Mayor-elect Pauline Cutter will be sworn-in Monday, but won’t assume office until Jan. 1. SAN LEANDRO CITY COUNCIL | The largest class of new San Leandro council members in the city’s history will be sworn-in during a special meeting Monday… Read More ›
SAN LEANDRO | They are well known to those who follow San Leandro politics and sometimes loathed by some of their outspoken activism. As San Leandro school board member Mike Katz-Lacabe seeks the open District 1 seat on the City… Read More ›
SAN LEANDRO CITY COUNCIL | Nearly four years after voters in San Leandro approved a much-needed sales tax measure viewed by many to have helped the city escape the worst of the Great Recession, city leaders will again ask them… Read More ›
The lack of quality mayoral candidates in San Leandro leads some to suggest Ellen Corbett, left, should run in the fall. PHOTO/Steven Tavares SAN LEANDRO | MAYOR | When San Leandro Mayor Stephen Cassidy said last month he would not… Read More ›
BEST Rebecca Kaplan 1. Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland councilmember>>> Who would have ever thought the East Bay politician who made the simple vest the rage of council couture could top herself, again? Gone is the vest, for the most part, and… Read More ›
As a TV drama, Mayor Stephen Cassidy would be cast as the villain. SAN LEANDRO CITY COUNCIL | Is the San Leandro City Council ready for its close up? One of the East Bay’s last government bodies to offer residents the option… Read More ›
SAN LEANDRO CITY COUNCIL//DISPENSARIES | After much advocacy and derision regarding one of San Leandro’s most controversial topics, the City Council passed a draft ordinance that could allow up to two medical cannabis dispensaries in city boundaries following over three years of debate…. Read More ›
San Leandro Councilmember Benny Lee SAN LEANDRO CITY COUNCIL | A foreign banner will fly over San Leandro next month. With the approval of a controversial plan to celebrate China’s national day by flying the country’s flag over San Leandro City Hall next… Read More ›
SAN LEANDRO CITY COUNCIL | Nearly three years ago, the San Leandro City Council was in the midst of reefer madness. In late 2010, it nearly placed a 22-month moratorium on medical cannabis dispensaries–a potential death sentence possibly leading to an outright ban…. Read More ›
Councilmember Jim Prola SAN LEANDRO//2014 ELECTION/MAYOR | San Leandro’s most liberal city councilman says he is not interested in running for mayor next year. However, if the city’s notorious Mayor Stephen Cassidy upsets him, he might change his mind. “I… Read More ›
SAN LEANDRO CITY COUNCIL | Homelessness is a topic commonly swept under the rug not only in America at-large, but all over Alameda County. The San Leandro City Council, this week, discussed those living in the shadows. Although no new plan was… Read More ›
New Vice Mayor Jim Prola SAN LEANDRO CITY COUNCIL | San Leandro Councilmember Jim Prola was appointed vice mayor this week. The motion was made without discussion and passed, 4-3. Then there was a pause. Councilmembers detailed their mostly mundane… Read More ›
SAN LEANDRO CITY COUNCIL | The San Leandro city council hosted a work session for public input Tuesday night concerning the medical cannabis dispensary ordinance recently drafted by staff with a few hundred in attendance to speak on the controversial… Read More ›
Best Dressed East Bay Politicians Mary Hayashi in Oct. 2011. Mary Hayashi – No joke! Who, other than Hayashi, could have the balls to show up for her hearing for shoplifting from Neiman Marcus dressed to the nines while… Read More ›
SAVE SAN LEANDRO HOSPITAL | Representatives from the Alameda County Medical Center will present a proposal Wednesday night to take over operations of San Leandro Hospital for, at least, the next two years. ACMC will unveil the plan at the… Read More ›
