Barbara Kerr on the Don-Roberts-blog-for-vitriol-and-complaining
– Monday, July 30, 2007
“Any statement by anyone that I am against an open forum on Measure A where speakers from both sides of the issues can be heard is a bald faced lie.”
Barbara Kerr at the City Council
– Tuesday, March 26, 2007
“Good evening. There is no need [...]
In May, the City Council met in joint session with the City’s Transportation Commission (TC) to discuss the past and future direction of the commission’s work. At the meeting, the Council made clear their appreciation of the work of the commission (he types proudly) and the talk turned to Agenda Item #1a: “Role of [...]
Lots of people talk about wanting more cultural events in Alameda, some even talk about wanting an Arts Center.
So it’s put up or shut time!
Next Friday (first Friday of August) a new exhibition at Rhythmix Cultural Works is opening up with a reception. The Locals celebrates local people, local artists and local community, and personally [...]
At the June 5, 2007 City Council meeting, the council held a discussion of raising fares on the Oakland/Alameda Ferry. During the meeting, staff presented information that the Port of Oakland would be cutting their operations contribution for the ferry from $83,000 to $79,000.
Who gets to speak in a community and who gets to speak for a community?
As innocuous as this question seems, there appears to be a large group of people in this town who actually believe that they are the only people who can determine who should provide input and information in the public debates and [...]
The day after the cineplex project program, I suggested to a few folks that Alameda start to plan now for ways to entertain the kids who are going to hit the movies at the new theater and then pour out into the streets.
I’m not suggesting that kids on the street are a problem, but more [...]
Cleaning out the old mental file cabinet, today’s post is a bouillabaisse of fishy thoughts.
First, Notadave asks about the Navy’s letter to the city about their desire to get moving on Alameda Point. For your reading enjoyment, here it is:
Mr. Brandt -
It is understood that the ARRA and SunCal have conducted negotiations concerning the Exclusive [...]
(With apologies to the Alameda Sun)
Last night, after four hours of dicsussions that at times appeared to be heading towards “hey, let’s just talk about this in a month or two” the city council, sitting as the ARRA, approved and exclusive negotiation agreement with SunCal.
Through this action, SunCal know embarks on an aggressive 24 month [...]
So the ARRA (city council sitting in another version of itself to deal with Alameda Point/Naval Air Station issues) will be meeting tonight to decide whether to enter into an Exclusive Negotiation Agreement with SunCal.
The first two hours of last Friday’s ad hoc committee meeting contained a lot of discussion about what was “agreed to” at the previous meeting. As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, we actually watched (and through the miracles of google video you can too) Barbara Kerr agree that the group had made a decision to [...]
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