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Before the New Year, Oakland residents should hope to see some big changes down at City Hall, starting with a new top administrator. In December, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums will face decisions that could change the face of the city's leadership in his troubled...

Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums is an illusionist. At a public ceremony last week for 38 new graduates of the police academy, he praised the Police Department for beefing up the force to 837 officers. "In a cynical world, your decision to become police officers is...

Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums is an illusionist. At a public ceremony last week for 38 new graduates of the police academy, he praised the Police Department for beefing up the force to 837 officers. "In a cynical world, your decision to become police officers is...

When public policy collides with common sense, the former should be reviewed - not the latter. Case in point: Three homes on Wallace Street near Highland Hospital in Oakland that have sat empty, and teetering, on an unstable hillside since a 2002 landslide...

State Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata hasn't thrown his hat into the ring for the 2010 Oakland mayor's race, but he certainly performed a very nice jig around it in a radio interview this week. In a half-hour segment on KQED-FM's "Forum" show, the lame-...

With revenue falling precipitously, Oakland officials from the mayor's office to its police and public works agencies will have to do more with less to survive the lean times. And because of the city's high crime rate, that means the Police Department will...

With revenue falling precipitously, Oakland officials from the mayor's office to its police and public works agencies will have to do more with less to survive the lean times. And because of the city's high crime rate, that means the Police Department will...

Oakland voters may have shot their city in the foot by approving one ballot measure this week that boosts funding for children's programs while defeating another that would have beefed up the police force to fight crime. The passage of Measure OO to increase...

Oakland voters may have shot their city in the foot by approving one ballot measure this week that boosts funding for children's programs while defeating another that would have beefed up the police force to fight crime. The passage of Measure OO to increase...

Street shrines are a sometimes impromptu way for grieving family and friends to remember a loved one. But increasingly the memorials have become a way for gang members to mark their turf. Berkeley city officials came to a that conclusion last week after a...

Street shrines are a sometimes impromptu way for grieving family and friends to remember a loved one. But increasingly the memorials have become a way for gang members to mark their turf. Berkeley city officials came to a that conclusion last week after a...