Ron Dellums

Awaiting the Vote with a Drink at Hillstone

Mayor Jean Quan Apologizes to Occupy Oakland, Gets Booed Off Stage

Let's just say it will take magic to undo Quan's problems​Oakland Mayor Jean Quan is quickly becoming more unpopular than Ron Dellums, who made history when he decided not to seek a second term (he was that unpopular!). Quan, who allowed police to raid the Occupy Oakland camp on Tuesday morning, t ... More >>

Today's Most Popular Stories

​A compilation of the most-viewed stories on Bay Area news sites and blogs at the moment. You're welcome.SF Gate: Columnist Chip Johnson voted for Don Perata, who, he can't believe, lost to Jean Quan in the race to become mayor of Oakland. Quan prevailed after Johnson wrote a week ago that she'd b ... More >>

Oakland's Mistah Fab: 'My City Needs Me'

He's still mad at Al Davis​It's been a dark year for Oakland hip-hop -- at least judging from the videos. The latest in a string of WTF-is-going-on-in-this-town rhymes comes from none other than the former prince of hyphy, Mistah Fab. Over dramatic strings and a stuttering beat, his "My City Needs ... More >>

Baylinks: Proposition 8, Pigeons, & Alcohol Fee

​Mayor Gavin Newsom responds to Prop. 8 ruling [cbs5]Meanwhile, city pigeons rejoice at Prop. 8 announcement [Uptown Almanac]If only these signs had been allowed in the courtroom [Mission Mission]

Ron Dellums Breaks Promise to Take Pay Cut

Even Democratic Socialists like money. ​How's this for great leadership: In June, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums publicly promised to take a 10 percent pay cut, then privately kept collecting his full pay. His excuse: It was just a really inconvenient time to make less money. According to news reports, ... More >>

It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz -- With 'Hot Tub Time Machine' Prize!

What do you say to someone after you've shot them for no reason? See question No. 3.​Boy howdy, do we have a prize for you this week! Get us a perfect score first and you win your choice of a Hot Tub Time Machine backpack, or the über-1980s soundtrack to the forthcoming film. You want it? Get eve ... More >>

Chron Not Making Money, But Doing MORE With LESS (Or So It Says)

Sorry Chron. This is still our favorite Chronic. ​At a Society of Professional Journalists forum at the San Francisco Public Library last night, Chronicle president Mark Adkins said his paper is "not making money today" but that "we think we are going to be fine overall for the year.""Thank goodne ... More >>

List: Do not open until Christmas

Amid His Other Troubles, Newsom's Fantasy Football Team Tanks

​You may remember a cute little story from the summer in which local mayors Gavin Newsom and Ron Dellums participated in a Yahoo fantasy football league -- with the winning mayor to receive a healthy little donation to the charity of his or her choosing. Newsom -- and his right-hand men -- won our ... More >>

Hip Hop Responds to Van Jones Drama

EKAphotographyAli Chagi-Starr, Van Jones (c), and Ron Dellums at Silence the Violence Day, 2007​ By now, everyone and they mama has heard that controversial green jobs adviser Van Jones has been forced to resign from his white house job. There are many differing takes on the subject, from ultr ... More >>

Oh, It's On: Minnesota Mayor Makes Football-Related Slam on S.F., Oakland Colleagues -- Right On This Site

Minnesota Mayor R.T. Rybak wants you to know that he feels he's juked Gavin Newsom and Ron Dellums on the fantasy football field​Update, 8:59 a.m.: Mayor R.T. Rybak's spokesman, Jeremy Hanson, confirms this is authentic "trash-talking of his political colleagues" from Minnesota's mayor. There's sh ... More >>

Mayoral Fantasy Football Challenge May Yet Be Won By Anonymous Yahoo Cubicle Jockey

Justin PageRon 'Mad Stork' Dellums​In less than three hours time, a stingy baker's dozen of American mayors -- that'd be 11 -- begin an odyssey toward what could be the thrill of victory or the agony of defeat ... to an unnamed office worker. Yes, it's the Yahoo Fantasy Football Mayoral showdown w ... More >>

Newsom! Dellums! Fantasy Football Draft! Not So Bad!

Justin PageGavin Newsom's fantasy team went a little Niners heavy...​The draft for the Yahoo Mayoral Face-off is in the books and local boys Gavin Newsom and Ron Dellums have crafted rosters that resemble the mayors themselves -- flawed, but interesting. The Fantasy Football challenge pits 11 mayo ... More >>

Newsom! Dellums! Who Will Win Mayoral Fantasy Football Spectacular? Who Will Explain What Fantasy Football Is to Ron Dellums?

Justin Page'I dedicate this touchdown to L'Oreal...'​Mayors Gavin Newsom of San Francisco and Ron Dellums of Oakland come from different generations, but both have been assailed by their critics with the same adjective: detached. So no matter who drafts the better team tomorrow in a Yahoo! fantasy ... More >>

'Economic Revitalization' Plan Pushed by Raiders, Oakland Officials Is Delusional -- And Should Not Be Reported on Uncritically

Even if your room looks like this, you've got to admit the Raiders' stadium plan is bogusIf Oakland politicos and Raiders officials earnestly reported that the sun rotates around the earth or that the world is shaped like a yam, we would expect something other than a cursory retelling in the next da ... More >>

Chron's anniversary surprises

Why Can't Radicals Protest JUST ONE THING At a Time?

"What're you protesting against, Johnny?" "Whaddya got?" Why protesters who can't stick to the subject deserve nothing but contempt To those of us who live in the Bay Area, it's old hat by now - but to my family and friends in the Midwest, it's still baffling. "Wait, so, these people went t ... More >>

Jerry Brown Not the Man for "Independent" Police Probe

The Chief Is In (for Now)

With homicide cases going unsolved and morale in the police department sinking, Heather Fong's days as chief may be numbered.

Cop Shortage Makes Newsom's Police Promise Look Unlikely

The Chronicle Mashup: An Amalgamation of All the Stories Our Local Paper Has Covered to Death

Newsom Looks to the Future and Beyond

CHP Aids Oakland Crime Surge

Oakland Black Muslim and Chauncey Context : Links

Letters to the Editor

Week of 6-13-2007

No $$ for Blood

Dream Candidate

Front-running mayoral candidate Jerry Brown offers Oakland vague, pretty solutions to its real, ugly problems

The New Nuclear Age

Livermore protest is mere theater, but lab's research raises real questions