The City’s budget is in crisis, but the Mayor is asking for more money for policing. Is it justified? Watching Mayor Lurie put together his first big boy budget is like watching a car crash in slow motion. The budget always feels like a car crash at the end, but

Fremont, California is set to pass a controversial measure that would make homelessness and assisting the homeless illegal, with fines of up to $1,000 and up to six months in jail.

Voters decided less than four years ago to establish an independent Oakland Police Commission as an extra level of oversight on the police department, which would have had some teeth if allowed to do the job they were sent in to do. With the overwhelming passage of Measure LL, the