San Francisco Bay Area baseball teams see slump in 2005 game attendance

The Oakland A's suffered a 4 percent drop in attendance, which can be expected when they unload stars like their pitchers Hudson and hitters like Jermaine Dye, who now has a championship ring from the Chicago White Sox.

Paris Riots - Police Teargassed Mosque; Insulted Women

Wow. This article at Indymedia reports that on Sunday French police entered a mosque, used teargas on the people in it, and insulted the women. And the French wonder why the young and Muslims are angry.

The Paris Riots: Attacks Spread To European Cities

According to this Associated Press article printed in the Chicago Sun Times, Sunday night saw over 1,400 cars burned and a death -- the first. Also, the attacks have spread to other cities in Europe.

Oakland Can Afford A Baseball Stadium for the Oakland A's: My Plan For More Oakland Redevelopment Money - Phasing Not Forgotten

I found an online newspaper link regarding a San Francisco Business Times article about my idea for generating more money for redevelopment project areas in the City of Oakland. It can be seen with a click on this link Zennie's "Phasing" Concept

It proves what I have been trying to say -- through the press -- to current Oakland Redevelopment Agency head Dan Vanderpriem, who tells everyone that the Oakland Redevelopment Agency can't raise a lot of money for projects like a baseball stadium for the Oakland A's.

I created this concept in 1996. Oakland's legal consultants called it a perfect legal loophole. Then - Oakland Assistant Attorney Donnell Choy was wrong in his assessment of the matter of the "illegality" of the method of tax collection I created, because California Redevelopment Law does not concern that specific matter and the case history on it is non-existent. Oakland's legal counsel of McCutcheon, Doyle, Brown, & Enersen admitted this in a meeting we had on the subject.

The idea still exists today and has never been tried. I contend that Oakland' s affraid to be innovative -- it's not that they're bureaucrats, just that they don't want to really find and use an answer to a problem.