Dont know if you’ve got any sway with the design folks but we really need a solution to the mobile access –

With all due respect the mobile TCB version is just plain bad. All you get are the recent post banners, no mention of comments – so, you’re forced to look thru each individual post to see if comments exist or have been added.

IMHO this will never gain traction in its current form but c’est la vie – - – a workaround SHOULD be available and looks like it was intended because at the bottom of the mobile page is a link that says – “EXIT THE MOBILE EDITION (view the standard browser edition)” – which would be a PERFECT solution for those very few of us who dont find the mobile version functional – EXCEPT – that the link doesnt work . . . . .

PRETTY PLEASE ??? –

I’ll buy you a drink if you can make this happen . . .

One last thing: If the A’s show interest again in Fremont, we’ll cover it until you’re sick of it. Until then, West is right: it’s a dead issue in these parts and has been so for 3-1/2 years. Both sides have exhausted their talking points. Let’s move on and debate something more relevant to Fremont and the region in 2012. Thanks again for reading this blog.

Looking forward to the debate(s) ahead.
Dan Ondrasek

Unfortunately – you appear to have none because you’ve presented none.

Very consistantly, all you and the rest of the council have EVER served up in this (and so many other) debates has been innuendo, pretty visions, excuses and personalized annecdotes.

Wouldn’t you think that someone who had been on the council this long would have SOMETHING of substance to offer????

Who is FNC? I didn’t even realize FNC was part of the discussion of whether or not inebriated baseball fans do or dont exist. Remember? – the drunk fans you stated in #22 were “wrongfully” identified.

But it seems, based on the data referenced in #24 above, that YOU are wrong, AGAIN, Charlie and once again at odds with reality. (Still trying to figure out who FNC is)

But, let’s move along how about that Aziz Akbari, kid Charlie? If nothing else he has the backbone enough to call it like it is – - – ”Other candidates and council members have been on the council for years,” Akbari said. “I don’t feel like they’ve delivered. They give great talks each year, but they’re not delivering, and I think Fremont needs a new face . . . .”

And, as for that vocal minority thinking you keep regurgitating, (another conclusion, which, IMHO represents a massive disconnect from other obvious facts – but, let’s go along with Charlie’s little dream here just for grins) Wasnt the Fremont Citizens Network just a DIFFERENT minority than the one who so repeatedly put (and re-puts) Bill, Anu, and Sue into their council seats?

Charlie, LOOK AT THE DATA (again) All Fremont has is minority political interests!!!! The voting record itself is one of a MINORITY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But everyone gets that point (seemgingly except you), so here’s my point – -

I hope that by peeling back the veneer of smiling faces to the underlaying waste and ineptitude that has beleaguered this cadre of Council glad-handers and which have a few achievements but many more huge misses and obvious disconnects in rational thinking, for example – Centerville – just MAYBE we might wake up a few of those other tax[auers who, like Akbari, just might decide, they too have had enough, and that it’s time to cast a ballot.

Queue Chris D – Chris, this is where you come in because on *THIS* particular note, we need a public press which is willing to ask the right and good questions – right???

After all It is our local press which, in part, encourages lethargy amongst electorate by making the decision to deliver pretty personal interest or tougher good question answering coverage to our local politicos and which can help to bring the FULL record of accomplishment or lack thereof into the light of day.

And if that full record is scrutinized, I believe that a majority of taxpayers will begin to think like Mr. Akbari. Hopefully, Chris D will begin to get some qood questions on the table in front of ALL of the candidates, in time for election.

So continuing with the shout out to Chris D and Argus, if you are still listening, let’s not waste the time or space on pretty anecdotes and imagery. These stalwart occupants of our Council Chambers should have a LENGTHY list of accomplishments based on their tenure alone and each and every one should be clamboring to get that list in front of electorate. But Isn’t it curious how little space they have each dedicated to RESULTS in their respective web sites and how much resource they instead allocate to pretty pictures and useless lists of people they know of.(There’s a good question – “Why do Fremont incumbants spend so much of their promotional time and effort focussing on broad personal generalizations and less on a discussion of the specific issues that plague our city?”)

For our newbies, we should be hearing clear suggestion as to what they’d do differently and why different is better.

And, Hey Mr. Akbari if you’re around – nice first swing of the bat but, it’s not time for some new “faces” on the council – we’ve already got “faces” – - what we NEED is coherent thought, heatlhy debate, decision, and – most importantly – action!

I have absolutely no idea if he merits a vote for mayor, but, at least he can see that the king has no clothes and has, in this one instance, no qualms about stating as such –

“Other candidates and council members have been on the council for years, I don’t feel like they’ve delivered. They give great talks each year, but they’re not delivering, and I think Fremont needs a new face.” – Aziz Akbari

I can only hope and pray that there’s more were this came from.