Alameda News

Remember all of that stuff we learned in school about the democratic process and city officials elected by and responsive to the needs of its citizens? You probably think that’s the way it works in Alameda.

A narrow channel of water leaves Lake Merritt and flows into the Oakland Estuary, which separates Oakland from the island of Alameda.

SunCal proposes to start digging up soil in the highly contaminated “NorthWest Territories” area of Alameda Point. SunCal estimates that they need about 2.8 million cubic yards of soil to dump on the project to elevate grade level in anticipation of a future sea level rise. Rather than trucking in all the dirt, SunCal wants to try to excavate some of it from the neighborhood of the most highly contaminated and least well-surveyed site on the Point.

Solar panel installation permits take light-years.

Attorney's representing Dr. Attari's family are seeking $6.5 million in damages at trial.

Another letter to the editor raises the question of formal training for cyclists.

Editor's Note: Troy Lancaster, 19, grew up in Alameda and attended local schools.

THE 9,000 square miles of the Green Mountain State of Vermont where the kids and I enjoyed the past two weeks is home to only about 600,000 people.

As we reported last week, SunCal’s Calthorpe-designed proposal for 6,000 housing units at Alameda Point would establish San Francisco-style densities for Alameda, or density roughly twice as dense as the rest of the City of Alameda.

A woman who worked as part of a cleaning crew at Old Navy at Alameda Towne Centre has admitted stealing merchandise from the business on up to 25 occasions, police said.

The teenager accused in the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old girl at a park on Halloween may experience a "terrible miscarriage of justice" if his case continues in adult court, his attorney said today.

The Alameda County Sheriff's Office has easily passed a nationally known group's rigorous accreditation assessment, officials said.

About a quarter of Alameda students are meeting state and federal standards in English and math comprehension, according to 2008 test data released Thursday.

The politically well-connected Alameda Unified School District board members and proponents of Measure H have had years upon years to fight in Sacramento to fix the funding inequities for AUSD.

Alameda's Historical Advisory Board has approved a second list of repairs and changes to the Del Monte Building.

High-density planned developments like SunCal’s Calthorpe-designed proposal for 6000 homes at Alameda Point, are intended to create automobile congestion in the hopes that such congestion will force everyone to take public transit, thereby removing the automobile as a transportation option.

AUTOBODY FINE ART Gallery, off Alameda's increasingly tony Park Street, always opens new shows with something it hopes visitors will talk about for weeks to come.

After several weeks of effort, months of anticipation and years of hope, the original mural in the Alameda Theatre's mezzanine lobby is nearly restored.

Bob Swanson, a familiar face about town, was first introduced to Castro Valley when he came to visit a Navy buddy after returning from Vietnam to his new post at the Alameda Naval Air Station.

At tonight's ARRA/CIC/City Council meeting, SunCal is asking for an extension to their Exclusive Negotiating Agreement to allow for help from their new financial partner, D.E. Shaw, as well as to "proceed with a development plan that would require approval by the Alameda electorate." That is, a vote to change Measure A.