{"id":335141,"date":"2026-05-27T23:46:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/335141\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T23:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:46:23","slug":"after-a-year-as-oaklands-mayor-barbara-lee-looks-to-finish-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/335141\/","title":{"rendered":"After a Year as Oakland&#8217;s Mayor, Barbara Lee Looks to &#8216;Finish the Job&#8217;\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airdate: Thursday, May 28 at 9 AM<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Lee was elected mayor of Oakland last year with the city reeling from a political scandal, mired deep in fiscal crisis and scarred by years of violent crime. She promised a calm, no-nonsense approach to dealing with Oakland\u2019s major problems. \u00a0\u00a0A year later, the city\u2019s financial outlook has stabilized some, its streets are safer than they have been in decades and Mayor Lee is talking about running for a full four-year term. We\u2019ll talk with Lee about the successes of the past year and about the city\u2019s many challenges including homelessness, the budget, illegal dumping and an empty downtown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airdate: Thursday, May 28 at 9 AM Barbara Lee was elected mayor of Oakland last year with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-335141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}