If you haven’t yet destroyed your TV or cancelled your subscription in reaction to the Sopranos finale, check out the new HBO documentary, Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush. Like many other entries in the HBO Sports documentary library, The Ghosts of Flatbush provides a nice balance of facts and anecdotes intercut with great footage [...]

I somehow find myself looking through some city’s municipal code once a month. So I wanted to see what Gus Morrison’s parking concerns were based on. Sure enough, there’s plenty to consider. Fremont’s Municipal Code, Title VIII, Chapter 2, Article 20, Section 8, has the details: Sec. 8-22003. Required parking spaces by type of use.(b) [...]

As our green and gold heroes sputter into the break, there’s a lot of news to cover. Where to begin? Let’s start locally. From the Argus: Lew Wolff and former Fremont mayor Gus Morrison will meet today over coffee to discuss the ballpark village plans, and Morrison’s misgivings over them. I’m guessing Massimo’s? The Tri-Cities [...]

With the Warm Springs and San Jose BART extensions running into major funding-related delays, you may be surprised to know there’s an alternative virtually nipping at its heels. It’s not increased Amtrak service or Caltrain running into the East Bay. It’s the state’s high speed rail initiative. CAHSR is being pitched as an alternative to [...]

Earlier this week former Fremont mayor Gus Morrison submitted a letter to Fremont’s City Council (posted in the Tri City Voice) urging caution in their dealing with the A’s. Morrison wrote, “I have long thought this project was one where the cart seemed to be getting far ahead of the horse.” He went on to [...]

If you haven’t had a chance to download the ballpark village plan at the Merc’s website, you really should. It’s a good snapshot of what the developer’s vision is now, prior to an inevitable series of changes – hopefully all for the good. While studying the plan further over the weekend, I noticed that some [...]