Monthly Archives: October 2008

Egads! It’s market based planning!

October 13, 2008

The Planning Board will hold a workshop today to discuss form-based zoning codes. An idea who's time has come!

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Friday Morning Funnies

October 10, 2008

With Prop 8 on the ballot, and polls showing it might pass, it's time to reach out to your friends and family and ask them to vote it down.

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Schwarzenegger does it to us again…

October 9, 2008

The Governor vetoes yet another bill that would have made the East Bay's quality of life (and quality of air) better.

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Alameda Point moves forward

October 8, 2008

Alameda's City Council agrees to a new agreement with SunCal and their new partner DE Shaw moving the project one more step forward.

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Just when you thought the budget was safe

October 7, 2008

After a record setting delay in approving the State budget, lawmakers are already finding themselves billions of dollars in deficit, which might be heading towards AUSD and City coffers.

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Saturday morning talk of bikes and bridges.

October 6, 2008

My favorite comment at the Estuary Crossing Study session: "why don't we just fill in the Estuary and connect the island to Oakland like they did Bay Farm Island."

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Veepstakes in Alameda!

October 3, 2008

Watching last night’s debate, were you as flabbergasted as I was by Sarah Palin’s comment “And I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people…”. I had planned on writing about a similar subject, but that just jumped...

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Come to a party!

October 2, 2008

And on Sunday (10/5), you're invited to come to a party in support of Marie Gilmore's re-election campaign co-hosted by your truly. (for privacy reasons, I'm not printing the address here, just email me for the info if you want to come).

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Good Gone!

October 1, 2008

Apparently, Good Chevrolet's Financing Company demanded that they pay down their inventory on Monday and the Owner John Buono said "enough's enough" and shut the doors.

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