I spent all day in Sacramento today working to save Public Transit funding from major cuts. (Did you realize when you were you were voting for Prop 1b transporation bonds in November that you were voting for a shift in funds for public transit, not new transit funding? If the Governator gets his way,...
This handout (on Mike McMahon’s site) caught my eye at the Alameda for Better Schools (ABS) meeting last week. It’s a graph showing the Base Revenue Limit for each school in Unified School District in Alameda County. The Base Revenue Limit is the amount per student that the schools get from the state, and...
When I got home from work this evening, there was an email from “bewarethesilentspin@yahoo.com” in my inbox with a couple of videos linked to it. The name appears to be a play on “bewarethesilentslate,” a copycat youtube.com site that hosts Don Roberts recent video magazine stories. (He’s got a permanent link to it on...
Life’s been a little too busy to actually post anything recently. But I didn’t want to drop the school budget as an issue, being that it is burning hot right now and decisions are going to be made in the coming weeks. With all the discussion about Average Daily Attendance (ADA) funding from the...
This afternoon, the Hospital Board will interview the top 10 candidates for filling the hospital board seat vacated by Lena Tam when she was elected to the City Council. 13 interested individuals applied, showing to some extent that the minimum notification procedures for filling vacant seats is inadequate. Though some current applicants appear to...
After two months of talking, thinking and downright delusional discussions, a group of Alamedans have hit the airwaves of Alameda Public Access Cable with what they hope will be a long-running, weekly current events TV Show called Alameda Currents. The show will attempt to present the events, news and people of Alameda in an...
I had the opportunity to meet and chat with Kevin Kennedy last night (actually, both of the city’s two-Kevins) which I quite enjoyed. And during the roaming discussion that we had, including what does the City Treasurer actually do (it’s more limited than I would have guessed, but makes his role in pushing the...
Sigh… Last night I received what I thought was a regular update about upcoming practices/games/events surrounding the Alameda Youth Basketball league. I was floored when I finally read the message this morning: Parents & Coaches, I have just been informed by XXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX, one of our 6th grade boys coaches, that he has been...
