What's up with the Oakland A's owner trying to move the team to Las Vegas? As usual, Ann Killion nails it https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/annkillion/article/manfred-spin-can-t-shift-blame-a-s-ballpark-17915781.php
David Lewis
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San Francisco Bay native and advocate. Executive Director of Save The Bay. Posts are my own.
Staff of Save The Bay just met
@SpeakerPelosi to thank her for decades of leadership on #SFBay restoration & climate issues. Also discussed opportunities for federal infrastructure funding of city storm water projects that employ nature to reduce flooding & polluted runoff.
@SpeakerPelosi to thank her for decades of leadership on #SFBay restoration & climate issues. Also discussed opportunities for federal infrastructure funding of city storm water projects that employ nature to reduce flooding & polluted runoff.
CA-37 is traffic congested, prone to flooding, and a physical barrier to restoring #SFBay marshes. Lifting it onto a causeway is the climate-resilient solution, if @CaltransD4 & @MTCBATA will embrace it instead of burying more wetlands. @marinij https://www.marinij.com/2023/02/11/highway-37-pact-unites-agencies-on-widening-elevation-projects/
Cut military hardware spending, especially on nuclear weapons that should never be used. “Trimming weapons and military contracts is long overdue. And Congress routinely refuses to allow the Pentagon to retire weapons systems it no longer wants.”
We spend less on our government as a percentage of gross domestic product than most of our peer countries do, and we also tax less than most of them do. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/02/budget-cuts-liberals/
Being needy/desperate is not the best courting strategy. https://defector.com/the-as-just-want-to-be-wanted @RattoIndy
The A's Just Want To Be Wanted | Defector
There is not-quite-not-but-almost news from the Oakland Athletics as they continue their increasingly frantic search for a reason why Las Vegas should care about them, and that is this from the absolutely non-biased/no rooting interest local outlet Vital Vegas: stadium talks are happening. The A’s have been desperate for the Vegas hierarchical structure to pay […]
If you haven't watched this amazing, honest documentary, I highly recommend: https://youtu.be/DapM0M5HoFI
David Crosby: Remember My Name
😞 Sad to lose another great artist, though he truly cheated death and lived a long, productive life against the odds, leaving us beautiful gifts. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/arts/music/david-crosby-dead.html
