"City Hall reporters Eli Wolfe and Natalie Orenstein tracked every Oakland City Council vote in 2025 - all 138 of them at full council meetings, plus 519 more at committee meetings - to find out how your representative is doing the most basic part of the job."
"A deeply sad update on the mass shooting at a downtown Oakland nightclub, one in five funded city jobs sitting vacant, a push to raise Oakland's minimum wage to $30 an hour, how license plate thieves are gaming the Flock camera system."
"ICE agents at airports across the country but not yet at OAK, and Oakland high schoolers are about to start publishing stories with our newsroom."
In 2025, every vote by the Oakland City Council was tracked, totaling 138 at full meetings and 519 at committee meetings. This effort aimed to evaluate how effectively representatives fulfill their roles. Additional updates included a tragic mass shooting at a nightclub, a significant number of vacant city jobs, a proposal to increase the minimum wage to $30, issues with license plate theft, and the presence of ICE agents at airports. Oakland high school students are also set to begin publishing stories with the newsroom.
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