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Orinda is For Sale; High School is Overcrowded

January 6, 2017 iconeditor Comments 0 Comment

By Richard Colman Piece by piece, the Orinda City Council has been approving the selling off of valuable land in the city. Powerful vested interests, using large sums of money, are destroying the semi-rural, village-like environment of Orinda’s cherished surroundings. New development is contributing to school overcrowding. Miramonte High School in Orinda is experiencing excessive enrollment. The current school year has forced Miramonte teachers to share classrooms. The Mirador, the school’s newspaper, reported on September 30, 2016, that ” ….

Big Money May Have Influenced City-Council Race

January 6, 2017 iconeditor Comments 0 Comment

By Richard Colman Relatively huge amounts of money were spent by the winners of Orinda’s city-council race. The winners, Darlene Gee and Inga Miller, spent, according to September 2016 and October 2016 reports released by the Orinda City Clerk’s office, more than twice as much as their opponents: Bruce London and Linda Delehunt. Total candidate spending between the beginning Jan. 1, 2016, to Oct. 22, 2016, was $37,965, In percentage terms, 69 percent of the total city-council monetary contributions went…