Shomik Mukherjee
Reporter at The Mercury News
Reporter at Oakland Tribune
reporting on Oakland @eastbaytimes & @mercnews | twitter algo is treacherous; can email news to you [email protected]
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3 weeks ago |
mercurynews.com | Shomik Mukherjee
OAKLAND — As the story goes, former Mayor Jerry Brown had a plaque on his desk during his first months in Oakland’s top political office that directed anyone stopping by to instead speak to the city manager, who handled the local government’s daily operations. The anecdote dovetails with one of Brown’s most important moves in his eight-year mayoral tenure: persuading voters in 1998 to change Oakland’s laws so that the mayor could skip City Council meetings and run the government separately.
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3 weeks ago |
mercurynews.com | Shomik Mukherjee
City officials are deciding on a new two-year budget that would pad the new mayor’s office budget with an extra $1.7 million, or a 42% increase. The spending boost would contrast sharply with the steep cuts — including possible layoffs — facing other city departments.
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3 weeks ago |
mercurynews.com | Shomik Mukherjee |Chase Hunter |Nate Gartrell |Jakob Rodgers
SAN LEANDRO — Federal prosecutors have notified a San Leandro councilman that he is a “target” of a corruption investigation for potential crimes that include bribery and lying to authorities, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office letter obtained by the Bay Area News Group Tuesday.
Bay Area cities called out in ‘sanctuary’ list find themselves in crosshairs of immigration standoff
3 weeks ago |
mercurynews.com | Shomik Mukherjee |Kyle Martin |Jason Green |Ryan Macasero
Days later, however, the Department of Homeland Security appears to have deleted the webpage that listed — with numerous reported misspellings — hundreds of “sanctuary jurisdictions.”The sense of whiplash felt around the region is nothing new when it comes to Trump, whose first administration was blocked in 2017 from cutting funding for local and state governments that do not cooperate with immigration enforcement agencies.
Bay Area cities called out in 'sanctuary' list find themselves in crosshairs of immigration standoff
3 weeks ago |
eastbaytimes.com | Shomik Mukherjee |Kyle Martin |Jason Green |Ryan Macasero
The Bay Area's largest cities are accustomed to finding themselves in President Donald Trump's crosshairs, but even some smaller suburbs here wound up last week on a list of places accused of shielding immigrants from federal authorities.
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