ELECTION ’12//CONGRESS 15May 1, 2012 | In just over four months, the East Bay has weathered through a decades worth of scandal and bizarre events. Hey, what’s one more? Not yet a month after leveling bribery charges against Dublin Councilman… Read More ›
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Nadia Lockyer Confirms Former Top Cop Bill Lockyer Supplied Her With Drugs
NADIA LOCKYER RESIGNSApril 23, 2012 | Former Alameda County Supervisor Nadia Lockyer admitted her husband Bill Lockyer, the state’s treasurer and former attorney general, supplied her with drugs, according to an interview she gave this weekend to the San Jose… Read More ›
County Sources Allege Nadia Lockyer Is Fighting Substance Abuse
Feb. 13, 2012 | The health of Alameda County Supervisor Nadia Lockyer has long been a private concern to her staff and inner-circle for much of her campaign for the seat in 2010 and first year in office. Although her… Read More ›
It’s Not Us Versus Us; It’s Us Versus Elite In Every Institution
Protesters at Port of Oakland, Nov. 2. DISPATCHES FROM OCCUPYDec. 11, 2011 | When you sort through the subterfuge and flagrant corporate lines peddled by the local mainstream media over the possibility of a rift between labor and the Occupy… Read More ›
Hayashi A No-Show At Preliminary Hearing For Felony Theft Charge; Excused For Next
Nov. 15, 2011 | Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi did not appear in court this morning for a preliminary hearing stemming from allegations she stole $2,450 worth of merchandise from a San Francisco Neiman Marcus. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Hayashi… Read More ›
Hayashi Charged With Shoplifting $2,450 In Clothing From Upscale Department Store
Oct. 28, 2011 | Castro Valley’s two-term Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi was charged Thursday with felony grand theft for allegedly stealing $2,450 in clothing from a San Francisco Neiman Marcus, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The irascible Hayashi was arraigned… Read More ›
Hayashi Votes Often, But Who’s Pushing The Button?
ONLY 3 LEGISLATORS MISSED FEWER VOTES THAN HAYASHI A pensive Mary Hayashi sits in the assembly in awell-known photo from the San Francisco Chronicle A look by the Sacramento Bee this week into the voting records of members of the… Read More ›
Do Gang Injunctions Curb Crime Or Allow Police Greater Focus?
Oakland city attorney againmocks plaintiff snagged by gang injunction OAKLAND CITY ATTORNEY DESCRIBES LATEST SUSPECT AS OMAR FROM “THE WIRE” City officials in Hayward are watching Oakland’s experience with gang injunction intently for clues on how it can use the… Read More ›
Nascent Pot Movement Takes A Hit In San Leandro
POT GROW CENTERS FIND UNCERTAINTY IN OAKLANDWhen it comes to the business of medical marijuana in the East Bay, it always comes down to the follow the leader with the Pied Piper being Oakland. Just as talk of large-scale growing centers climb… Read More ›
Oakland Police Arrested An Eclectic Group of Protesters
COPS ARRESTED PREGNANT WOMAN DURING OSCAR GRANT PROTESTBy Steven Tavares They got a prominent civil rights attorney, a beat poet, a Berkeley activist, a pregnant woman, a Starbucks barista, a guy riding his bike home carrying a bag of groceries… Read More ›
MediaNews Hastening Fall from Newspaper to Fish Wrap
OWNER OF BAY AREA NEWS GROUP TAKES STAND AGAINST THOSE HELPING THEIR BUSINESS Dean Singleton dictates what most of the East Bay reads everyday. At least, those few who still subscribe to the rapidly shrinking Daily Review, Contra Costa Times, Oakland… Read More ›
Putting Democrats in the Crosshairs of the Right
STARK’S OPPONENT CRITICIZES TOWN HALL COMMENTSBy Steven Tavares Rep. Pete Stark is more of a liability for the Democratic Party than he is to the prospects of retaining his long-time seat in Congress. He has always had a propensity for shooting from… Read More ›
Question #2: Figueroa’s Honesty and Residency
Liz Figueroa has a two-pronged problem stemming from a single source: her ramshackled home in Sunol more befitting of the more tony areas of the Appalachia Mountains than for a former East Bay legislator running for Alameda County supervisor. Figueroa stumbled over the question… Read More ›
Corbett Denies Lockyer’s Endorsement Boast
District 2 Supervisor hopeful falsely tells Fremont seniors she has senator’s backing By Steven TavaresOn a day when two local media outlets published scathing articles about the honesty and political motivations of Alameda County supervisor candidate Nadia Lockyer, she told a group of seniors in… Read More ›
Around the East Bay Blogosphere: 4/2/10
It’s tough making a living as a journalist, but not for some. At SF Weekly’s The Snitch blog, the Chronicle’s long-time outdoors columnist Tom Stienstra was busted for “supplementing” his income with 60 marijuana plants at his Siskiyou County home…. Read More ›
Respectfully, this Bill is Bad; Don’t Hurt Me
OP-ED PIECE SHOWS HAYASHI’S PROPENSITY TO ATTACKAssemblywoman Mary Hayashi will cut you. The recent side-by-side Op-Ed pieces in the San Francisco Chronicle shows how Hayashi can praise you, then before you can say thank you, will rip you to shreds…. Read More ›
Corbett Tussles with SoCal Assemblyman over Payday Loan Bill
ASSEMBLYWOMAN MARY HAYASHI SUPPORTED CONTROVERSIAL BILLSometimes being a state senator is like working retail. Hold on. Most of the time it isn’t, but when an assemblyman from Artesia gets huffy, the only thing to do is dust off those people… Read More ›
