Archive for March, 2008
My Report on the California Democratic Convention
I have just settled back home from a full weekend spent at the California Democratic Convention in San Jose. This is the state Democratic Party’s annual gathering of delegates, candidates, office-holders, and interested observers.If anybody saw mentio…
Presentation on Light Brown Apple Moth at tomorrow’s Alameda City Council meeting
At tomorrow night’s city council meeting, representatives from California’s Department of Food and Agriculture will present their plans to control the spread of the Light Brown Apple Moth—a plan which includes the aerial spraying of synthetic pheromones three to five nights a month for five years. I wrote about the moth a couple weeks ago, [...]
Priorities
Nestled amidst the bill-ratification this and the ordinance-amending that of this week’s City Council agenda is an item that may provide an interesting insight into the collection of souls who sit on the council: A discussion of the council’s prior…
High Priority
On the agenda for tomorrow night’s City Council meeting there will be a report on the City Council’s priorities for next fiscal year. According to the staff report, the purpose of this is to:
…provide an opportunity for the City Council to give direction on the City s priorities for departmental work plans…and to strengthen the [...]
Restructuring AUSD?
Warning/Disclaimer: This is a relatively long post. Read on at your peril.
Timeline for the K-12 Restructuring Task Force
As others have already reported, (e.g., in the Alameda Journal, on Mike McMahon’s website, on Blogging Bayport Alameda under “Closing and Consolidating,” on The Island), AUSD has just launched a new K-12 Restructuring Task Force (“K-12RTF”) [...]
Rising sea levels and development
Both Lauren Do and Michele Ellson posted this morning about rising sea levels and their impact on Alameda: Just what will be under water here as the ocean rises? A few months back, my presciently helpful research assistant sent email on this topic to Andrew Thomas in Alameda’s Building Department:
12/12/07
Andrew Thomas
Supervising Planner
City [...]
Friday Food for Thought
Will Travis, Exec. Dir. of BCDC dropped a bombshell at the Alameda Rotary. Will his email box recover?
The next big thing
Once, in the not-so-distant past, the terrorists were our biggest enemy. But now, there’s a bigger, badder enemy on the horizon: Nature. According to an article in the Sun on Thursday, we can expect San Francisco Bay to rise over the next 92 years or…
Waterfront Property for Sale
According to an article in yesterday’s Sun (today’s for me, I don’t get a physical copy and so have to wait until Fridays to read it online — yes the Sun does deliver to Bayport, but a due to a series of complicated reasons, not to my house, but I digress) huge sections of Bay [...]
Just in: Video of car in Alameda-Oakland Estuary
Indeed, it is not each and every day that there is a car in the Alameda-Oakland Estuary. Here’s some video of the car and, too, the Alameda Avenue homeowner whose house the car is lodged under. My best guess is, come high tide, they’ll tow that baby out.
