Some opponents of Measure E, the school parcel tax that Alamedans will vote on by mail between May 26 and June 22, complain that the measure is not fair.
Hmm, fair? Is it fair that one …

On a sunny Saturday morning a few weeks ago I arrived at the home of a nearby family for what their Evite billed as a garden work party in the old-fashioned, barn-raising/many-hands-make-light-work tradition. Drinks and …

A pleasant feature of working as a reporter is that you very often interview people who are experts. An entomologist, say, who has spent a lifetime learning about moths and butterflies. An MD whose entire …

A couple of years ago on a mid-February afternoon with a heavy winter rain pounding against my windows, a seven-year-old Girl Scout named Gracie — from whom I’d already bought a couple of boxes of …

Despite last week’s rainstorms, it sure does feel like spring has sprung in Alameda. Doesn’t it seem that way? The magnolias are all pink and white, the orange poppies are starting to bloom, and the …

As you may have heard, come next fall there will be a new charter school opening its doors in Alameda.
The Academy of Alameda Middle School will almost certainly be housed in the current site of …

For many children with disabilities, that 8 x 11 flyer that comes home from school in their backpack inviting them to Alameda Little League tryouts is a nonstarter. You can’t play baseball in a wheelchair! …

You probably haven’t watched Footloose lately. If ever. It’s a 1984 movie staring Kevin Bacon as a high school senior who moves from big-city Chicago to fictional Beaumont (loosely based on real-life small-town Elmore, Oklahoma). …

It’s 9:30 a.m. on a recent Saturday morning and Amy Fasso lies prone on a blue exercise mat on the tile floor of the Ruby Bridges Community Center. The dozen or so of us who …

The Internet is a good place to seek guidance and wisdom. You can find out all manner of things – how to best cultivate peas, for example — or opinions on the absorbency of diapers, …

The number of students in most public school classrooms in California (at least in kindergarten through third grade) has been locked in at a maximum of 20 children per class since 1996, when Gov. Pete …