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Tom, taking names and
reporting the facts.

 
The Radical Connection of Claudia Jimenez and Melvin Willis to the Democratic Socialists of America
October 11, 2024
Fleet Week Breakfast Sunday!
October 11, 2024
RPA Lies Like Trump
October 10, 2024
Cops and Goblins October 26
October 9, 2024
November 5, 2024, Election Recommendations -- Harris/Walz
October 9, 2024
City of Richmond a No-show at Important Civic Events
October 6, 2024
She Lived Rent Free on Her Own Private Island
October 5, 2024
'3-Minute Success Story' on the Point Richmond Gateway, April 27, 2008
October 4, 2024
Taste of Richmond
October 4, 2024
Ode to Rosie: celebrating Richmond's home-front history
October 4, 2024
November 5, 2024, Election Recommendations
October 4, 2024
A Week in the Ozarks
September 29, 2024
Winehaven Nominated for America's Most Endangered 11 Historic Places 2025
September 28, 2024
Rosie the Riveter News
September 20, 2024
Another Erroneous Point Molate Piece
September 20, 2024
I Endorse Anthony Caro for School Board
September 20, 2024
What Happens Next With Point Molate?
September 20, 2024
Next Rotary Meeting Friday, September 20, 2024 | Equity for Black Women & Girls - RCF Connects -- VISITORS WELCOME
September 17, 2024
Free Shipyard 3 Tours ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
September 13, 2024
Free Red Oak Victory Tours
September 11, 2024
Community Police Review Commission Investigator Resigns Citing Unethical and Illegal Acts by Commissioners
September 11, 2024
Doria Robinson Complaint
September 11, 2024
September in Sierra City
September 7, 2024
Next Rotary Meeting Friday, September 6, 2024 | Rep. John Garamendi on Zoom - VISITORS WELCOME
August 30, 2024
New Mystery Novel Set in Winehaven
August 28, 2024
Wrongful eviction suit against Richmond councilwoman adds to Rich City Rides dispute
August 28, 2024
RPA Candidates Fare Poorly in West County Democratic Club Endorsement Process
August 27, 2024
Lawsuit: Rich City Rides, Doria Robinson ‘coerced’ tenant to leave uninhabitable building
August 27, 2024
Shawn Dunning on Sunday
August 24, 2024
Jesse Arreguin in Richmond This Weekend
August 24, 2024
Litigation Over Rich City Rides Scandal Begins
August 23, 2024
RPA Cries Wolf
August 19, 2024
If This Jeep Could Talk - Chapters 3, 4 and 5
August 16, 2024
Motel 6 Grant Analysis
August 16, 2024
City announces $550 million settlement with Chevron, withdrawal of oil refinery tax ballot measure
August 13, 2024
If This Jeep Could Talk!
August 13, 2024
Public Search for Save The Bay Board Directors
August 13, 2024
Doria Robinson FPPC Opinion Based on Incomplete Facts
August 13, 2024
Grandview Independent --Court calls Richmond refinery tax ballot language misleading and partisan
August 13, 2024
FINAL NOTICE -- Help Support the Next Generation of Richmond Promise Scholars
August 12, 2024
Next Rotary Meeting Friday, August 16, 2024 | Food For Thought and International Project Update, Help a Life - VISITORS WELCOME
August 12, 2024
After 68 Years, Bell Rings Again Atop Historic Sierra City School - The Mountain Messenger
August 9, 2024
Next Rotary Meeting Friday, August 9, 2024 | Major Updates in US Immigration Policy -- VISITORS WELCOME
August 5, 2024
A Shout Out to the Veterans Administration
August 3, 2024
Factory Bar 4th Anniversary Party, August 10, 2024
August 1, 2024
Rosie the Riveter Trust Job Opening - Retail Associate and National Park Liaison
August 1, 2024
Kyra Worthy Served on Richmond's Personnel Board from 2018 Until 2023
July 30, 2024
National Night Out August 6, 2024
July 30, 2024
Help Support the Next Generation of Richmond Promise Scholars
July 30, 2024
Richmondside, With Help From Richmond Confidential, Rips the Bandage Off Urban Tilth and Rich City Rides Scam
July 30, 2024
After 68 Years, Bell Rings Again Atop Historic Sierra City School
July 30, 2024
Eight Years as Mayor
July 27, 2024
Water for Steam
July 26, 2024
2024 Point Richmond Music Free Summer Concert, Friday 7/26 at 5:30PM
July 24, 2024
Another Good Summer Read
July 23, 2024
Looks Like Moxion is Toast
July 23, 2024
The Bell Rings Again at Sierra City's Historic Old Schoolhouse
July 23, 2024
Who Will Bear the Cost of Ongoing Point Molate Litigation?
