Superdelegates appear to follow cash, study says (3/28/08, Front Page)

Rob Hotakainen, McClatchy
Good story about how campaign contributions seem to play a role in the Democratic Party’s superdelegate’s decision.
Prediction: At least one superdelegate will have been found to be taking cash under the table for their vote.

Successor’s pay dwarfs Dynes’ (3/28/08, Front Page)

Matt Krupnick, CCTimes
Whoa, stories like this make it harder to claim CCTimes is biased.
It’s unheard of for a newspaper to expose exorbitant salaries in the public sector, but the Contra Costa Times has been on a roll these past few months with the County Supervisor’s unfair generosity to employees (and themselves), the state’s wasteful spending, and [...]

Future of Lake Tahoe looks murky, study says (3/25/08, Front Page)

Julio Sevrens Lyons, MediaNews
1) In the old days, CCTimes would just cut off the “study says” part. We appreciate the clarification as it is accurate and unbiased.
2) Doesn’t it bother anyone at the Contra Costa Times when a “scientist” uses the term “climate change,” as if the climate hadn’t started changing until the past decade.
The climate is [...]

Bikers join Marine rally (3/23/08, page A3)

MediaNews Staff
Every now and then the Contra Costa Times surprises us here at CCTimesWatch with a story and photos like this one where the pro-troops supporters got together in front of the Marine recruiting center in Berkeley.
These periodic stories make it hard to claim CCTimes is in the same vein as NYTimes or LATimes.
Photo: Tue [...]

Candidates’ information pried into (3/22/08, Front Page)

Glenn Kessler, Washington Post
I may be wrong here because it’s been a while, but when the Clinton White House was caught with over 900 FBI files, did the CCTimes have that story on the front page?
NOTE: The CLINTONS were caught with the files, not some contractor for one of the many overstaffed, overpaid government departments. 
AND: These were FBI files, not worthless [...]

Oceans not warming (3/20/08, not in CCTimes)

Since 2003, over 3000 robots have measured ocean temperatures and have recorded no significant change in temperature, so says Josh Willis at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Willis claims that 80 to 90 percent of global warming comes from the seas. But if the seas are not warming, what should we make of the claim by Saint [...]

Good news hard to come by in Baghdad (3/17/08, page A13)

Garret Therolf, LATimes
Is it a sign of desperation when a newspaper publishes a first-person op-ed in the news section and fails to label it as an op-ed?
Garret takes this story and points out things aren’t perfect in Baghdad. Mind you, they aren’t what they used to be, but that’s not of interest in this story. [...]

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