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Bruce Nye: CitiStat is The Best Thing That Could Happen to Government...
Bruce Nye is Board Chair of Make Oakland Better Now! The opinions in this post, however, are his, and do not necessarily reflect the positions of the organization. So, has everybody seen dramatizations...
View ArticleOakland: “Transit-first” only on paper
But not the kind of paper they use to print bus passes. Do you guys remember a couple months ago when the City Council was talking about how they could bring in some extra revenue by limiting the...
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Lake Merritt Station Area Plan community meeting tonight
Apologies for the short notice, but I wanted to bring your attention to a community meeting tonight on the Lake Merritt Station Area Plan. What is the Lake Merritt Station Area Plan, you ask? Well,...
View ArticleAnother “special” budget meeting tomorrow night
Tomorrow, the Oakland City Council will hold yet another one of everyone’s favorite events — a special budget meeting. You may recall the proposals for balancing the FY2010-11 budget introduced for...
View ArticleFree employee parking will be around a little longer
Do you guys remember that whole issue where it turned out that the City was giving up like $400,000 a year in potential revenue by giving free parking at the garage near City Hall (PDF) to employees?...
View ArticleIgnacio De La Fuente: Balancing the City Budget and My Position on Police...
Last night, at the first of Oakland’s two scheduled budget readings, the City Council voted to approve a range of recommendations with the goal of balancing the FY 2010-2011 budget. Going into Thursday...
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Good on paper, maybe not so much in practice
So. Last weekend, relieved that the elections are finally over, I spent a bunch of time catching up on meetings I hadn’t had time to watch during campaign season and trying to decide what I should...
View ArticleBruce Nye: What does budget reform look like?
Bruce Nye is a board member of Make Oakland Better Now!. Budget reform will be on the agenda at the joint Make Oakland Better Now! and East Bay Young Democrats meeting on Sunday, February 20, 2011,...
View ArticleJean Quan releases “budget” proposal
The wait is over! Well, sort of. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan promised late last year that we’d see a proposed budget in March. And one day before the end of the month, we’ve gotten…well, not exactly a...
View ArticleGreg McConnell: Is Oakland Worth It?
This guest post was written by Gregory McConnell, President and CEO of the Jobs and Housing Coalition, which represents major businesses in Oakland. Many Oakland business people are asking whether...
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