BART Shooting: Davey D Interviews Jeff Thomason of Oakland Police Department

This is a great interview of OPD spokesperson Jeff Thomason by DaveyD and done last Friday evening, but it leaves one question open: where is the City of Oakland in the process of the investigation of the BART Shooting? When will it wrap up? How is it being done? By whom?

A's Fremont Stadium Dream Fading Away With Credit Crisis

This video show how the City of Fremont went from being an enthusiastic player in the matter of building the new high-tech stadium for the Oakland's A's to a set of city officials not willing to commit land near a planned Warm Springs BART extention for the stadium.

Fremont has changed in four months from a town that wanted the proposed privately financed stadium to one with a now-powerful citizen's group opposed to it. Why? Because, as I've said before, the A's plan will and now does call for public financing.

Rather than smartly pulling back on the proposal, A's managing owner Lew Wolff is trying to steam forward with this plan. He's also reopened talks with the City of San Jose and Santa Clara County about a stadium there.

What's really not smart about that approach is the Major League Agreement has not been altered to allow the A's to move to San Jose, and there's no guarantee that San Jose would 1) be able to get public approval for a stadium in this political climate, and 2) get MLB owners to approve a change that would certainly harm the fan base of the San Francisco Giants.

Meanwhile, Oakland sits, inactive in doing anything to keep the A's here. Frankly, doing a deal here for some changes in the Coliseum that could be paid for and create jobs and cost far less than in Fremont is the best move for all.

I hope Wolff figures that out.

East Bay Express Gets News From Sanjiv Handa - Robert Bobb Was Worried About Cynthia Dellums

More at EBX: “Robert Bobb should have been Oakland's new city administrator. He was easily the most qualified candidate, and was Mayor Ron Dellums' first choice. Last month, the two men were talking salary and benefits, as they closed in on a deal to bring Bobb back to the East Bay. But then Oakland's respected former city manager changed his mind, and decided to take over the financially troubled Detroit public school system. What happened? According to knowledgeable sources, there were several reasons for why Bobb decided to turn down Dellums, and one of them had to do with Oakland's other "mayor" — Cynthia Dellums.”

-- Look, this source is none other than Oakland's leading City Hall Gossip Authority Sanjiv Handa. I know this because Gammon doesn't normally pop-out with articles like this, and the only person who has the level of detail Gammon presents is Sanjiv. Period.

As to the story itself, it's true. The way the Mayor's Office is ran is not the best story in the World. Again, I like them but they're far too insular to be successful.

ARod? Steroids? Blame Baseball and The Commissioner

Alex Rodriguez admitted that he took performance enhancing drugs in 2003, and perhaps between 2001 and 2003 while with the Texas Rangers. But I don't blame him, I blame Baseball and the Commissioner of Baseball for the "Golden Home Run Age."