Comments for tonight’s Alameda Sunshine Ordinance

October 18, 2011
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Mayor Gilmore and Councilmembers, At tonight’s meeting of the City Council you will hear the first reading of the draft sunshine ordinance. I want to thank staff for their hard work on this important ordinance. For the most part, their revisions make the ordinance clearer and stronger. I would like to respectfully disagree with...

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Open Government Ordinance returns to Alameda City Council

October 17, 2011
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Tomorrow night, the Alameda City Council will hold the first reading of the draft Sunshine Ordinance. The ordinance was originally presented to the City Council back in January and sent to city staff for comment. It returns pretty much intact. A tracked changes copy is available here. Most of the changes are just language...

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The new Alameda Youth Sports complex, slightly more realistic version.

October 14, 2011
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So HBIA, aka Ron Cowan, has hired a consultant to produce a minute and a half video of what building sports fields in the middle of a business park looks like. The only problem is that the cheesy music gives the proposal a bucolic feel, which is less consistent with the tiny baseball fields...

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Alameda’s Crown Beach tragedy: community gets answers

October 13, 2011
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On Tuesday night, during the City Council meeting to receive and discuss the tragedy that ended with the death of Raymond Zack, after 9 Alamedans stood and asked questions about (or in some cases called into question) the independent report produced by Ruben Grijalva. After the public comment was complete, Alameda City Manager, John...

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Alameda Hospital Board’s Gorelick: unbecoming conduct continued

October 7, 2011
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Alameda Hospital Board’s Gorelick: unbecoming conduct continued

As mentioned yesterday, Elliott Gorelick has asked me to post additional documents regarding his ballot filing and I am obliging, despite the fact that I don’t think they help his position in any way and only support my initial post. That’s why I’m writing about this again, not because I planned on making this...

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Gorelick’s comments policy, a clarification

October 5, 2011
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On Monday, I wrote about the issue of Hospital Board member Elliott Gorelick making false statements about his own actions as his supporting evidence in calling someone a liar. In that post, I wrote: I asked Gorelick about this in the comment section of his blog, however it appears that the comment has been...

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