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Linda Dog Park Closure
It would be hard to imagine a scenario for the secret dog park closure that didn’t include a Brown Act violation. To set a future Public hearing for an Ordinance Amendment required agreement by the Piedmont City Council. So a majority of the Council were primed to parrot the Public Works Director’s deceitful lies about…
City Council’s Shameless Lack of Accountability
The City Council and Administrator have turned the pool project into a $34.9 million comedy of errors—except taxpayers aren’t laughing. Delayed updates, blown deadlines, and a feel-good video masquerading as progress? This isn’t leadership; it’s institutionalized incompetence. Don Chandler’s council comments exposed the farce: smaller cities with tighter budgets routinely deliver projects on time and…
Upper Piedmont’s Playbook: Same as Trump’s, Same as Always
Read a few pieces from fellow residents lately? Same story, different author. The pattern’s undeniable. Just like Trump handed favors to the wealthy, ” Upper Piedmont” – our local wealthy elites and deep-pocketed developers – runs this show. They’ve got the council’s ear, the power. The rest of us in “Lower Piedmont”? We’re shut out….
Piedmont’s Crisis of Competence, Not Zip Codes
A recent op-ed, “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” despite its curious distractions, inadvertently underscores frustrations shared by many residents. There is clear agreement: the city administrator’s performance is lacking, and the council’s composition is a problem. The author is also correct that the manufactured rivalry between Upper and Lower Piedmont is a distraction from our shared governance…
Piedmont’s Dog Park Debacle: Hypocrisy, Secrecy, and the Betrayal of Community Trust
A decision to abruptly close a beloved dog park—used heavily by Oakland residents- has laid bare a culture of hypocrisy and backroom governance. The move, shrouded in secrecy and pushed through with contempt for public input, epitomizes the widening chasm between Piedmont’s self-congratulatory progressive image and its reality of elitism and exclusion. The park, a…
Student Wants More AP Classes
Hunter Fasteau: You are NOT my voice on the Piedmont Board of Education! As a student representative on the school board, your role is to express the desires of the Piedmont student body as a whole and offer the school board insight. At a school board meeting, you passionately expressed the stress you were under…