Predictably, Pamela Price is continuing her war on cops by filing charges against three Alameda cops whom her predecessor, Nancy O’Malley, declined to prosecute.

Almost lost in the clamor of recalls and crime is the problem of encampments in Oakland, including single-person sites that can be the dirtiest of all.

Now that the Price recall has been approved by the Registrar of Voters, the people will be able to vote on it. I hope…there’s speculation out there that she’ll come up with some legal technicality to challenge it. But assuming it goes on the ballot in the next few months, what if she wins?

You’ve probably heard about Oakland paying voters money they can then donate to candidates of their choice. The program, colloquially called Democracy Dollars (cute!) but formally known as the “Oakland Fair Elections Act,” was approved overwhelmingly by voters in 2022 as Measure W.

I wrote last week about a ranting, cursing shoplifter at Whole Foods whom I saw leaving with her arms full of pilfered food, and how a store manager told me the same woman stole from the store every single day, but they were unable to do anything about it, for a bunch of reasons.