Contra Costa public employee union seeks Andersen appointment
Contra Costa Public Employees Union Local One may have endorsed her opponent but now that Danville Mayor Candace Andersen has won the District 2 supervisor seat in a landslide, the labor group is...
View ArticleDanville Mayor Andersen appointed to CoCo supervisors
Gov. Jerry Brown appointed Danville Mayor Candace Andersen to the Contra Costa County board of supervisors late Monday night and she will be sworn into office Tuesday at 9 a.m., in Martinez, just in...
View ArticleCandace Andersen takes oath of office in Contra Costa County
Elegantly attired in red in honor of the late Supervisor Gayle Uilkema, former Danville Mayor Candace Andersen was sworn into office Tuesday as the District 2 representative on the Contra Costa County...
View ArticleConFire Chief Louder braves Contra Costa Taxpayers Association
ConFire Chief Daryl Louder will walk through a wall of fire to rescue women, children and kittens. But is he brave enough to speak at a breakfast of the Contra Costa Taxpayers Association, whose...
View ArticleRetired Contra Costa Sheriff Warren Rupf diagnosed with leukemia
Retired Contra Costa Sheriff Warren Rupf has been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. In his trademark, wry and witty voice, the 69-year-old East Bay native who served as his county’s sheriff for...
View ArticleFiling period for local candidates opens July 16
If you have a hankering to run for public office, the time is now. The candidate filing period opens July 16 and runs through Aug. 10 for hundreds of local city, school and special district offices. In...
View ArticleContra Costa County office building is weedy and seedy
Lord knows, Contra Costa County is short on cash like every other public agency but the state of the landscaping at its offices on Arnold Drive in Martinez is disgraceful. The grass is dead. Weeds...
View ArticleRichmond Mayor McLaughlin vows to crack down on Corky Booze
Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin has run out of patience with colleague and Councilman Corky Booze, the man she says is responsible for inciting routine dysfunction and chaos at Richmond City Council...
View ArticleContra Costa reacts swiftly to revised Delta peripheral canal plan
Contra Costa County, whose leaders have been fending off a peripheral canal for more than three decades, reacted swiftly and negatively to a joint federal-state announcement today of a new Delta water...
View ArticleRetired CoCo Sheriff Warren Rupf passes away
Retired Contra Costa Sheriff Warren Rupf, the county’s own larger-than-life lawman, died earlier today after a two-month battle with a swift and deadly form of cancer. Rupf told folks about his...
View ArticleContra Costa gets federal domestic violence grant
Contra Costa County is among 12 U.S. counties and cities chosen to receive a new federal grant aimed at reducing domestic violence homicides by focusing on victims most at risk and abusers most likely...
View ArticleCounty Dems urge racist elected official to quit
(Ed.’s note: This post is by my colleague Thomas Peele, who has been on this story’s trail from the start. -J) The Contra Costa County Democratic Party has joined the chorus of those demanding the...
View ArticleCool Rep. George Miller factoids
Lafayette political blogger Jason Bezis at CalPolitical has posted some very cool factoids about retiring Rep. George Miller, D-Martinez, and East Bay representation in Congress for the past 150 years:...
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