Get you wonk on!
nothing gets the blood flowing like a land-use policy throw down! Thursday night, the city will be hosting a 3 hour public workshop from 7pm-10pm at Mastick Senior Center.
The discussion will cover land use, density and transportation with a goal of presenting options, both compliant and non-compliant with Measure A, and their [...]
Unfortunately, the city’s webcast of the planning board is still down, so I missed the early parts of the Measure A forum dicussion. It sounded like it got pretty nasty early on. Good for the planning board members who stuck up for their staff and apologized on behalf of the large number of speaker insinuating [...]
When I got home last night, there was an overnight package waiting….the return address was from “Judge Alex” in Houston, TX, to which I wondered “What strange legal issue is this” (it would be a second strange legal “thing” this month). I could not have guessed.
Turns out Judge Alex is a TV judge. Like Judge [...]
I spent all day in Sacramento today working to save Public Transit funding from major cuts. (Did you realize when you were you were voting for Prop 1b transporation bonds in November that you were voting for a shift in funds for public transit, not new transit funding? If the Governator gets his way, the [...]
There’s been a lot of talk about the effect of redevelopment on the current AUSD School Budget. While hints of this non-controversy started on Lauren Do’s site, I was approached by a city councilmember at the first Alamedans for Better Schools meeting in February who started hinting at his concerns about all the redevelopment money [...]
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