Managed Homeless Camps

No city has really solved the homeless problem. It remains intractable. What happens when a “pop up” homeless encampment is abated by a public agency? Maybe 20 to 25 percent of the campers who are offered access to a shelter or other program that can take them off the...

Meet Buffy Wicks at the PRBA Luncheon 6/28/18

Also coming – Timber Manhart of Catahoula Coffee to talk about the new Point Richmond Social Club June 2018 Monthly Luncheon Dear Tom, Please join the PRBA this Thursday 6/28/18 for our June Luncheon. This is your chance to meet CA Assembly frontrunner, Buffy...

US Conference of Mayors to the Border

When I was in Boston last week representing the City of Richmond at the U.S. Conference of Mayors, I joined with mayors across the country in a unanimous vote to adopt the policy resolution, “Reverse the Department of Homeland Security’s Family Separation...

Death by a Thousand Cuts?

The second shoe has fallen in the attempt by a small group of people, all affiliated with the RPA, to kill any progress on Point Molate in a full-court press with death by a thousand cuts. As we described in a previous E-FORUM, four individuals, Pam Stello, James...