Former Oakland City Council Member Loren Taylor took an early lead in his bid to become the city’s next mayor, but the race ...

Former East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee will be the next mayor of Oakland after former City Councilmember Loren Taylor conceded the ...

“Barbara can pick up the phone and call to get through to everyone.” Simon noted the hundreds of millions of dollars in funding Lee brought to the district from Washington, and how she was ...

Under Mayor Libby Schaaf, who took office in 2015, Oakland added more than 500 city employees, a 13% increase it could not afford. When Schaaf left, the city was facing a massive structural budget ...