Comments on: Fremont News of the Day

By: charlie C

charlie C — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 03:50:37 +0000

#26
For those who seek elected office for the third time…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VrFV5r8cs0

By: bbox231

bbox231 — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 03:38:40 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9LDis34e6g

By: charlie C

charlie C — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:42:54 +0000

#22
What we got here is a failure to communicate.
Boxie, can your *Niles envy* explain why your acting like a McDonalds labour slave with attitude… or could it be are you and the Calguy are sharing needles? The fact is Niles is surrounded by Fremont a bad break I suppose. Maybe you and Vinnie, and Choo Choo McDonald can find *another cash cow* to chase out of Fremont. Play ball!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u-I0D9ReqI

By: Charlotte Allen

Charlotte Allen — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:37:14 +0000

Marty, what about those trains in Niles? There’s a lot of them. Are they ruining your neighborhood or are you still insisting your steak’s ok?

By: Marty

Marty — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:57:38 +0000

Why does Box remind me of that dinner date who insists her steak is ok despite the fact it’s been charred into a lump of coal? Pun intended.

By: bbox231

bbox231 — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:16:04 +0000

Heck, I guess I dont know what “smart” is, Charlie, and around these parts, THAT’S a pretty silly question – - – but, maybe you ought to take that up with the folks over in Niles.

I guess I thought Kathy was just kinda takin’ a page out of the Niles playbook. . . you know, Niles ? It’s the little area that is in love with their little choo choos . . .

And for really good reasons, right ????

For one thing, that little triangle we call Niles is bordered on all three sides by active, working, rail lines. Heck, they’re practically SURROUNDED by trains !

Daily freight runs and a few passenger runs each of which is belching god-knows-what into the air that we all breath. . .. .

And I dont see anyone walking around with one eye in the middle of their foreheads (yet).

And, those very same folks even host little concerts in their town square, just a few short steps from the daily Amtrak and all those lovely tank cars hauling who knows what to who knows where – - – - and people seem to just LOVE it !

The point is that ANYONE that’s been around Fremont isn’t about to get too terribly riled up over a few trains Charlie, because trains have been a part of our little community for long, long, long before you stumbled into the bright idea of trying to fabricate some kind of problem that isn’t.

But, hey – you keep on playin’ that one-note banjo of yours, you are VERY good at it.

By: charlie C

charlie C — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:09:15 +0000

#16 Hey Boxie, is this what you would call smart?
Read it and weep…
“I knew that the railroads were here before I moved here, I don’t know that a railroad yard will be such a tremendous impact to us as residents.”
-Kathy (Choo Choo) McDonald

#18 PLK …It is quite clear that the *real goal* of the FCNers killing the proposed baseball stadium was to get their *junta* in power. Reasonable people could have made the ballpark work and you know it. Lew Wolff is a *reasonable* unlike Vinnie Bacon and Kathy McDonald!

By: Dan Ondrasek

Dan Ondrasek — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:43:15 +0000

#18

Wow.
FACTS.
Now that quieted things down….
Radio silence for 80 minutes and counting.

By: Dan Ondrasek

Dan Ondrasek — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:50:14 +0000

#18 WOW – FACTS
I think that worked – 24 minutes of radio silence…
make that 25.

By: Paul L. Knight

Paul L. Knight — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:24:20 +0000

In comment 15, it is asserted that Vinnie Bacon and Kathy McDonald killed the baseball stadium. This is not true. The original site west of 880 was killed by the Catellus Corp. which had veto power over the project. Remember that the project consisted of 3500 houses plus 500,000 square feet of retail space plus the stadium financed primarily by income from the sale of the houses and retail space.

The second site near the future Warm Springs BART station was killed by Lew Wolff when he did not write the check for the environmental impact study. It would have also required the redevelopment agency to purchase the land and provide infrastructure improvements for the stadium. This would have amounted to about $100,000,000 of public funds. A much better deal for our city would have put the entire cost and risk of the stadium, including land and infrastructure, in the lap of the developer.

It is quite clear that the real goal was to put a stadium in San Jose.