Tonite’s show will lift your spirits…

Lift your spirits with music! View this email in your browser Tonight – Friday, November 11, 7:30pm Doug Adamz plus Mark Lemaire with Cindy Lemaire I don’t know about you…but it’s been a stressful week around here. Many folks are troubled by Tuesday’s results and...

Veterans Day Special – Vietnam by the Numbers

Veterans Day is tomorrow, and for this Veterans Day, I am highligthing those who served in Vietnam. Of the total 3,403,000 deployed to Southeast Asia between 1958 and 1975, 47,434 were killed in action and another 10,786 died for other reasons in-theater. Non-mortal...

Moving Past the City Council Election

Following this email is a statement by the Richmond Progressive Alliance, which they asked me to publish – and I am happy to do so, about the November 8 City Council election. This is my statement. Some believe that this election, where I opposed both the RPA...

A Whole New World

In the antithesis of the national election, which just delivered President Trump, Richmond voters selected Melvin Willis, Ben Choi and Jael Myrick for four-year terms. Nat Bates and Vinay Pimple will leave office in January of 2017, and Richmond will be governed by a...

Terminal 1 CEQA Lawsuit Settled

After the City Council approved a development plan for Terminal 1 in July 2016, a group of residents filed a CEQA lawsuit (Brickyard Cove Residents File Legal Challenge to Terminal 1 Project, August 24, 2016). I facilitated a mediation among the parties to try and...

Follow the RPA Money

In 2014, Michael Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times wrote, “Richmond Confidential may be one of the most important newsgathering enterprises in the country right now,” for their in depth coverage of the Richmond 2014 election, something that no other media outlet was...