EMERYVILLE—Voters here chose to stick with what they know Tuesday, re-electing all three incumbent city council candidates and reauthorizing a measure that pays for city services ranging from police and fire departments to sewer repairs. Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO—Bits of a Diebold voting machine went flying in front of City Hall today. Every swing of a sledgehammer drove home the message that organizers of the demonstration want corporate software out of the election system.
Defeated candidate calls for Berkeley Mayor’s impeachment. Continue reading
Organizer says Bates is hard on homeless, easy on big development. Continue reading
A group of supporters for the presidential candidate gathered to acknowledge his early condemnation of the war. Continue reading
Presidential candidate Barak Obama’s northern California campaign headquarters opened in Oakland. Continue reading
Senator Pledges to Remove Troops From Iraq by March 2009
SAN FRANCISCO— Presidential hopeful Barack Obama, hoping to steal away support from rival Hillary Clinton, told a crowd of hundreds Friday that California is still open to either candidate in the Feb. 5, 2008, primary election. Continue reading
BERKELEY- Women aren’t just pounding on the proverbial glass ceiling in Washington, they’re smashing it.
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SAN FRANCISCO – On the heels of dramatic Democratic gains across the nation and her own resounding reelection to the U.S. Senate, Dianne Feinstein called Wednesday for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2007.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Policy wonks weighed in Wednesday on the legal implications of Proposition 90, the initiative that would curtail eminent domain usage, at a brief but heady debate at the University of San Francisco Law School.
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SAN FRANCISCO — A political “tidal wave” is sweeping the nation and State Treasurer Phil Angelides plans to ride that wave into the governor’s mansion in Sacramento, Angelides said on Tuesday during a whirlwind tour through the Bay Area.
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Entering the final sprint phase of his campaign to oust Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Tracy), Democratic congressional candidate Jerry McNerney hopes voters will be swayed by his support of embryonic stem cell research.
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OAKLAND–Just off the corner of International Boulevard on Fruitvale Avenue, the smell of sweet Mexican bread filled the air, beckoning passersby into “La Favorita” bakery. Some entered bopping their heads to the reggaet√≥n blaring from two small speakers, while others quickly ordered and left carrying bags filled with warm conchas, polvorones and cuernitos. At the register where employee Alma Calder√≥n greeted customers with a smile, “Viva Mexico” posters advertised international calling cards, connecting shoppers to their families living in Mexico and farther south. Near the cappuccino machine, stacks of Spanish-language newspapers displayed front-page images of the new Mexican president-elect Felipe Calder√≥n, and headlines declaring a new deepening of the election crisis disappeared as fast as the bread.
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SACRAMENTO – There is no “Arnold Schwarzenegger” on California’s November ballot, but two years into his abbreviated term, the governor’s agenda is plain to see. With millions of dollars, and some say his own future at stake, Schwarzenegger and his allies have assembled a slate of propositions that would wrest power from the Democrat-dominated state legislature, strengthen the governor’s authority and forever change California politics.
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OAKLAND, Nov. 1 – -A veteran kindergarten teacher at Moiola Elementary School in Fountain Valley, Sandra Crandall hasn’t lost a bit of the passion for teaching that she first brought to the classroom 36 years ago. She has long been a vocal advocate for children, and last year her leadership was recognized with the city’s Teacher of the Year award.
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As she watched her 17-year-old daughter dart back and forth during her volleyball game at Oakland Technical High School, Serene Washington of Oakland had a concerned look on her face.
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On the homepage of the website for the California Nurses Association, a picture of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is posted beneath the title “Nurses Say Vote No in November.” Leslie Schillinger, a registered nurse at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley, has a big problem with that message.
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Mary Carhart, who directs an abortion clinic in Bellevue, Nebraska, has been working for more than a decade under a state law requiring clinics to notify parents before performing abortions on minors.
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BERKELEY, Oct. 23 – In a tidy North Berkeley apartment kitchen, five articulate teenagers contemplated the pros and cons of Proposition 73, a law that would require girls under the age of 18 to notify one parent before undergoing an abortion.
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OAKLAND, Nov. 2 – Say a principal wants to get rid of a teacher in Oakland – a “tenured” teacher, one who’s passed the two year probationary period.
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OAKLAND, Oct. 24 – For millions of Californians like 38-year old Maurice Jones, paying out of pocket for prescription drugs isn’t always an option. “Sometimes people have to choose between paying for their food, their house, or their drugs,” Jones said while waiting to be seen at Asian Health Services, a community clinic in downtown Oakland. “That’s just not right.”
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