By Dave MatthewsPublished: December, 2008 By 1964, almost the entire island was under the management of California State Parks. Due to the incredibly rich history of the island, in a certain sense there are four completely different parks to see, each with its own identity. Here is your inside guide: Park Number One: The Quarantine […]
By Guy SpanPublished: February, 2006 Who would believe that the City of Alameda and the two largest railroads in the West would both make misleading statements in legal filings to the Federal Surface Transportation Board? The story is convoluted, but it boils down to an $18 million property in the middle of Alameda that used […]
BY MATT LARSON Published: June, 2017 Steve Jobs once suggested that in life, you can only connect the dots looking backwards. That couldn’t be more accurate for Jorge Loera. If you told him as a child in Aguascalientes, Mexico that today he’d be living in California working as a vessel master (in other words, […]
