A brief break from Oakland politics & blogging

Note: I am no longer working for TransForm, and as always, the thoughts below are my own.
Tuesday night was a bit devastating for me. I’ve been working with so many others since February to defeat the OAC, and I had always hoped that if all else failed, the Oakland City Council would come through for [...]

Do you want more City Council coverage?

As I was writing the weekly listing of Oakland events yesterday, I realized that I was spending almost as much time writing the part about tonight’s City Council meeting as I was writing the rest of the post. I also realized that it was nearly impossible to say everything I wanted to in just one [...]

In Oakland

Posting here might be a bit erratic over the next few weeks, partly because I’m totally swamped but also because it seems that every time I intend to write about something, In Oakland has beat me to it. In Oakland is one of San Francisco Chronicle’s new local blogs, written by blogoaksphere originators V Smoothe [...]

Oakland Blogger Showdown: Living in the O vs. A Better Oakland

OK, so the title of this post might be a bit misleading. V Smoothe and I won’t be duking it out in the Thunderdome or anything like that. But we are two of the three finalists for the Best of the East Bay best blogger award.
I hadn’t realized this previously, but East Bay Express is [...]

Celebrate A Better Oakland’s Two Year Anniversary by Donating

Nearly two years ago, I started this blog. At the time, I didn’t know there were other Oakland blogs, but I soon stumbled onto Great Expectations (now known as A Better Oakland) and Future Oakland, and began reading them regularly. I basically knew nothing about Oakland government at the time and was consistently amazed by [...]

The power of the blogoaksphere

Last night the blogoaksphere won the battle over the surface parking lot. The Council voted unanimously in support of Ignacio De La Fuente’s resolution, “To spend the next two weeks confirming a plan to use the subject lot for a temporary public art installation space at no additional cost to the Redevelopment Agency…”
V Smoothe saved [...]

V Smoothe, Rebecca Kaplan, Ignacio De La Fuente, oh my!

The Oakland Builders Alliance has a great speaker lineup for its holiday party and one year anniversary celebration tomorrow night: V Smoothe of A Better Oakland, Rebecca Kaplan, Ignacio De La Fuente, and Alex Gronke from Oakbook.
Check out A Better Oakland for all the details, and I’ll see you there tomorrow.

Celebrate the election & hear V Smoothe speak at Mix It Up East Bay

Mix It Up East Bay took a hiatus last month because most of the organizers were a bit busy with various campaigns, but it’s back this week and should be a lot of fun. V Smoothe from A Better Oakland will be one of the speakers featured on Thursday night, which is really reason enough [...]

And some good news…

Not all of today’s news is depressing. The East Bay Express released it’s Best of the East Bay awards today, and I’m excited about a couple of the reader’s favorites.
Earlier this month, I urged all of my readers to vote for A Better Oakland as the best local blog. Well I guess some of you [...]

Vote for A Better Oakland as the Best of the East Bay

The East Bay Express is asking for input on it’s annual Best of the East Bay awards. As I was voting for my favorite Oakland restaurants, stores, performers, etc, I stumbled on the best local blogger category. It was one of the few in which I didn’t even have to think twice – V Smoothe [...]