Oakland Mayor’s Race Has 13 Candidates: A Record
Oakland Mayor’s Race Has 13 Candidates: A Record The Oakland Mayor’s Race has 13 candidates, which I name here without aid of a script. If Oakland At-Large Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan…
Why Rebecca Kaplan Would Help the Oakland Mayor’s Race – East Bay Express
Why Rebecca Kaplan Would Help the Oakland Mayor’s RaceEast Bay ExpressIn the latest poll, which was commissioned by Schaaf’s campaign, Siegel was in fifth place, with 6 percent, sandwiched between…
Transbay Transit Center SF Construction Update: Excavation Work Complete
The Transbay Transit Center Contruction Project in San Francisco reached a special milestone on Monday, February 10th 2014: excavation work to make the underground “box” that will accommodate the structure,…
Maria Ayerdi-Kaplan: TJPA Executive Director Honored by Lambda Alpha
Maria Ayerdi-Kaplan, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) Executive Director who has so skillfully directed the construction of the $4 billion Transbay Transit Center Project for The San Francisco Bay…
Libby Schaaf Enters Oakland Mayor’s Race: Implications
UPDATE: Libby Schaaf Files Papers To Run For Mayor Of Oakland Libby Schaaf shocks Oakland with Mayor’s Race talk. She did. (And look, some headlines says “Libby Schaaf expected to…
Oakland News: Schaaf, Kaplan For Mayor Of Oakland? Tagami Wants Oakland Trib
There’s a lot of Oakland News out there, so let’s get to it. First, I have it from several sources that Oakland City Councilmember Libby Schaaf (District Four) is considering…
Oakland Coliseum City At Oakland City Council Now
Live streaming video by Ustream The Oakland City Council meeting is on now, and what everyone here is waiting for is the Oakland Coliseum City issue. Oakland’s At Large Councilmember…
Chevron Ecuador: Chevron Closer To Legal Win Over Steven Donziger
In the latest chapter of the Chevron Ecuador lawsuit, the American oil company is moving closer to legal victory, particularly over its main attacker, Steven Donziger. Donziger has long claimed…
Supreme Court Drops DOMA, Prop 8: Oakland Mayor Quan, Councilmember Kaplan
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan made the following joint statement Wednesday with Oakland City Council President Pro Tem Rebecca Kaplan, the city’s first openly-lesbian councilmember, in response to the Supreme Court’s…
Oakland News: Parker For Mayor, Budget Issues, A16 Oakland SF Invasion
Oakland News – there’s a lot of it and I’m behind as I’ve been traveling, and trying to stay in shape – let’s get to it. Bryan Parker For Mayor…
Chevron Ecuador: Ecuadorian Judge Nicolas Zambrano Lozada Skips Court
Nicolas Zambrano Lozada, the now-former Ecuador judge who was found to have taken a large, half-million dollar bribe in the Chevron (TexPet) Ecuador case, avoided showing up to court to…
Oakland City Auditor Report Spiked As Ruby Rumors Of Mayoral Run
The Oakland City Auditor Report that alleged that Councilmembers Larry Reid (District 7) and Desley Brooks (District 6) were acting in violation of the City Charter in various ways was…
Chevron Ecuador: Steve Donziger Loses Keker & Van Nest Lawyers
Steve Donziger takes another giant hit in the fraudulent ‘Chevron Ecuador’ lawsuit, where Mr. Donziger has waged a decades long chase for billions of dollars on a foundation of false…
SF Transbay Transit Tower Groundbreaking 10 A.M. Today
The SF Transbay Transit Tower groundbreaking is an exciting development that this vlogger will attend today. Here’s the press release: Boston, MA, March 26, 2013 – Hines and Boston Properties…
Chevron Ecuador: Patton Boggs Must Give Documents Up; Judge Kaplan Writes History
The Chevron Ecuador case, which really should be called the “Tex-Pet Ecuador” case since Chevron was not operating in Ecuador at the time and up to Texaco’s departure in 1992,…
Rebecca D. Kaplan, Art Murmur Shooting: Oakland City Council President Statement
Rebecca D. Kaplan, the Oakland City Council’s At Large representative and new President Pro Tem has sent this statement on the Oakland Art Murmur First Friday Shooting that occurred almost…
Oakland News: Kaplan, Kalb, McElhaney, Gallo, Reid, Parker Win
The latest Oakland news is that the Oakland City Council elections went to Rebecca Kaplan for At Large, Dan Kalb for District One, Lynette McElhaney for District Three, Noel Gallo…
