Oakland

时事通讯

GOP’s new leader, Trump’s $1 abortion bill, striking teachers and housing costs

CA GOP gets a new chair. Trump wants Californians to pay an extra insurance bill, for $1, because, abortion. Striking teachers, housing and charter schools

经过 Dan Morain • 2 月 25, 2019

政治

Charter schools are a flashpoint in California’s teacher strikes—here’s where and how they’ve grown

As teachers strike this week in Oakland, the conflict over charter schools in California is being portrayed in sweeping terms. But a CALmatters analysis of statewide charter enrollment data paints a far more nuanced picture, in which charter growth is more a collection of densely concentrated hotspots than a statewide phenomenon.

经过 Ricardo Cano • 2 月 22, 2019

时事通讯

Soda taxes, unions and California’s ongoing water crisis

Another teachers strike. Public employee unions take a hit in numbers. Becerra polices the police. And the soda tax is back.

经过 Dan Morain • 2 月 21, 2019

经济

California’s Supreme Court has thrown cities—and citizens—into chaos over local taxes

San Francisco, Oakland, and Fresno are getting sued—all because the California Supreme Court has yet to answer a simple question: How many votes does it take for a new tax to become law?

经过 本·克里斯托弗 • 2 月 14, 2019

评论

Brown Redux, Part 3: A second act in California politics

After a long absence from politics and stint on talk radio, Jerry Brown rekindled his career by running for mayor of Oakland.

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 12 月 23, 2018

评论

My turn: What Oakland can teach California about gun violence prevention

Oakland, long synonymous with gun violence, is suddenly emerging as a national leader in the field of violence prevention. Since 2012, shootings are down more than 50 percent and are on pace to reach their lowest levels in decades. California leaders have much to learn from how people in Oakland came together to rewrite the violence reduction playbook.

经过 嘉宾评论 • 12 月 11, 2018

无家可归

Big city mayors to California lawmakers on homelessness: Go bold

The mayors of Los Angeles, San Diego, Oakland and Sacramento called for bold state action to remedy homelessness, including reviving an affordable housing funding source and making it easier to build shelters.

经过 马特·莱文 • 11 月 16, 2018

无家可归

Could this tax on vacant properties help end homelessness?

Oakland voters could approve the state’s first tax on privately owned vacant properties in November.

经过 Farida Jhabvala Romero, KQED • 9 月 6, 2018

住房

Your frequently asked California housing crisis questions—answered

A few months back, we created an explainer to answer two questions: How bad is California's housing crisis, and how did it get so bad? We tried to cover as much ground as possible—from affordable housing funding to Proposition 13 to why no one else in your apartment building cleans out the lint filter after using the communal dryer. But we knew we couldn’t get to everything. So we asked readers “What did we miss? What questions do you still have about California’s certifiably insane housing market that we didn’t answer?”

经过 马特·莱文 • 11 月 16, 2017

正义

For local governments, cashing in on cannabis isn’t going to be easy

California cities and counties are discovering a hard truth as they angle for a cut of the state’s newly legalized marijuana proceeds: Tax collecting in cannabis country comes with its share of obstacles. And there’s no “how to” guide.

经过 本·克里斯托弗 • 5 月 17, 2017