Jakob Rodgers
Covering breaking news for @mercnews & @eastbaytimes. Formerly of @csgazette & @GreeleyTribune. DMs open. Message for Signal.
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1 week ago |
mercurynews.com | Jakob Rodgers
OAKLAND — Faced with a crushing financial deficit totaling $265 million over the next two years, Oakland’s interim mayor proposed a budget Monday that includes dozens of layoffs and the freezing of hundreds of other positions. But the two-year budget spares the city’s police and fire departments from further staffing cuts.
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1 week ago |
mercurynews.com | Jakob Rodgers
Oakland’s City Council could agree to pay nearly $208,000 and institute a broad range of reforms amid allegations that the City Clerk’s office flubbed a key deadline for candidates to enter the 2022 mayoral election, then wrongfully allowed Thao and other candidates to submit their applications late. The lawsuit — brought by the Alameda County Taxpayers’ Association — also accused the city of being late in responding to records requests about those issues.
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2 weeks ago |
mercurynews.com | Jakob Rodgers
Oakland’s incoming mayor announced a transition team Friday that includes a former Oakland city attorney, a former Alameda County supervisor, a Lawrence Berkeley National Lab scientist and at least three current or former hospital executives. Mayor-elect Barbara Lee selected her team nearly two weeks after the retired U.S. congresswoman was elected to replace former Mayor Sheng Thao, who voters removed from office last November.
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2 weeks ago |
mercurynews.com | Jakob Rodgers
OAKLAND — Oakland’s interim mayor is delaying the release of a deeply consequential, two-year budget proposal that had been expected to detail how the city would balance a looming $265 million budget shortfall. The move by Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins comes just two weeks after Oakland’s top finance official quietly resigned from the job she’s held for the last four years, according to a resignation letter obtained by this news organization.
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2 weeks ago |
mercurynews.com | Nate Gartrell |Jakob Rodgers
OAKLAND — A former Antioch officer became a convicted felon Wednesday, when a jury found him guilty of distributing steroids and obstructing a federal investigation, prosecutors said. Devon Wenger was convicted of distributing steroids, which carries up to 10 years in federal prison, and altering records to obstruct federal investigators, which carries a maximum 20-year prison term, the U.S. Attorney’s office announced.
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