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Proposed PLA Amendment Roundly Rejected A proposed amendment to Measure U [MU] funding legislation that could have impacted affordable housing development brought out almost 60 speakers who opposed it at Tuesday’s Community and Economic Development Committee meeting. By the end of the meeting, no speaker, city staffer or council

PEC Settlements Show Pattern of Campaign Violations by Former Mayor Schaaf Involving Millions in Contributions A set of draft settlements that will be presented to the Public Ethics Commission next week for final approval detail a "pattern" of unlawful behavior on the part of former Mayor Libby Schaaf.

Historic Coliseum Sale Agreement Executed: AASEG Signs Purchase and Sale Agreement with A’s Friday, City of Oakland on Saturday AASEG announced on Friday that it has signed the Purchase and Sale Agreement to buy the A’s 50% share of the Oakland Coliseum property. Then on Saturday night, Mayor

D7 Campaign Landscape Transforms Over Night as Reid Exits Race Last week, D7’s current CM Treva Reid announced that she won’t be seeking re-election as her first term in office ends. The late day announcement on the deadline to submit candidate paperwork triggered Oakland’s rules for candidate

Foundational Oakland Unites Expenditure Committee, a Vehicle for Recall Funds from Just one Contributor Foundational Oakland Unites [FOU], an independent campaign expenditure committee, has paid the majority of signature gathering bills for the recall of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao–and received all of its recently reported $605K in contributions from