Blogging is made a lot easier when other people write articles that you wanted to write. With that in mind, I present “Sprawl clashes with warming in California” from Sunday’s (5/27) SF Chronicle: As we discuss development issues in the East Bay (and in Alameda in particular), we need to keep a regional perspective...
Waterfront housing that increases the community feeling of safety and public space? While perusing the Planning Board packet for last Tuesday night’s meeting–5/29 (yes, somebody does need to get a life, or at least a hobby), I read the Alameda Landing Development Plan and Design Review which includes such items as the landscape and...
On Friday (5/25) morning Patricia Howard Bail posted a letter to the Alameda Daily News. (Actually it was posted on Thursday morning and then removed and re-posted on Friday in a move that I can only imagine was made to maximize readership. But for ease we’ll stick with the Friday date). On Monday evening...
File under good news! Mike McMahon writes to say: AUSD and AEA Negotiating Teams Reach Tentative Agreement on New Three-Year Contract As of about 8:00p.m. on Friday, May 25, AUSD and AEA reached a tentative agreement on a three-year contract effective July 1, 2006 and continuing through June 30, 2009. At this point, AEA...
Last week and over the weekend, someone, adopting the moniker “Anonymous Anti-A Person” wrote to Lauren Do’s Site pretending to be a supporter of reasonable discussion of Measure A, all the while attempting to cast aspersions on his/her fellow supporters. I can’t imagine who would think someone would fall for these pathetic arguments (actually...
With all the discussion of development and possible discussions at the planning board about Measure A, a development project is slowly working it’s way through the system that cries out for concern. It has been on the front page of the paper, gone through environmental public comment at the Planning Board and Transportation Commission...
One of the speakers at the Council Meeting last Tuesday, I’m sure you remember the appeal of the meeting to discuss a meeting about Measure A, mentioned for the umpteenth time that he had no idea why people were running around saying that Measure A was all about saving Victorians. While I’ve never heard...
As the discussion of development in Alameda rages on, the Philadelphia Inquirer has a great article on Global Warming and future development. As an island city that will bear a significant brunt of Global Climate Change if even the moderate predictions come true, Alameda should be leading the way, not burying its head in...
During the hearing to decide whether the Planning Board can discuss key issues of civic importance, a brochure was distributed with the dramatic flair of Oprah’s car giveaway (except instead of a car it was an “information” sheet produced by one of the great founts on mis-information in Alameda). After the dramatic “unveiling” of...
On Tuesday, the city council received an update on Sales Tax collection from the fourth quarter of last year (you know, the quarter during which retail businesses make all their money for the year.) Given the local media’s obsession with controversy (and the spelling mistakes of their competitors) I can understand how this meaningless...
