Shut up.-North Carolina GOP Rep. Mark Meadows to East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell during a closed-door House impeachment inquiry hearing, according to transcripts of meeting released last week.
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Alameda County’s largest and most politically active union is backing state Sen. Bob Wieckowski for next year’s open […]
Alameda Councilmember Malia Vella said the transcript of a secret audio recording set to be released soon by […]
Alameda County Superior Court Judges Scott Jackson and Jennifer Madden were elected to the bench during the 2016 […]
Alameda residents will soon learn the contents of a recording secretly made by its former city manager, Jill […]
They are trying to circumvent the will of the people of California.-Assemblymember Rob Bonta, responding to news reports that U.S. Homeland Security is attempting to negotiate contracts with for-profits prisons providers in advance of the law he authored that bans them in California going into effect on Jan. 1.
In an unprecedented move, Hayward Mayor Barbara Halliday ended a contentious city council meeting Tuesday night an resumed […]
Oakland City Council President Rebecca Kaplan said the city is entering into direct negotiations for the proposed sale […]
A group of 22 California mayors and five county supervisors representing more than 5 million residents want PG&E to become a public co-op. A letter from the growing number of civic leaders was sent Monday to the California Public Utilities Commission urging them to consider the idea of a customer-owned public utility. The argue the […]
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DUBLIN SPECIAL ELECTION
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Kuo 404 78.29%
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PIEDMONT SPECIAL ELECTION
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>Measure G
(Extends $2,763 school parcel tax through 2028)
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YES 2,691 81.37%
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YES 2,417 73.26%
NO 882 26.74%
The Oakland Athletics were quite transparent in an email sent to its fans Tuesday morning. Go to tonight’s […]
Earlier this year, police accountability advocates and the family of Agustin Gonsalez, the 29-year-old who was fatally shot […]
A secret audio recording by Alameda’s former City Manager Jill Keimach made two years ago in hopes of […]
San Leandro Mayor Pauline Russo Cutter wants a pay increase equal to three times that of her council […]
Some believe change at the helm of the Alameda County District Attorney’s office could be coming in the […]
I'll never forget when my daughter's show animal was sick and she was holding a thermometer in its rear end while it was crapping all over her hand.-Alameda County Supervisor Scott Haggerty remarking on the value of the ag community Oct. 29 prior to the board's approval of a ban on mutton-busting. Haggerty voted no.
Mutton-busting is no longer allowed at Castro Valley’s Rowell Ranch after the Alameda County Board of Supervisors banned […]
Rep. Ro Khanna called on the state of California to take public ownership of the increasingly troubled PG&E. […]
The NCAA reversed course Tuesday after its Board of Governors announced they will begin allowing college student-athletes to […]
Alameda County Sheriff Gregory Ahern received approval to purchase a helicopter worth $2.9 million. The Alameda County Board […]
Citing growing public interest and the need for transparency, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley is urging the […]
East Bay City Council meeting highlights for the week of Oct. 28: >>> HAYWARD CITY COUNCIL (Oct. 29, […]
John McPartland, the BART board director who once received a concealed weapons permit to protect himself from upset […]
For someone who started out my career making 50 cents an hour babysitting, $15 would have sounded incredible to me.—Hayward Mayor Barbara Halliday reminiscing during a discussion Oct. 15 for increasing the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022.
Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley told a neighborhood group in Cherryland earlier this month that they should consider […]