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Monthly Archives: September 2013
Profiles in courage
Suppose you’re serving as, or thinking of running for, mayor of a small Bay Area city. You understand full well that spending on retirement benefits for public employees is gobbling up more and more of your city’s revenues and soon … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, City Hall, Pensions
Tagged Chuck Reed, Gina Raimondo, Marie Gilmore, OPEB, Other postemployment benefits, Rahm Emanuel
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The magic number
At Wednesday night’s joint meeting of the City Council and the Planning Board, we might finally get a definitive answer to the perennial question: How many housing units should be built at Alameda Point? Ever since City Manager John Russo … Continue reading
An endorsement to regret?
You can’t blame the Sierra Club if it feels these days like it got taken for a ride.
Say what???
The Merry-Go-Round today begins a new feature we’re calling “Say What???” whose purpose is to translate items on the City Council agenda into “easily understood language” as required by the Sunshine Ordinance.
Posted in Budget, City Hall, Firefighters
Tagged City council, Emergency operations center, Fire station, Janet Kern, John Russo
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How dense do they think we are?
Head’s up, ye dwindling band of diehard defenders of Measure A: The “Town Center” at Alameda Point is going to be chock full of the type of high-density, multi-family housing expressly banned by the City Charter – and no one … Continue reading
So’s your old lady!
Recently likened to a three-ring circus, the dispute between the federal General Services Administration (“GSA”), the East Bay Regional Parks District, and the City of Alameda over the 3.89-acre parcel known as Neptune Point now shows signs of becoming more … Continue reading
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