State of California • Department of Transportation PROJECT UPDATE Date: August 14, 2013 District: 4 - Oakland Contact: Allyn Amsk Phone: 510/286-5445 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Interstate 580 Scofield Avenue and Western Drive Bridge Decks Replacement Project Lanes Opening...

SAVE THE DATE: Richmond South Shoreline Specific Plan Development Alternatives Presentation The Richmond Planning Division will host a third community workshop for the South Shoreline Specific Plan. At this workshop, the community will have an opportunity to provide...

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Hello, As you may know, the University of California proposes to establish a new research campus at properties it owns in Richmond for selected Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory research programs and for development of additional research facilities for UC...

Richmond: Thousands more sue Chevron over refinery fire By Robert Rogers Contra Costa Times Posted: 08/13/2013 01:21:28 PM PDT | Updated: about 3 hours ago About 500 demonstrators march to the Chevron refinery after a rally at Richmond BART station in... Document:...

Homophobic Group Disrupts Richmond Council Meetings Members of a shadowy nonprofit hurl anti-gay remarks and allegedly pay homeless people to shout at elected officials while staunchly defending Chevron Corporation. By John Geluardi Councilmen Nat Bates and Corky...

Marina Bay Residents, already plagued with train horns all night long, are now having to endure 24-hour a day construction noise. First, it was a subcontractor, Pitcher Drilling, piercing a PG&E gas line that caused a two-hour neighborhood evacuation. Then, on...

City Uses Eminent Domain To Rescue Homeowners From Predatory Loans, Wall Street Freaks Out Author: Deborah Montesano August 12, 2013 9:08 am The benefits of the eminent domain plan are clear. Stopping foreclosures would allow property values to rise and would stop a...

Richmond: Improvement agency says downtown on comeback By Robert Rogers rrogers@bayareanewsgroup.com Posted: 08/12/2013 12:00:00 AM PDT | Updated: 86 min. ago Click photo to enlarge Clyde Young, center, of Richmond, and two women dance to Reed Fromer Band during the...

TENS TEST INFORMATION: What: Community Warning System (CWS) will conduct a public test of a potential new emergency telephone notification service provider to test its call capacity and call quality. What IS being tested? Only testing the phones portion of the CWS –...

See Rename Western Drive (North of I-580) to Stenmark Drive , July 25, 2013. Since introducing the resolution to rename Western Drive in honor of Captain J.O. Stenmark, I been hearing from members of the Stenmark Family from all over. Travis McAfee, a descendant of...

Mayor and City Council: This is the weekly report for the two weeks ending August 9th, 2013. Meeting Notes The City Council is on meeting hiatus during the month of August. The next City Council meeting is currently scheduled for Tuesday, September 10th. In the...

Here are some interesting articles pertinent to Richmond’s plan to rescue underwater mortgages by eminent domain. The bank’s efforts to stop the plan may be just posturing that will last only until discovery starts in the lawsuit, which is something the banks will not...

Chevron refinery fire one year later: Fallout, impact show no signs of waning By Robert Rogers Contra Costa Times Posted: 08/10/2013 04:00:00 PM PDT RICHMOND -- When the No. 4 crude unit at Chevron's century-old waterfront oil refinery burst into flames and sent black...

For better or worse, Jovanka Beckles and I appeared on Fox News this morning to discuss “Ban the Box.” We got our approximately five minutes of fame in front of an audience of 2 million viewers then went home to catch upon sleep. I don’t know anyone who watches Fox...

JOIN THE CONTRA COSTA CHORALE! First rehearsal 8/26/13. This is a non-auditioning chorus, and all are welcome. Join the Contra Costa Chorale! Click to view this email in a browser If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please reply to this message with...

On Saturday, August 17, Academy Award-nominated director Mark Kitchell ("Berkeley in the Sixties") will appear in person at the Magick Lantern following the 5 pm and 8 pm screenings of his new eco-documentary A FIERCE GREEN FIRE. Kitchell will discuss the making of...

Greetings, What follows are some highlights of department activity over the last several days. As you can see, the idea that summer is a “slow” time doesn’t seem to apply to the Police Department! That said, a lot of what’s been happening are actually positive...

Global warming already having dramatic impacts in California, new report says By Paul Rogers progers@mercurynews.com Posted: 08/08/2013 12:01:00 AM PDT | Updated: about 3 hours ago Rising ocean waters. Bigger and more frequent forest fires. More brutally hot summer...

Banks sue Richmond to halt plan to seize mortgages By Robert Rogers Contra Costa Times Posted: 08/08/2013 12:06:27 PM PDT Updated: 08/08/2013 06:06:21 PM PDT RICHMOND -- Major banks on Wednesday sued Richmond and its investment firm partners in an effort to thwart...