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Last dance for 2023

Miley removes appointee who just happens to be his March Primary opponent

D5 supe candidates begin mad rush for money and endorsements

Poll: Barbara Lee favored by younger voters

A potential moratorium on large mobile home rent increases

East Bay Insiders Podcast: Ep. 77 - Shawn is back!

Alameda settles for more than $11 million in high-profile police homicide

Drive for District 5 begins

Bas joins supervisors race

Potential supervisor successors line up

March Primary ballot is set

Breaking news: Supervisor Keith Carson will not seek re-election next year

East Bay Insiders Podcast: Ep. 76 - Seneca Scott vs. Oakland Progressives

San Leandro councilmember resigns after just one year in office

The room where nothing happened

Gaza resolutions: Hayward mayor takes swipe at council colleague, state Sen. Wahab

Gaza resolution comes to San Leandro. Who's next?

Season of giving

Adults in the room

Oakland's finances are getting worse

Price of election integrity

Heat is coming to the Board of Supervisors

100 days until Primary Day

Happy turkey day

Bridge too far?

East Bay Insiders Podcast: Ep. 75 - East Bay poster child for how the GOP has lost suburban voters

East Bay Insiders Podcast: Ep. 74 - Last of the East Bay Republicans

Recall funders are flexing

Alameda County supervisors place recall charter amendment on the March ballot

When in Oakland, bring your own cup

Recall charter amendment gets a second look

Observations

County's Reparations Commission receives its mission orders

Pamela Price is in big, big trouble

Election Day in Oakland

East Bay Insiders Podcast: Ep. 73 - State of Alameda County's safety net hospitals

Lee's polling improves, but still lags behind frontrunners

Pamela Price recall committees have raised $500,000

Sheriff's Department not yet fully embracing new leader's reforms

Alameda County Dems resolution to call for ceasefire; accuses Israel of ethnic-cleansing

Middle East conflict divides East Bay politics

Pamela Price’s stolen laptop actually bolsters her case against a recall

Ranking the recalls

Survey highlights the lasting impacts on relocated Russell City families

Charter amendment adds uncertainty to Price recall campaign

Council pay raises: Hayward is next up

Lateefah Simon wins Democratic Party support; no consensus in competitive state Senate race

East Bay Insiders Podcast: Ep. 72 - Sheng Show

Wahab: 'This recall is completely without merit'

Recall provisions in Alameda County's charter are unconstitutional, counsel says

Lackluster state of the city

Lateefah Simon's congressional campaign posts strong fundraising numbers

A chance to reframe the narrative in Oakland

East Bay Insiders Podcast: Ep. 71 - March Primary Reset

Feinstein's passing changes electoral calculations

Price recall begins

Hayward mayor's epic anti-woke rant

Alameda County focuses on tax-defaulted properties, helping small non-profits build housing

Poll shows Sheng Thao, Oakland City Council, OPD, DA Pamela Price are deeply unpopular

Following county's success, some East Bay cities are lining up to regulate sideshow spectators

Alameda County's very tardy housing element

Community defends Sunol superintendent that defied school board

Sheriff's oversight is coming to Alameda County

State of emergencies

East Bay Insiders Podcast: Ep. 70 - More Oakland woes: 'You're starting to see all kinds of cracks in this administration'

Ro Khanna is one of congress's top stock traders. Now he wants to ban the practice

CA12 scouting report

A potential second recall committee emerges

A very contentious meeting in Sunol

Barbara Lee's senate hopes take a hit

East Bay Legislative Scoreboard

Public safety state of emergency isn’t needed, says Oakland mayor

Barbara Lee almost never endorses East Bay candidates, but now she wants their support

Loren Taylor is turning up the heat

Wahab's contentious caste bill heads to governor's desk

Thanks to voters, Alameda elected officials are getting a really big raise

East Bay Insiders Podcast: Ep. 69 - Labor Strife

Observations

State resolution calling for U.S. constitutional convention on gun control moves ahead

Labor is cutting out the middleman

East Bay’s Dark Waters

DA Price to Oakland Police: 'Don’t tell me you’re going to get paid but you’re not going to do your job'

Aisha Wahab recall campaign stumbles out the gate

This East Bay Dem-on-Dem proxy battle may feature reproductive rights

Long wait-time plagues Alameda County's search for new EMS provider

County supervisors are poised to assume governance of Alameda Health System

The plan to get Alameda County Republicans elected to school boards

Alameda County officials are unsure how to conduct the Pamela Price recall

Will crime still be a top election issue next year?

