Courtney Ruby, the Oakland Auditor, likes punishment; that’s the only logical reason available for why she elected (no pun intended) to announce that she’s back in the Oakland Mayor’s Race,…
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Deanna Santana: Oakland City Administrator Wants To Hide In Closed Session
The Finance Committee of Oakland’s City Council is scheduled to consider the job classification of personnel who will intake complaints against police officers on Tuesday morning. But in an email…
City Of Oakland’s Response To California Controller On ‘Misdirected’ Assets
California State Controller John Chiang has dropped what looks like a legal bomb on the City of Oakland. What I wrote in the last blog post (where the State’s full…
THE OAKLAND CITY BUDGET 2013 – 2015: A CITY COUNCIL PRIMER
The Oakland City Council will hold its last budget hearing on Thursday, tommorrow, and before its final vote in two weeks. This is your chance to go to the Oakland…
Oakland Mayor Quan: Husband As Driver / Bodyguard Violates City Charter
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan has a terrible habit of operating the Office Of The Mayor Of Oakland as if it’s Mayberry RFD: a small town where she drives herself around,…
Will the Mayor’s Proposed Budget Rebuild Oakland’s Police Department?
On Sunday, April 28, 2013 at 1:30 p.m. at St. Paul’s Church, 114 Montecito, Make Oakland Better Now! will sponsor a public forum, “Can Oakland Afford to Be Safe?,” featuring Chief of…
Can Oakland Afford to Be Safe? MOBN! to Host Forum
Make Oakland Better Now! believes that the top priority for the new budget should be restoring, and growing, the Oakland Police Department in order to make Oaklanders safe. In this light, we are proud…
Oakland City Auditor Wrong: Staff Asked Black Local Firm To Front For White Livermore Company
A key part of the “non-interference” report issued by Courtney Ruby, the Oakland City Auditor, and that blamed Councilmember Larry Reid (District 7) and Councilmember Desley Brooks (District 6), leading…
Art Murmur – First Friday Oakland Shooting Focus Of Monday Meeting
The City of Oakland’s Communication’s Department sent over this recap of a Monday meeting on the Art Murmur – First Friday Shooting of two weeks ago, with Mayor Jean Quan…
Oakland City Council Approves Bratton Contract At 2:17 AM
Arlington, VA – Thanks to Sean Maher, from the City Of Oakland’s press information office, this media release has the details behind last night’s Oakland City Council meeting and the…
Oakland Army Base Project: Oakland City Council Approves Plan
The Oakland Army Base Project – the long-dreamed of plan to redevelop a long-dead 366-acre land assembly that was once the home of the U.S. Army for the San Francisco…
City Of Oakland: Oakland Police “Flawed Response” To Occupy Oakland Oct 25th Protest
The City Of Oakland admits what many have known for months, and almost cost Oakland Mayor Jean Quan her job, a successful recall effort would have given her one of…
Oakland’s Deanna Santana’s Insensitive Remark To Question About Homeless
Oakland City Administrator Deanna Santana made a statement that, had I been her communications representative, I’d step in to clean up, and then give her a private tongue-lashing for doing.…
Oakland Mayor Quan Press Conference On Budget And Redevelopment 2012
The City of Oakland’s in a bad spot, and this blogger’s not sure if many people in Oakland understand exactly what’s going on. That’s why it’s important to look at…
Jerry Brown Destroys Oakland: City Layoffs, Deficit, After Gov Kills Redevelopment
Any doubt about how California Governor Jerry Brown feels about Oakland, where he was Mayor of Oakland from 1999 to 2007, should be erased after his action to eliminate local…
Oakland Mayor Santana Names Interim Chief, Where’s Mayor Quan?
The email from the City of Oakland’s media contact had a title that was clear as a bell: “Oakland City Administrator Appoints Howard A. Jordan as Interim Chief of Police.”…
Oakland – Setting Record Of City Managers / City Adminstrators Straight
I don’t know if it’s intentional or not, but the City of Oakland’s starting to exhibit a memory problem. To cut to the chase, then work backward, Oakland Mayor Jean…