Harvard Casino Study on Internet

The “Harvard Study” cited by Senator Perata (March 5 E-FORUM, http://www.tombutt.com/forum/030306.htm) can be found on the Internet at http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/hpaied/docs/PRS00-1.pdf. Additional information is at...

Tech Park Developer Joins His Adversaries

In a surprise move at tonight’s Richmond City Council meeting, developer Stan Davis, through his attorney, requested that the City Council sustain the appeal of the previous certification by the City’s Environmental Assessment Panel (EAP) of the Final...

Street Sweeping Ballots Hit the Streets

The long-awaited ballots for neighborhood self-determination in the Richmond street sweeping wars are in the mailboxes of tens of thousands of Richmond residents. Printed in English and Spanish, the mailers explain the two options available for street sweeping: (1)...

Edgewater Technology Park Goes Residential?

Just as an unprecedented challenge to the EIR for the Breuner Marsh Mitigation Bank and Edgewater Technology Park shapes up for the City Council meeting of Tuesday, March 11, a simmering rumor of the plan’s demise has just surfaced. Probably at no time is recent...

Senator Perata Opposes Casino In Richmond

In a letter dated February 28, 2003, to Mayor Irma Anderson, Senator Don Perata made a strong plea for Richmond to reject the urban casino proposed by an Indian tribe. Perata cited a recent Harvard study of 100 communities with Indian casinos that found that retail...

Army of Organizations Unite Over Bay Trail Appeal

Like an expeditionary force poised on the borders of Iraq, an army of environmental, transportation, community and other organizations has united in opposition to the City of Richmond”s proposed certification of the Final EIR for the Breuner Marsh Mitigation...