NIMBYs
Why Nextdoor is a NIMBY Hellscape
In the past few years I’ve become increasingly thrifty, not just for financial purposes, but environmental ones as well. In order to find the things I needed, I’d utilize craigslist and Facebook marketplace, but every now and then I’d open NextDoor. I listed my parents’ address on Nextdoor since they
The NIMBYs of El Cerrito Need to Chill the Hell Out
El Cerrito or Little Hill in English is mostly thought of as a well-located bedroom community straddling the line separating Alameda County from Contra Costa County…if it’s thought of at all. But urban housing scarcity in city centers such as San Francisco, and increasingly Oakland, have made neighboring cities more
The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide
A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But
FREE Beer in the Completely Made Up Neighborhood of FolSoMa
I’m not the biggest fan of made up neighborhoods. Historically speaking, whenever a “neighborhood” is pieced off from an existing one and then given a new name, it has always been done by real estate people and developers. They pimp a part of a neighborhood in order to line their