign… Read More ›
Henry Levy will be sworn-in as Alameda County’s next treasurer-tax collector sometime in May. ALAMEDA COUNTYIn the end the unions got their man. Following an hour-long deliberation, highlighted by some contention, including questions about the applicant’s integrity, the Alameda County… Read More ›
ALAMEDA COUNTYAlameda County supervisors will wait another week before appointing a new treasurer-tax collector while the powerful Service Employees International Union Local 1021 decides which of the four candidates to endorse. The four candidates are former Fremont Mayor Bill Harrison,… Read More ›
Former Fremont Mayor Bill Harrison is one of five seeking to replace retiring long-time County Treasurer Donald White. ALAMEDA COUNTYAs Alameda County treasurer-tax collector Donald White is the name property owners loathed to write at tax time. But after White announced… Read More ›
FREMONT CITY COUNCIL | Fremont councilmembers will now earn $2,118 a month in salary, after approving an increase last week. In addition, the City Council approved bumping up the mayor’s monthly pay to $3,764. But Mayor-elect Lily Mei said she… Read More ›
Fremont Councilmember Lily Mei registered one of the biggest electoral upsets in the East Bay. FREMONT | MAYOR |ELECTION 2016 |Using a deft campaign to highlight growing unease over development and traffic, Councilmember Lily Mei is Fremont’s next mayor. She… Read More ›
Fremont Mayor Bill Harrison trails Councilmember Lily Mei by 929 votes. FREMONT | MAYOR |ELECTION 2016 |With thousands of ballot still uncounted as of Friday morning, the Fremont mayor’s race remains too close to call with Councilmember Lily Mei maintaining… Read More ›
Fremont Mayor Bill Harrison is facing a challenge from first-term Councilmember Lily Mei. MEET THE CANDIDATESFremont Mayor BILL HARRISON was elected four years ago in a tough three-way race with Republican Steve Cho and his then-City Council colleague Anu Natarajan…. Read More ›
32 DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY |State Sen. Steve Glazer‘s anti-BART strike rhetoric has created a cottage industry in the moderate to conservative Outer East Bay. Nevermind that the issue is more than two years in the rearview mirror and a… Read More ›
42 DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY |Fremont’s City Hall chambers–not really much of a hall, really, nor a chambers–was packed Friday night to hear from mayoral candidates Mayor Bill Harrison and Vice Mayor Lily Mei. Growth, whether smart, dumb, or ravenous,… Read More ›
CONGRESS | 17TH DISTRICT | Rep. Mike Honda rolled out a list of four South Bay mayors Monday pledging support for his campaign in next year’s intraparty rematch with Ro Khanna in the Seventeenth Congressional District. The endorsements cover cities… Read More ›
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Fremont Mayor Bill Harrison and Ronald McDonald LOCKYERS | Former California state treasurer and wife who hit the headlines over her ‘meth-fueled affair with man she met in rehab’ announce they are expecting a baby (UK Daily Mail) Basically sums… Read More ›
2014 YEAR-IN-PREVIEW | The East Bay Citizen’s crystal ball found many odd, yet plausible headlines awaiting us in 2014. Here are a few gleaned from the near future: Rep. Eric Swalwell, touting new technologies, uses his World of Warcraft avatar… Read More ›
Michael Dukakis in 1988. PHOTO-OPS | Michael Dukakis, standing in an Abrams tank with a combat helmet seemingly too big for his head, stands as the low point of all political photo ops. Despite the infamy of the photo taken… Read More ›
Dr. Raj Salwan FREMONT | For the third time in two years, the Fremont City Council has appointed a new member to its brethren. The five-member council chose local Democratic stalwart Raj Salwan Monday night to serve the remaining two… Read More ›
ELECTION ’12//DEMOCRATS | The blessing of the local Democratic Party is an important tool for any campaign, not only for the seal of approval it bestows, but access to the party’s purse strings and significant electoral amenities. This weekend, comments… Read More ›
Feb. 8, 2012 | Just as the Fremont City Council returns to full-strength following the passing of Bob Wasserman, the list of potential mayor candidates begins to shrink. Councilman Dominic Dutra removed his name from the race for mayor this fall now… Read More ›
Gus Morrison Jan. 31, 2012 | After eight years in exile, Gus Morrison is back in the mayor’s office in Fremont. The City Council, short one member after Mayor Bob Wasserman’s death last December, unanimously approved the appointment of… Read More ›
FREMONTJan. 13, 2012 | Just minutes after a musician performed the last bars of “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” last Tuesday, a touching two-hour tribute for the recently deceased Fremont mayor Bob Wasserman devolved into the makings of what may be an epic battle to become his replacement…. Read More ›
UNCERTAINTY LEADS CITY TO PULL PLUG ON SALE OF $140 MILLION IN TAX BONDS, FOR NOWBy Steven Tavares The Fremont City Council put the brakes on an ambitious sale of $140 million in tax allocation bonds to fund redevelopment projects… Read More ›
FREMONT MOVES FAST; REDEVELOPMENT AGENCIES ACROSS THE STATE DEAL WITH SAME DILEMMABy Steven Tavares Governor Jerry Brown’s proposal to eliminate of the state’s 425 redevelopment agencies is leaving local munipicalities scrambling to make sense of the possible ramifications to their… Read More ›
NEW REGULATIONS MAKE VILLAGE IDIOT LOOK PRESCIENT HHS and EPA today recommend lowering amount of fluoride in thedrinking water. Hayward Councilman Bill Quirk has tussled with anti-flouride activist Wynn Grcich in the past. So has Fremont Councilman Bill Harrison. Anu… Read More ›
