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by Dennis Green Listening to President Obama talk about education in America, I am delighted. He gets it. At one point, he says, “It’s not either/or, it’s both/and. It’s more involvement by parents, but it’s also better schools. It’s more reform, and it’s also more money!” Next Thursday, August 5th, there will be a meeting of the Naval Air Station, Alameda (Alameda Point) Restoration Advisory Board at Alameda Point. The Restoration Advisory Board is a joint Navy/civilian group that oversees the remediation of the former base. Horst Breuer of Alameda’s Economic Development Commission has told Action Alameda News that he has pulled papers and intends to run for Alameda City Council this November. In a letter to SunCal’s attorney, Louis Miller of Miller Barondess, LLP of Los Angeles, the City of Alameda has insisted that it may take as long as 45 days to satisfy a “voluminous” public records request that Mr. Miller submitted earlier this month, alongside letters threatening legal action against the City. A five car crash closed the Webster Tube this evening during the height of rush hour. Alameda PD directed Action Alameda News to the Oakland Police Department, where a dispatcher explained that an ambulance had been requested. As of 5:40 p.m. there was no estimate when the tube would re-open. Dear Editor, I was among the many Alameda residents who attended the city council meeting last Tuesday, July 20, to urge the council to reject SunCal’s Optional Entitlement Application (OEA) and refuse to extend SunCal’s Exclusive Negotiation Agreement (ENA). The ENA was to expire on July 20th and the recent application included a plan that was substantially similar to what 85 percent of Alameda residents voted against last February. It called for 5,000 residential units, as did the defeated proposal, and now includes an even larger commercial component, with a proposed 4.6 million square feet of commercial buildings. An Action Alameda News investigation reveals that tax exemptions mean that religious schools in Alameda, and businesses that lease property from the City of Alameda don’t pay Alameda Unified School District (AUSD) parcel taxes. Sitting Alameda City Council members have traditionally pitched-in to help local firefighters pull-off their annual charity benefit pancake breakfast. This year was no different. In a release earlier this week, Alameda Firefighters Local 689 of the International Association of Fire Fighters denied that Alameda City Councilmember Lena Tam (or any other Councilmember) leaked information to Local 689 regarding the issue of Ambulance Transport Services, or any other issue. Separately, yesterday, Local 689 issued an endorsement of Alameda City Councilmember Marie Gilmore in her race to become Mayor of Alameda this November. by Dennis Green In the very moment when it seems as though chaos and darkness has overruled your world, see if you can find the light within that darkness. What can you learn from it, what can you gain from this moment? It may seem like total failure, but it’s not. It’s meant to teach you the way out of darkness. |
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