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WHAT’S YOUR QUESTION ABOUT ALAMEDA?
This special, public service feature allows anyone the opportunity to provide ANN with a question related to Alameda, be it city hall issues, crime and public safety, our schools, building and housing plans, the homeless problem, pensions, sea level rise mitigation, local wildlife, infrastructure, etc.
If the question is deemed of importance or interest to the greater community, ANN will pose it to one or more sources who ought to be able to provide informed answers.
Once we receive any response(s), we will publish both the question and the answer (or declination to answer) to our readers. We may also publish non-responses. Depending on the subject matter, your question may become the basis for a deeper look into the issue or topic and a possible news or feature story.
ANN will print your name as the person associated with the question, except under very limited circumstances. We will not provide your contact information, however.
If you would prefer your question be submitted and published anonymously, please check the corresponding button below and explain why. If you have a legitimate, pressing justification such as personal safety, fear of retaliation etc., we will be happy to accommodate your request.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS FUNCTION IS LIVE AND OPEN TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN INVITED TO THE PREVIEW RELEASE OF ANN
QUESTION GUIDELINES:
Please limit yourself to one basic question. Many probative questions begin with “What”, “How,” “Why,” “When,” “Who,’ “Where,” “If,” “Will,” or “Does, ” but you are not required to frame them with those starter words. Your question may have two or three parts, but all should be tied together around a single theme or topic of importance.
Please try to be as informed as you can about a given matter before writing your question, and avoid asking questions to which the answer is obvious or well known. Questions that are barbed, hostile, based on wild-notion conspiracies or unfounded assumptions will not qualify. Please keep it serious.
You are allowed to have up to two sentences of preface to your question to allow for context or fact focusing, as in Question Sample Two, below.
Question Sample One:
What criteria govern Alameda Police Officers’ decisions to pull over motor vehicles and conduct identity checks on the driver or passengers?
Question Sample Two:
In April of 2022, ABAG mandated that Alameda build 5,353 more new housing units. A city spokesperson said that Alameda had no choice but to comply, even though it had earlier appealed to ABAG to reduce the number. Does the city (or, if directed to an individual councilperson, etc., do you) have any future plans to appeal again, and does it/do you truly agree with the goal of the mandate as a matter of policy?
Please fill out the below form to submit a question of your own. ANN reserves the right to edit your question for clarity or brevity before submission and/or publication.
WHAT’S YOUR QUESTION ABOUT ALAMEDA?
This special, public service feature allows anyone the opportunity to provide ANN with a question related to Alameda, be it city hall issues, crime and public safety, our schools, building and housing plans, the homeless problem, pensions, sea level rise mitigation, local wildlife, infrastructure, etc.
If the question is deemed of importance or interest to the greater community, ANN will pose it to one or more sources who ought to be able to provide informed answers.
Once we receive any response(s), we will publish both the question and the answer (or a declination to answer) to our readers. We may also publish non-responses. Depending on the subject matter, your question may become the basis for a deeper look into things and a possible news or feature story.
ANN will print your name as the person associated with the question, except under very limited circumstances. We will not provide your contact information, however.
If you would prefer your question be submitted and published anonymously, please check the corresponding button below and explain why. If you have a legitimate, pressing justification such as personal safety, fear of retaliation etc., we will be happy to accommodate your request.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS FUNCTION IS LIVE AND OPEN TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN INVITED TO THE PREVIEW RELEASE OF ANN
QUESTION GUIDELINES:
Please limit yourself to one basic question. Many probative questions begin with “What”, “How,” “Why,” “When,” “Who,’ “Where,” “If,” “Will,” or “Does, ” but you are not required to frame them with those starter words. Your question may have two or three parts, but all should be tied together around a single theme or topic of importance.
Please try to be as informed as you can about a given matter before writing your question, and avoid asking questions to which the answer is obvious or well known. Questions that are barbed, hostile, based on wild-notion conspiracies or unfounded assumptions will not qualify. Please keep it serious.
You are allowed to have up to two sentences of preface to your question to allow for context or fact focusing, as in Question Sample Two, below.
Question Sample One:
What criteria govern Alameda Police Officers’ decisions to pull over motor vehicles and conduct identity checks on the driver or passengers?
Question Sample Two:
In April of 2022, ABAG mandated that Alameda build 5,353 more new housing units. A city spokesperson said that Alameda had no choice but to comply, even though it had earlier appealed to ABAG to reduce the number. Does the city (or, if directed to an individual councilperson, etc., do you) have any future plans to appeal again, and does it/do you truly agree with the goal of the mandate as a matter of policy?
Please fill out the below form to submit a question of your own. ANN reserves the right to edit your question for clarity or brevity before submission and/or publication.