What a letdown!
I apologize for not delivering my promised weekend AC Transit history lesson. But I had a good reason. Instead of going on the blog, it went on Novometro. And you...
Let’s play a game
You know, every time I think that I’ve witnessed a level of dimness that simply can’t be surpassed, something new manages to come out of City Hall and...
The Express is dead to me, part 2
I already wrote about some of the problems I have with Robert Gammon’s Van Hool screed (this week’s Express cover story). I thought I’d said my...
The weekly from hell
OMG! Soangrysoangrysoangrysoangry! Since it became independently owned, the East Bay Express, a paper I used to look forward to reading every week, has lost all...
Incentive package to hold off police retirements – a good idea?
So one of the things Ron Dellums proposed to address the police staffing issue in his State of the City address last week was to put together an incentive package...
Random Monday thoughts and links
I’m keeping things short today, on account of the holiday. I was going to write a post about how deplorable it is that Mandela Foods Cooperative actively...
So what can we do about the police?
Dellums promised during his State of the City address that we would be at 803 officers by the end of the year. Whether we can do that is the question of the week,...
Questioning Dellums’s promise
I wrote yesterday for Novometro about the feasibility of Ron Dellums’s promise to fully staff the police department by the end of 2008. CBS 5 had a report...
Setting the record straight on Dellums’s State of the City address
I apologize in advance for the length of this post. I wanted to address the Ron Dellums’s State of the City address fairly and completely. Below I have noted...
Instant Feedback on State of the City
I’m working on a long post about the Mayor’s State of the City address last night, but I don’t think I’ll get it up before the end of the...
Altamont or bust! High speed rail is dead to me.
I’ve been meaning to write about something about high speed rail forever now, and somehow I just haven’t found the time to get around to it. The subject...
Dellums, busy working hard for Oakland (in secret)
Ugh. Whatever: Through it all, supporters say, Dellums was working diligently behind the scenes — no matter how it may have appeared to the public. Assemblyman...
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- len raphael: Unconfirmed that MJQ laid off 100 employees today, blaming RDA court case. How much did she and the CC waste in legal fees betting against Jerry’s lawyers?
- ralph: No, Livegreen, Occupy Oakland is doing plenty good. They are the poster children for the new, “This is Your Brain on Dope” Campaign.
- Livegreen: They seem to b determined to shut down Oakland and little else. They’ve forgotten Wall St. I can’t help but think the Officers who were preventing them from breaking in to City Hall could have spent...
- gregory mcconnell: The Occupest disrupted City Hall today. They managed to make it difficult, but not impossible, to go into City Hall. They demanded that people who accosted cops on Wednesday should be released. I was out...
- livegreen: I watched the M-Y mtg last night, & it was painful. Jose is a nice guy, but he has difficulty running a meeting that gets anything done. They debated for about 1 hour whether they should discuss recommendations...
- len raphael: The murder of 5 year old Gabriel Martinez. Got a call from an acquaintance who lives in East O and often gets supper at his family’s taco stand. She asked where she can sign up to help on the recall.
- Ravi: I’m sure that all of those Quan diehards (“a recall would be a waste of time and too expensive”) are very gratified that this lovely and deserving woman is having such a good time. No doubt they prefer...
- len raphael: JQ “”I’m actually having a lot of fun,” she said after rehashing many of the lower moments from her first year in office.” “http://www.insidebayare a.com/news/ci_19651889R...
- Ravi: And regarding police reform and the crime thing, Judge Henderson could decide to put OPD under Federal jurisdiction because the terms of the NSA haven’t been fulfilled by the City Administration. Those folks in City...
- len raphael: Harbinger of things to come to the City Council when they eventually have to make similar decisions. But they won’t. The Fed bankruptcy judge will do it for them.
- livegreen: Yeah, but OUSD has to do something. There are way too many schools for the school population. There’s simply no choice. At least they’re willing to make the tough decisions. Unlike the City of...
- len raphael: Are those school board recalls entirely over the school closing decisions? Different groups or one umbrella?
- Ravi: Two recall petitions for Quan; five recall petitions for five school board members.
- len raphael: City says there are now 7 concurrent recall petitions. Not clear how many are for Quan and how many for Council Members. Direct democracy at work.
- Ravi: Can the Oakland City Council lead? Nope, nor can the Mayor. It’s up to the citizens, who are deeply divided and have been for a very long time.
- len raphael: Oakland Local is the only on or offline general circulation media that shows understanding of the depths of our fiscal situation and understands that it’s causes precede the real estate crash. One of these...
- Mkilian: Related to the Cal Supremes haircut to Oakland with respect to RDA and the immediate need for a “fiscal operations plan” is another issue put forth in Oakland’s internet newspaper, Oakland Local, is...