Archive for April, 2008
Railroaded underground?
So, you think $120 a year more for the schools is bad? How about $5,767 to put your utility lines underground? That’s Alameda Power & Telecom’s estimate for what it will cost folks in Underground Utility District #30 (aka the heart of the Gold Coast) to connect their homes to the power and telecom lines [...]
Water rationing to come?
For those of you who didn’t catch it in the Chronicle last week, it looks like the East Bay may be facing a summer of water rationing. According to the Chron’s story, we got off to a good start with a wet January and February, but had a dry March and April – giving us [...]
What’s the Point?
If you were wondering what that distant sound was … it’s the cries of Measure A backers and smart-growth advocates preparing for a fresh battle over Alameda Point. This time we’ve got a new report listing three “transit-oriented” options for the enigma we call development out at the Point, two of which would require an [...]
Pancakes!
Do you love pancakes? And education? If the answer is yes to even just one of these questions, you should plan to attend the Kiwanis of Alameda’s 58th Annual Pancake Breakfast, which is from 8 a.m. to noon Sunday, May 18 at the Elks Lodge, 2255 Santa Clara Avenue third floor. This year’s breakfast is [...]
Checkmate to be chucked?
Okay, this is my last light brown apple moth post this week, I swear!
On Thursday, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger postponed plans to spray much of the Bay Area (including Alameda) with a synthetic pheromone to rid us of the light brown apple moth so that a battery of toxicity tests could be performed by the feds. [...]
Your weekend: The movies
It’s true: The new, seven-screen movie thee-ay-ter on Park Street will be open for business just one month from now, on May 24. And you’ve got two opportunities to get a sneak peek at the restored, 76-year-old gem before the reels (or digital thingamajigees) start rollin’. On May 21, the city and theater operator Alameda [...]
MOTH SPRAYING POSTPONED
Fresh on the heels of a judge’s order halting aerial pheromone spraying of Santa Cruz County, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced a postponement of the state’s plans to spray huge swaths of the Bay Area in its effort to eradicate the light brown apple moth. The spraying is being postponed so a battery of toxicity tests [...]
Foreclosing in on Alameda
The Chronicle wrote up DataQuick’s most recent real estate report the other day, and I don’t think it’ll be any surprise to you that the news was, uh, not good. The scary thing is that the Chronicle’s data is limited to homes in the final stage of the foreclosure process, so it only offers a [...]
No to Nea
Last night, the Alameda County Board of Education “reluctantly” voted 6-0 to uphold the Alameda school board’s denial of Nea Community Learning Center’s charter application. County board staff found the application by Nea (the same folks who run the Alameda Community Learning Center) had major holes, including a lack of details about its K-6 and [...]
The green way?
Here’s a question I have about the state’s plan to spray us with a synthetic pheromone to try to kill off the light brown apple moth: If the plan is as green as California Department of Food and Agriculture Secretary A.G. Kawamura claims, then why aren’t major green groups on board?
Sierra Club California director Bill [...]
The post with no name
Lotsa things happening this week … here goes …
*Charter decision today: The Alameda County Board of Education is slated to decide tonight whether to overrule our local school board to okay Nea Community Learning Center’s charter application. Our school board turned them down in January, saying the proposal lacked sufficient detail. A number of my [...]