Loren Taylor on running for mayor in 2026

Previous owner of Hayward's iconic brewpub left city holding the bag for $100,000 federal loan

Oakland ballpark opponents got smoked

Alameda County Reparations Commission will begin its work in October

#WheresSheng?!

Assemblymember Alex Lee is cozying up to Sen. Aisha Wahab’s recall proponents

Pamela and Chesa sitting in a tree

Tenants advocates laid out demands and walked out of meeting with county supervisor, landlords

Alameda County Democrats oppose Price recall

Dollars and nonsense

A’s owner donated to county supervisor’s re-election campaign; Wahab recall committee posts strong finance numbers

Redistricting the bus lines

Friday fight card

Letters to Pam

Newsom signs Wahab's first bill

Building support

East Bay Insiders Podcast: Ep. 67 - You don't have to lie to kick it with East Bay Insiders

Change of plans

Wilma Chan's children want greater pedestrian improvements in Alameda

Thao, Price, and beers

Janani is Oakland's new shot-caller

Price gives recall campaign some bulletin board material

One reason the recall may fail has nothing to do Pamela Price

Nate Miley is fed up with tenants AND landlords

Study: With a little help from the state, cityhood for Castro Valley is possible

Mia Bonta, Liz Ortega couldn't muster a vote for bill that further criminalizes child sex trafficking

Livermore councilmember apologizes for telling city manager, 'Let's see what a woman can do'

Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao may be getting a $75,000 pay increase

East Bay Insiders Podcast - Ep. 66: Dan the Man is the Man for Dublin, Man, and Island Boy

The Curious Incidents of Trish & Bryan in the Night-Time

The $10 billion affordable housing ballot measure

Alameda County Social Services isn't happy about Hayward's lawsuit

Green and gold new deal?

Pivotal East Bay safety net hospital is again teetering on the edge

Just cause returns with an eye for cutting renters' losses

Board of Supervisors to apologize for role in Russell City's demise

Pamela Price rips opponents after being vindicated by civil grand jury report

Oversight bewilderment

Precedent-setting action for county open space

'I don’t think anybody in the Bay Area is satisfied with doing the minimum': East Bay mayors grapple with homelessness

Meet the Villapuduas

The recall that might have some legs

Alameda County supes settle Santa Rita Jail wrongful death lawsuit

Balancing Alameda County's $54 million budget shortfall

Update

Another poll shows Lee underperforming

East Bay Insiders Podcast: Episode 65 - Send your impact fee checks to Oakland City Hall

(Un)Happiest city in Alameda County

By land and sea

Hayward restaurateurs warn against sidewalk vendors. 'We're going to be the next East L.A.'

Brief sigh of relief

Tenant concerns

Crime’s inflection point

Wahab’s Costa-Hawkins housing bill fails

Oakland mayor wants to charge neighboring cities an impact fee for serving their homeless

East Bay Insiders Podcast: Episode 64 - This title was created by A.I.

Miley doesn’t think cash reparations is a good idea

Sheriff's oversight lite on the horizon?

Supervisor Tam calls for independent investigation of Hayward girl's death

Carson to Dupuis: Let the kids vote

Military equipment slow creep

Observations

Coliseum Authority made a nice third quarter profit

Pamela Price's pricey 'private office' remodel is scuttled

San Leandro's eviction moratorium receives council review

Barbara Lee and Katie Porter flash progressive cred

Oakland councilmember calls sideshow participants ‘thrill-seekers’

Registrar had many question about county's election oversight commission

East Bay Insiders: Episode 63 - Dinner rolls, pizza, and steak

Oakland’s sideshow sideshow

Fuzzy recall

Alameda County election commission is coming

Alameda is balling

Oakland unions on budget proposal: Teamwork makes the dream work

Oakland's public safety officers face budget deep-freeze

'Eviction tsunami' watch begins

Landlord wants Alameda County housing director ‘written up’

Alameda County wants to help landlords recoup unpaid Covid-19 rents in small claims court

Prosecutor resigns, urges DA Pamela Price to ‘look at the crime scene and autopsy photos’

Wahab's surprisingly contentious caste bill receives a committee vetting

Sheng Thao has really bad luck

Oakland, not the A's, win the day

City of Champions no more: A's are gone

Wild scene in Fremont

Oakland has no regrets

East Bay Insiders Podcast - Ep. 62: It's all about Pam

Price's war on the media

Lee's best chance to become senator

$tate $enate $tirrings

Supervisor's dire budget forecast: 'There will be a gap'

Battleground Oakland for tenants and landlords

Paths for retribution?

