By Magaly Muñoz Former Alameda County prosecutor Terry Wiley has been named the inaugural San Francisco inspector general who will oversee the city’s sheriff’s department and its two jails. Wiley was sworn in at city hall on Wednesday morning in a ceremony held by the Sheriff's Department Oversight Board. Xochitl Carrion, Vice President of the
By Magaly Muñoz Earlier this month, San Francisco Mayor London Breed approved $75 million in mid-year budget cuts, which included $4 million that was intended for the first of its kind Office of Reparations. The funds had originally been approved in a June Board of Supervisors meeting to establish the reparations office in city hall
By Magaly Muñoz, Post Staff Teachers throughout the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) participated in a “teach-in” on Wednesday, where they informed students about the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, despite efforts by the district to shut it down. In a YouTube video that was circulated within the district titled “Why YOU Should
By Magaly Muñoz, Post Staff Developers and business owners in the Bay Area came together for the “Oakland Structures” event hosted by San Francisco Business Times to discuss economic development projects in Oakland last Thursday. Mayor Sheng Thao opened up the event as the keynote speaker, sharing her experiences from her first year in office
By Magaly Muñoz | Post Staff The Alameda County Board of Supervisors rejected, by a 3-2 vote, the proposal to place a measure on the March 2024 ballot to change the county’s recall process to match that of the state’s. In October, the board introduced the amendment after Alameda County Counsel Donna Zieglar brought forward