Bates and Booze Do China

Councilmembers Bates and Booze recently returned from a 15-day sister-city trip to China and Japan paid for by Richmond taxpayers, nine days of which was spent not in sister cities but visiting the great tourist attractions of China in and around Shanghai, Suzhou,...

Can’t Pave Our Way Out of Traffic Congestion

We have reached the traffic tipping point in the Bay Area. We were flirting with it in 2001, but the dot-com deflation, 9-11 and the Great Recession gave us over decade of relief. That is over. The signs are everywhere. Rush hour trips that used to take 45 minutes are...