Rebecca Kaplan for Oakland At Large Councilmember
After years of trying, Rebecca Kaplan was elected Oakland’s At Large Councilmember in 2008. In doing so, she became Oakland’s first lesbian elected official, and the first woman to serve…
Oakland Councilmember De La Fuente Called Homophobe By LGBT Club
Oakland Councilmember Ignacio De La Fuente’s in hot water over a campaign approach that overstepped the bounds of appropriate taste in his battle for the current At-Large City Council seat…
Oakland News: Oakland City Council Races 48-hrs Before Election Day
In this Oakland News you know it’s just 48 hours before election day when on Saturday night, you see Nyesha DeWitt’s campaign truck parked on Broadway at 10 PM. Have…
Reid, Kaplan, Sullivan Get Oakland Tribune Endorsement; Juarez Doesn’t
The last time the Oakland Tribune weighed in with endorsements in a local election, they had zero impact: people just don’t read the newspapers like they used to and the…
Oakland City Council At-Large Debate Recap
Last night (August 29th) I attended the debate between four of the five Candidates At-Large for a seat on Oakland’s City Council at the Kaiser Center. In attendance were candidates Incumbent…
Oakland News: Raider Nation Aug 12th, Cowboys Monday; Politics News
Oakland News comes forth, and I’m just playing catchup. That said, I must be doing something right: my face is one of the top five results of a search for…
Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan Allows Chevron To Pursue Ecuador Fraud Claim
Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan, who was the first legal overseer to recognize that the Steven Donziger-led lawsuit against Chevron and that caused the corrupt Ecuador court to issue an $18…
Jane Brunner Gets Oakland Police Endorsement For City Attorney
A bit of an Oakland shocker until you think about it: Oakland Councilmember Jane Brunner just landed the endorsement of the Oakland Police Union called the Oakland Police Officers Association.…
Oakland News: De La Fuente At-Large Run Due To Job Difficulties?
The speculation continues over why Oakland Councilmember Ignacio De La Fuente’s running against Oakland’s At-Large City Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan. The latest reason that many offer – this is the talk…
Oakland News: Kaplan Calls De La Fuente “Serious Challenger”; Joel Young For D3 Council?
The latest Oakland News is that on her campaign website, Oakland At-Large Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan already calls her new challenger, Oakland Councilmember Ignacio De La Fuente, a “serious challenger” and…
De La Fuente Run For Oakland At-Large Not Larry Tramutola’s Fault
Ignacio De La Fuente’s run for the Oakland City Council Seat currently held by Rebecca Kaplan has a handful of insiders talking about what made IDF do it? His Thursday…
Ignacio De La Fuente Will Lose To Rebecca Kaplan In At-Large Race
“Ignacio De La Fuente Will Lose To Rebecca Kaplan” – there, I said it. That’s the first thing that came out of my head, aside from being insulted that he…
Joe Tuman On The GS Warriors, Oakland, Rebecca Kaplan At Large, And Mayor Quan
For Oakland politicos, Joe Tuman has become a household name. The San Francisco State Professor and San Francisco CBS Channel Five Political Commentator made a name for himself in 2010…
Oakland News: BART Fire Arson?; Joe Tuman v. Rebecca Kaplan No More
At 2:15 AM Thursday Morning a massive fire broke out at Mandela and 7th Street right next to the West Oakland BART Station. The fire spread to other buildings and…
Oakland News: Vote For Donald Macleay, Sean Sullivan, Abel Guillen; City Attorney Race
In this Oakland News we have politics elections. First, I’m asking you, Oaklander, to vote for Donald Macleay for Oakland City Council District One, Sean Sullivan for Oakland City Council…
Oakland News: Oakland’s Sexually Diverse Election Race
Oakland probably has the most sexually diverse election race ever. What if I told you that in the District Three Race for Oakland City Council, two of the leading candidates…
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Chevron Ecuador: Judge Kaplan Sort-Of Punks Steven Donziger With RICO Ruling
Steve Donziger, the lead plaintiff lawyer in a fraudulent lawsuit pitting Chevron against Ecuador, managed to really piss off U.S. Southern District Of New York Judge Lewis Kaplan on April…