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104 Homes on the Golf Course

Inside Alameda — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:10:57 GMT

A city insider has suggested to Inside Alameda that the real reason city staff are beating up on the golf course operations is that they want to close all or part of the golf course and turn some of the land over to Mayor Johnson friend and developer Ron Cowan, so he can still build his 104 (or more) homes that he was denied for Village VI when he asked to re-zone roughly 12 acres of land on Bay Farm Island from commercial to residential.

Overheard:Orchard Supply Hardware Coming to Alameda

Inside Alameda — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:41:28 GMT

Supposedly Orchard Supply Hardware is scheduled to locate in the old Safeway building at Alameda Towne Center.

Alameda Mervyn's Store Closing at the end of July

Inside Alameda — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:11:12 GMT

Mervyn's insiders have tipped us that the Alameda Mervyn's store at Alameda Towne Centre will be closing at the end of July, because they could not renew their lease.

City of Alameda subject to a discrimination lawsuit?

Inside Alameda — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:25:58 GMT

An out-of-town tipster with a real estate background has told Inside Alameda that the City of Alameda will soon face a lawsuit over discriminatory housing practices. Details were scant out of the need for this tipster to protect her sources.

Alan Lopez Leaving the Journal

Inside Alameda — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:26:17 GMT

Alan Lopez is to leave the Alameda Journal before the end of March, 2008. No word on his new employer, and there seems to be no replacement planned for him.

AP&T to Sell for a Fraction of the Outstanding Debt

Inside Alameda — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:58:17 GMT

Insiders tell us that AP&T is likely to fetch only a small fraction of the outstanding debt when it is sold. Perhaps less than 25% of the debt. This debacle should have been ended long ago. But there were some people back in 2006 questioning whether the telecom business was sustainable.

Clif Bar off the Cliff

Inside Alameda — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:01:34 GMT

Clif Bar no longer plans to locate in Alameda. I guess once they saw how the Mayor screwed Peets Coffee immediately after they moved into Alameda, they got cold feet.

New Skateboard Park for Alameda Teens

Inside Alameda — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:06:31 GMT

Tipsters have told Inside Alameda that the new 7 story parking garage in downtown Alameda is making a great skateboard park for Alameda's teens. It makes sense given that early samples from lunch-time - a peak parking period in downtown Alameda - observers can count no more than a dozen or so cars in the 350 car capacity garage. It's only a matter of time before someone gets hurt and sues the City.

Revising Measure A in Alameda for ALL of Alameda?

Inside Alameda — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:32:00 GMT

Inside Alameda has received a tip that the City Council effort to review and revise the City's Charter includes an effort to revise Measure A not just to exempt Alameda Point from Measure A, but to remove Measure A constraints from the entire island.

SunCal Wants 10,000 Homes at Alameda Point

Inside Alameda — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:29:36 GMT

Inside Alameda has received a tip - unconfirmed, but from a well-placed source - that SunCal's "reach" goal for Alameda Point is 10,000 homes in a mix of condos, apartments and single-family homes. And that this is the genuine reason behind their request for an extension to their Exclusive Negotiating Agreement with the City of Alameda.

Outrageous Flirting at Alameda Sun

Inside Alameda — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:25:48 GMT

From: Dennis Green
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 6:35 AM
To: tips@actionalameda.org
Subject: Jonathan Opet

My name is Dennis Green, and I'd prefer to be quoted by name for authenticity sake. I write an occasional column for the Alameda Sun called "Geezervile, A Wry Take on Aging." Jonathan has been my editor for the past year or so, and he's done a fine job of it, promising to run at least one Geezer a month, usually near the front of the month, and when he's been in a pinch for content, he's thrown in a couple more just for ducks.

He has a light and gentle touch as an editor, cleaning up my language, because I cuss like the proverbial Naval Base Squid, and smoothing out my sometimes tangled prose, which gets that way because I'm fond os using digression as a rhetorical ploy to trick myself into discovering things I know that I didn't know.

He's young and he's probably a bit callow, as I was until just very recently. But he's never changed one of my titles, which my previous editor did, and that really drives me nuts because that's where these Emersonian essays I write all begin, with a good, strong intriguing title. Jonathan seems to have sense that, the spiral nature of my writing, and didn't mess with the seed idea at the center of it all. I really appreciate that.

My prettiest and in some ways most fun editor at the Sun over the past 3-4 years was Suzanne LaBarre, and I must admit I did have a huge crush on the gal, took her out to lunch at Asena and Kamakura a lot, flirted with her outrageously, and generally acted myself. When she went to the Berkeley Daily Planet, she sent me pics one time of a nude in over there, knowing she'd get me going, not because of the photos, which were pretty tame, but because of the gorgeous dame who sent them.

I'm having more fun than a man can stand, this 67 year old survivor, working with the "kids" as I call them, at the Sun. They make the whole thing fun. And Julia, the lovely princess Ju-Ju as Gil Michaels calls her, he of the torid gourmet tastes, is the Ninth Wonder of my World. With her book fair, Literati, where I present workshops, to her 'zine, Red Hills Review, where I've published several short memoirs and a poem about Spaulding Gray, to her winsome, unbreakable spirit, she is the tops.

And she's using my new series of personal character studies, "My Little Town."

So I wish Jonathan well. He's like the "Rolling Soul" they speak of in the Kaballa, and he will gather no moss.

Dennis Green

Jon Opet leaves Alameda Sun

Inside Alameda — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:08:06 GMT

Inside Alameda has it on good authority that Jonathon Opet, former editor for the Alameda Sun, has left the paper. No word on his new employer, but Inside Alameda would love to hear where he landed.

Patrick Lynch ties to Hearthstone financial?

Inside Alameda — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:18:55 GMT

Inside Alameda received a confidential tip that Patrick Lynch of the Planning Board has ties to Hearthstone Financial, www.hearthstone.com , a firm that invests institutional capital in residential development projects. To date, we've been unable to confirm or substantiate this.

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Inside Alameda — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:37:08 GMT

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