Banking on the county

Recount is dead

Court finds Alameda County has no authority to regulate incorporated cities

Pamela Price’s Asian Problem

County reparations off to an inauspicious start

Elisa Marquez appointed to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors

Candidates run a gauntlet of intense questioning by Alameda County supervisors

Supervisor candidates enter the interview phase today. Here's what you need to know

Monday Special: And then there were four. Supervisor applicant drops out

Child-proofing City Hall

Impending eviction tsunami could take a year to subside

Oakland may phase out eviction moratorium; county supervisor thinks he has a funding source for paying landlords

Five candidates advance to the interview round

Alameda County supervisor appointment begins with all eyes on labor

East Bay Insiders Podcast: Episode 60 - March Madness in Alameda County

Alameda County District 2 supervisor scouting reports

Alameda County supervisor applicant moved to the district less than a month ago

Who wants to be Alameda County supervisor in District 2?

Libby Schaaf's first post-mayor comments

Special interests directed Hayward officials during meeting, councilmember admitted it in real time

The revolution will not be prosecuted

Alameda takes on third-party food delivery giants

Beckles joins growing SD7 race; Bonta will seek re-election in AD18

‘What's up with that recount?’ Nothing much.

Oakland mayoral recall campaign is looming

East Bay Insiders Podcast: Episode 59 - Authority Song

Question #8: ‘Do you presently reside in District 2? For how long?’

Pamela Price's next move is to limit prison sentences

Lateefah Simon reports fundraising windfall a day after entering CA12 race

Alameda County supervisors roll back previously approved renters' protection ordinances for unincorporated areas

Alameda County renters' protection ordinances face an uphill battle today

Proposed deadline for county supervisor applicants is about two weeks away

Friday Extra: Second CASen poll shows Barbara Lee has a lot of work to do

Lee trails SoCal senate candidates in early poll; One in, one out in race to replace Lee in Congress

Alameda County public health officer is expected to lift Covid-19 health order next week

Chabot-Las Positas District board censures trustee over a meme

East Bay Insiders Podcast - Episode 58: Jockeying for position

On tap for Tuesday: City Council notes from across Alameda County

The arrogance of Mia Bonta

Oakland councilmember tweeted support for violence

Barbara Lee files for U.S. Senate run

2024 East Bay Candidate List

San Leandro extends its eviction moratorium by another year

East Bay Insiders returns on Wednesday morning

Taking a short break

A’s are getting in the way of 2024 T20 Cricket World Cup coming to the Coliseum

Housing activists harangue Alameda County supervisors for the fourth time in less than a week

Moms 4 Housing protesters arrested at Alameda County Supervisors meeting

Tenants' protection ordinances postponed yet again, protesters shut down Board of Supervisors meeting

Tenuous unincorporated Alameda County tenant protections return on Tuesday, activists protest dissenting county supervisors

Ranking the potential candidates for Barbara Lee's congressional seat

FPPC fine, Santa Rita Jail death, and freeway surveillance cameras in Alameda County

BART board director admonished for using racist term during meeting

Pamela Price shows the door to three deputy DAs

Candidate that could be affected by recount, quits school board, is moving to Texas

Fremont voted for Black History Month flag-raising last month. Mayor tried to add 19 dates, including Confucius’ birthday

Barbara Lee says the U.S. Senate is for me

Alameda County Supervisors approve independent recount of November ranked choice voting races. Is it legal?

Five vie tonight for Hayward City Council appointment

Recount Doomsday Scenarios

Alameda County is heading toward a recount of November’s ranked choice voting elections

A gathering storm at the Oakland mayor’s office

Yesenia Sanchez and Pamela Price eras begin in Alameda County

Episode 57 - 2022 Wrap-up: Post-gender era in East Bay politics and the Modern American man