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Category Archives: Business/Economy
Is It Safe?
Sherwin Williams asks for extended work hours (evenings, Saturdays), while refusing repeated requests for testing Sherwin Williams has spent the past 45 days cleaning up the mess it made during its heyday dacades ago, when it was busy “covering the … Continue reading
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Berkeley, Emeryville pull out stops for lab campus
by Doug Oakley Contra Costa Times August 9, 2011 Berkeley and Emeryville officials wooed representatives from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory on Monday, in hopes the institution will choose their cities to build a second campus for 800 scientists. The meeting in … Continue reading
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In Contest For Berkeley Lab Campus, It’s Not the Lab That Counts
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E-VILLE LEAKS: Nice Work If You Can Get It (City Attorney Mike Biddle’s Generous Employment Contract)
The Secret News introduces: E-VILLE LEAKS This section will feature verbatim reports, memos, and other city documents that we believe contain important and useful information. Please let us know if you have a document to share. If you wish to … Continue reading
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Letter to the Editor: Eliminate Emeryville’s Redevelopment Agency and Eliminate the Abuse
The Redevelopment Agency in Emeryville is a fiasco: money for developers, bankers/brokers, attorneys, and consultants. Emeryville runs a tight little agency with many city staffers working on mostly redevelopment agendas. Where do the property taxes go? They go back into … Continue reading
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Banjos in Bulk: Guitar Center to Replace Borders Books at Public Market
Thursday, June 16, 2011 San Franicsco Business Times, by Blanca Torres Guitar Center, a musical equipment retailer, plans to move into a space formerly occupied by Borders Books in Emeryville’s Public Market. The store has signed a lease for 18,000 … Continue reading
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Save Oakland Libraries – “Read-In” Monday, June 20 at Oakland City Hall
In the face of a major budget crisis, Oakland is considering closing 14 of its 18 libraries, including Golden Gate on the Emeryville border. Other locations to be closed are Asian, Brookfield, Cesar Chavez, Eastmont, Elmhurst, Lakeview, Martin Luther King, … Continue reading
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Missives & Misgivings: The Making of the Public Pension Crisis
The newspapers are full of stories about lavish public employee pensions nearly bankrupting cities and public agencies. But I haven’t seen much about how it came to be. So I would like to describe what I think was the major … Continue reading
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Letter to the Editor: City Council Should Address High Cost, Job Performance of City Manager & City Attorney
Letter to the Editor re: Should Big Business Pay Their Fair Share? (May 16, 2011) Once again, it is broken record time. While it’s true that great sums of money are involved when we talk about big business paying more … Continue reading
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Should Big Business Pay Their Fair Share? City Council Says “Let the People Decide.”
The Emeryville City Council last night ignored Pixar’s pleas and instructed the city attorney to begin preparations for a November ballot initiative on whether business taxes should be raised. In a stunning 5-0 vote that featured two reversals, the council … Continue reading
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