“The four sitting Livermore City Council members voted unanimously for an interview and appointment process, as opposed to calling for a costly special election, to fill the vacancy on the dais created upon Bob Woerner’s ascension from councilman to mayor… Read More ›
A initiative campaign backed by e-cigarette giant Juul to reverse an ordinance approved last month by the Livermore City Council to ban the sale of vaping products is heading to the ballot next year. Livermore followed San Francisco last July… Read More ›
Similar initiatives to limit health care charges to 15 percent of cost is coming to Palo Alto this, fall, and possibly Emeryville
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors sided with appellants Tuesday by denying an extension of a conditional-use permit for the only oil-producing wells in the county. The pair of oil wells located in rural unincorporated Livermore, and operated by… Read More ›
Environmentalists say the use of waterflooding puts the aquifer at risk, along more seismic activity. County staff says claims are unfounded.
THE WEEK OCTOBER 6-12 –OAKLAND– City Council committee hearings, Tuesday, Oct. 10, starts at 9:30 a.m. ➤Community & Economic Development Committee, 1:30 p.m. [ENTIRE AGENDA HERE]–FOX THEATER LOANS– Debts from the iconic theater’s $47.5 million renovation a decade ago is… Read More ›
Rep. Eric Swalwell, center, campaigning for Bryan Parker last spring. along with future candidate Tojo Thomas, right, who Swalwell later endorsed for the Castro Valley school board. Both lost. CONGRESS | 15TH DISTRICT |Despite periodic news reports placing East Bay… Read More ›
Ro Khanna sent a $1,000 donation to the Knights of Columbus last Friday. CONGRESS | 17TH DISTRICT |It took almost four years, but 17th Congressional District candidate Ro Khanna is finally paying alms to Baby Jesus. After a report in… Read More ›
CA-17 Democratic candidate Ro Khanna is facing a second claim that he failed to pay campaign debts. CONGRESS | 17TH DISTRICT |Just minutes after candidates in the 17th Congressional District concluded their one-and-only pre-primary debate last May 6, Republican candidate Ron… Read More ›
CONGRESS | 15TH DISTRICT | Was it too soon? Last week, the 15th Congressional District’s social media maven, Rep. Eric Swalwell, tweeted photos of his visit to Hayward’s bus manufacturer Gillig. The company also builds buses for AC Transit. However,… Read More ›
There were no funny road signs at City Hall when a picketing city employee was nearly run over. HAYWARD | The new road signs around Cal State East Bay in Hayward are bringing loads of positive attention to the often… Read More ›
Just a minor correction needed. The League of Women Voters’ site confused Chris Pareja with Oakland mayoral candidate Jason “Shake” Anderson. The mistake has since been corrected. ELECTION 2014 | Maybe Assemblymember Bob Wieckowski looks a little like the apple-chewing… Read More ›
Lena Tam, left, is challenging BART Board Director Robert Raburn. A third candidate, Lionel Larry Young, Jr. ran for Oakland mayor four years ago; finishing last. BART BOARD OF DIRECTORS | DISTRICT 4 | When a pair of BART strikes… Read More ›
ALCO Supervisor Scott Haggerty PHOTO/MTC ALAMEDA COUNTY BOS | Alameda County Supervisor Scott Haggerty is the subject of a grand jury investigation for allegedly facilitating the sale of his Livermore home in 2007 to a buyer later approved by the county… Read More ›
Eric Swalwell PHOTO/KQED CONGRESS | After an amazing upset in the 15th Congressional District with the young, now Congressman-elect Eric Swalwell ousting long-term incumbent, Pete Stark, from his 40-year throne, we can now wonder what a Rep. Swalwell will look like. Swalwell had… Read More ›
ELECTION ‘12//CONGRESS 15 NOTES | During the same infamous forum where Rep. Pete Stark charged Dublin Councilman Eric Swalwell with accepting bribes from a Tri Valley developer, he also lobbed biting rejoinders such as calling his opponent a “pipsqueak” and… Read More ›
HAYWARD | Feb. 22, 2012 | Hayward became the latest city to bless a plan that ultimately will ask voters this November to reinstate the popular Measure B sales tax used to fund some of the Bay Area’s largest and most… Read More ›
Sept. 21, 2011 | As the Bay Area continues a decade-long exodus to the valley, the congressional seat occupied by Rep. Pete Stark is slowly moving from the land of latte liberals in the East Bay to that of wine and… Read More ›
Sept. 13, 2011 | Coming soon to the Tri-Valley suburbia? More suburbia. The rapidly-growing city of Dublin could nearly double its size if a plan to annex over 3,300 acres of land east of the city, known as the East… Read More ›
