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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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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 

What you missed at Monday’s budget town hall

April 22, 2009 by V Smoothe · 13 Comments 

Stimulating Oakland. Or not.

April 2, 2009 by V Smoothe · 28 Comments 

New Oakland taxes, OO repeal update

February 24, 2009 by V Smoothe · 35 Comments 

Update (or not) on the Kaiser Convention Center

February 17, 2009 by V Smoothe · 22 Comments 

Dan Lindheim is not qualified to be City Administrator

January 30, 2009 by V Smoothe · 4 Comments 

Oakland New Year’s Resolutions

December 31, 2008 by V Smoothe · 19 Comments 

The year in review

December 30, 2008 by V Smoothe · 16 Comments 

Oakland’s eternal indecision

December 18, 2008 by V Smoothe · 17 Comments 

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