Sad Tale of an Urban Rooster

Can someone help us rehome a rooster? It’s either that or coq au vin. Here is the sad story. On September 12, 2020, someone cruised through my Point Richmond neighborhood and dropped off an unwanted rooster on the street. Richmond Municipal Code Section 15.04.610.070...

Reimagining Public Safety or Reviving a Crime Wave?

The zeal with which the Reimagining Public Safety Task Force (RPSTF) is pursuing defunding the Richmond Police Department is a classic solution looking for a problem. The motivation was a result of police killing unarmed black persons in cities around the United...

A Year Ago, Covid the Corvid Came to Stay a While

It was one year ago tomorrow that a friend brought a tiny baby crow that had been abandoned by his/her parents to us. We named him Covid and raised him to be an adult crow. As with the crows from my youth, he knew when it was time to go and said his last goodbye on...