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New Golden Fleece Award Goes to BART for ‘Crime, Grime, and Greed’

January 25, 2022 7:11 amApril 3, 2022 3:14 pm

The Bay Area Rapid Transit system has just received the California Golden Fleece® Award for its excessive employee compensation, reckless financial mismanagement, poor on-time performance, unsanitary conditions, and failure to prevent the system from becoming a magnet for criminals, the...

Department of Transportation Allocates $57.5 Million For Long Beach, Oakland Port Improvements

December 23, 2021 2:15 amDecember 22, 2021 10:07 pm

The Department of Transportation allocated $57.5 million in grants for improvements to the Ports of Long Beach and Oakland on Wednesday, becoming the latest funding earmarked for helping eliminate supply-chain backlogs. Ports in California, facing massive backlogs in the latter...

Oakland City Council Votes To Add More Police, Police Academies Amid Crime Surge

December 9, 2021 2:20 amApril 3, 2022 8:35 am

The Oakland City Council voted Tuesday to add more police academies and officers, reversing a course of police defunding and hiring freezes from the last year and a half. Press play to hear a narrated version of this story, presented...

San Francisco Declares Water Emergency, Asks For 10% System-Wide Water Reduction

November 25, 2021 2:26 amNovember 24, 2021 9:27 pm

San Francisco Mayor London Breed, along with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) announced on Tuesday that there is now a water shortage emergency in effect, calling for large reductions across the Bay-spanning system. According to the new emergency...

Oakland Councilwoman Sheng Thao Enters 2022 Oakland Mayoral Race

November 11, 2021 2:15 amNovember 12, 2021 10:01 am

Oakland City Councilwoman and current Council President Sheng Thao announced on Wednesday that she would be running for Mayor of Oakland in 2022. The daughter of refugees from Laos, Thao graduated from Merrit College and, later, from UC Berkeley with...

Alameda County Board of Supervisors Votes To Keep New Athletics Stadium Plan Alive In 4-1 Vote

October 27, 2021 3:52 pm

In a non-binding 4-1 vote, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors agreed to keep a new Oakland Athletics baseball stadium project alive at Howard Terminal, saving, for now, the last major team still playing in Oakland. For the past 15...

Oakland City Council Adds New Police Academy, More Officers Due To Rising Crime Rate

September 23, 2021 2:30 amSeptember 22, 2021 9:37 pm

The Oakland City Council approved a resolution on Tuesday that, due to a shortage of officers and a rising crime rate, a fifth police academy is to open in the city to boost the number of police officers by 2022....