Design Review Board Appointments

Back in November of 2022, I appointed several very good candidates to the Design Review Board (DRB). The RPA City Council declined to approve them because they stated that the new mayor should be making the appointments, a break with tradition that includied when...

Recollections – The 1970s in Richmond

2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the year Shirley and I arrived in Richmond. Long before I got into Richmond politics, we started a family and a business here. The 1970s saw the beginning of two flagship projects for Richmond, Marina Bay and Hilltop Mall. The former...

Political History of Richmond 1997

This is the second installment of A Political History of Richmond. To download, click here. As I compile these, I find two remarkable things, (1) The media coverage back in those days was extraordinary — detailed, objective and thorough, and (2) past is truly...

Political History of Richmond 1996-96

I am working on a political history of Richmond beginning 50 years ago when I moved to Richmond. The project will come in installments, broken down by in two parts, not necessarily in chronological order, first the decades of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s before I was...