Call for Interviews Action Alameda news would like to interview local business owners about the potential for combined tax increases to raise sales tax in Alameda to 10% by year-end.
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Dear Editor,
In her open letter, the Alameda Healthcare District’s board director Jordan Battani calls my recent op-ed rumor and innuendo. She wants facts.
Regarding my personal experience at the hospital this summer:
Fact One: The Alameda ER written report that details the very real physician and nurse failures that nearly killed me…and the doctor’s documentation errors…he listed me as a child brought in by her parent! I assure you, I am not a child!
Fact Two: The Alameda Hospital bill of $10,000+ for the ER visit and for imaging later that same month; all was comped; I did not pay one dime.
Continue reading Reader Stands by Her Assertions About Alameda Hospital
In a two-page written response, Jordan Battani, the President of the City of Alameda Health Care District Board of Directors, has responded to a recent reader letter about Alameda Hospital’s practices.
Continue reading Alameda Hospital Defends Practices
Dear Editor,
Why are outsiders spending so much money on Alameda politics this year? Why are Bonta and Tam lauded in glossy marketing campaigns coming from high-powered political firms who are on a mission to destroy Gallant, Jonhson, deHaan and Mataresse?
Continue reading Why So Much Outside Money in Alameda Politics This Year?
A SunCal affiliate, Argent Management LLC, has sent campaign contribution checks to some Alameda City Council and Mayoral candidates, and the candidates are sending the checks back.
Continue reading Candidates to Return Checks From SunCal Affiliate Argent Management LLC
Last night, the Alameda Youth Sports Coalition held a candidates forum at the Bayport Recreation Center. City Council and Mayoral candidates answered a range of questions pertaining to the City’s support – some might say lack of support – for youth sports in Alameda. Approximately 55 people attended the forum.
Continue reading Alameda Youth Sports Coalition Hosts Candidates Forum
by Dennis Green
One of the local Alameda blogs, “Blogging Bayport,” describes its opponents, the preservationists, as “Nimbys” — Not In My Back Yard. Most of the fans of that website, and one a little more subtle in its bias, Michele Ellson’s “The Island,” frequented by many of the same partisans as Bayport, are regarded as “Newbies” by those of us not blindly dedicated to rampant population growth and development. The face-off between the two is viral, rabid and fascinating.
Continue reading Nimbys vs. Newbies
Alameda City Council Candidate Adam Gillitt claims that an online comment posted by a City of Alameda Democratic Club volunteer confirms what he says was manipulation of the election process at the Club’s voter registration table at the recent Webster Street Jam. Action Alameda News has confirmed the comment with its author.
Continue reading Candidate Adam Gillitt Says Online Comment Confirms City of Alameda Democratic Club Manipulation
Last night, the Alameda Unified School District (AUSD) Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve a resolution to allocate $419,000 from the District’s General Fund to continue operations of the Woodstock Child Development Center child care programs until December. The District is hoping that a plan from Interim City Manager Ann Marie Gallant to secure Community Development Block Grants for the program will back-fill the allocation. Additionally, rumblings from Sacramento suggest that the State budget won’t cut funding for the child care programs after all.
Continue reading School District Board Votes to Extend Woodstock Child Care Programs Until December
A week from today, the Alameda Sports Coalition will hold a candidate forum night at the Bayport Recreation Center. In a prepared statement, the Coalition said that nearly all candidates for Mayor and City Council have accepted the group’s invitation to attend.
Continue reading Alameda Sports Coalition Candidates Forum
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