Today’s must-read: AJ on possible hate crime outside Ruby Bridges school
The Alameda Journal’s Peter Hegarty has reported that Alameda Police are investigating a possible hate crime incident Monday morning outside Ruby Bridges Elementary School.
Alameda Police told Hegarty that an Hispanic man in his 30s was facing a possible hate crime charge after he allegedly told an African American woman she could be “hanging from a [...]
Today’s must-read: Tony Daysog’s got crime stats
In case you haven’t seen it yet, former City Councilman Tony Daysog has his own blog, westalameda.com, intended to boost the West End of the Island.
This week Tony sent us an e-mail to let us know he’s done a rundown on violent crime here in Alameda, using the FBI’s violent crime statistics from 2000 to [...]
Today’s must-read: Peet’s loses bidding war for Diedrich Coffee
If you haven’t been following it, Peet’s Coffee & Tea just reached the end of a month-long bidding war for Diedrich Coffee. (They lost.) Peet’s had announced in November that they planned to buy Diedrich, maker of the K-Cup single cup brewing system, in a $213 million cash and stock deal. But then the folks [...]
UPDATED Today’s must read: David Howard on Target
Updated 11:48 a.m. Tuesday, November 3
Wearing their Community Improvement Commission hats, the City Council will consider on Wednesday night whether to ask Catellus for a report regarding the status of their Alameda Landing development plans at the former Fleet Industrial Supply Center site. (The referral, placed on the agenda by Comissioner Frank Matarrese, seeks an [...]
Today’s must-read: John Oldham on a rise in foreclosures
Folks, if you are not already reading John Oldham’s invaluable 94501 Real Estate blog, you should be. Oldham has his fingers on the pulse of Alameda real estate, and he is able to connect the dots to what’s happening regionally, statewide and nationally in clear, concise prose with a level of knowledge that can’t be [...]
Today’s must-read: Kite surfing at Crown Beach
It’s been a busy week, so I am just now getting around to passing along this ad story in the Chronicle about wind and kite surfing out at Robert W. Crown Memorial State Beach.
The Chron’s Juliana says Crown Beach is one of the best spots in the Bay Area for wind and kite surfing due [...]
Today’s must read: Pete!
Progressive Alamedan blogger Dan Wood has penned a post saying that our Congressional rep, Pete Stark, could have some unwelcome company at his planned town hall meeting at noon this Saturday at City Hall, which will cover, among other things, the thorny subject of health care.
Several of the federal legislator-led town halls have escalated into [...]
Today’s must-read: AP on our local Marine One
The Associated Press’s Darlene Superville has done a really nice piece on Jennifer Grieves, an Alameda resident and longtime Marine who has flown Marine One – aka the President’s helicopter – over the past 14 months, making her the first woman to do so.
Grieves, who’s been a Marine for two decades, has ferried presidents Obama [...]
Today’s must-read: AJ on Crosstown closing
I had planned to do a piece next week about the pending closure of Crosstown Coffeehouse and Community Center, next Friday, July 24. But the folks at the Alameda Journal beat me to the punch.
Sounds like the nonprofit spot was unable to resolve a long-running dispute with their landlord over who would pay renovation and [...]
Today’s must-read: John Oldham on home values
Alameda’s incomparable real estate blogger, John Oldham, just dropped this post about a new change in appraisal rules that could make it more difficult for folks to sell their homes.
Oldham is saying that a new industry code of conflict prohibits real estate agents and lenders from selecting appraisers (intended to avoid folks colluding to drive [...]
Today’s must-view: John Knox White with photos from the Fourth
Looking for photos of Alameda’s Fourth of July parade? Local blogger John Knox White has got a slideshow over at his Stop, Drop and Roll. If you’d rather just check ‘em out individually (and at your own pace), click here.
