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 […]
ELECTIONLINE
DUBLIN SPECIAL ELECTION
(100% precincts reporting)
>Dublin School Board
(Area 3, short-term seat)
Kuo 404 78.29%
Norrington 112 21.71%
PIEDMONT SPECIAL ELECTION
(100% precincts reporting)
>Measure G
(Extends $2,763 school parcel tax through 2028)
50%+1 to pass)
YES 2,691 81.37%
NO 616 18.63%
>Measure H
(School tax for 0.25 cents/sq. ft. on home additions)
50%+1 to pass
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 […]
The process for construction of Grover Cleveland Park in San Leandro during the 1980s and early 90s was […]
Former Oakland Councilmember Wilson Riles, Jr. was arrested last Thursday following an altercation with Oakland police officers. The […]
The Alameda Unified School District and the Alameda teachers union agreed to a new three-year contract last week. […]
Alameda resident Arminda Graca received her file last week from the Alameda Housing Authority, a thick stack of […]
The president’s got priors.-Rep. Eric Swalwell on MSNBC Monday discussing impeachment and President Trump's involvement with Russia.
East Bay City Council meeting highlights for the week of Oct. 21: >>> OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL (Oct. 22, […]
Hayward is nearing an increase in the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022, one year […]
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.
