The A's crushed the Giants last night in pre-season action...
Environmental Impact Reports (EIR) have a way of bringing out the lawyer in all of us. That is certainly the case with the EIR the City of San Jose issued about the possible A's stadium downtown. Usually, "comments" come from neighbors, sometimes property owners, sometimes NIMBYs, but when a 39 page "comment" comes from the would-be neighbors at the HP Pavilion (the Sharks), it gets some serious ink in the newspaper... but it isn't the ink that strikes Watch Dog as weird, it is this: Couldn't Mayor Reed head off this embarassing story? He is close to former Mayor McEnery. Not only that, but the City recently funded a huge new scoreboard in the Pavilion... with friends like the Sharks. Apparently the Sharks are forgetting one of the ten commandments: "You shall not covet your neighbor's house..."
You think San Jose is having budget problems... check out Caltrain. They are about to cut weeknight service, weekend service, mid-day service, and beer service... (Just kidding, they don't serve beer, but maybe they should to raise money...)
Guess which city in Santa Clara County has a brewing controversy about height limits on homes... ding, ding, ding... you're correct: Palo Alto...
Just down the street, another controversy is brewing between nurses and Stanford Hospital and it might lead to a strike.
The best/ biggest race happening on the political scene these days is for the Democratic nomination to the 21st Assembly District to replace Ira Ruskin. San Mateo County Supervisor Rich Gordon, Palo Alto City Councilmember Yoriko Kishimoto, and Venture Capitalst Josh Becker are the candidates and they spoke at a Silicon Valley Leadership Group forum this week. The candidates were seemingly trying to out-geek one another... which is hard in that race if you have ever seen the three candidates.
More locally, the Metro goes in depth about the District 5 City Council race to replace Nora Campos, and describes the Rise of Carrasco...
This will go over big in rural parts of the State: property owners in Gilroy got a notice from the High-Speed Rail Authority that surveyors would like to enter their property to scope things out. Expect right wing Tea (Bag) Party types to start an anti-train militia...
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