by admin | Mar 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
54 years ago this week, in 1970, I had completed my year as a combat engineer and arranged an Army discharge while still in Vietnam so that I could visit the famous temples of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, still a “neutral” country in March of 1970, whose eastern border...
by admin | Mar 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
The only vestige of elected office I have hung on to is CivicWell, formerly the Local Government Commission. The City of Richmond has been a member since before I was first elected in 1995. Former Mayor Rosemery Corbin urged me to get involved, and it was some of the...
by admin | Mar 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
Apparently oblivious to the fact that they do not have the required approval from the City of Richmond, Craneway Pickleball is forging ahead with a grand opening this weekend. There is still no official response from the City of Richmond, but there is a protect being...
by admin | Mar 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
Once again, politics has prevailed over vision as MTC caved in to the politically powerful Bay Area Council and its Get the Richmond Bridge Moving campaign. The Get the Richmond Bridge Moving Campaign has been a fraud from the beginning, making Trump-like claims such...
by admin | Mar 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
Lina Velasco has generously provided me with the latest application for the City to approve the sublease for the pickleball venue in the Craneway. Thanks you, Lina. The application materials are copied below: Use description for Craneway BACKGROUND: Orton...
by admin | Mar 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
On what would have been her 102nd birthday today, March 6, I offer glimpses of my mother’s early life. First is a piece she wrote in 1980 about her grandmother and life in the Batesville Martin home in the late 1920s and 1930s. Click here for “My Grandmother’s House.”...
