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Members of the Livermore Tomorrow political action committee say one of its goals is to correct "extensive misinformation" from the anti-Pardee Homes campaign committee, called Friends of Livermore.
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Apple’s new iTunes 4.9, iPod color, allows you to view (and listen to) "enhanced podcasts" these are audio files that can have slideshows, URLs and some cool features we have discovered.
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What happens when employees punch their own clock? They’re happier–and more productive. An inside look at Best Buy’s bold experiment
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BART is inviting the public to comment tonight and Wednesday night on a proposed extension into eastern Contra Costa.
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The typical Bay Area house appreciated a whopping $99,000 in the last year — or more than $8,200 per month — according to a real estate information firm.
Times Pushes for Highway 4
The Contra Costa Times published a very timely editorial today urging California’s Senators (Boxer and Feinstein) to support Highway 4 funding . They can do that by ensuring that Rep. Ellen Tauscher’s $20 million earmark for the project survives the conference committee process – now expected to finalize the highway bill this week.
Read the editorial on the Time’s website.
Or- if – in the future – the link has expired – visit the Finish4Now website and look under Progress Updates.
Thank you, Contra Costa Times.
links for 2005-07-19
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$13.75 million Montini Ranch purchase would preserve city’s scenic hillside
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Was there a time in the history of the planet when people wasted less percentage of their time?" Maybe so, but I’ll be willing to bet these days the new productive world we live in allows us to be unproductive in things like studying wasted time!
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Just a quick reminder to make sure you regularly back your essential files up. This goes double for those of you who are highly organized.
links for 2005-07-18
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K Street Confidential by Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
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Dan Hatfield explains the Contra Costa Times focus for the last half of 2005
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The lesson for Concord is obvious. If adopted from the beginning, transferring land in phases may enable a community to acquire more land in a shorter period of time than an all-at-once approach.
An Independent Judiciary
Stephen L. Carter has written an op-ed worth reading in the July 3, 2005 New York Times entitled: Disorder in the Court.
He reminds us that the judiciary was designed to be independent. He’s right. The Founding Fathers wanted it to be one of the checks and balances in our new system of government.
Carter also points out the sorry history of confirmation hearings and how inappropriate the process has become.
"…The spectacle we have made of confirmation hearings reinforces the public notion that the justices exist to decide cases the way political movements want them to. Liberals think the right started it, and conservatives think the left started it, but the important question is not who started it but who is going to stop it."
Exactly!