Posts Tagged ‘bart’
Friday, April 12th, 2013
Mayor Reed got smacked down pretty hard by Comish Bud Selig when he requested a meeting to beg for baseball in San Jose. Selig’s response reminds us of that one time former VP Dick Cheney was a Walmart greeter.
Mayor Reed’s all for open government, that is of course until it comes to disclosing his text conversations. We doubt the conversations are that interesting anyway.
Beavers have been sighted in Guadalupe River Park, nobody tell Pete Constant.
And it looks like Google hit a little snag in their effort to buy themselves an airport. The SV Business Journal reports the San Jose City Council punted on Tuesday.
Not content to simply be master of the social media universe, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has decided to enter the political fray.
The opening of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge is now up in the air as the bolts holding the thing up were defeated not by earthquakes…but by rain water.
Newby North Bay Congressman Jared Huffman took a swipe at the district shopping, desperate-to-be-a-congressman-wanna-be Ro Khanna this week. Better be careful Jared, Ro still has time to redirect his army of political mercenaries to a district near you. Meanwhile, Mike Honda was hosting a showing of NBC Bay Area’s Damian Trujillo’s documentary in Washington, DC. It’s hard to believe the mid-term elections are still almost two years away.
BART to San Jose is finally getting really, really underway…seriously how long does it take to lay a few miles of train track? Meanwhile, in far less time the Chinese have constructed the longest high-speed rail line in the world. Bart to San Jose…maybe in 2017 if we’re lucky.
California finally joined Power Ball this week. If you’re reading this you didn’t win.
Tags: bart, bay bridge, bud selig, Chuck Reed, dick cheney, google, guadalupe river, jared huffman, mark zuckerberg, mike honda, pete constant, power ball, ro khanna, san jose
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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
Today is all about the Santa Clara 49ers. They are breaking ground on the new stadium today and that seems like really, really big news…
Purdy‘s coverage…
The Editorial Board, fresh off telling Silicon Valley to take a bow for BART, tells Santa Clara and the 49ers to take a bow… (Ed Board, use a new phrase. I’ll take a bow for the recommendation…)
In other news, the Merc’s Sal Pizzaro follows up San Jose Inside’s piece about the forum with four former San Jose Mayors (but not McEnery) and Chuck Reed with his own write up…
Bring your shovels to Santa Clara today, and remember what the Merc Editorial Board always says to do, take a bow…
Tags: bart, inside, mcenery, sal pizarro, santa clara, santa clara 49ers
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012
Well, now that “pension reform” has officially turned into “pension modification” — Scott Herhold weighs in on the “heavy weight bout” that was San Jose Councilmembers Pete Constant and Ash Kalra debating the pension measure at Rotary in San Jose. Herhold goes blow by blow of the debate, including a shot to the groin… Oh, and Herhold will come back with another piece on Sunday on the same topic. Happy Happy Joy Joy!
Rich Robinson on San Jose Inside, who is most certainly not Scott Herhold, also provided a blow by blow with one conclusion being that the City of San Jose’s lawyers conconcted a legal opinion to get rich… (Ok, we’re exaggerating, but not by much…)
Earlier in the week Mr. Roadshow (and Carl and Ron) all got very excited about dirt moving in Fremont on the BART extension to Silicon Valley… Today, the Merc Editorial Board gives everyone permission to “take a bow“…
Mountain View is joining lots and lots of other cities and looking to ban plastic bags and Styrofoam…
Until Friday friends…
Tags: bart, constant, gonzales, guardino, herhold, inside, kalra, mr. roadshow, mt. view
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
While Protect San Jose was napping, or perhaps just not Tweeting, the appellate court reviewing the ballot language case brought against the City of San Jose’s pension reform (err, modification) measure ruled… Some language must be stricken (err, modified) from the ballot language — but the measure moves forward.
Mr. Roadshow has been waiting to write the first line of his story today for a long, long time… (And Carl Guardino has been waiting to read it for a long, long time too…) Let the digging begin on the BART extension from Fremont. (Edesa Bitbadal’s chief fundraising, Ron Gonzales, must be happy too…)
If you smoke, San Jose just cut down your options to do so. They banned smoking from “…outdoor dining areas, outdoor common areas of apartments and condos, service lines such as bus stops and ATMs…” We were hoping from a “nanny state” comment from Councilmember Pete Constant, but the vote was 11-0.
A Google tax in Mountain View… sort of. The City Council is looking for more revenue and the internet companies in Mountain View have lots and lots of revenue…
Tags: #pensiongate, bart, carl guardino, edesa bitbadal, google, mr. roadshow, mt. view, pete constant, ron gonzales
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
The plot thickens… or does it. There were reports yesterday that the Oakland (San Jose?) A’s were for sale and there were suitors making bids. Lew Wolff denied they were for sale… Is this just Oakland being Oakland?
Gary Richards is now the busiest reporter at the Merc… because he has the BART beat. After last week’s funding fun, he chimes in today with what’s next. And what’s next is “extending BART under downtown San Jose…” Good luck all around… Oh, and this is even an important enough story to get the Chronicle writing about it…
Speaking of long-planned-for things in downtown San Jose… A new, free Wi-Fi network is being rolled out. Now we can Fetch from nearly anywhere…
There’s always something in Palo Alto… today it is the City Council scaled down the so-called “gateway” project… Nothing in Palo Alto is free from City Council tinkering…
To the blogs, where County Board of Education member Joe DiSalvo has the unenviable task of defending a $300,000 salary for a public employee, albeit the County Superintendent.
