A warm welcome to this year’s new Oakland bloggers. You guys rock!
I suppose it makes me sound like a crotchety old lady that every time I write something meta about the blogoaksphere, I go on and on about how there used to be,...
Bruce Nye: This Place Is A Mess: Now What Do We Do About It?
Bruce Nye is Board Chair of Make Oakland Better Now!The opinions in this post, however, are his, and do not necessarily reflect the positions of the organization....
Huge thanks to all who gave to the Blogoaksphere Food Drive!
OMG. Is it really possible that I basically abandoned my blog for the entire month of December? I feel terrible about it. (I know posting has been pretty weak all...
Bruce Nye: Does Oakland have a budget crisis? Sure enough it does.
Bruce Nye is Board Chair of Make Oakland Better Now! The opinions in this post, however, are his, and do not necessarily reflect the positions of the organization....
League of Women Voters: What is Records Management – and Why Should You Care About it?
Records management is the practice of maintaining the records of an organization — in this case, the City of Oakland — from the time they are created up to their...
John Klein: Project CX3 – The Great Grand Avenue Dig of 2009
I know a lot of people are following the progress of Measure DD, but what is all that work in the middle of Grand Avenue? I did some checking and it turns out that...
Estuary Specific Plan Photo Tour: West Subarea
If you managed to read my whole monster post yesterday about the Central Estuary Specific Plan, good for you. You deserve some sort of prize. If not, that’s...
Catching up on the Central Estuary Specifc Plan
I always wish more activists, policy wonks, and planning geeks would start blogs about Oakland. There’s just so many fascinating things going on with the City...
Open Thread
Want to talk about something I haven’t covered? Do it here. You can find the previous open thread here.
Doing it right the second time around: parking returns to Council
It was a great pleasure watching the City Council’s Public Works Committee’s discussion of parking issues last Tuesday. As most of you probably remember,...
Traffic calming in HarriOak
Tonight, Westlake Middle School, just outside of downtown Oakland, will host the fourth community workshop regarding the Harrison Street/Oakland Avenue Corridor...
Remember This: Champions for wasting money
This afternoon, the Oakland City Council’s Community and Economic Development Committee will be asked to grant $182,000 of redevelopment funds (PDF) to the...
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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...