Archive for January, 2008

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Time to Walk the Talk

Caltrans is forming a new pedestrian advisory committee and looking for members.


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Alameda Chainsaw Tree Massacre?

Barbers Point, for those of you who don’t know (I didn’t know until someone directed me to a map) is a street that runs through Alameda Point.  In the spirit of blogging about the hyper local in Alameda, there is a new blog in the “sphere” for Barbers Point, entitled simply enough, Barbers Point News.  
There [...]


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Garden State of Mind

Alameda’s history seems to be conveniently forgotten when discussing Alameda’s present. Zach Braff and Natalie Portman drive the point home.


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And the nominees are…

According to the Alameda Journal 13 residents have applied for the open Planning Board seat recently vacated by Gina Mariani, they are, in Alameda Journal — which means no particular — order:

Albert Verm

Horst Breuer

Jeffrey Mitchell

Brian Buckingham

Charles Wallis

John Knox White

Michael Henneberry

June Grant

Noel Wise

Ronald Silva

Cecilia Campbell-Notar

Gregg deHaan

NormaJean Washingtonpalmer.


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Planning for a public forum.

Monday night, the City of Alameda Planning Board sat down to once again address issues surrounding holding a forum to discuss Measure A.


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Wine around town

So I’m guessing that the wine industry is much like the tech start-up one…you either pray to hit it big on your own and be able to build a nice cushy campus where people ride around on Segways or you hope to get bought out by a much bigger company that appreciates your product.    In [...]


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Endorsements by Alameda Daily Noose & Roger Grumbel

President: Mike Huckleberry**************************************************Vice-President: Heidi Wilson**************************************************Yesterday’s letter from a Mr. Leonard Putkin Obama threw Alameda Daily Noose World Headquarters i…


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Endorsements by Alameda Daily Noose & Roger Grumbel

President: Mike Huckleberry**************************************************Vice-President: Heidi Wilson**************************************************Yesterday’s letter from a Mr. Leonard Putkin Obama threw Alameda Daily Noose World Headquarters i…


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“Drinking Liberally” forum in Alameda

An announcement for an event I will be attending:This a last minute invite and get together, we expect a great turn out! I have been busy getting this event organized with my colleagues from our Drinking Liberally cohort in Oakland.I spoke to many of y…


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Native Habitat

The Habitat for Humanity work party on Saturday was a blast. After 6 hours of hammering, hopefully the muscles that control my grip will heal so that I can pick up a pot of coffee again without fear of dropping it.