| Fans, foes clash on Kaiser parking plan
A proposed 270-space parking lot for Kaiser Permanente Medical Center ran into considerable opposition during a public meeting Thursday night in San Rafael. More than half of the two dozen speakers voiced outright opposition to the project or serious concerns regarding the environmental effects, visual changes, noise - or disbelief that the 2.5-acre lot would not increase traffic in the neighborhood. About 75 people, including San Rafael City Manager Ken Nordhoff and Marin County Schools Superintendent Mary Jane Burke, attended the meeting. "Is building a parking lot in our best interest?" asked longtime Terra Linda resident Lee Fitzgerald. The comments will be taken into consideration for a report written by a seven-member advisory committee of representatives from local neighborhood associations, schools and parent groups appointed by Dixie School District trustees.
RealNetworks Buys Casual Gamer Trymedia
In a move to bolster its casual-gaming portfolio, RealNetworks has bought Macrovision's Trymedia unit. The deal, announced in a news release Friday, marked the latest in Macrovision's moves to shed its non-core assets. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. In trading late Friday morning, shares of RealNetworks edged up $0.04, or 0.7 percent, to $5.91. Shares of Macrovision, which announced fourth-quarter earnings Thursday, climbed $0.45, or 2.8 percent, to $16.81. .
Occupational Hazard: Updates on Yao, Butler, G. Wallace
In his Washington Post blog, reporter Ivan Carter reported that, after speaking with trainers and doctors, he found that "there is a real difference of opinion as to whether surgery is an effective way to repair a labral tear." He also wrote that surgery was never mentioned as an option for Butler and that the team is optimistic he will have an unspecified period of rest, which Carter speculated could be between one and three weeks. Plan on sitting Butler for at least next week and check in here as we have more updates. Gerald Wallace, SF/PF, Bobcats: As you are probably well aware, Crash is out with a concussion suffered last Friday. According to the Charlotte Observer, the diagnosis was a Grade 3 concussion, the most severe. Grade 3 concussions are defined by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons as ones that "involve post-traumatic amnesia for more than 24 hours or unconsciousness for more than five minutes.
Police arrest two men in baseball bat, gun scuffle
Officers responding to reports of men running around the complex waving baseball bats about 3:30 a.m. received another call before they reached the complex in the 1200 block of Cleveland Street. They were notified that callers were saying the men had shotguns. A victim who said the men were driving around the parking lot in a car with their headlights turned off flagged down the officers. Officers found the car and found bats and a BB gun that resembled a shotgun inside, according to the police report. They also found shotgun shells and a box for a shotgun, but they did not find the shotgun. Witnesses said there was a party at an apartment and several people were told to leave because they were causing a disturbance. Some of those people returned several times.
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