Decades of observations and wisdom have been boiled down into 33 concise leadership tips that Raytheon had printed into a 3½-by-6-inch booklet called Swanson’s UnWritten Rules of Management.

"The odds against success are astronomical, but Assemblymen Joe Canciamilla, D-Pittsburg, and Keith Richman, R-Northridge …are promoting an audacious scheme to create a "Citizens Assembly" and empower it to develop sweeping reforms in the way California

"The most impressive people I know are all terrible procrastinators. So could it be that procrastination isn’t always bad?"

AB 1234 requires (among other things) that all local agencies that provide compensation, salary, or stipend to, or reimburses the expenses of, members of a legislative body must provide ethics training to local agency officials by January 1, 2007, and eve

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If signed, the deal to lock in lower bond interest rates — which allow for larger infusions of cash — could help make Highway 4 an eight-lane freeway, instead of one with six lanes, through Antioch by 2012.

Downtown Concord is no longer a collection of empty lots and struggling stores. And even with all this activity, the town square plans on getting better.