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Making sure this never happens again

June 30, 2009 by V Smoothe · 37 Comments 

Tonight, after almost two months of discussion, the Oakland City Council will finally adopt a budget that closes our $83 million General Fund deficit. Mostly, discussion surrounding this has been all about what we’re going to lose. But in between all the devastating cuts and annoying fee increases, there are some positive things happening in the budget process too. Here’s one of them.

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Budget decision coming on Tuesday

June 28, 2009 by V Smoothe · 25 Comments 

Writing about the budget in 140 characters or less

June 17, 2009 by V Smoothe · 29 Comments 

Oakland Councilmembers offer changes to Mayor’s budget proposal

June 12, 2009 by V Smoothe · 24 Comments 

What are the core functions of a city?

June 11, 2009 by V Smoothe · 48 Comments 

Another chapter in the saga of the Kaiser Convention Center

May 27, 2009 by V Smoothe · 10 Comments 

A new way to waste money: Municipal ID cards for Oakland

May 26, 2009 by V Smoothe · 25 Comments 

What’s going on with the Cleveland Cascade?

May 20, 2009 by V Smoothe · 4 Comments 

Mayor’s budget proposal: Deficient, but not a deficit

May 7, 2009 by V Smoothe · 13 Comments 

Chill out. Nobody is actually planning on laying off 140 cops, folks.

May 6, 2009 by V Smoothe · 47 Comments 

Becks and dto510, my heroes.

May 6, 2009 by V Smoothe · 39 Comments 

Ron Dellums releases proposed Oakland FY09-11 budget

May 5, 2009 by V Smoothe · 32 Comments 

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