I really enjoyed watching the public comment at Tuesday’s Public Safety Committee on the proposed juvenile curfew. The turnout for the item was so large that the meeting had to be moved to the Council chambers, instead of the smaller hearing room the Committee normally uses, to accommodate the crowd. There were a few disruptive moments where Larry Reid was forced to lecture the audience about behaving in a...
I got a pleasant surprise yesterday when Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums named well-qualified and experienced people (PDF) to the key City positions of CEDA Director and Assistant City Administrator. My delight was short-lived, however, because, in a not at all surprising move, Dellums at the same time named his longtime friend Dan Lindheim as Oakland City Administrator.
Lindheim, with his experience as an economist at...
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Aah, I love the end of December. It feels good to reflect on all the things I didn’t accomplish and promise myself how I’m going to do so much better next year. There’s nothing quite like a clean slate, a whole untainted year ahead of you with all the potential in the world to be great, accomplish something noteworthy, or put some of your worst qualities behind you. I’ve resolved that 2009...
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dto510 reminds us today that those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. In that spirit, let’s take some time to remember what dominated the news in Oakland in 2008.
Christopher Rodriguez: 2008 got off to a decidedly inauspicious start when a 10 year old boy was hit by a stray bullet during his piano lesson on normally-safe Piedmont Avenue. Oakland residents rallied to raise funds for the...
I was so frustrated last weekend, reading all the reports for this week’s Committee meetings. Between the Equal Access Report (PDF), and the awful, awful retail enhancement (PDF) and economic development (PDF) stuff that I complained about on Wednesday, it was just some particularly painful homework. The highlight of all my reading was a line in a report about some municipal code amendments (PDF) for the...