by admin | Apr 2, 2004 | Uncategorized
Once again, some of my City Council colleagues have excoriated me for violating the code of secrecy that has traditionally shrouded Richmond City government. After chastising me privately, they made a public threat to censure me, I am told, in the post midnight...
by admin | Apr 2, 2004 | Uncategorized
Fighting the Richmond secrecy machine is not new. Both former Council member Donna Powers and I took the City of Richmond to court over access to public information in the early 1990″s. We both lost our court cases on technicalities, with laws and courts that...
by admin | Apr 1, 2004 | Uncategorized
For nearly eight years, citizens of Richmond have been working with four different planning directors, four city managers (including acting and interim), half a dozen public works (services) directors, two mayors, a dozen city council members, MTC, CCTA, Caltrans, the...
by admin | Mar 30, 2004 | Uncategorized
Today”s San Francisco Chronicle featured Richmond”s Rosie the Riveter Memorial in the Rosie the Riveter World War II/Home Front National Historical Park as a Women”s History Month special. The article, which also describes the park”s...
by admin | Mar 30, 2004 | Uncategorized
I inadvertently left one page out of the draft Layoff Plan attached to the 3/27 LAYOFF PLAN UNDER CONSIDERATION BY CITY COUNCIL. The entire draft plan, including the previously missing page, is attached. layoff_plan_033004.pdf
