Former Oakland mayoral candidate Bryan Parker says the city missed an opportunity with Bitcoin for reason greater than finances. OAKLANDAs Oakland voters headed to the polls during the November 2014 mayoral election, the cost of a single Bitcoin was roughly… Read More ›
Hayward Councilmember Greg Jones said the city needs an emergency homeless shelter. HAYWARD CITY COUNCIL | Homelessness in Hayward continues to be a vexing problem for its city council. While the problem exists in the city and primarily in its… Read More ›
CHART/Alameda County BUDGET | Alameda County’s budget funding gap for the 2015-16 fiscal year is $65 million. The shortfall was announced Wednesday in Oakland at a county budget work group meeting and is roughly the same as the $67.1 million… Read More ›
The amount of outstanding debt Warriors owner Joe Lacob owes Alameda County is almost the same as its fiscal budget shortfall. ALAMEDA COUNTY | BUDGET | Starting next week, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors will begin deliberations on a… Read More ›
HAYWARD CITY COUNCIL | The owner of a Japanese restaurant near Hayward’s Portuguese Park says homeless people visiting the block stone-floored monument near ‘C’ Street for small-scale food-sharing handouts spit on his windows, rummage through his garbage dumpster and defecate in his… Read More ›
Labor protesting cuts to IHSS last year in Sacramento. PHOTO/UDWA ALAMEDA COUNTY//BUDGET | If all else fails, the needy have the county safety net to provide a modicum of health and human services in troubled times. However, after five years of staggering… Read More ›
ALAMEDA COUNTY//BUDGET | The East Bay’s local economy is moving further from the worst of the Great Recession and closer to better times—except, only slightly. Last week, the Alameda County administrator’s office announced a $80.2 million funding gap that follows four… Read More ›
ELECTION ‘12//ALAMEDA COUNY SUPERVISOR DIST 2 | In one of the first contentious forums thus far between Alameda County Supervisor Richard Valle and Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi, the challenger, repeatedly used a grand jury report that came down hard on the… Read More ›
ALAMEDA COUNTY//BUDGET | With Alameda County Sheriff Greg Ahern at the lectern before the Board of Supervisors last week like a pastor preaching to a chorus of adherents more than willing to fill his collection basket, the slender county top cop… Read More ›
CONGRESSMar. 20, 2012 | Two of the East Bay’s most prominent lawmakers in Congress harshly criticized today a Republican budget proposal aiming to significantly cut spending over the next decade. The plan issued by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the chairman of the… Read More ›
Nov. 16, 2011 | On the heels of announcements last week of worsening receipts by the state’s controller, the state’s legislative analyst today said the prospects of triggering $2 billion in pre-approved budget cuts at the beginning of the year… Read More ›
COUNTY TO BEGIN THIS WEEK IDENTIFYING AREAS OF THE BUDGET FOR DOWNSIZINGBy Steven Tavares The slow pace of economic recovery in Alameda County and a steep uptick in demand for social services has the county administrator forecasting a budget deficit… Read More ›
