OAKLAND, California — With her hand on the Bible in a packed City Hall, Barbara Lee, Oakland’s favorite daughter ... and watching previous leader, Sheng Thao, get recalled from the office ...

Lee’s ascension became possible last November when Thao, the daughter of Laotian immigrants ... but Oakland’s downturn coincided roughly with Sheng Thao’s entry onto the political scene.

Loren Taylor: A third-generation Oaklander and former city councilmember, Taylor is running for Oakland mayor after narrowly losing in his previous run against Sheng Thao. He is a founder ... She is a ...

Sheng Thao, Andre Jones and father-and-son Andy and ... as the youngest mayor in the city’s history. A Stockton-born daughter of Hmong refugees, she began her career as an aide to Councilmember ...

“Sheng is going to call you re ... longtime Council Member Rebecca Kaplan. The daughter of refugees and a survivor of ...

Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is reportedly now facing criminal charges, months after a shocking raid by the FBI raid. Thao, 39, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday, a source ...

Seven months after the FBI raided former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao's home, reports indicate that a federal grand jury had indicted her and her longtime partner, Andre Jones. The San Francisco ...

The New York-born daughter of Filipino immigrants is the first Fil-Am woman to own the title in Oakland, a port city of some 440,000 residents. Bas assumed mayorship Dec. 17 upon departure of Mayor ...

voters successfully voted to recall Sheng Thao as mayor during November’s ... they physically and emotionally abused their teenage daughter in December of the prior year to January of this ...

Tuesday is Mayor Sheng Thao’s final day in office after being ... “My son is a freshman in college, I have a daughter is still in elementary school and so, my focus is on my kids and not ...

Then, Juarez “proceeds to create and send the mailers to help Sheng Thao get elected to the Oakland ... his business checking account into his daughter’s high school checking account in ...