On the eve of Make Oakland Better Now!’s kick-off meeting, we are starting to run across much curiosity about who we are and what we are up to. There’s apparently been speculation that V.Smoothe of A Better Oakland is behind the group. And there was a comment at SFGate yesterday that “this smells like a faux grassroots organizing campaign for some Oakland mayoral candidate.”
So, since none of us involved...
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People keep asking me the same questions over e-mail. I figured it would be easier to just answer them here.
Q: When are you going to write on your blog again?
A: I don’t know. I’m not abandoning you all, I promise, but I am quite enjoying my vacation and having some free time without tons of meetings to watch, and everyone was so encouraging when I said I was going to take a break, that I figured it...
ABX3 14 passed the California State Senate Thursday night with a yes vote from Oakland’s only representative in the State Senate, Loni Hancock, but it is now in the assembly, where a vote may be held as early as this Monday (August 24th). Contact information for your assembly members are at the end of this article.
Law enforcement agencies and District Attorneys across California oppose this bill, because...
The Boat House Rededication went off without a hitch earlier this month. The Mayor and several council members (including former council member) were present as was the media and numerous individuals and groups involved with Lake Merritt, the Boat House, and the Lake Chalet restaurant.
There were congratulations going around for everyone. However, not everyone involved with the success of Measure DD and the Boat...
Hi folks. My name is Vivek B, and for about 2 years now i’ve been doing monthly graphs & analysis of the OPD crime stats. I load up the data from CrimeSpotting.Org into an access database, and look at it 16 ways from Sunday. I live in Rockridge, so I started off focusimg on Area 1 & our beats, mainly as I wanted to make sure the #s jived up with the feeling around the ‘hood. About 9 months ago I...