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SF voters may be asked to renew half-cent transportation sales tax

San Francisco voters could again be asked to renew the half-cent transportation sales tax to fund transit and street safety…

2 years ago

San Jose considers pushing mayor’s race to presidential election ballot

For the first time since residents got the power to vote for San Jose mayor in 1966, the city's top…

3 years ago

Contra Costa County starts sales tax measure campaign to bolster depleted budget

Contra Costa County officials on Friday will formally kick off a campaign supporting a half-cent countywide sales tax ballot measure,…

4 years ago

Sonoma County sheriff explores legal challenge to watchdog ballot measure

Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick appears poised to challenge a ballot measure that would give more powers to the watchdog…

4 years ago

Haney’s new sanitation department measure heads to November ballot

San Francisco voters will get the chance in November to decide if a new sanitation department will be established, or…

4 years ago

SF measure to drop municipal voting age makes it to November ballot

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Tuesday voted unanimously to place a measure on the November ballot that allows city…

4 years ago

Cash-strapped fire district changes policies, reduces service

The East Contra Costa Fire Protection District announced Wednesday night that a lack of funding is prompting several policy changes,…

4 years ago

City Council proposal aims to soften pandemic blow to small business with revised tax code

Three members of the Oakland City Council and a coalition of small business owners and labor union officials on Thursday…

4 years ago

Defying mayor, POA, council considers police commission independence ballot measure

The Oakland City Council began the process this week of placing a ballot measure on the November ballot that, if…

4 years ago

Supes propose tax on commercial landlords with vacant properties

San Francisco voters on March 3 will decide whether to tax landlords who keep commercial properties vacant as a way…

4 years ago

Ballot measure effort underway to empower Oakland Police Commission

"The commission doesn't have the independence that it should, it doesn't have the funding that it should."

5 years ago

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