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Election 2024 Oakmont: My Endorsements
I will have lived soon for a quarter Century in Oakmont. For many years I wrote about our people and our village. Every April or so, elections for the OVA Board of Directors took place. I never publicized my choices for the top leadership positions in our village. I did not believe that I should…
Read MoreOPINION: Who Should the OVA Board Serve?
There are innumerable ways of categorizing the 4700 or so members of the Oakmont Village Association (OVA), but for the purposes of this article, I will consider just two categories: What proportion of OVA members are active? As George McKinney, a long-serving and respected member of the OVA Long Range Planning Committee, observed recently in…
Read More‘Member/People Power’ vs. ‘Board Power’
In a recent Nextdoor post, Malka Osserman applied a quote from Noam Chomsky to her critique of User Groups: “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going…
Read MoreTears and more Tears
As part of my Oakmont Forum series in the Kenwood Press, I wrote these words 20 years ago. They retain their validity to these days. Especially in view of Oakmont’s plan for the Renewal of our Downtown. While the CAC only is slated for Rehabilitation, it will have to be paid for with our moneys.…
Read MoreCentral Oakmont – A Decade in the Making
As we delve into Oakmont’s community dynamics and weigh our options for board candidates, each with their own vision, including the ambitious expansion of Central Oakmont as outlined in the 2030 Project List*, it’s essential to draw upon the valuable insights from the 2015 ‘Voices of Oakmont‘ survey. This extensive effort aimed to capture the myriad…
Read MoreCandidates Night: Questions Not Asked
This is the second article covering important questions that OVA members submitted, hoping to have OVA director candidates answer them during Candidates Night. The first article, Candidates Night: Questions Asked, listed the 13 questions (out of 49 submitted) that were asked and then answered by the candidates at Candidates night. As you can see, there…
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