In January/February, the city’s Development Services department conducted a Phone Survey of Alamedans in advance of the Economic Development Strategic Plan Update that the Economic Development Commission (EDC) is working on. There’s lots of interesting information included in it, including the fact that 83% of Alamedans don’t feel that protecting historical structures at Alameda Point…
I don’t want to brag about “scooping” people, because I understand that presenting information without reporting and context is really not that impressive, and so I won’t. (it’s non-scoop, scoop). Target is no longer on the table for Alameda Towne Centre they announced this morning. View the Target letter here. There had been word…
So I’m really tired of writing about Measure A, because honestly, it’s not all that I think about, it’s not even a lot of what I spend my time thinking about. Perhaps it’s something that ties into things that I think about, and that’s the excuse that I’m using today for the fact that I’ll…
On January 28th, 60-plus parents spent the night at Edison School, hoping to be some of the 60 out of 90 expected families to get their kids into kindergarten at Edison. As the West End shuts schools because of declining enrollment, the Edison district is bursting with kids! On Tuesday night, the School Board will…
Ok, so there’s absolutely no connection between the title of this post and what follows, but having had a Neil Diamond theme running through my titles all week, I felt this song couldn’t be left out and therefore just bit the bullet and used it. There’s this general idea floating around out there among a…
Ok, so it wasn’t an epiphany, but finally last tonight, my understanding of all these “Anti-Measure A” people was made clear. Over the past few months, it seems that almost everyone under the sun has been declared “Anti-Measure A” (AMA for short) and it’s been dawning on me that like war with Iraq, you either…
“Hello again, hello Just called to say hello I couldn’t sleep at all tonight And i know it’s late But I couldn’t wait Hello, my friend, hello…” Measure A is the single most important thing to happen in Alameda. Or so goes the conventional wisdom of some folks around town. The lore continues, without Measure…
“I’ve seen the light And I’ve seen the flame And I’ve been this way before And ‘m sure to be this way again; For I’ve been refused And I’ve been regained…” On Tuesday night, the city council will be discussing how much to subsidize the Alameda Museum in the coming year. Initially discussed at Laurendo.com,…
While Alice Cooper didn’t get it exactly right, the school has not been blown to pieces, most kids in Alameda are starting summer vacation. AUSD kids end up with an extra week of summer break this year, some sort of scholastic leap year deal I guess. It’s a great time to get kids out on…
Alameda, like most of the world, is a place where oral history often triumphs over recorded history. The on-going Measure A discussion is a prime example. The names of the successful council candidates from 1973, who ran on a throw-the-bums-out, low-density-development platform nearly 35 years ago, are trotted out as heroic-defenders-of-all-that-is-Measure-A, when in fact, all…
