Archive for October, 2008
A quick golf note
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 to choose an interim golf manager to run the Chuck Corica Golf Complex for the next year while they work [...]
Your weekend: The day after
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 Kids, featuring “redneck comic” Bob Johnston with Blaze and emcee Molly Burke, at 7 and 9 p.m. at Rhythmix Cultural [...]
Schools violate policy with pesticide use
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 since learned that in doing so the district is actually violating its own policy on pesticide use, which essentially bars [...]
Comment: Us and them
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 Biblical proportions. We have some big choices to make about the development of Alameda Point, which encompasses a third of [...]
Pappo branches out
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 word they’re hoping the new place, Culina, will be open sometime in the next few weeks.
They’ll be offering a salad [...]
Anti-abortion group arrested at College of Alameda
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 officials.
A spokesperson for the college said the group had been told in advance what procedures they needed to follow in [...]
Chipman starts discussion on race
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 and the role it may play in the success or failure of students there and nationwide.
“Our black and brown students [...]
New Nea application heard
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 the Alameda County Board of Education earlier this year.
The proposed charter’s Maafi Gueye said that the school would now be [...]
Winning youth essays at library
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. Two of the winners are from Alameda schools.
Elaine Ma, a student at the Alameda Science & Technology Institute, won a [...]
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s …
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 have anything else going on, I’m always looking to encourage his curiosity and what the heck, you don’t see that [...]
Very reluctantly yours
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 is poor, the solution to the city’s budget woes incomplete, and let’s just say we’re not big fans of political [...]
