Responsive Government
Mayor Created Oakland Promise by Approving Resolution While City Council Was on Summer Break
City Attorney memorandum says city rules “prohibit the mayor from approving ordinances during council’s annual recess” By…
Big Win in Sacramento for Anti Rent-Gouging and Eviction Protections
Posted in Affordable Housing, Gentrification, Homelessness, Housing/Foreclosures, Responsive Government Tenant leaders of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) and other organizing…
Community Raises Questions Over City Funds, Staff Given to Mayor Schaaf’s Favored Education Nonprofit
By Ken EpsteinQuestions are being raised by members of the community whether city staff, funds and resources…
Councilmembers, City Auditor Speak on Censure Motion
Posted in City Auditor’s Report, Responsive Government By Post Staff City Councilmembers are reacting to the turmoil generated in the…
Chesa Boudin Runs for SF District Attorney
Posted in Against White Supremacy, Equal Rights/Equity, Police-Public Safety, Racial profiling, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated, Responsive Government, Restorative Justice, Sanctuary City East Bay Civil Rights attorney Pamela Price…
$44.4 More Million for Homeless
Posted in Economic Development, Gentrification, Homelessness, Illegal dumping, Immigrant Rights, Labor, Libby Schaaf, Oakland Job Programs, Politics, Racial profiling, Rebecca Kaplan, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated, Responsive Government, Restorative Justice, Sanctuary City, Transportation Affordable housing, parks, illegal…
Council Adopts Kaplan’s $3.2 Billion Budget
Posted in Affordable Housing, Arts and Culture, Business, Economic Development, Gentrification, Health, Homelessness, Housing/Foreclosures, Illegal dumping, Immigrant Rights, Labor, LGBT, Libby Schaaf, Oakland Job Programs, Police-Public Safety, Politics, Racial profiling, Rebecca Kaplan, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated, Responsive Government, Restorative Justice Bas…
Opinion: We Need to Stand for Leonard Powell
Posted in Berkeley, Community, Economic Development, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Probate court reform, Responsive Government Court Hearing Jan. 29 for Veteran Fighting to Keep City from…
New Year, New Leadership, New Oakland?
Rebecca Kaplan unanimously elected City Council President By Ken Epstein Oakland honored its newly elected city leaders…
2019 Oakland Women’s March, Saturday, Jan. 19
Posted in Equal Rights/Equity, Politics, Responsive Government, voting rights The Women’s March Oakland 2019 will flood the streets with a wave of…