Jane Powell is a writer and a preservationist who loves books and libraries. She wants the Kaiser Auditorium to be preserved and not sold for development. Yet she is voting NO on Measure N and urges you to, too.

Brooklyn–Bella Vista activist Dawn Hawk describes Pat Kernighan’s accomplishments for her below-580 neighborhood.

Gen Katz, of Friends of the Oakland Public Library, rebuts Judy Offer’s letter in opposition to Measure N, saying among other things that reuse of the Kaiser Center would be no more expensive that the alternative of increasing the height of the existing Main Library.

Playwright Judith Offer says No to Measure N because most of the money would go not to the branches but to the conversion of the Kaiser Auditorium.

Kathleen Hirooka explains the benefits that passing Measure N—the Neighborhood and Main Library Improvement, Expansion, Repair and Construction Facilities Bond Measure—will confer on Oakland’s libraries.