by admin | Dec 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Soda-tax wars are ground zero of obesity fight Jeff Ritterman Published 5:03 pm, Monday, December 2, 2013 As San Francisco debates the merits of a soda tax, it makes sense to understand the science of sugar consumption and its health impacts. Opponents of soda taxes...
by admin | Dec 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
http://www.thenation.com/article/177296/meet-mayor-whos-using-eminent-domain-fight-foreclosure# Meet the Mayor Who’s Using Eminent Domain to Fight Foreclosure The fearless Gayle McLaughlin of Richmond, California, has taken on Chevron and big banks on behalf of...
by admin | Dec 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
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by admin | Dec 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
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,...
by admin | Nov 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...