How is Mayor Barbara Lee handling homelessness, crime, housing, and other issues? Can private funds make up for the city’s budget shortfall? How are local leaders preparing to respond if there’s another federal immigration surge in the East Bay? And who’s going to run for mayor this year?
City Hall reporter Eli Wolfe and news editor Darwin BondGraham on recent City Hall and politics reporting.
Plus: Oakland Pride has a new home and new date, filtering the air in West Oakland with walls of vegetation, a look at one year of lobbying shaping city policies, an end to the Kaiser nurses strike, and a potential Oakland teachers strike? (Probably not. A deal was reached after we recorded this episode.)
Stories we cover in this episode:
City Hall
Community
Health and Environment
Education
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Before joining The Oaklandside as News Editor, Darwin BondGraham was a freelance investigative reporter covering police and prosecutorial misconduct. He has reported on gun violence for The Guardian and was a staff writer for the East Bay Express. He holds a doctorate in sociology from UC Santa Barbara and was the co-recipient of the George Polk Award for local reporting in 2017. He is also the co-author of The Riders Come Out at Night, a book examining the Oakland Police Department’s history of corruption and reform.