Councilmember Tony Daysog called the rent ordinance a “calibrated approach to the housing crisis” in Alameda. Gives incentive for landlords to act on complaintsALAMEDA CITY COUNCIL | A growing number of Alameda renters say landlords are hiking rents to dizzying heights…. Read More ›
Alameda Mayor Trish Spencer’s first few months in office have been turbulent and highlighted by extremely lengthy meetings and passive aggressive comments amount council colleagues. ALAMEDA CITY COUNCIL | After viewing a video recording of the March 3 Alameda City… Read More ›
A quiet mayhem has often highlighted recent council meetings in Alameda. Blogger Lauren Do captured one such scene in this video that precipitates a shocking admonishment of Mayor Trish Spencer by City Manager John Russo. ALAMEDA CITY COUNCIL | Oakland… Read More ›
John Russo begins his new job as Riverside city manager in May. ALAMEDA CITY COUNCIL | Alameda City Manager John Russo is leaving his post on the Island for the same position in Riverside, according to a local report Thursday… Read More ›
Alameda Mayor Trish Spencer takes the oath of office Tuesday night. PHOTO/Steven Tavares ALAMEDA CITY COUNCIL | Alameda’s new Mayor Trish Spencer still can’t believe her good fortune and the outgoing mayor skipped out of the council chambers before the… Read More ›
Mayor Marie Gilmore: one and done. ALAMEDA | MAYOR | Alameda Mayor-elect Trish Spencer was discussing her victory. “Do you really know why I ran?” she asked. “Because nobody else did.” And so, with the simplest of intentions, began one… Read More ›
ALAMEDA | MAYOR | CITY COUNCIL | Alameda voters may have handed the city’s status quo a series of humbling defeats Tuesday night. Opponents of the city’s development plans loudly registered their voice at the ballot box during an election… Read More ›
Clockwise: Mayoral candidates Trish Spencer and Marie Gilmore. City Council candidates Jim Oddie Stewart Chen and Frank Matarrese. MEET THE CANDIDATES Alameda has one of the more intriguing mayoral races in the East Bay. Two legitimate candidates with compelling counter… Read More ›
ALAMEDA | MAYOR | CITY COUNCIL |Alameda’s decade-long debate over development — especially the development of Alameda Point — is turning out to be the dominant issue in the city’s mayoral and council races this fall. And voters’ views on… Read More ›
Alameda school board member Trish Spencer, Mayor Marie Gilmore. ALAMEDA | MAYOR | Housing is a hot-button issue in many Bay Area communities. In Alameda, the traditionally insular island city, has a different variation on the topic—not only is the… Read More ›
ELECTION 2012//ASSEMBLY 18//ALAMEDAApril 27, 2012 | An old hornet’s nest may be stirring in Alameda that caused a still-churning debate stemming from the a two-year-old dispute over campaign finance limits and fundraising from outside political interests. This time around it may become an… Read More ›
Sept. 7, 2011 | Another round of political skulduggery erupted in Alameda as Councilman Doug DeHaan vaguely accused his colleagues of leaking confidential information regarding the city’s search for a new city attorney, while the mayor accused DeHaan, himself, of being the mole. “There continues to be… Read More ›
As a non-profit the Alameda Boys & Girls Club is forbidden from making campaign contributions, but its executive director put the organization in hot water when it gave Mayor Marie Gilmore financial support last May to help retire her campaign debt.The paltry… Read More ›
CITY COUNCIL GETS AN EARFUL; RESIDENTS CALL FOR OUTSIDE INVESTIGATION, HALT TO FIRE/POLICE UNION NEGOITATIONSBy Steven Tavaressteven.tavares@eastbaycitizen.comFollow @eastbaycitizen on twitter Alameda is finding the death of Raymond Zack very difficult to fathom as firefighters and police officers watched and did nothing to… Read More ›
REPORTS SAY OAKLAND CITY ATTORNEY IS CHOICE FOR ALAMEDA CITY MANGERBy Steven Tavares When it comes to bizarre antics and dastardly political soap operas no city in the East Bay tops Alameda. From deposing its city attorney, city manager and… Read More ›
DISMISSAL OF CITY MANAGER, ATTORNEY PIVOT AROUND TAM, JOHNSONIn the past six months, Alamedans have watched as a city councilwoman faced possible charges for leaking confidential closed session information about a controversial development at the former Naval Air Station, while… Read More ›
