By now, you should have received your special, mail-only ballot for the Measure E parcel tax vote. Ballots are due in to the Alameda County Registrar of Voters by June 22. And there are no …

Alameda voters are being asked to decide whether to approve a replacement parcel tax that could bring as much as $14 million year into the Alameda Unified School District’s coffers for each of the next …

Perhaps some of the most persistent questions around Measure E are who pays – and how much.

The Board of Education’s decision to put a new parcel tax on the ballot – Alameda Unified’s third parcel tax request in a decade – has prompted questions about how much money the school district has and how it is spent.

Debbie George says she and other business and commercial property owners who have been fighting the school district’s Measure H and Measure E parcel taxes aren’t opposed to the idea of a parcel tax. They say they just want a tax that’s fair.

Even before Shivaun McDonald’s family joined Otis Elementary School, she and her kids used to sit on their front porch in the mornings, drinking tea and watching other children walk by.

“We came to Alameda because we heard the schools are good, and it’s a very family-oriented community,” McDonald says.

Alameda has more than its fair share of hot-button political issues. But few are as emotional as the upcoming ballot for Measure E, the replacement school parcel tax. And the stakes couldn’t be higher.
The tax …

By Mike Maurice
After 72 holes of play in this year’s Alameda Commuters, reigning 2009 NCGA champion and 2010 San Francisco City champion George Gandranata can now add 2010 Alameda Commuters champion to his growing …

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2010 Commuters Gross Scores
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1 George Gandranata 68-69-67-67–271
2 Rick Reinsberg 70-70-65-70–275
3 Scott Olds 70-67-70-71–278
T4 Kevin Lucas 72-70-70-68–280
Josh Stone 72-72-69-67–280
T6 Patrick Grimes 68-70-72-71–281
Matthew Hansen 72-71-70-68–281
Domingo Jojola 69-72-71-69–281
Kevin Wentworth 66-75-69-71–281
10 Carlos Briones 69-70-70-73–282
11 Taylor Travis 73-68-71-71–283
T12 James Back …

By Mike Maurice
Breezy and firm course conditions lead to solid scores at the 83rd Alameda Commuters Golf Tournament.
With firm fast conditions, along with a slight westward wind, scores were a bit higher than usual in …

The Alameda Commuters Golf Tournament, one of Northern California’s oldest and most prestigious amateur golf events, will begin play this Saturday, April 17 at the Chuck Corica Golf Complex. And the public is welcome to …

Second in an occasional series
When Doug deHaan got his property assessment in the mail, he knew that a heart-to-heart talk with his wife was coming. The couple was going to have to sell their home.
Just …