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Leaked DA Recall Document Reveals Mega-Donor Committee “Reviving the Bay Area” is Subordinate “Team” of SAFE Recall Campaign A leaked SAFE campaign strategy document was made public Friday by “Protect the Win”, the campaign opposing the recall of District Attorney Pamela Price. Brenda Grisham, the ostensible principal officer of

Schaaf-Era 9-1-1 Hiring Fail Revealed Months After Resolution A Schaaf administration hiring failure with serious repercussions for Oakland’s 9-1-1 staffing was the focus of a report initially requested by Janani Ramachandran at a December 5th City Council meeting. Ramachandran had requested the report as

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It’s an outlier week for Council. Normally there’d be only a designated required Council meeting with the public safety boards and commissions on Tuesday. But because of a special meeting scheduled to hear a ceasefire resolution and a Special Finance Committee meeting on Monday there’s actually three

Delay on Recall-Changing Ballot Measure as BOS Votes For Alternate Version Which Requires Second Reading Yet another pause has been added to an Alameda County Board of Supervisors [BOS] proposed ballot measure that would, if passed in March by voters, delete the County’s century old archaic text on