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.
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
