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Activists Publish Home Addresses of Oakland Councilmembers

Activists Publish Home Addresses of Oakland Councilmembers City Hall, Police No Responses »

Aug 172013

Should San Leandro Council Members be next? As you know, a couple of weeks ago the Oakland City Council voted to create a “Domain Awareness Center” to pull together the feeds of surveillance and license plate scanners throughout town, so as to be able to track the movements of anyone who goes to Oakland. In other words, they agreed to be the eyes of the NSA on the ground. Now, Oakland activists are tacitly challenging other Oaklanders to give City Council members a taste of their own medicine. They’ve started by publishing the addresses of the Councilmembers. This is public [Continue Reading]

Petty or just pitiful? Stephen Cassidy bans opponent (moi) from following him on Twitter.

Petty or just pitiful? Stephen Cassidy bans opponent (moi) from following him on Twitter. City Hall, Media, People, Politics, Transparency No Responses »

Aug 132013

Mayor Stephen Cassidy seems to be getting very nervous. He stopped me – and only me – from being able to post comments to his notes on his Mayoral Facebook page after I started writing about his lack of integrity and his repeated violations of open government laws. He seems to be getting pettier and more fearful, though. His latest stunt is to ban me from following his official Mayor account on twitter. A twitter ban doesn’t stop you from reading someone’s tweets or replying to them – it just stops you from re-tweeting them. So it would seem that [Continue Reading]

Jim Prola appointed Vice Mayor; Diana Souza, Chief Whiner

Jim Prola appointed Vice Mayor; Diana Souza, Chief Whiner City Hall, Politics No Responses »

May 232013

Council Split in Two Camps The last item on last Monday’s agenda of the San Leandro City Council was the selection of the Vice-Mayor. It had been put off from a previous meeting as the then current Vice Mayor, Michael Gregory, had been absent. Gregory made a motion to nominate Jim Prola for the position. Pauline Cutter quickly seconded him and then Mayor Cassidy immediately called for a vote. He left no room for discussion, counter-motions or public comment. Of course, other council members could have interrupted to offer their own motions nominating someone else – but they didn’t do [Continue Reading]

SLPD Chief Sandra Spagnoli Claims “Over Pollination” Concerns Require Strict Controls of Beekeeping

SLPD Chief Sandra Spagnoli Claims “Over Pollination” Concerns Require Strict Controls of Beekeeping City Hall, Community, Police 1 Response »

Dec 132012

But is this a ploy for police to gain access to resident’s backyards? San Leandro Police Chief Sandra Spagnoli is attempting to turn the “urban farming” ordinance the City Council voted to pass in October 2011, into an “animal control” ordinance. After that meeting, City staff drafted an ordinance, modeled after those in surrounding cities and based on community input, that achieved a happy balance between promoting and regulating urban farming. The Police Chief, however, got a hold of it and is pushing to have it rewritten to provide strict controls on the keeping of bees and chickens. According to [Continue Reading]

Suspect of Stabbing Caught, But It’s Not Enough.

Suspect of Stabbing Caught, But It’s Not Enough. City Hall, Community, Police No Responses »

Mar 242012

Yesterday, a young woman was stabbed to death by her boyfriend near downtown San Leandro. The stabbing was witnessed by a friend and the suspect was quickly caught. Of course, that doesn’t do the victim any good. Nor did the quick arrest of another man who also stabbed his 15-yo girlfriend to death earlier this year. I congratulate the Police for their quick work, but I can’t but wonder if these murders demonstrate a much larger problem of domestic abuse that we are not seeing. And behind that, a greater problem of men who are growing up without the coping [Continue Reading]

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