Tags: bart, coe, gary richards, joe disalvo, lew wolff, palo alto, san jose a's, wifi
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Monday, March 12th, 2012
It’s Monday, so let’s get right down to it…
Chuck Reed, ever the PR man, used late Friday afternoon as an opportunity to unveil is plan to expand library hours, reinvest in gang prevention programs, and get going on some street repairs. He didn’t say, “We’re in the black again!” but probably should have…
Over the weekend, Mr. Roadshow took a look back at 6 folks “behind the BART extension to San Jose“… Two of them left office under clouds (Gray Davis and Ron Gonzales), but the rest are still around and kicking: Carl Guardino, Tom Blalock, and Carolyn Gonot… (Not for nothing, but this is the second Ron Gonzales mention on the Fetch in as many weeks…)
Taking a look at local politics, Scott Herhold took a look at local races on the June ballot including weighing in like a Vegas odds-maker…
As we Tweeted and wrote last week, the salary of the new County Superintendent is getting a close look by nearly everyone (except the folks that approved it already)… The Internal Affairs crew at the Merc has a take too…
Here’s something you might have heard before: The San Jose City Council is looking for new ways to attract businesses downtown… This story is from 2012, but it could be anytime in the last 30 years…
On a final note, the San Jose A’s versus the San Jose-Hating Giants got the attention of baseball writer God buster Olney this weekend. More specifically, Olney tweeted: OAK owner Lew Wolff seems compliant, in nature. So Wednesday’s statement signals a new what-do-I-have-to-lose chapter in fight for San Jose.
Tags: bart, carl guardino, Chuck Reed, coe, gray davis, herhold, ron gonzales, san jose a's
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
Happy Valentines Day to Lew Wolff and the Oakland/San Jose A’s… They actually signed a coveted player and the news coverage of this signing appeared in the first 15 minutes of Sports Center. For those of you who have no idea what we’re talking about… and why it’s also a big f-you to Castro…
Gary Richards at the Merc tells us about a $250 million federal allocation of funds for the BART to San Jose project. Perhaps that is the $250 million Mayor Reed was focused on… We’re kidding, but the chatter about the NBC Bay Area story continues. Protect San Jose is coming out of the woodwork and hashtagging the story#pensiongate and writing about the ethics complaint filed (orchestrated) in the story’s aftermath… We’ll see. Other folks are commenting/blogging too…
There’s a serious story this morning all over the local news: “…A prominent San Jose nightclub owner has been charged with raping a young woman in a guest bedroom at his Los Gatos home while his family lay sleeping…” You will be happy to know that the Sheriff, who has been criticized for handing out concealed weapons permits, has revoked the accused’s permit… Perhaps you’d like to go to Myth or Sabor this weekend? Stay classy downtown San Jose nightclub owners…
Tags: #pensiongate, bart, Chuck Reed, gary richards, lew wolff, nbc, protect, sam liccardo, san jose a's
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Thursday, January 12th, 2012
Mark Purdy is on scene at the Major League Baseball owners’ meetings in Arizona. And if you want an inside baseball view (literally) of what is happening at the meetings, read Purdy. While the San Jose A’s decision isn’t on the “official agenda” — Purdy tells you why “it is absolutely on the unofficial agenda…”
The end of Redevelopment, the federal funding of BART, and a decision on the A’s all in one month… That’s pretty groundbreaking shit. Someday we’ll look back on this, and it will all seem funny.
Scott Herhold dips his toe into Santa Clara (stadium) politics this morning by advising Santa Clarans not to sign the Plays Fair referendum on the stadium financing vote. Herhold and James Rowen on the same page… what’s next?
To technology, where it is really a tale of two tech companies… Facebook up and HP down. To add insult to injury, whoever is putting together the Mercury News website these days adds extra ouch to HP by placing the two stories right on top of each other.
An Evergreen School District teacher was arrested on sexual assault charges. These stories are always horrifying, but the headline of the story: Parents shocked at arrest of San Jose teacher on sexual assault charges is a little obvious, don’t you think? If parents weren’t shocked, wouldn’t that be shocking?
San Jose Inside has been busy…
Tags: bart, chris moore, evergreen, facebook, herhold, hp, inside, mark purdy, Oliverio, pete constant, redevelopment, san jose a's
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
As we’ve said before, this is a big week for the Santa Clara 49ers. Not only is there a huge playoff game this weekend, but more importantly (?) the Santa Clara City Council approved the 49ers’/Great America parking deal… Let’s hope the good week continues over Drew Brees.
In other big Santa Clara (business) news, Intel is going to make chips for smartphones and tablets…
In other sporting news, from Tracy Seipel at the Merc: “…It’s not on their official agenda, but when the owners of Major League Baseball’s 30 teams gather Wednesday in Scottsdale, Ariz., for their first meeting of 2012, observers say a proposed relocation for the Oakland A’s to San Jose is an almost unavoidable topic of discussion…” We guess the Brown Act doesn’t really apply…
The Chronicle found something about San Jose growing up that they don’t hate… The BART extension funding.
Supervisor George Shirakawa, Jr. was selected/elected to be the next President of the Board of Supervisors. Insert wise ass comment here ____________…
A violent night in San Jose near the eastern part of Willow Glen. “Man shot, two others stabbed…”
In other crime news, here we go again: A member of a Parents Teachers Organization is suspected of embezzling at an elementary school in Sunnyvale. Sound familiar Trace?
Tags: bart, drew brees, intel, mlb, san jose a's, santa clara, santa clara 49ers, shirakawa, sunnyvale, trace, willow glen
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