Firefighters Scam Alert

If you get a solicitation from the Firefighters Charitable Foundation to buy tickets to a rodeo at the Cow palace to pay for “assistance programs,” do not respond. This has no relationship to Richmond firefighters. The organization indicates that is...

Island in the Sun

Spend a beautiful fall day this coming Saturday on an island in San Francisco Bay helping to maintain one of Richmond”s unique treasures ” East Brother Lighthouse. Maintaining a lighthouse is a never-ending task. The keepers of old were nicknamed...

Video Cameras in Public Places – Whose Security?

There has been a flurry of discussion the last two days about Richmond”s pending investment in security cameras in public places. The article below from today”s Contra Costa Times discusses objections in general to security cameras from the ACLU, including...