San Francisco has a lot of things San Leandro doesnt have. A championship baseball team. A rampant homeless problem or even an Asian American power broker in the mold of Rose Pak, but it once had a very similar dilemma… Read More ›
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Could Justice Department Sweep In Stark For Pot Legislation?
MEMO WARNING AGAINST LARGE SCALE POT CULTIVATION IS SIMILAR TO ADVICE GIVEN BY RUSSO TO OAKLAND CITY COUNCILBy Steven Tavaressteven.tavares@eastbaycitizen.comFollow @eastbaycitizen on twitter Medical marijuana advocates say DOJ memo is meant to intimidate local leaders and legislation. In what some… Read More ›
Hayward Names Its First Female Police Chief
SAN JOSE ASST CHIEF REPLACES RETIRING RON ACE; WILL OVERSEE DEPARTMENT IN NEXT PHASE OF GANG INJUNCTIONSBy Steven Tavaressteven.tavares@eastbaycitizen.comFollow @eastbaycitizen on twitter Diane Urban, Hayward’s first female police chief Hayward is joining other Bay Area cities by taking the initiative in opening… Read More ›
Corbett, Hayashi Drawn Out of San Leandro
SAN LEANDRO COULD BE REPRESENTED BY SEN. LONI HANCOCK; ASM. SANDRE SWANSON IN ASSEMBLY By Steven Tavares steven.tavares@eastbaycitizen.com Follow @eastbaycitizen on twitter California State Senate districts as proposed Friday by the Citizens’Redistricting Commission. Senate Majority Leader Ellen Corbett has been San… Read More ›
Instability in San Leandro Grows as Finance Director Resigns
VESELY SPENDS JUST SEVEN MONTHS AS SAN LEANDRO FINANCE DIRECTOR; ACCEPTS JOB WITH HAYWARDBy Steven Tavaressteven.tavares@eastbaycitizen.comFollow @eastbaycitizen on twitter San Leandro Finance Director Tracy Vesely is resigning from her position for a similar job opportunity with the City of Hayward,… Read More ›
Despite Call For Inquiry, Alamedans Still Angry Over Crown Beach Death
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 ›
Cassidy Moving To Home of City Attorney’s Boss
SAN LEANDRO MAYOR BUYS $838,000 BAY-O-VISTA HOME OF FOUNDING PARTNER OF MEYERS-NAVE, WHICH REPRESENTS CITYBy Steven Tavaressteven.tavares@eastbaycitizen.comFollow @eastbaycitizen on twitter Steven Meyer’s law firmrepresents San Leandro San Leandro Mayor Stephen Cassidy is moving–not out of town–but into the ranch-style home… Read More ›
San Leandro Set to Adopt Budget Despite Steep Cuts in Other Cities
PLEASANTON IN THE BLACK, OAKLAND IS NOT; SAN LEANDRO STABILIZES ITS ECONOMYSan Leandro is set to be one of the first municipalities in the East Bay to approve a fiscal budget for 2011-12. Its City Council was also relatively speedy in… Read More ›
Alameda County Redistricting Group Proposes Splitting Pleasanton
COUNTY AD-HOC COMMITTEE OFFERS TO SPLIT PLEASANTON; GIVES SHORT SHRIFT TO ALTERNATIVE MAPBy Steven Tavaressteven.tavares@eastbaycitizen.comFollow @eastbaycitizen at twitter The state is not the only government body doing more than moving the furniture around its legislative boundaries, local government is also… Read More ›
Gregory Elected New Vice Mayor Of San Leandro
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 ›
Thirty-One East Bay Schools Uncertified For Quakes Over Decade
16 IN FREMONT; 5 IN CASTRO VALLEY; 4 IN SAN LEANDRO; 3 IN HAYWARD; 2 IN SAN LORENZO COULD PUT CHILDREN AT RISKBy Steven Tavares McKinley Elementary in San Leandro has been uncertified by state earthquake standards for over a decade. A… Read More ›
Cassidy’s Inner Circle Asks To See City Employee Emails To The Citizen
EXCLUSIVE!IS SAN LEANDRO’S MAYOR TRYING TO SILENCE CRITICS; POTENTIAL WHISTLE-BLOWERS?By Steven Tavares A member of the San Leandro Mayor Stephen Cassidy’s inner circle has made two requests in the past three weeks to retrieve emails sent by city employees to… Read More ›
Santos Claims Victory As Colorado City Turns Away RCV
DEFEATED BY RANKED-CHOICE VOTING, HE’S NOW LEADING THE CHARGE TO STOP IT FROM SPREADINGBy Steven Tavares Tony Santos is finally victorious. No, a bundle of ballots were not found at the Marina. But the former San Leandro mayor who was… Read More ›
Residents Say City Changed Rules, Footed Them With $10,000 Bill For Sewer Connection
ANGRY SAN LEANDRANS SAY SEWER LINE IS PUBLIC, NOT PRIVATEBy Steven Tavares An aging century-old sewer line in San Leandro’s north side is unrepairable and the city wants an angry group of nine homeowners to foot the bill in excess of… Read More ›
Senate Bill Would Stop Cities From Using Tickets To Generate Revenue
SAN LEANDRO SET TO APPROVE NEW CONTRACT WITH TRAFFIC CAMERA VENDORBy Steven Tavares Palo Alto Sen. Joe Simitian thinks red light cameras are the technological equivalent of small town speed traps. His bill offered last month in the State Senate would… Read More ›
Cassidy Continues His Attack On City Workers; Adds Police
SAN LEANDRO MAYOR CALLS FOR MORE CUTS TO STAFF; CRITICIZES POLICEBy Steven Tavares San Leandro Mayor Stephen Cassidy campaigned on changing the way city employees financed their own pensions and health benefits, but instead he may be angling to push… Read More ›
San Leandro Marina Nearing A Decision On Its Future
SAN LEANDRO COUNCIL CALLS FOR REPORT ON TWO HARBOR BASIN PLANS; ONE WITH BOATS, ONE WITHOUTBy Steven TavaresThe future of boating and other motorized watercraft hit another patch of turbulent seas after city staff attempted to bypass members of the… Read More ›
Is One Half Of Hayward’s First Couple Itching To Return?
