Ballot Recommendations

At popular demand, but without elaboration, here are my ballot recommendations: Governor, Gavin Newsom Lieutenant Governor, Eleni Kounalakis Secretary of State, Alex Padilla Controller, Betty T. Yee Treasurer, Fiona Ma Attorney General, Xavier Becerra Insurance...

City Council Election Recommendations

After Tuesday night’s Point Molate fiasco, it is clear that we need to move to a City Council that is no longer dominated by the Richmond Progressive Alliance. Back before the RPA attained a supermajority, we worked together successfully on a lot of issues, including...

Snopes for the Richmond Sun

The flagship campaign piece of the Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA) was mailed this week, thinly disguised as a newspaper and, not surprisingly, in violation of Richmond Municipal Code 2.42.075 because it does not disclose funding. The Richmond Sun mailer promotes...

City Council Subverts Point Molate Settlement Agreement

The Richmond City Council went off the tracks last night, caving in to an obsessed mob of Point Molate obstructionists and adopting a framework for future development that is so constricted it will probably make future development economically infeasible. Of course,...