by admin | Mar 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
Growing a Rosie Future! Save The Date: April 7, 2018 The Rosie the Riveter Trust Board of Directors invites you to attend Growing a Rosie Future, our Annual Benefit Dinner 2018. This event will honor living Rosies and other home front workers who transformed American...
by admin | Mar 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
After Steve Early’s book, Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City, you thought you knew everything about how the Richmond Progressive Alliance saved Richmond. But wait, there’s more. Now you can get the rest of the story from former...
by admin | Mar 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
Mayor and Members of the City Council: This is the report for the week ending March 9, 2018. Meeting Notes The next City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 20th. Enjoy the next week off! City Manager Transition As discussed at last Tuesday’s City Council...
by admin | Mar 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
March 7, 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Richmond City Council Office 510-620-6515 RICHMOND CITY COUNCIL HOSTS 11TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY CELEBRATION – SISTERS IN SOLIDARITY/HERMANAS EN SOLIDARIDAD 2018 Richmond, CA Come celebrate 11 years of solidarity...
by admin | Mar 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
I want to let you know that Bill Lindsay, our city manager for the last 13 years, has announced that he will be retiring at the end of this fiscal year in July of 2018. Bill told me that he is not leaving for another job; he just wants to have an opportunity to enjoy...
by admin | Mar 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
This is a dubious anniversary, but fifty years ago today, March 8, 1968, I exchanged my bell-bottoms and tie dyes for Army green and took up an offer from Uncle Sam to see the world. And I did. I was neither drafted nor did I exactly volunteer. I had previously...