Rep. Eric Swalwell posing with Parker volunteers at a Pleasanton farmers’ market earlier this month. ALCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS | DISTRICT 4 |East Bay Congressman Eric Swalwell is again bucking the local party machine. He has endorsed former Oakland mayoral… Read More ›
State Senate candidates: Nancy Skinner, Sandre Swanson, Rich Kinney and Katherine Welch. STATE SENATE | 9TH DISTRICT | While hobnobbing for her June primary campaign during the California Democratic State Convention in San Jose, former Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner revealed a… Read More ›
Mayor Libby Schaaf’s biggest first-year accomplishment was her ability to flip the script in Oakland. OAKLAND | Perhaps no event had more potential to derail Libby Schaaf’s young mayoral administration than the May 1 mayhem in which protesters swarmed Oakland Auto… Read More ›
OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL | The chambers of the Oakland City Council can be a very rough place. Public bickering between council members and full-throated soliloquies by angry residents are commonplace. At times, the difference between debating an ordinance and lobbing… Read More ›
Residents walking the Fruitvale business corridor last December led by Councilman Noel Gallo. OAKLAND | On a rainy Friday night in December, Oakland Councilmember Noel Gallo addresses about 40 residents as they prepared to walk International Boulevard and promote public… Read More ›
Oakland Mayor-elect Libby Schaaf OAKLAND | Sometime in August, Libby Schaaf found her groove. With less than three months before Election Day, Schaaf’s hardworking, technically advanced campaign had not yet found its voice. Late in the summer, The New York… Read More ›
