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,
Here are two letters to the editor that I have sent to the local papers:
We are all to blame
As outrageous as what happened on Memorial Day weekend at Crown beach is, we, the citizens of Alameda are all to blame at some level. I for one who is a dues-paying, card-carrying member of the International Association of Fire Fighters and a retired member of a local fire department have watched a succession of placeholder Fire Chiefs lose control of the Alameda Fire Department by lack of action, self-serving policies and very little interest in our community. In the last ten years, we have had at least as many odd ball and in some cases plain incompetent leaders.
Continue reading Alameda Firefighters Union Has Filled Leadership Vacuum
By Erica Madison and Staff Reports
Eliminating nine police officer positions or outsourcing the animal shelter.
This is just one of the many choices and alternatives acting City Manager Lisa Goldman provided the City Council with at last week’s special joint meeting of the Alameda City Council, Alameda Reuse and Redevelopment Authority and Community Improvement Commission.
Continue reading Alameda City Council Considers Outsourcing Animal Shelter
A City of Alameda press release distributed to the media late today says that Alameda City Council unanimously called for an “independent review” into the Memorial Day drowning of Raymond Zack. However, there was no formal vote at last night’s Council meeting.
Continue reading City of Alameda Calls for Independent Investigation Into Raymond Zack Incident
By Erica Madison
Fire, Police, Public Works, Libraries, Parks and Administrative services in City Hall, will all receive a budget cut.
Continue reading Alameda City Manager Proposes Budget Cuts Across Departments
By Erica Madison
Last week, Alameda residents expressed their anger over the Robert Crown Memorial Beach drowning at a special joint meeting of the Alameda City Council, Alameda Reuse and Redevelopment Authority and Community Improvement Commission.
Continue reading Alameda Residents Cry for Criminal Prosecution Over Beach Drowning Tragedy
By Erica Madison
In a telephone interview with Alameda’s acting Deputy Fire Chief Daren Olson, the Deputy Chief said the Fire department’s budget cuts in no way impacted their decision to watch 52-year-old Raymond Zack drown.
Continue reading Alameda Deputy Fire Chief Says Budget Cuts Are Not the Reason Man Drowned
Over the weekend, Action Alameda News launched the Raymond Zack Project, an ongoing inquiry into the unfortunate death of Alameda resident Raymond Zack at Robert Crown Memorial Beach on Memorial Day, 2011, while police officers and firefighters looked on. Readers are invited to submit their contributed documents, investigative reports, and links, to the project.
Continue reading Action Alameda News Launches The Raymond Zack Project
Detailed department-by-department budget documents available on the City of Alameda’s website indicate that the Alameda Fire Department was budgeting and planning for eight emergency water rescue responses in Fiscal Year 2010/11 and ten in Fiscal Year 2011/12.
Continue reading Alameda Fire Department Planned and Budgeted for Eight Emergency Water Rescue Responses this Year
A memo produced for the media by Interim Alameda Fire Department Chief Mike D’Orazi to defend firefighters’ actions on Crown Beach this past Memorial Day, when police and firefighters watched for over an hour as Alameda resident Raymond Zack committed suicide in the waters of the Bay, would seem to contradict the department’s claims. Action Alameda News obtained a copy of that same memo through a public records request.
Continue reading Alameda Fire Department Memo Contradicts Department Claims
According to the Alameda County Fire Department, County rescue boats stand ready in San Leandro, but contrary to an Alameda Police Department press release earlier this week, Alameda public safety officials never asked for them to be dispatched in response to the successful apparent suicide attempt by Raymond Zack at Robert Crown Memorial Beach on Monday. Zack died after wading into, and standing for over an hour in, the cold Bay waters off Crown Memorial Beach.
Continue reading Rescue Boats Stood Ready, but Alameda Never Requested Them
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