This is a guide to assist Oakland residents with the upcoming election. Oakland Local is not endorsing any candidate or proposition, simply providing information to the community and linking to other meta-guides for your convenience--so if you need more data, here's a handy list to work from.

Don't want to find yourself bobbing for apples with a bunch of straight people this Halloween? 

The notion of Oakland as a center of technology innovation is starting to look real.

It's a sunny Saturday morning and Jason Gumato is in North Oakland knocking on the doors of fellow union members, urging them to vote no on Proposition 32 - a law that would, among other things, prohibit labor unions in California from using money deducted from their member’s paychecks to lobby state officeholders.