Posted by
V Smoothe on Feb 27th, 2009 in
open thread |
87 comments
Want to talk about something I haven’t covered? Do it here. You can find the previous open thread here.
Judging by the many comments on the open thread, and the many e-mails I’ve been getting about it, it’s clear that people want to talk about the A’s. So here’s a space for you to do just that.
So, in case you live in a cave or something, here’s some background. The Oakland Athletics are a professional baseball team who have been playing in Oakland since 1968, when they moved here from...
The Mayor announced in his State of the City address last month that he was going to cut crime in Oakland by 10% this year. Outgoing Police Chief Wayne Tucker told an audience last need that he believed it the benchmark was attainable. Let’s take a look and see how we’re doing so far, shall we?
As of Wednesday, February 25th (XLS):
A couple of notes – crime, particularly violent crime, in the...
The Central City East Redevelopment District is one of the first redevelopment districts to be led by a group of community members, called a Project Area Committee.
The Central City East Project Area Committee (CCE PAC), in this pioneering role, is in the process of figuring out how a PAC implements its long term vision, and how it interacts with redevelopment staff. On the one hand, staff needs sufficient leeway...
Posted by
V Smoothe on Feb 24th, 2009 in
Ignacio De La Fuente,
Jane Brunner,
Jean Quan,
Nancy Nadel,
Pat Kernighan,
budget,
elections,
oakland,
oakland city council,
taxes,
youth services |
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So the big Finance and Management Committee tax meeting is over, and here’s what happened. If you missed yesterday’s post about the new taxes being considered on today’s agenda, you can read it now to get some background on the items being discussed.
First up was District 4 Councilmember Jean Quan’s hotel tax (PDF), which she had introduced as an additional 2% tax on top of the 11% hotel tax...