HAYWARD’S DAVID BLOGS WITH CONSERVATIVE BENT ON CITY WEB SITEBy Steven Tavares Hayward’s first couple, former cityleaders Anna May and Greg Jones What’s up with Hayward’s Greg Jones? The former Hayward city manager abruptly quit the position around this time… Read More ›
East Bay Political Clout Lessens As Population Shifts Inland
CENSUS: BAY AREA IS GROWING FAR LESS THAN THE REST OF THE STATEBy Steven Tavares The East Bay along with the entire San Francisco Bay Area is seeing an unprecedented change in its ethnic demographic, according to U.S. Census figures… Read More ›
Donaire Lands A Stunner On Montiel For Titles
SAN LEANDRO’S FILIPINO FLASH KOs CHAMP IN 2ND ROUND Students stretching before P.E. at San Lorenzo High School in the late 90s watched with awe and a tinge of jealousy as a young Nonito Donaire worked out to his own… Read More ›
San Leandro Is Sheepish On Redevelopment Grab
FREMONT: ANY MEANS NECESSARY; SAN LEANDRO: PLEASE, MAY I? THANK YOU, SIRIt is always interesting to watch the differences in local governments bodies when they discuss similar issues. The vague and dire future of redevelopment agencies across the state is a… Read More ›
Cassidy Gets The Keys To The Mayor’s Office
‘GUIDING PRINCIPLES’ INCLUDE FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY, TRANSPARENCYBy Steven Tavares Mayor-elect Stephen Cassidy was sworn-in as San Leandro’s eighth elected leader since 1962 Monday night in the aftermath of a tense debate on the issue upon which his successful campaign was based…. Read More ›
Corbett Named Senate Majority Leader
State Sen. Ellen Corbett is named Senate Majority Leader by the Democratic leadership STATE SENATOR’S MOVE TO NO. 2 SPOT MEANS POWER TO SAN LEANDROBy Steven Tavares Sen. Ellen Corbett is now the second-most powerful lawmaker in the California State Senate…. Read More ›
Santos Reflects On His Public Service
MAYOR TONY SANTOS’ FAREWELL ADDRESSAs I say farewell to city government, I want to say I am proud of my service to our great city. San Leandro has always been known to have stable government and I am sure that… Read More ›
Ten Pieces Of Advice For Stephen Cassidy
10. Act like the liberal that you are. Mayor-elect Stephen Cassidy does not natural possess the center-right political ideology upon which he cajoled resident to vote for him. Cassidy is actually center-left on most issues and less liberal than his predecessor,… Read More ›
Santos’ RCV Legal Argument May Be Difficult To Defend
CITY MEASURE AND ORDINANCE APPEARS TO UPHOLD CASSIDY’S MAYORAL WINBy Steven Tavares “Upon reflection, I am sorry I supported ranked-choice voting,” San Leandro Mayor Tony Santos wrote Friday to the city council. Once one of the voting system’s most staunchest… Read More ›
San Leandro Easily Passes Two Funding Measures
CITY FOLLOWS LOCAL TREND OF VOTERS APPROVING MEASURES WITH SIMPLE MAJORITYBy Steven Tavares San Leandro High will benefit from improvements to Burrell Field. In times of economic uncertainty, San Leandro voters easily approved a bump in the local sales tax to 10 percent,… Read More ›
Electoral Cliffhangers Abound
FROM LOCAL TO NATIONAL RACES, ELECTION DAY UNCERTAINTY MAY CONTINUE FOR WEEKSSan Leandro voters woke Wednesday morning to find the city in the midst of one of the most exciting races in its history. With first place votes tallied, Stephen… Read More ›
Alameda County Learns RCV from Experiences in S.F.
RCV DEBUTS IN ALAMEDA COUNTY; 2004 INTRODUCTION IN S.F. RAN SMOOTHLYBy Steven Tavares Choice is good. But will voters in Oakland, Berkeley and San Leandro quickly take to the first-ever use of Ranked Choice Voting in Alameda County? If San… Read More ›
Express: The Gloves Are Off in San Leandro
By Steven TavaresThe former mayor of San Leandro summed up Mayor Tony Santos’ chances for re-election with her typical straightforward style. “Tony hasn’t killed his wife and he hasn’t stolen any money,” said Shelia Young. “There isn’t a good reason… Read More ›
