SlumDowdbeat San Jose city officials are meeting today in a closed session to discuss selling a few plots by the Diridon station to A’s co-owner Lew Wolff. City mayor Chuck Reed estimated that the cost would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $24 million but, like everything else on the market these days, the final ...

Oakland by hook and crook will have a situation clearer well before we will Well, that’s certainly open to a number of interpretations, Stu. I particularly like the “and” in there, rather than the conventional “or”; I suspect that’s merely a bit of greengrocer’s grammar, and that the use of the phrase is less “meaningful” ...

1. Rays need spurious relo threat to get new stadium 2. A’s need spurious antitrust threat and eminent domain to get new stadium

Hunh. Interesting. Via Field of Schemes, LAT article on CA Sen fast-tracking bill to let governor fast-track big developments: The state senate, however, appears to be focused on a new bill, introduced just yesterday, that would allow the governor to fast-track any development project over $100 million, for the next three years. Proximate cause (in ...