“Is the county going to step up or is the county going to get in my way if I have to evict some of these tenants?” asked Tom Silva, a San Leandro landlord quoted in Steve Tavares’s East Bay Insiders Newsletter.

The anti-cop Left is all freaked out about an Oakland Police Department proposal to fully encrypt all of its radio and dispatch feeds so that the public can’t listen them.

I had lunch on Friday in San Leandro at a little Mexican place I like. A pollo taco with chips and dipping sauce. It was a warm day and I decided to eat at one of the little tables outside.

Carroll Fife has said her solution to Oakland’s budget crisis is to create partnerships with State and county governments. This means that Alameda County and Sacramento would have to bail Oakland out of its current annual budget deficit of $130 million.

There’s a large graffiti scrawled on a plywood fence down by Jack London Square that says: “We want an end to the robbery by the capitalists of our black community.”