If you happen to have registered a username on this site, you’ll notice that if you are logged in a new gray bar appears at the top of the page. This was an addition that came with WordPress 3.1, which was installed tonight. For most of you this bar won’t have any functionality because you [...]

Found this item about now ex-Planning Commissioner Doug Boxer in Trib scribe Angela Woodall’s Friday entry interesting: Boxer, however, looked relaxed because it was his last meeting. He was appointed to the commission nearly six years ago and stepped down a few months shy of being termed out. His resignation wouldn’t attract much attention except [...]

The Chronicle’s Susan Slusser catches up with Lew Wolff on the stadium situation: Wolff reiterated that he believes that the Bay Area should be considered like the other two-team markets, none of which have territorial rights assigned. Wolff said that funding for any stadium approved in San Jose is in place. “We’re prepared to build [...]

It wasn’t 20 years ago that the Cactus League was hanging on for dear life. With 20 teams in Florida and only 8 in Arizona, there was legitimate concern that the days of playing in dry desert warmth were coming to an end. With the Dodgers finally escaping Vero Beach and both Ohio teams now [...]

Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal is at it again. This time he’s talking about that horrible, disgusting word that I loathe, the one that makes my skin crawl, the C-word. That’s right. Contraction. Rosenthal notes that some of the big market owners are grousing about having to send money to low revenue franchises such as the [...]

Carl Guardino’s interview with Lew Wolff and Michael Crowley is now available (MP3). Nothing really new, other than one particular quote from Wolff that I took note of. When asked by a caller about whether it’s San Jose or out of the area to Sacramento or Vegas because Oakland’s not possible, Wolff replied: I don’t [...]

As Santa Clara prepares to “finalize” its stadium deal, Lew Wolff will be on SVLG head Carl Guardino’s “The CEO Show” tonight on KLIV (AM 1590). Wolff’s been making the media rounds every so often, though the tone of this interview should be different from Rick Tittle’s excellent work from two weeks ago. Last September [...]

Update 2/21 1:24 PM – At the SF Business Times, Eric Young has the details of the cities’ alternative proposal: 5% of tax increment from each city’s RDA will be sent to Sacramento to service the $1.7 Billion loan Higher pass-throughs of revenue to counties and school districts, and perhaps a cap on the amount [...]

Pressed by the uncertain future of redevelopment, Santa Clara is set to move the 49ers stadium project forward by making two major actions this Tuesday: “Memorialize” the terms of the stadium development agreement. This would effectively put the deal under contract and allow the City to start raising the initial $40 million for the project. [...]

And so it begins. Numerous reports last night (ESPN/SacBee/FanHouse) have the Maloofs talking with the officials at Anaheim’s Honda Center over a move to Anaheim. NBA commissioner David Stern is feigning ignorance regarding details – but come on, he injected himself into the Kings’ pursuit over a year ago so he must be keeping abreast [...]