The Meeting That Changed Everything Last Tuesday, I sat in the back row of the community center watching our carefully planned presentation fall apart. We had charts showing where 200 new trees would go. We had quotes from three nurseries. We...
The Mayoral Race: Three Very Different Visions Let’s cut through the campaign flyers cluttering your mailbox. Sarah Chen wants to expand the downtown streetcar system and has a detailed 20-page transit plan that actually includes funding sources. Her opponent Mike Rodriguez...
The Coffee Shop Confrontation That Started It All Last Tuesday’s city council meeting ran two hours longer than usual, and it wasn’t because of the budget discussions. The room was packed with business owners from our downtown corridor, and the tension...
The Parking Wars Are About More Than Parking You’ve probably noticed the tension at the last few neighborhood association meetings. On one side, longtime business owners frustrated about losing street parking to new bike lanes. On the other, newer residents and...
When the Notice Appeared on Maria’s Door Maria Gonzalez first spotted the public notice taped to her apartment building’s front door on a Tuesday morning in March. The city was proposing to rezone the empty lot across from Lincoln Elementary for...
The Plot Thickens on Maple Street You know that awkward feeling when you walk into a room mid-argument? That’s what Tuesday’s city council meeting felt like when the Maple Street Community Garden proposal hit the agenda. What started as a straightforward...
