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Ron Dellums

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2010

    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]

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2010

    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 >>

  • News

    December 16, 2009

    List: Do not open until Christmas

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2009

    '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 >>

  • News

    January 28, 2009

    Chron's anniversary surprises

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2008

    Jerry Brown Not the Man for "Independent" Police Probe

    "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 >>

  • News

    August 6, 2008

    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.

  • News

    January 30, 2008

    Cop Shortage Makes Newsom's Police Promise Look Unlikely

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

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2008

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

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

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2008

    Newsom Looks to the Future and Beyond

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

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2007

    CHP Aids Oakland Crime Surge

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

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2007

    Oakland Black Muslim and Chauncey Context : Links

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

  • News

    June 13, 2007

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of 6-13-2007

  • News

    April 19, 2006

    No $$ for Blood

    Week of 6-13-2007

  • News

    April 29, 1998

    Dream Candidate

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

  • News

    March 18, 1998

    The New Nuclear Age

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

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