by admin | Jun 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
Confirming rumors that have been circulating for months, Gayle McLaughlin announced that she will not seek reelection to her Richmond City Council seat. Instead, she has endorsed Richmond Progressive Alliance stalwart Sue Wilson, who announced her candidacy one hour...
by admin | Jun 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
The following story by the Bay Area News Group highlights the ill-conceived effort by the RPA controlled City Council to push out one of the City’s most valuable and successful tenants for reasons that have nothing to do with rent. The Rigger’s Loft Wine Company has...
by admin | Jun 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
John Valdez, former owner of Richmond Compassionate Care Collective (RCCC) has filed a lawsuit against the City of Richmond alleging that the City of Richmond City Council members conspired, aided and abetted fraud that deprived Valdez and the RCCC of a cannabis...
by admin | May 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
As I head off today for the 2024 California Preservation Conference in Los Angeles, it saddens me in this Preservation Month of May how far the City of Richmond has fallen in its stewardship of irreplaceable historic sites. Partially because of mismanagement by the...
by admin | May 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
Next Club Meeting Our next meeting will take place at the Richmond Country Club (address below) on Friday, May 31, 12:30pm. The History of Rotary Projects in Mexico Grier Graff, Berkeley Rotary A history of twenty years of volunteer educational projects led by...
by admin | May 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
I have been experimenting with publishing some of my manuscripts using Kindle Direct Publishing. It’s tedious but interesting. So far, I have published three “books,” which can be purchased as Kindle books or paperbacks I set the price as low as Amazon would allow...