Kucinich Draws Full House

The Kucinich Campaign and the Richmond Progressive Alliance packed the Foyer of the Richmond Memorial Auditorium with a standing room only crowd of about 600 enthusiastic supporters and maybe some curiosity seekers. Fred Jackson and Andres Soto warmed up the crowd...

SAP – Winner or Loser?

There are many City employees on my E-FORUM distribution list, so this is addressed primarily to them because I have no way of automatically separating them out. To others, please indulge me. Perhaps you will find this interesting anyway. When I first took my seat on...

Richmond Progressive Alliance Rallies Again

The Richmond Progressive Alliance announced a second Community Forum, at which Dennis Kucinich will appear as a speaker. The Forum is hosted by The Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA), “a coalition of progressive Democrats, Greens, and Independents.” It...

Council Prefers Posturing to Problem Solving

I only found out later that after I left the City Council meeting on February 17 after being shut down by Mayor Anderson, she allowed other City Council members to freely debate the same topic. This points up one of the long standing problems with the Richmond City...

Grand Jury Requested to Investigate Budgetgate

Like most other Richmond fiascos, the current budget crisis didn”t just happen. The apparent problem and its repercussions, including hiring a quarter million dollars worth of damage control consultants, was caused by someone either asleep at the switch or...