The Tidelines Water Taxi service is up and running! Routes Richmond to San Francisco route: Morning: 7:00 am and 8:15 am // Evening: 5:45 pm San Francisco to Richmond route: Morning: 7:40 am // Evening: 5:00 pm and 6:15 pm Cost $11.00 per trip (Get tickets and...

Mayor and Members of the City Council: This is the weekly report for the week ending November 18, 2016. 1. Meeting Notes The next City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, November 22nd at 6:30 PM. The agenda may be found by clicking this link: Richmond City...

The agenda/packet for the Tuesday, November 22, 2016, Regular Richmond City Council Meeting is on the web. Follow the link below to view: http://sireweb.ci.richmond.ca.us/sirepub/meet.aspx

Richmond’s Richmond Fair Rent, Just Cause for Eviction and Homeowner Protection full Ordinance passed as Measure L by the voters on November 8 goes into effect on January 1, 2017. The ordinance provides for a five-member Rent Board (see Section 11.100.060 of the...

Salute e Vita Ristorante’s Sixth Annual Free Thanksgiving Feast for Needy Top East Bay Leaders Volunteer to Serve RICHMOND, CA (November 17, 2016) … Where can you find the Mayor of Richmond Tom Butt, Superior Court Judge Diana Becton, Richmond City Manager Bill...

Richmond Rotary Club donated $73,000 to local and international projects last year (see list at end of this email) in addition to many hand-on projects for local schools and non-profits. Please attend the Richmond Rotary Holiday Auction as my guest. If you purchase an...

The paper, “Discussion on Rent Control: Its Role as a Public Benefit and its (In)effectiveness as a Tool to Maintain Affordable Housing,” by Joseph Lewis, won the 2016 Law Student Writing Competition. Lewis is a student at the University of San Francisco School of...

From Don Gosney. Note that the total votes counted went up by over 7,000 after the first results were posted November 8, but the rankings did not change.

A lot of people have been requesting this:

Pilot Project to Remove 350 Creosote-Treated Pilings from San Pablo Bay by Victoria Schlesinger on November 04, 2016 Creosote-treated pilings at the Red Rocks warehouse site in Richmond. (Photo by Marilyn Latta, State Coastal Conservancy) An estimated 33,000...

Mayor and Members of the City Council: This is the weekly report for the week ending November 11, 2016. 1. Meeting Notes The next City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, November 15th beginning with a Closed Session at 5:00 PM, followed by the Special meeting...

Chief of Staff David Gray will be leaving later this month to take a job as the Equity and Inclusion Manager for the External Affairs Division, Workforce Development, of the San Francisco Public Utility Commission. It is a well-deserved promotion for David that gives...

The agenda/packet for the Tuesday, November 15, 2016, Regular Richmond City Council Meeting is on the web. Follow the link below to view: http://sireweb.ci.richmond.ca.us/sirepub/meet.aspx

Courtesy of Don Gosney.

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...