Oil is flooding into the Bay Area - in rail tank cars that amount to potential environmental disasters on wheels. First on the scene of any accident is likely to be the local fire department - but in Contra Costa and Solano, some agencies have closed fire stations in recent years or reduced the number of personnel per shift to deal with budget cuts. The city of Santa Clara is looking into spending upward of $10 million to build three youth soccer fields to make up for the complex that will be difficult to get to thanks to heavy traffic during games and other events at the new 49ers stadium. Heintz cites a March 10 letter from 49ers exec Larry MacNeil that says that while the team was "still open" to helping out with the new fields, it wants use of the current soccer complex's 140 parking spaces on game and event days in return. For Russian-born Silicon Valley venture capitalist Alexandra "Sasha" Johnson, who tries to stoke technology investments between the U.S. and her former homeland, the new Cold War tensions between the two countries hit "like a meteor falling out of the sky." Johnson, managing director of DFJ-VTB Aurora, a Russian venture capital fund, estimates that the Russians have invested $2 billion to $3 billion in Silicon Valley companies in the past couple of years.
Reported by SFGate 10 hours ago.
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