Momentum builds to ask voters in November to consider repealing the Nixon-era housing limits.

So far, Alameda’s newest city manager, Eric Levitt, seems to be bringing stability to city government after his controversial predecessor.

The former Alamedan is a rising star and a non-binary role model.

The former president of the firefighters union, the person most responsible for Alameda’s progressive tilt, surrenders his post to Patrick Corder.

The Alameda City Council wants to turn a piece of land near Crab Cove into a center that helps homeless people. But neighbors have forced a special election to block it.

Helmed by longtime Island resident Doug Linney, the group Flip the 14 helped Democrats win seven GOP-controlled House seats in California and a majority in Congress.

In November, a progressive supermajority led by new councilmember John Knox White and new mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft sailed into in City Hall.

In Alameda, recall efforts have often been used to attack the city’s progressive elected officials, particularly women and people of color.

A group called Alamedans in Charge is attempting to block just cause protections and defeat progressive pro-tenant candidates.