The agenda/packet for the Tuesday, September 19, 2017, Regular Richmond City Council Meeting is on the web. Follow the link below to view: http://sireweb.ci.richmond.ca.us/sirepub/meet.aspx

Mayor and Members of the City Council: This is the report for the week ending September 15th, 2017. Meeting Notes The next City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, September 19th, beginning with Closed Session at 6:00 PM, followed by the regular meeting at 6:30...

I attended the League of California Cities Annual Conference on Thursday and Friday in Sacramento where the City of Richmond picked up two more Beacon Spotlight Awards (we got two last year also). We received a Gold Level Award for Community Greenhoiuse Gas Reduction...

Last night, the Richmond City Council selected Ada Recinos to replace Gayle McLaughlin on the City Council. Although the vote was unanimous, there were indications that Melvin Willis and Eduardo Martinez would have voted for Marilyn Langlois if she had been nominated...

About 400 people from across the US and even from other countries flooded into the Riggers Loft on a warm and sunny Sunday afternoon in Richmond to kick off the Resilient by Design, Bay Area Challenge. This was a great way to showcase Richmond and the Richmond...

I’m not normally a big fan of the Haas Institute, and they typically don’t have anything good to say about Richmond, but in the report “Unfair Shares: Racial Disparities in Allocation of Bay Area Housing,” Richmond is highlighted as the third best performing...

The email copied below was sent by Gayle McLaughlin to her supporters this morning. We have reached a time in Richmond where we no longer have any public media providing objective information about local politics, in this case, candidates for City Council. The East...

It is ironic that tomorrow, one day after today, the 16th anniversary of the World Trade Center destruction, the Richmond Progressive Alliance is putting forward Marilyn Langlois as their preferred candidate for appointment to the City Council. I have to tell you that...

The acclaimed documentary film 'Nat Bates for Mayor' is airing this Friday at 8pm on KQED channel 9. Richmond audiences will want to watch this colorful chapter of City of Richmond history. A trailer is available at<https://youtu.be/uc361fv3bsc>. Richmond,...

If you enjoyed my previous history of Marilyn Langlois, you will also appreciate this article she wrote for Transcend Media Service about her visit to North Korea. In a Jane Fonda-like moment, she recalled: The most moving moment for me occurred outside the Korean War...

Remember when you were in high school, or even junior high, the last day of school before summer vacation? I don’t think I will ever forget that feeling of euphoria and freedom – looking forward to those long summer days, warm nights, sleeping late, swimming, playing...

Back in May of 2017, Intren, an electrical contractor approached Bobby Winston with a proposal to rent some laydown space at Point Molate for $10,000/month for up to 10 months. Members of the Point Molate Citizens Advisory Committee and RPA members of the Richmond...

Despite being routinely pilloried by overly suspicious and obstructionist members of the Point Molate Citizens Advisory Committee and members of the Richmond Progressive Alliance, Bobby Winston of Bay Crossings has succeeded in doing what no one else has been able to...

Point Richmond Music's summer-long concert series continues this evening with the Evie Ladin Band (neo-trad folk) & The Lucky Losers (Americana)! Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Tonight Only: Evie Ladin Band & The Lucky Losers...

As a member of the US Conference of Mayors, I joined over 80 mayors across the country yesterday by signing on to the following letter to Congress: Dear Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate: We write on behalf of the nation’s mayors to urge...

Shirley’s father, James Edward (‘Jimmie’) Ryland, who died in 2005, would have been 100 years old today. Jimmie was born on Labor Day, September 3, 1917, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, the sixth child and fifth son of Algernon Porter Ryland and Tommie Brewer Ryland, who...

The Richmond Branding and Marketing Study is complete. Click here for The Final Presentation, which is a lengthy summary of how the process evolved and how the work products can be used by multiple organizations for multiple purposes. There are dozens of appendices...

On the appointment to the City Council seat I vacated: Take nothing for granted. Anti-democratic forces are always at play! by Gayle McLaughlin Dear friends and supporters of the Richmond Progressive Alliance, By now it is clear to the Richmond progressive movement...

I came as little surprise that the RPA has chosen Marilyn Langlois as its preferred candidate to replace Gayle McLaughlin following her July resignation to campaign for lieutenant governor. Although the endorsement does not assure support of the four RPA City Council...

This is a good article on the state of HUD from the New York Magazine at http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/ben-carson-hud-secretary.html?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email. HUD was dysfunctional before Trump; Ben Carson put it out of its misery.. “As I...