Santa Rosa Planning Commissioner Michael Allen has defeated Vallejo City Councilman Michael Wilson for the Democratic nomination to the 7th District seat in the state Assembly. Allen defeated Wilson in Sonoma and Napa counties but lost in Solano County, according to the final June 8 primary election results. Former Santa Rosa City Councilman Lee Pierce placed third. Allen will face Republican Doris Gentry in the Nov. 2 election. Sonoma County's Registrar of Voters released ......
By Bay City News Service 6/28/10 8:59 p.m. PDT
Chinese-Americans in the East Bay are celebrating the return of Wilma Chan, reports the World Journal. Securing 55 percent of the votes in Tuesday's election, the Chinese-American candidate will soon return to her seat on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors after 10 years, reports the World Journal. Chan was the supervisor of District 3 in Alameda County from 1994 to 2000, before joining the State Assembly. Carl Chan, president of the Oakland Chinatown Chamber Foundation, ......
By Vivian Po, New America Media 6/09/10 5:04 p.m. PDT
A Santa Clara voter, who gave his name as Jeff P., said this morning there's no way he wants the San Francisco 49ers coming to his city. The reason: Jeff lives about a mile from the Great America parking lot where the new football stadium would be built if Measure J passes today. "I feel that property values would be driven down by building the stadium here," he said. "I ......
On June 8, California voters go to the polls for the primaries, and San Francisco embarks on the Secure Communities program, in which fingerprints collected at local jails are shared with immigration authorities. Both events getting flak from Spanish-language media. The GOP gubernatorial candidate’s race is getting “nasty,” according to an editorial last week in La Opinión, as Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner essentially compete to see who is more ......
By Elena Shore, New America Media 6/03/10 3:00 p.m. PDT
Today, more than two months after a far-reaching scandal rocked San Francisco's police and prosecutors, District Attorney Kamala Harris announced she has created a "trial integrity unit."In March, successive revelations shook law enforcement. First, reports alleged that Deborah Madden, a former technician in the crime lab, had been stealing and using cocaine brought in by police as evidence. Next came news that some police who testified at trials had criminal ......
