Carroll Fife sat down with her pencil and came up with a great new idea: Put every resident of Oakland, every man, woman and child—some 434,000 in all—on the hook for $11,520, for a total of $5 billion. Then give that money to Black people in the form of reparations.

I sincerely hope Pamela Price is not under the illusion that she has a mandate to usher in a “new era of change and reform in Alameda County” when it comes to policing and crime.

The whole world, it seems, is abuzz with rumors that Iran has abolished their so-called morality police.

CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid—the list of drug stores in Oakland and other parts of the East Bay that are closing down is growing, leaving many customers scrambling to get their prescriptions filled.

Count me as one who supports the use of teleoperated, or autonomous, robots by cops in certain violent cases.