by admin | Jul 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
For months, persons opposing the development of the former Zeneca site (now called Campus Bay) have been complaining that sea-level rise has been underpredicted in environmental analysis of the project and that greater sea level rise will infiltrate the buried...
by admin | Jul 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
In the bitter debate over defunding Richmond Police, critics of the police like to point out the relatively few instances of police misconduct and characterize them as routine and typical and one of the justifications for reduction in force. To show that such isolated...
by admin | Jul 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
The interim assistant city attorney, Heather McLaughlin (no relation to Gayle McLaughlin) correctly reported at the June 29, 2021, City Council meeting that two votes taken in a protracted and contentious (my description) closed session to terminate City Manager Laura...
by admin | Jul 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Back in 2020, the California State Auditor deemed the City of Richmond the 5th most financially at risk city in California and the #1 risk for unfunded pension liability. Yesterday, June 30, 2021, the Joint Legislative Audit Committee of the California Legislature...
by admin | Jul 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
It was a simpler time when Richmond residency was a geographical term. You either lived inside the city limits, or you didn’t. It was actual Richmond residents who elected City Council members and communicated with then in various ways about local policies, programs...
by admin | Jul 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Check out these news stories on yesterday’s incident where Oakland’s Violence Prevention Chief (their version of the ONS) was being interviewed when a couple of armed persons pulled up to rob them of the camera and other valuables. It was only one the armed security...
