We’re making with the Halloween festivities big-time over here, but we wanted to let you know that the election isn’t the only big news for Alameda this week. Next Thursday, the City Council is slated …

Pretend it’s the day after Halloween. Congratulations, you survived! So, what are you going to do with yourself now? Plenty.
This Saturday brings us a twofer of big performances. First up is Comedy Night for the …

Just over a month ago, we told you that Alameda Unified is using pesticides at the schools despite questions about whether they’re safe to use around kids and the availability of less-toxic products. We have …

Let me just start off by saying that I am grateful to live here in Alameda. But like most cities in California these days, we’ve got issues.
We are facing an ongoing fiscal crisis of almost …

An alert reader wrote in to let us know that the folks from Pappo are opening up shop in the old Season to Taste space at the Alameda Marketplace. We wandered over there and got …

Three members of an anti-abortion group called Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust were arrested Tuesday on the College of Alameda campus and charged with trespassing when they refused to leave after being asked by campus …

A report to the school board last night on Chipman Middle School’s efforts to raise test scores in order to avoid a host of federally mandated dire consequences erupted into a fascinating discussion on race …

The folks proposing the Nea Community Learning Center charter school presented their new-and-improved application to the school board on Tuesday night, offering a raft of changes to the application rejected by the school board and …

We were out at the library this past weekend and noticed a display next to the stairs featuring the winners of the Asian Pacific Fund’s annual Growing Up Asian in America art and essay contest. …

So we were driving home from Bladium on Saturday when my son spots a rather large, white dirigible flying toward San Francisco, at some indeterminate distance east of the McDonald’s on Webster Street. We didn’t …

We’ve been struggling with how to call Measure P, which if passed would more than double the tax paid to the city when a house is sold. Frankly, there’s a lot to not like.
The timing …