Hayward is nearing an increase in the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022, one year […]
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Allowing Measure AA to be enacted with less than two-thirds of the votes would constitute a 'fraud on the voters.'-Alameda County Superior Court Judge Ronni MacLaren, writing in a decision Tuesday against Oakland's 2018 parcel tax measure which garnered just 62 percent support.
Almost immediately after the passing of former San Leandro Mayor Tony Santos last April, city officials began contemplating […]
>>> BERKELEY CITY COUNCIL (Oct. 15, 6 p.m.) – Item 41 REPAVING PROPOSAL – Berkeley has the fourth-highest percentage […]
Powerful Dublin developer James Tong was convicted on Oct. 8 of two counts of illegally directing $38,000 in […]
There was a time that, you know, we may have been out there killing each other in numbers, but there was no trash out in the street.-Oakland Councilmember Noel Gallo with an odd memory of his younger years growing up in the city, as opposed to the rampant illegal dumping occurring today.
Amid new threats the Oakland Athletics could move to Las Vegas if a lawsuit by the city of […]
The scourge of illegal dumping is Oakland’s most unrelenting problem. And when you match an update on the […]
A homeless encampment of more than 40 individuals under the freeway in Castro Valley will soon be cleared […]
Hayward is in the early stages of a proposal to begin looking at the feasibility of annexing nearby […]
East Bay Regional Park District boardmember Whitney Dotson announced his retirement, effective this December. Dotson was first elected […]
>>> SAN LEANDRO CITY COUNCIL (Oct. 7, 7 p.m.) – Item 10A WASTEWATER SOLUTION – The Wastewater Pollution Control […]
For all those piling on Trump for his hasty Syria withdrawal: I hear you. But what is our plan?-Rep. Ro Khanna challenging fellow Democrats after President Trump ordered the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Syria.
The Oakland City Council is asking the city administration to iron out its differences with the Alameda County […]
A lack of affordable housing and the appearance of unused properties and storefronts led Oaklanders last year to […]
>>> ALAMEDA CITY COUNCIL (Oct. 1, 7 p.m.) – Item 6C ESTUARY PIRATES – The long-simmering issue over a set […]
President Trump’s latest actions involving Ukraine is too much for Rep. Ro Khanna. The Fremont congressman announced his […]
Over the past year, East Bay cities such as Oakland, Richmond, Livermore, Alameda, and San Leandro have moved […]
Kaiser Permanente and labor unions representing 80,000 health care workers in seven states, including 4,900 in the East […]
Progressives in the East Bay are not a monolith. Far from it. From Berkeley to Fremont, they disagree […]
Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro will receive a tour of a homeless encampment near the Home Depot at […]
While East Bay tenants activists have changed the political landscape in recent years in Oakland, Alameda, and Hayward, […]
An Alameda City Council referral calling for a town hall on the issue of gun violence was unanimously […]
