By Michael Singman-Aste
“Seeing is Forgetting,” painting, photography, and performance art by Brett Amory, Robert Jankowski, and Noah Krell at Autobody Fine Art
“Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, or a plane to go or the mail to come, or the rain to go or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow or waiting around for a Yes or No or waiting for their hair to grow. Everyone is just waiting….”
– “Oh! The Places You’ll Go” by Dr. Seuss
“Waiting #23” (detail) by Brett Amory, Oil on Canvas
The people in Brett Amory’s “Waiting” series are so ...
Unfortunately, given that Tuesday’s meeting was seven hours long.
Yes, seven. hours. long.
Something was wonky with the system of uploading it to the internet so the video feed was not online when I wrote this and by the time it went up I didn’t have a spare seven hours to listen to it.
Fortunately, Michele Ellson loaded up on just enough caffeine to stay up long enough to hear the update from SunCal about their plans for Alameda Point and what they intend to do moving forward. The big takeaways from Michele’s report was that :
SunCal intends to file something by ...
Ani Dimusheva
The Alameda County Congestion Management Agency is planning to place a $10 increase in the Vehicle Registration Fee for Alameda County residents on the November ballot, and is soliciting input from residents in a series of public workshops that start today.
The fee increase is expected to raise $11 million, which would be used for transportation infrastructure and service improvements throughout Alameda County — including the City of Alameda.
Four workshops will be held to gather input on the needs of individual communities. A presentation on the issue to the Alameda City Council is planned for May 4.
Because the proposal is ...
March 8, 2010
Alameda 14 Encincal 2
Alameda’s hitters supported Katherine Johnson’s seven-hit complete game with a 19-hit attack. The Hornets scored in every inning but the third. Drew Jones had three hits. Megan Averitt, Gia Morten, Kathryn Johnson, Jessica Ravetti, and Carrie Lee each had two hits. Mia Musso, Gia Morten, Katherine Johnson, and Jessica Ravetti had two RBIs.
March 16, 2010
Windsor 5, Alameda 4
An undefeated Windsor team that came into the game 3-0 scored four runs in the last two innings to outlast Alameda. The Hornets scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh but came up just a ...
Contributed photo.
We got a nice e-mail from Mindi Chen-Kao late last week letting us know that parents at Amelia Earhart Elementary School were getting together outside the school Monday morning to show support for 13 teachers who were being notified that they could be laid off at the end of the school year. The 13 teachers make up half the school’s teaching staff, and they were on a list of more than 148 teachers (including temporary teachers) who were told Monday they could be laid off.
“All of the 13 teachers who may not return next year, or even worse, who ...
Rumors are flooding into our noose desk that our "wear green" campaign, which we launched only yesterday, was an uninhibited success. Throughout Alameda, citizens got into the spirit; by all accounts, in fact, their spirits were quite high. It seems that the taxpayers are so fed up with big-government control of their movements that they went beyond our suggestion of wearing green clothing and extended it to their beverages as well.So great was moral indignation of Right Thinking Alamedans everywhere that sometimes it was difficult to understand what they were saying; obviously, they were so intoxicated with righteous outrage that ...
Across the dock from the USS Hornet in Nelson’s Marine boatyard rests Cheyenne — another historic sea vessel.
The catamaran doesn’t have the colorful paint job she had when she broke world records in 2001 and 2004 (shown above), but you can still recognize her.
Her two hulls are enormous. In fact, they are actually longer than the hulls on BMW-Oracle’s trimaran, which measures 113 feet and won the America’s Cup a few weeks ago in Barcelona.
Cheyenne’s two hulls measure 125 feet each, though they started out at 105 feet when the vessel was initially built in 1996-1998. A re-build took place in 2000.
The catamaran’s mast, though, ...
I’m not sure if anyone has been following the news about Pleasanton’s housing cap being ruled illegal. On Friday Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch declared that a housing cap that was voter enacted in 1996 that capped off all new housing in Pleasanton was in violation of state housing laws.
Highlights from the San Francisco Chronicle:
…The ruling is the first by a California judge to require a city to change its zoning to accommodate new housing, said attorney Richard Marcantonio of the nonprofit Public Advocates firm, which represented the plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking to overturn the cap.
Those plaintiffs said ...
A top-ranking executive from SunCal Companies told the City Council early this morning that the developer will submit an amended plan to develop Alameda Point by Monday and that it is prepared to release a host of once-confidential documents to the public.
Frank Faye, SunCal’s chief operating officer, said the company will amend the development application it submitted to the city on January 14 in order to correct deficiencies identified in a notice of default the city issued on February 4. City officials have said SunCal needs to submit a Measure A-compliant development plan, though the company could build additional housing ...
The City Council voted early this morning to allow city staff to negotiate with Kemper Sports Management for a long-term contract to run the Chuck Corica Golf Complex. The vote was 5-0.
The council also voted to ask Kemper to consider keeping the complex’s two existing 18-hole courses and to work with a local nonprofit on a deal to run the Mif Albright nine-hole course. The vote was 4-0, with Lena Tam abstaining.
Shortly after 1 a.m., the council voted to negotiate a contract with Kemper, which is seeking to run the complex for up to 50 years.The company has been running ...