July 23, 2024
A Good Summer Read -- Now Available on Kindle or Paperback
July 22, 2024
BCDC Prepared to Approve Portside Commerce Center (Moxion) in Richmond Without a Public Hearing
July 22, 2024
National Night Out
July 22, 2024
Crying Over Spilled Water
July 17, 2024
Roger Dickinson Fundraiser in El Cerrito
July 17, 2024
Exonerated: Bay Area leaders react after Navy clears Black sailors convicted in World War II Port Chicago explosion
July 17, 2024
News in Richmond?
July 17, 2024
Iconic Hotel Mac Up For Sale
July 17, 2024
This Friday – Pogo Park Carnival
July 17, 2024
Remembering Martin Andrew Butt 1947-1969
July 13, 2024
Press Coverage of Point Molate Deal Falls Short
July 13, 2024
City Council Ready to Walk Away From Point Molate With No Compensation
July 11, 2024
City Council Special Meeting on Point Molate
July 11, 2024
City Council Ready to Walk Away From Point Molate With No Compensation
July 9, 2024
Richmond City Council Race Developments
July 9, 2024
Halfway Through 2024, Richmond Homicides Surpass 2023
July 6, 2024
Moxion Mystery Deepens
July 4, 2024
Grandview Independent - City Backs Down on Measure U Taxes for Auto Dealers
June 29, 2024
You're Invited — Pogo Park Carnival!
June 28, 2024
The Butts Do France!
June 26, 2024
Next Rotary Meeting Friday June 28th 2024 | Richmondside -- VISITORS WELCOME
June 26, 2024
One Week Until the Father's Day Breakfast at Red Oak Victory
June 10, 2024
Point Richmond Music Presents . . . 2024 Season Debuts With Fantastic Negrito!
June 9, 2024
Gayle McLaughlin Declines to Run for Reelection, Endorses Sue Wilson
June 5, 2024
Next Rotary Meeting Friday, June 7, 2024 | Black History/Hispanic History/LGBTQ History -- VISITORS WELCOME
June 5, 2024
City Council Continues to Try to Kill The Riggers Loft
June 4, 2024
City in the Weeds Over Cannabis
June 3, 2024
RPA Controlled City of Richmond Fails at Historic Preservation
May 29, 2024
Next Rotary Meeting Friday, May 31, 2024 | The History of Rotary Projects in Mexico - VISITORS WELCOME
May 28, 2024
Self Publishing on Amazon
May 22, 2024
Richmond Promise Hosts Reception for Cal Grads
May 18, 2024
Looking for Sustainability Heroes
May 14, 2024
California State Lands Commission Continues to Advise Craneway Pickleball Not Consistent With the Public Trust
May 14, 2024
Next Rotary Meeting, Friday, May 17, 2024 | The Legal Basis for the U.S. to Defend Taiwan VISITORS WELCOME
May 13, 2024
Next Rotary Meeting Friday, May 10 | Community Villages - VISITORS WELCOME
May 3, 2024
Point Molate Continues to be a Money Pit for the City and a Huge Bonus for the City Attorney
May 3, 2024
Richmond Progressive Alliance Draws Formidable Challengers for November 2024 Election
May 3, 2024
Next Rotary Meeting Friday, May 3, 2024 | Salesian College Preparatory – Getting to Know the School and its Principal -- VISITORS WELCOME
April 29, 2024
Sacramento Legislative Update
April 27, 2024
Richmondside
April 24, 2024
Next Rotary Meeting Friday, April 26, 2024 | New Age for the Richmond Museum Association -- Guests WELCOME
April 24, 2024
And Then There Was Arkansas
April 23, 2024
Nice Article on East Brother from a German Publication (English Translation)
April 23, 2024
Final Feast: Join the Epic Finale of Our Last 15th Food & Wine" Seize the moment" from Culinary Academy's Contra Costa College����
April 20, 2024
Rosie the Riveter Feted in Washington DC
April 16, 2024
Next Rotary Meeting Friday, April 19, 2024 | Telling stories with Quilts - VISITORS WELCOME
April 16, 2024
Craneway Out of Compliance With ABC Permit?
