UPDATED: ALAMEDA FIRE CHIEF ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE
1, September 2, 2010 – 10:43 am | 8 Comments

Updated 1:23 p.m. Thursday, September 2
Alameda Fire Chief David Kapler has been placed on administrative leave following revelations he used the city’s gas pumps to fuel his personal vehicles and that he had faced similar …

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Comment: What’s the Point?
1, January 26, 2010 – 6:00 am | 25 Comments
Comment: What’s the Point?

I had hoped to have an editorial for you this week that would tell you whether to vote for or against Measure B. But the truth is, I’ll be sitting this one out. Because it …

Comment: It’s a wondeful life
1, January 14, 2010 – 6:00 am | One Comment
Comment: It’s a wondeful life

This past holiday season, I gave myself a gift: Some time to read about the world outside our little Island. For two weeks, I gorged on magazines that had been laying around the house for …

Comment: The death of discourse
1, January 8, 2009 – 11:00 am | No Comment

It was late into the night of September 16 when Iris Watson stepped to the podium. The management at Alameda Towne Centre was planning to bring an Orchard Supply Hardware store to fill the vacant …

Comment: Firing up the fees
1, December 10, 2008 – 8:00 am | No Comment

Last week the City Council, whose members are frustrated about what they consider a misuse of our public safety resources, discussed plans to start charging people for making non-emergency calls to the Fire Department.
The reasons …

Comment: A note about Prop 8
1, November 3, 2008 – 9:09 pm | No Comment

Some of our readers checked in with us today to inquire about the pro-Proposition 8 ad that ran on the site. Up to this point we haven’t said too much about the state propositions because …

Comment: Us and them
1, October 30, 2008 – 9:00 am | No Comment

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 …

Comment: Not included
1, August 5, 2008 – 7:45 am | No Comment

The furor over Warmington Homes’ request to move low-income housing it was supposed to build into its planned Grand Marina development to another site has exposed some sad and complicated truths about efforts to create …

Comment: The end of fun
1, July 1, 2008 – 7:45 am | No Comment

A few weeks back we told you that in response to concerns about skateboarders in the new Civic Center Parking Structure, the City Council was considering a ban on skateboarding on city property. Imagine our …

Comment: Happy birthday, Prop 13!
1, June 6, 2008 – 8:30 am | No Comment

While we’re all tearing each other to shreds over why we should or shouldn’t pay ten bucks a month to support our local schools, I choose to celebrate. Proposition 13, the state constitutional amendment that …

Comment: A plea
1, June 2, 2008 – 7:15 am | No Comment

Alamedans are a generous lot. It’s one of the many reasons I’m grateful to live here, and one of the many things that sets this Island apart from many other Bay Area communities. Alamedans are …

Comment: Developing
1, May 8, 2008 – 7:30 am | No Comment

It’s easy to get swept up in the promise of Alameda Point, with its acres upon acres of available land and stunning view of downtown San Francisco. But a closer look brings home some troubling …