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Campaign manager Garry South, who came on board as a consultant in August 2008, got more than $300,000. The campaign also paid tens of thousands of dollars in severance to the eight or so full-time staffers who stayed until the bitter end. Insiders ...

Gambling, which keeps company with the deadly sins, attracts dollars the way dogs attract fleas. The question is whether the payoff is worth the risk. Supervisor John Gioia, in whose district the project would be built, long opposed urban gaming ...

MARTINEZ — Advocates for jobs battled Tuesday with environmentalists and gambling foes before Contra Costa County supervisors who are weighing support of a proposed Indian casino and hotel complex at Point Molate in Richmond. The public debate came ...

For $12 million a year, Contra Costa County would turn its staunch opposition to outright support for a major Indian casino-hotel resort on the Richmond waterfront, according to a draft of the pending deal. The agreement with the Guidiville Band of ...

Your Nov. 3 editorial, "Richmond crossroads," laments the characterization of Richmond as a "violent, urban wasteland," its name linked unfairly to the attack on a young girl by feral, inner-city thugs. Apparently, you haven't driven through the ...