Richmond Planning Director Aims Vitriol at Butt

In an email dated March 3, 2005, to City Manager Bill Lindsay, Richmond Planning Director Barry Cromartie launched a fusillade of vitriol at me, accusing me of a long list of transgressions, including, but not limited to: “Misrepresenting facts.”...

Marina Bay on the Wrong Side of the Tracks?

Marina Bay at standstill over trains – C.W. Nevius Saturday, February 26, 2005 Marina Bay is a neighborhood held hostage by the train. The Richmond subdivision is a thriving, growing collection of homes, businesses and shops overlooking San Francisco Bay. What...

Convention Center – Profit Center or Indulgence?

Despite tremendous progress in curing Richmond”s fiscal and management woes, there are isolated challenges that defy resolution. One of these is the Richmond Municipal Auditorium, also known as the Richmond Memorial Convention Center. About a year ago, one of...

Hollywood Fame Brushes East Scenic Avenue

The Elwell family of Richmond shared in an Emmy last fall with father Mike honored for ABC News embedded coverage of the Iraq invasion (See E-FORUM September 24, 2004, Richmond Cameraman in Emmy-Winning Feature. Now, daughter-in-law Catalina Sandino Moreno, wife of...

Passing the Torch at Rosie

As sad as we were to see Superintendent Judy Hart retire not quite five years after breathing life into Rosie the Riveter WW II Home Front National Historical Park, we couldn”t ask for a better interim superintendent than Howard Levitt. He comes across the Bay...

Free Energy Savings Devices

Energy utilities regulated by the CPUC have low-income energy efficiency programs in which consumers, who qualify under the low-income discount program referred to as the CARE program, and seniors and disabled consumers, who earn slightly more than the CARE income...