Successful Green Chamber of Commerce Exhibition

Exhibitors from the Green Chamber of Commerce filled the Lovonya DeJean Middle School auditorium on Saturday. Meanwhile, the Richmond Chamber of Commerce is up to its old tricks, writing its members to oppose the “manufacturing tax,” although the proposed...

Noise as a Public Health Hazard

Dr. Louis Hagler was a resident of Marina Bay until train horns drove him away to the relative quietude of the Berkeley Hills last year. Before he left, however, he played a major role in establishing Richmond”s four railroad Quiet Zones, and he continues to...

Far Worse Than Homicides?

I just returned from quick trip to Washington, DC to attend the Childhood Obesity Prevention Summit sponsored by the Leadership for Healthy Communities, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This was not, by far, my first exposure to the subject....