The Times recently interviewed Contra Costa Council executive director Linda Best and council president Stanley Taylor about a variety of issues related to the East Bay.

Ironically, their answer may be to ease or end their own campaign finance limits. A decade-old Contra Costa law curbing political campaign donations and spending sure hasn’t worked.

Affordable housing and public parks will go head-to-head Tuesday, when Healdsburg planning commissioners discuss the future of one of the last tracts of undeveloped land near the city limits.

The veteran California congressman’s Washington town house is a shared home away from home for several like-minded lawmakers.

Mention the phrase Contra Costa Council, and the reaction might well be, "Who?"

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Affordable units are falling short of claims made in 2002 campaign.

The report finds that the housing sector of the U.S. economy remained strong during the first quarter of 2005.

City attorney tells council that developers have no right to ask for up-or-down vote

They tend to ask very similar questions, so I thought I’d go ahead and put down my five big ideas in one place to make it easier for everyone.

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The ordinance, which passed with a 3-2 vote last July and took effect in October, requires developers to set aside up to 10 percent of new housing as affordable units.

You see, Diridon prepared a 252-page brief justifying why he should get the extra dough. And while that might seem excessive, it worked.

The typical office worker is interrupted every three minutes by a phone call, e-mail, instant message or other distraction.

the Livermore City Council’s anti-growth majority took two steps that could make it even less likely that the city will meet its housing obligation over the next half-dozen years.