April 5, 2024
GO, GO, GO ANYWHERE in Richmond TOMORROW!
April 1, 2024
For immediate release -POINT MOLATE PLANS REVEALED
April 1, 2024
Next Rotary Meeting Friday, April 5, 2024 | Crime prevention and unhoused interventions VISITORS WELCOME
April 1, 2024
Protect the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge bike/walk path
March 29, 2024
March 29 — National Vietnam War Veterans Day
March 29, 2024
On Journalism and Pickleball
March 28, 2024
Thomas Franklin Butt - Born March 26, 1917
March 26, 2024
Public Trust and the Craneway
March 26, 2024
My 80th Birthday
March 23, 2024
Report from the Pickleball Front
March 23, 2024
City Caves in to Orton's Narrative in Staff Report on March 26 City Council Discussion
March 23, 2024
Riveter Days 2024
March 21, 2024
Grandview Independent -- City "still has concerns" as pickleball opening looms
March 21, 2024
Craneway and Pickleball - To Laugh or Cry?
March 20, 2024
Yosemite Policy Makers Conference
March 19, 2024
54 Years Ago Today --Adventures in Cambodia
March 19, 2024
MTC Caves in to Bay Area Council on Bridge Bike/Walk Lane
March 18, 2024
Pickleball Weekend at the Craneway
March 18, 2024
Craneway Application for Pickleball
March 14, 2024
'24 Primary Election Results #1 (Courtesy Don Gosney)
March 6, 2024
Cecilia King Butt in Her Own Words
March 6, 2024
Free Talks in the Nurseries - New, pop-up plant sale - Win a free front garden design + more
March 5, 2024
The Mysterious Future of the Craneway
March 3, 2024
Ballot Recommendations
February 29, 2024
Pickleball debate continues as work commences at the Craneway Pavilion
February 26, 2024
Silence from City Hall on Craneway Pickleball
February 26, 2024
Mayor Irma Anderson Memorial Service
February 23, 2024
Richmond Election Reform Act
February 21, 2024
Vacancy on Contra Costa LAFCO - Alternate Public Member
February 21, 2024
Really Nice Video on East Brother by the LA Times
February 20, 2024
Urban Tilth and Rich City Rides
February 18, 2024
Riveter Days 2024, March 21-23
February 9, 2024
Point Potrero Marine Terminal (Historic Shipyard 3)
February 5, 2024
Please vote for Jesse Arreguín for State Senate
February 4, 2024
Join Us for the Richmond Rotary Annual Crab Feed to Fund Community Projects and Programs
February 2, 2024
Upcoming, free native plant events! (One is this Sunday!)
February 2, 2024
Rosie the Riveter to Receive Congressional Gold Medal in Historic Ceremony
February 2, 2024
The Saga of Urban Tilth and Rich City Rides Gets Stranger and Stranger
January 30, 2024
LA Times Profiles Richmond's East Brother Lighthouse
January 11, 2024
A Year in the Life After Politics - Part 2
January 10, 2024
A Year in the Life After Politics - Part 1
January 10, 2024
Butts to the Buttes
January 7, 2024
What Does 2024 Hold for Point Molate and Winehaven?
January 2, 2024


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