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Ray Chavez — staff archives
With Alameda’s mayoral and City Council elections on Nov. 8 just weeks away, all eight candidates weighed in on key issues of public safety and police staffing in their bids to win or keep jobs at Alameda City Hall, above. The city’s former mayor, Trish Spencer — the main challenger to incumbent Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft — emerged as the most assertive critic of an opponent in the two races while council candidates Paul Beusterien, Jim Oddie and Hannah Groce cast the most sharply opposing views on the same matters.For city officials, this raises revenues without hurting residents. It probably will have little impact on hotel visits.
Originally published at East Bay Times editorial