City Hall reporters Eli Wolfe and Natalie Orenstein tracked every Oakland City Council vote in 2025 — all 138 of them at full council meetings, plus 519 more at committee meetings — to find out how your representative is doing the most basic part of the job.

Plus: a deeply sad update on the mass shooting at a downtown Oakland nightclub, one in five funded city jobs sitting vacant, a push to raise Oakland's minimum wage to $30 an hour, how license plate thieves are gaming the Flock camera system, ICE agents at airports across the country but not yet at OAK, and Oakland high schoolers are about to start publishing stories with our newsroom.

Stories we cover in this episode:

City Council voting records

• Which Oakland councilmember had the best voting record in 2025?

Public safety

• Weekend mass shooting in Oakland: What we know
• Oakland nightclub shooting: Family of teacher says her story 'cannot be ignored'
• Did a modified gun make the Oakland nightclub mass shooting deadlier?

City Hall

• Oakland is struggling to hire city workers

Economy and labor

• A $30 minimum wage for Oakland?

Transportation and public safety

• Sheriff's deputies thought they'd stopped a criminal. But license plate cameras led them to the wrong person
• Are ICE agents coming to Oakland's airport?

Education

• Oakland classrooms reached scorching temperatures last week. Parents are demanding action
• We're working with Oakland students to deepen our schools coverage

Find all these stories and more at oaklandside.org. Have feedback or story ideas? Email us at [email protected].