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ContraCostaTimes.com | 07/25/2005 | Contra Costa Council leaders see favorable trends [link expires]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.
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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.
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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.
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The veteran California congressman’s Washington town house is a shared home away from home for several like-minded lawmakers.
links for 2005-07-25
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Mention the phrase Contra Costa Council, and the reaction might well be, "Who?"
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Back to help figure out how to make the newspaper and its Web site become a tool for exchanging information, not just for delivering it.
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After all this time, we’ve pulled together a list of standards and practices for our bloggers. Most are common sense and aren’t original to us. As with everything on the Internet these days, they are evolving. Help us add to them.
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Affordable units are falling short of claims made in 2002 campaign.
SB 521 – A bill from BART
Lisa Vorderbrueggen’s column in today’s Contra Costa Times – A tiff about transit villages – explains in greater detail the fears expressed by Mary Phelps in yesterday’s letters. It also confirms my point about it not being about developers:
"Ironically, the bill is intended to produce more housing within transit villages, not toss Grandma onto the street.
It originated at BART where staffers are pushing cities and counties to intensify development around stations into transit villages.
Studies show that people who live or work near a station are more likely to leave their cars at home and use public transit, and heaven knows BART needs more riders and the Bay Area needs more housing."
Thanks, Lisa. Just helping people connect the dots.
links for 2005-07-24
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The report finds that the housing sector of the U.S. economy remained strong during the first quarter of 2005.
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City attorney tells council that developers have no right to ask for up-or-down vote
Mac vs. Windows – Scoble responds
Link: The Mac guys start calling Vista names already.
Robert Scoble – Microsoft’s "evangelist" – responds to the recent name-calling coming from the Mac crowd.
What timing.
Over the past several months I’ve read as some of my favorite blog authors, first Michael Hyatt of Working Smart and then Steve Rubel of MicroPersuasion decided to move to Apple’s products. As a Microsoft customer, early adopter and tablet user I did begin to wonder…
[Full disclosure – the kids do have mini Ipods.]
Thanks for the refresher course, Robert.