Our Tenuous Connection to Technology

Some time on Sunday, a large EBMUD water main under West Cutting Boulevard at Wine Street in Point Richmond burst, severing an adjacent conduit carrying the only Comcast fiber optic cable that provides some 3,000 people and hundreds of businesses Internet, telephone...

Our Tenuous Connection to Technology – Update

I am forwarding this, not to embarrass EBMUD or anyone else, but so that everyone can understand how a project got delayed for days because no one involved in the repair knew or was concerned about the scale of inconvenience it was causing to thousands of people. I...

Richmond Leads in Deep Green

Deep Green is the MCE choice for 100% renewable electricity. Based on 2016 electricity usage for all MCE member communities, MCE has determined that customers in the City of Richmond have the most Deep Green electricity usage in the entire MCE service area. Richmond...

Resilient by Design Call for Site Ideas

As mayor, I serve on the Executive Board of Resilient by Design | Bay Area Challenge, a yearlong community-based research and design challenge that is kicking off with an open call for residents around the Bay Area to help them identify sites vulnerable to the impacts...