Fremont’s City Council is considering conducting a ballpark preliminary feasibility study tonight. Here are the specifics: 7. REPORT FROM CITY MANAGER 7.1 PRELIMINARY FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR POSSIBLE PROPOSAL TO OAKLAND A’S Consideration of a Preliminary Study and the Possibility of a Proposal to the Oakland Athletics Baseball Team to Locate in Fremont Contact Person: Name: [...]

To cap a fairly news-heavy end of the week, Reuters reports that Susquehanna Media is about to be sold to a group of investors including Cumulus Media. Cumulus has around 300 stations in mostly mid-market areas, and acquiring the Susquehanna portfolio of stations expands its reach into bigger markets like the San Francisco Bay Area. [...]

Former US representative Ron Dellums has announced his candidacy for the Oakland mayoral position at a press conference held at Laney College at noon today. He will be running against the previously mentioned city council president Ignacio De La Fuente, councilmember Nancy Nadel, school board members Greg Hodge and Dan Siegel, Alameda County treasurer Donald [...]

Ronn Owens had Lew Wolff and Billy Beane in the last hour of Owens’s show on KGO yesterday. In between Owens’s efforts to get Beane to admit that he dislikes Ken Macha (which didn’t work) and goodnatured barbs about Billy’s “8-track”-like monochrome Blackberry (I have one, it’s from work so it’s free and it works [...]

According to a new article in the Tribune, there is some good and bad news about the ballpark. The good news is that Oakland has assigned a staffer to work on the project, and that IDLF said that the city should have a detailed report (feasibility study?) done this winter. The bad news is that [...]

According to the Chronicle, Ron Dellums will not announce his decision whether or not to run for Mayor of Oakland until Friday. The announcement was originally thought to be scheduled for this weekend. Don’t look for Dellums to be a stadium proponent. Share this: