Pick up your new Oakbook today
(6 Comments)Most regular readers of this blog have probably visited the Oakbook online at one point or another. What you may not know is that starting last December, Oakbook also publishes a kick-ass print magazine. The fifth issue hit the streets yesterday. Read this story »
News of Interest
Since Dellums can’t do his job, the Council needs to do it for him
(3 Comments) Former Planning Commissioner Suzie Lee’s term expired on May 5, 2008. May 5th. She has still not...
BRT Update and Creekside project approval tonight
(46 Comments) So there’s two meetings tonight that might be of interest to my readers. They’re certainly...
Highlights from last night’s Council meeting
(14 Comments) Did you skip the show last night? Had something better to do with your Tuesday evening than stare at...
1 Frank Ogawa Plaza: Oakland’s most expensive child-care center
(9 Comments) Alerting all municipal melodrama addicts. Make sure to tune into to KTOP tonight for yet another episode...
OPD at 837 doesn’t mean what Dellums seems to think it means
(10 Comments) So, if you read the newspaper, it probably did not escape your notice that the Oakland Police Department...
Anti-prop 8, pro-equality rally at City Hall on Saturday
(2 Comments) The passage of Proposition 8, which eliminated the right of same sex couples to marry in California,...
Don Perata for Oakland Mayor?
(24 Comments) How funny, I was just talking about this last night. I’m not particularly interested in speculating...
OPD, 803, and Measure Y
(60 Comments) So tomorrow, four years and twelve days after Oakland voters approved an $88 annual parcel tax to fund...
The new Safeway on College
(77 Comments) So, I don’t think I’ve even mentioned the debate over the new Safeway on College. One of...
The story with CompStat and Oakland
(37 Comments) So, Chip Johnson’s column today is sort-of about general problems with the police department and...
Free Wi-Fi at the Oakland Airport
(12 Comments) Wow! How often do I get to write about something in this City that I’m just completely over the...
What is the City of Oakland’s subsidy to Forest City’s Uptown project?
(12 Comments) Somehow, the comments on my election results post turned into a discussion of City subsidies to Forest...
A different perspective on Dellums
Open Thread
(11 Comments) Want to talk about something I haven’t covered? Do it here. You can find the previous open thread here.
Recent Comments
- len raphael: First Quarter Revenue And Expenditure Results have just been published online. The link below shows the full legislative file for the item (which will be heard in...
- Ken: rudy’s can’t fail is quite okay for a cafe. [opinion on creekside from a temescal resident, moi] These people who live in the new vertical structures, as has...
- Max Allstadt: Hella Bike: I said the best part of Emeryville was in clusters between Hollis and San Pablo, and that’s exactly where you’re strolling to at lunch. Try...
- I Hella Bike Oakland: On James’ comment about Foothill Square: All of that is going to be redeveloped in time: insidebayarea.com In other East Oakland news Fruitvale...
- Aaron Priven: Herb Lubalin lives! As for neighborhood guidelines, while Oakland may well have had different neighborhood boundaries before the freeways were put in place,...
- Patrick: When are they going to implode Global Video? Could be a fun outing.
- Patrick: Hmmm. I lived on 44th @ MLK for a short time and I always felt that the other side of MacArthur was West Oakland. But as far as “feel” is concerned,...
- Andrew: The Walk Oakland map is too fine-grained, breaking up what I’d call the classic West Oakland (580/980) into Prescott, Oak Center, McClymonds etc. North of 580 they...
- Max Allstadt: The planning commission approved Creekside unanimously. I’m sure SHORT will appeal to council. If Jane Brunner or her staff are reading this, I’d like...
- Max Allstadt: If I was defining the boundaries of West Oakland, they’d be as follows: South: 880 East: 980/24 West: 880 or the Bay. The northern boundary is trickier. 580...
- Ken O: So was Creekside approved?? As for “four people on the bus” the only place that happens in Oakland is the 18 bus from ALbany up to Piedmont. I hardly see...
- Ken O: Freaky news: 13-year old kid whose gun went off in a West Oakland classroom now found to have been accomplice to a kidnapping ransom robbery as well as a general mugging,...