SAN LEANDRO CITY COUNCIL | If not for lack of political will or systemic willingness to follow Oakland’s lead on the legal front regarding medical marijuana dispensaries, the San Leandro City Council next week will again take steps to blot out… Read More ›
SAN LEANDRO HOSPITALApril 18, 2012 | With the Eden Township Healthcare District’s legal options expended, excluding a somewhat quixotic petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, what comes next for patients and employees of San Leandro Hospital is unclear. Sutter Health,… Read More ›
SAN LEANDRO HOSPITALMar. 29, 2012 | San Leandro Vice Mayor Michael Gregory says Sutter Health is willing to come back to the negotiating table in the dispute over San Leandro Hospital “if they can come out of this honorably.” Gregory made the comment… Read More ›
SAN LEANDRO HOSPITALMar. 27, 2012 | Just as arrangements are being made to prop the struggling St. Rose Hospital in Hayward, the director of county health care services says San Leandro Hospital can be rescued in some form regardless of… Read More ›
SAVE SAN LEANDRO HOSPITALFeb. 22, 2012 | The San Leandro City Council is preparing to take a more pro-active approach in finding alternatives for saving its community hospital. The Council approved the formation of the three-person Ad-Hoc committee to explore San… Read More ›
SAVE SAN LEANDRO HOSPITALSAN LEANDRO | Feb. 10, 2012 | A representative for nurses at San Leandro Hospital urged the Eden Township Healthcare District Wednesday night to include the union in negotiations between them and Sutter Health over the future… Read More ›
SAVE SAN LEANDRO HOSPITALEDITORIALFeb. 9, 2012 | Sutter Health is operating in the shadows again. When San Leandro Councilman Michael Gregory inadvertently used the word “settlement” during last Monday’s city council while updating the situation with San Leandro Hospital and its imminent… Read More ›
SAVE SAN LEANDRO HOSPITALFeb. 8, 2012 | A settlement in the dispute between the Eden Township Healthcare District and Sutter Health over title to San Leandro Hospital may soon be announced, according to sources familiar with details of their negotiations. During… Read More ›
COUNCIL VOTES 4-3 AGAINST ORDINANCE CITING ONE-SIDED ARGUMENT BY CITY STAFFBy Steven Tavaressteven.tavares@eastbaycitizen.com@eastbaycitizen on twitter The likilihood of medical marijuana returning in the future to San Leandro received another reprieve Monday night as the city council narrowly voted down, 4-3, an… Read More ›
CASSIDY PUSHES FOR CITY RESIDENCY OF NEXT CITY MANAGER; GREGORY WANTS TO TRACK CITY’S HAPPINESSBy Steven Tavares Vice Mayor Michael Gregory Apparently the main job of vice mayor in San Leandro is not periodically filling in for the mayor, but keeping… Read More ›
SAN LEANDRO COULD NAME A NEW VICE MAYOR TO REPLACE REEDBy Steven Tavares Once upon a time the appointment of a new vice mayor was often about who’s turn is it next? A year ago, the election of Ursula Reed… Read More ›
COUNCIL OPPOSITION TO CASSIDY MAY ALREADY BE FORMINGBy Steven Tavares With Stephen Cassidy likely to assume the mayor’s post, many in San Leandro city government are preparing for a drastic change in tenor at City Hall. The expectation of Cassidy’s upset… Read More ›
PETITION ARGUES CASSIDY DID NOT CLAIM ECONOMIC INTEREST IN ALLEGED CAMPAIGN EVENT AT SCHOOLBy Steven Tavares Opponents of Stephen Cassidy’s bid for mayor of San Leandro submitted a complaint Tuesday to the Fair Political Practices Commission charging the candidate for… Read More ›
SANTOS, GREGORY COULD HAVE BEEN ON THE HOOK FOR HOSPITAL IF DISTRICT HAD NOT ACTEDBy Steven Tavares A year ago, San Leandro’s economic outlook was the basically the same as today. More businesses were leaving than coming and the city’s financial… Read More ›
Hayward banned polystyrene foodware last week from its local restaurants. PROLA ASKS CITY TO LOOK AT BAN ON STYROFOAM FOODWARE By Steven Tavares San Leandro could be the next Bay Area city to ban polystyrene foodware from its restaurants. Councilman Jim Prola… Read More ›
