Snowball and Senior Ball Fill Ford Plant Craneway

Because the Memorial Auditorium is under construction with seismic upgrades, Richmond”s two traditional December events were held this year at Richmond”s premier venue, the newly-rehabilitated 40,000 square foot Ford Assembly Building Craneway on...

Richmond Great in 2008?

Now is time for E-FORUM Readers to weigh in on the best and worst of 2007 and predictions for 2008. For several years, I have prepared detailed year-end evaluations of City of Richmond services, problems challenges and wishes. Originally, these were conveyed only to...

Ed and Op Ed on Chevron Tax Appeal

Opinion about Chevron”s greedy effort to recover property taxes paid to the City of Richmond and Contra Costa County and reduce property taxes in the future was featured on both sides of the Contra Costa Times editorial page this past week or so, a rare and...

Christmas Card from Chevron

Many Richmond residents have received sort of a Christmas card from Chevron, entitled “Chevron Richmond Refinery, our place in the community. Community update news and views from the Richmond refinery featuring an important message from Jim Brumfield.” The...