I want to tell you about an emerging story regarding one of Alameda’s biggest cultural institutions, the Alameda Civic Light Opera. Sounds like years of bad economic times have caught up with them, resulting in …

The city’s latest quarterly sales tax results are out, and they are, shall we say, not good.
The reality of all those auto row closures has just about finished sinking in, to the tune of about …

Citing fundraising issues sharpened by a morose economy, the folks at the St. Josephs Community are asking the Planning Board to extend approval of their long-running expansion and improvement plans for another 15 years.
Approval of …

The City Council may have passed a balanced budget this year, but we’re apparently not out of the woods yet, fiscally speaking. “Now what?” you may ask. How’s about multi-million-dollar increases in the city’s pension …

The state Legislature has passed a budget sans an anticipated takeaway of more than $1 billion in locals’ gas tax funds (the Assembly balked at the last minute). Which means the county’s threats to leave …

Sounds like the wack economy has cast its thousand points of darkness through a little hole in the city’s zoning code that city staff want the Planning Board to recommend closing tonight.
Apparently, the city’s rules …

From the you-know-it’s-getting-bad-when department: The Journal’s Peter Hegarty reported Thursday that Alameda police have caught a suspect in the June 30 robbery of the Bank of America on Park Street. His reason for allegedly committing …

Updated 10:41 a.m. Wednesday, July 22
City staff is moving full steam ahead with plans to present a 24-month budget plan to the City Council for their approval on August 3, with looming indications that the …

As I reported the other day, the state’s elected leaders, in an effort to close a multi-billion-dollar budget gap, have proposed a plan to take back more than $1 billion in gas tax money that …

Looking for local resources to help you find a new job? Look no further than the College of Alameda, which has got a One-Stop Career Center that is open to one and all. The center …

Friday marks the start of what’s become sort of an annual event here in Alameda: The mailing o’ the pink slips to dozens of lucky teachers and administrators. And our local teachers are working to …

This economic crisis has been hard on the nation’s non-profits, and our local folks are not immune. Leaders of several local non-profits said they’re working extra hard this year to maintain their cash flow and …