The idea that Mayor Thao was selling out Oakland even before she won the election, it speaks of arrogance and malicious ...

With crime high, police staffing short, bond rating sliding and a massive structural deficit, layoffs seem inevitable.

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Votes are still being counted, but with her closest competitor having conceded, Barbara Lee is now considered the mayor-elect of Oakland. And on Monday, she addressed the media with her plans to ...

Lee, whose term is set to begin in mid-May, will be Oakland’s first Black woman mayor. She inherits a city in financial and political turmoil, and marked by sharp economic and geographic divides. “I ...