Archive for January, 2010
New Hope for Stressed-Out Kids?
After several decades’ worth of what has seemed like an insane level of pressure on children to achieve, achieve, achieve, it looks like the tide might be beginning to turn.
I say this only because in the last few weeks, a number of notices and links have crossed my desk with news about experts…
Alameda’s New Zealander Pub: Closed
Friends and neighbors of the New Zealander Restaurant and Pub say the popular West Alameda spot closed its doors in late January.
The New Zealander had been open for several years at 1400 Webster Street, next to Croll’s Pizza in the Croll’s Building.
The proprietors were Clive and Donna Hitchens. The pub’s website explains that Clive was named [...]
Alameda’s Rooster Roadhouse: Teen Bands Take Stage
Rooster’s Roadhouse at the corner of Clement and Grand will be hopping tomorrow, January 30, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Bands that include Alameda High School students will be taking the stage: A Conorted Smile, ThatJustHappened, Finish Ticket and DJ Madizon.
Tickets are $6-$10.
The bar features a big band every Wednesday night, which has some community [...]
California’s Education Cuts: Statewide Reactions
“The Babbler” added a comment to my post about the governor’s proposed cuts to education Wednesday, noting “everybody doesn’t always believe the school district when it comes to money.” True. People don’t always believe what the district says about its own finances. In fact, one of the issues…
Alameda Point: Yes on B
To me, Measure B is a choice between moving forward to develop a very good, sustainable (environmentally and economically) vision for Alameda Point. The question before us is, will we (the city) be able to see this vision come to fruition, and after much research and thought, I’ve decided that yes, it does.
Water in the tubes
Living on the West End, I had been hearing helicopters circling in the wee hours of this morning and wondering what was going on.
Turns out, the Posey Tube (the tube heading out of Alameda) has been closed because of a water main break .
So, find some other way out of Alameda this morning,…
Dirty words
Dan Zack, the Downtown Development Coordinator for Redwood City, who was also spearheaded the free market parking scheme for downtown Redwood City, has created a quiz challenging people’s assumptions about what “density” looks like. In this town, to some folks density is a dirty word, right up there with “development.” It doesn’t matter [...]
Eve Pearlman: Class size reduction on the chopping block
The number of students in most public school classrooms in California (at least in kindergarten through third grade) has been locked in at a maximum of 20 children per class since 1996, when Gov. Pete Wilson launched the popular ‘class size reduction’ program. (Though even with this program, California has ranked 48th among states in [...]
Real Estate Roundup by Sharon Alva: Should I stay or should I go?
In 2005, you bought a property for $600K and took one of those fancy 100 percent loans that let you pay a minimum payment smaller than “interest only.” So now your debt is well over $800K and the property is worth $650K. And you can’t meet the payments on the property once it adjusts in [...]
Posey Tube reopened after flooding
Updated 1:30 p.m.
The Posey Tube has reopened after reopened after early morning flooding, and cleanup crews are mopping up the rest of the mess.
A 12-inch water main broke, causing flooding that was reported at around 3 a.m. and leading to the Tube closure, East Bay Municipal District spokesman Charles Hardy said. Hardy said crews worked [...]
