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'Fed up': Embattled blue city's future hangs in the balance ahead of mayoral special election
Former Oakland City Council member Loren Taylor shared his plans to bring change to the "struggling" Bay Area city in an ...
Latest Line: A good week for Loren Taylor, a bad week for Omar Torres
Campaign spending records show remarkable support for former City Council member and business consultant against better known ...
Abundance or Califailure: Authors with Bay Area ties from left and right lay blame for Golden State’s woes
Abundance” by self-described liberal journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, and “Califailure: Reversing the Ruin of ...
A Congressional Outsider Becomes the Establishment Pick for Oakland Mayor
Former Representative Barbara Lee entered the campaign for mayor of the Bay Area city as the favorite. But her main ...
Abbey Mastracco: Making the best out of a bad situation in Sacramento
The colors seem more vivid, the lights are brighter, the energy levels are higher. The big league experience extends to ...
Bernie Sanders is drawing big crowds. But progressives have a problem in California.
LOS ANGELES — Bernie Sanders drew a rapturous crowd in his return to California on Saturday. But for the progressive movement he inspired, the biggest state that Sanders won in 2020 today looks more ...