San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Woody Allen said "80 percent of success is showing up." So far, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums has failed to meet even that benchmark. There is nothing inappropriate about the mayor's absence from Oakland City Hall since mid-August. The mayor's mother died...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
A memorial service for Willa Mae Dellums, mother of Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, will be held at 11 a.m. today at Fouche's Hudson Funeral Home, 3665 Telegraph Ave. in Oakland. Mrs. Dellums, a longtime Oakland resident, died Aug. 17 at age 89. In lieu of flowers...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
The latest spate of takeover holdups of Oakland restaurants and other businesses, including a pair of violent robberies over the weekend, is "clearly unacceptable," Mayor Ron Dellums said Monday as he and police pleaded for tips that would lead investigators...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
The latest spate of takeover holdups of Oakland restaurants and other businesses, including a pair of violent robberies over the weekend, is "clearly unacceptable," Mayor Ron Dellums said Monday as he and police pleaded for tips that would lead investigators...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Had they just gotten into the subprime mortgage business two years ago, they could have robbed citizens of gigantic sums of money without making any capital investment in masks. See, bad career choices are the bane of so many of our nation's young people. The mayor, Ron Dellums, is fighting this crime wave with news conferences. Really hard-hitting news conferences, too, in which robbery is...
NBC11.com - Local News (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums and Police Chief Wayne Tucker ask for the public's help to catch the culprits responsible for a series of recent takeover-style robberies at restaurants and other businesses.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Oakland's finances appear to be far worse than suspected. Former City Manager Robert Bobb, who has parachuted into town at the request of Mayor Ron Dellums to try to sort out the fiscal mess, has discovered that Oakland's reserves have been drawn down by as...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
... we have no way of knowing that right now," Keener said.At a news conference Monday, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums joined Police Chief Wayne Tucker is pleading for tips from the public in solving that city's spate of robberies of restaurants and other businesses. "I believe that people in Oakland know who these folks are," Dellums said. "They know who the people are who are committing...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
... we have no way of knowing that right now," Keener said.At a news conference Monday, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums joined Police Chief Wayne Tucker in pleading for tips from the public in solving that city's spate of robberies of restaurants and other businesses. "I believe that people in Oakland know who these folks are," Dellums said. "They know who the people are who are committing...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
... in the San Antonio neighborhood, along Piedmont Avenue, in the Oakland hills and downtown.Mayor Ron Dellums and Police Chief Wayne Tucker have developed a plan to combat the robberies, including increasing patrols and stationing undercover officers outside businesses.The Guardian Angels, the safety patrols with red berets, have sought to provide an extra deterrent by fanning out in some...
dead time pacifies (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums has invited punk-ass vigilantes, The Guardian Angels to The Town! Dellums is saying “Bringing in the Guardian Angels is part of the city’s comprehensive plan to provide additional security for Oakland’s business corridors.” Plan?! Security!? Do those folks in the red berets with obvious authority complexes make you feel safer? They are not from here. They travel...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
"We're going to comply with the FBI's request (for documents) and cooperate fully with the investigation," said David Chai, chief of staff for Mayor Ron Dellums, who fired Edgerly in July. "These are serious allegations, and there's an obligation to get to the truth."
