I told you a week or so ago I’d let you when whether Measure O, in Sacramento, passed or not. Well, the official result is still ambiguous, but “O” at last count had nearly 55% of the vote, and the Sacramento Bee reported that “O” is “very likely [to be] approved.”

Last Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, the Oakland City Council held its first meeting of the new year. Here are the minutes, as provided by Secretary to the Council Steve Heimoff.

I had a nightmare last night, a real terror that left me sweaty and fearful. It was a vision of Oakland, placed somewhere in the not-very-distant future.

When Seneca Scott announced for Mayor, few Oaklanders had ever heard of him. True, he’d run for City Council two years previously, but lost, and in the intervening period Seneca had very little public visibility.

As I write this morning, our Mayoral race is still undecided. The “rank choice” system is complicating things. But at this hour (about 7 a.m.), Loren Taylor has a nice lead over second-place Sheng Thao, while our preferred candidate, Seneca Scott, is trailing far behind, in seventh place.