State Lines Up $125MM Toward $175MM Golden Gate Fields Acquisition as Conservationists Contest the Source

A push to convert the shuttered Golden Gate Fields racetrack into one of the East Bay's largest waterfront parks has cleared a major financing hurdle, but the source of the money has opened a rift among the region's conservation groups weeks before the state budget is locked. Governor Gavin Newsom's May budget revision earmarks $125 […]