The National Eat-In Potluck
Labor Day, Monday, September 7, 2009
Gather with friends, family, colleagues and neighbors – and people across America in a national day of action to support Good, Clean and Fair Food in our schools.
Continue reading National Eat-In Potluck at Franklin Park
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Reports are streaming into the Action Alameda News desk this afternoon of another telephone survey of Alameda voters, conducted by EMC Research, presumably on behalf of SunCal. “The questions were extremely leading and mis-leading as usual…” we were told. New York City’s Governors Island was originally home to the British Governor…then home to forts, and a U.S. Army base, and a U.S. Coast Guard base. Now it’s being turned over primarily to public parks and open space. The parallel’s between Governors Island and Alameda Point are surprising – they even proposed putting in gondolas at Governors Island to get people on and off, just like the gondola proposal for Alameda Point several years back. By Erica Madison After a month of discussions between the city and the property owners, 1913 Sherman Street will finally become rezoned as a two-family residence district. Even in these hard times, and with three board members facing a recall campaign, and a handful of lawsuits, AUSD still has money for a website update. By Erica Madison Financial constraints are forcing the Alameda City Planning Board to change its notification process. At a Planning Board meeting on Monday Aug., 24 2009, planning managers Andrew Thomas and Jon Biggs presented a proposed amendment to the Municipal Code’s section 30-36.4. The purpose of amending this section is to cut the expenses of the planning staff. Today, National Public Radio aired a story on wind power, and in the story interviewed Mike Hess, the CEO of Reno, Nevada’s Mariah Power. Sustainable energy light-industrial companies such as Mariah Power are just what we should be luring to Alameda Point, rather than building 5,000 houses. The East Bay Express is reporting that the Alameda Unified School District may be on the hook for wages owed to employees of an area contractor that allegedly illegally underpaid workers. Commentary by DL Morrison It’s a safe bet that most people in Alameda know what a sales pitch is. The more costly the item and the more extravagant the promises, the more skeptical we become. SunCal and its supporters have been touting a grab bag of amenities in support of SunCal’s plan for a massive development at Alameda Point. “World class sports facilities! Acres of parks and trails!” No doubt the developer and its myriad PR consultants did their research and discovered, not surprisingly, that anything family-friendly would go over big in Alameda. Alameda residents looking to get into San Francisco over the Labor Day weekend will have to go by ferry or take the long way ’round through a Richmond-San Rafael Bridge or San Mateo Bridge detour, as the Bay Bridge will be closed. |
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