Saving Oakland’s car dealerships. Maybe.
At tomorrow’s meeting (PDF), the Oakland City Council’s Community and Economic Development Committee will receive a report on the status of Oakland auto...
Oakland’s eternal indecision
Yesterday, I complained about the City’s complete inability to make a decision about anything and just stick with it. I’m not feeling any more positive...
Ron Dellums, making things up. As usual.
Probably the single that annoys me the most about Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums is his habit of phrasing everything in these absurd, sweeping, hyperbolic statements....
Army Base at CED
So CED yesterday about the Army Base wasn’t terribly exciting it terms of anything unexpected happening, although the lengthy public comment period was super...
Army Base, quickly
Aah, I had so wanted to write a whole bunch of posts about the Army Base last week before the item came to Community and Economic Development Committee (CED) today,...
Worth reading this weekend
Becks sounds the alarm about a new Berkeley initiative to halt BRT: Regardless of any issues one may have with AC Transit’s current BRT proposal, this is just...
What do SKS Investments, Ron Dellums, and the Wayans Brothers all have in common?
They all break their promises to Oakland.
Who wants the Army Base?
So a couple people have asked me about the unsolicited proposals for the Army Base, and even though they could just click through to the staff report listing them,...
This isn’t a vision – it’s a list.
So the exciting news about the Army Base is that it looks like pretty much everyone (except Ron Dellums) is on the same page. Nancy Nadel, who I’m thrilled...
What makes sense for the Army Base?
This afternoon, the Council’s Community and Economic Development Committee will consider several options for development of the former Oakland Army Base, which...
Ron Dellums’s Town Hall – 10,000 jobs on the army base? Huh?
Okay, so I was going to attend Saturday’s town hall, but then I decided that making myself huevos rancheros and sampling my brand new Hangar One limited edition...
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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...