Mayor and Councilmembers: This is the weekly report for the week ending May 4th, 2012. Meeting Notes The next meeting of the Richmond City Council is scheduled for Tuesday, May 15th. Please enjoy the hiatus next week. Cinco de Mayo Activities on Saturday May 5th and...

The City Council party of “NO,” Nat Bates and Corky Booze continued their personal attacks against me last night and rallied their support “groupies” to pile on as the City Council voted 5-2 to postpone a policy decision on the location of a grant-funded Port Security...

Hundreds turned out last night to support Rosie the Riveter Trust and to get a sneak preview of the new Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front Visitor Center scheduled for a May 26 grand opening. The party opened with a preliminary tour of the new visitor center then moved...

Mayor and Councilmembers: This is the weekly report for the week ending April 27th, 2012 (17 items! – lot’s of attention- grabbing activities). Meeting Notes The next meeting of the Richmond City Council is scheduled for Tuesday, May 1st. It will begin at 4:30 PM with...

Chevron sticks with oil. And it pays off. By CHRIS KAHN AP Energy Writer Posted: 04/27/2012 05:54:14 AM PDT Updated: 04/27/2012 03:07:24 PM PDT Click photo to enlarge FILE - This July 25, 2011, file photo, shows a Chevron sign at a... ((AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File))...

If you have not yet registered and would like to attend the Sunday, May 6, 2012 Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour tour, this is a reminder that on-line registration closes this Sunday, April 29, so registration must be completed right away. The Bringing Back the...

Richmond-Shimada Golden Rose Festival Celebrating 50 Years of Friendship What: In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the sister city relationship between Shimada, Japan and Richmond, California, a delegation of city officials, performers and visitors will travel...

WEST COUNTY SUPPORTS SENATOR LONI HANCOCK PLEASE JOIN Congressman George Miller Hon. Janet Abelson, Hon. Maria Alegria, Hon. Irma Anderson Barbara Becnel, Hon. Tom Butt , Mila & Colin Coffey Hon. Myrna & Manuel de Vera, Michelle & Paul Fadelli Joshua...

After over five years of extensive review, the City Council adopted the new General Plan 2030 last night at 12:45 AM on a 7-2 vote, with Bates and Booze dissenting. A bitter multi-year fight between open space advocates and north shoreline landowners had been...

It’s been a while since I updated the status of expanding railroad quiet zones in Richmond. Here is an update: 4th Street and Cutting On February 29, 2012, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) approved the City’s application to establish a quiet zone at South...

I was in Phoenix for a couple of days last week for an ASTM meeting and had an opportunity to have dinner and visit with my cousin, Joe Butt and an old friend I originally met in Vietnam, Bill Dorn. I see both of them once every five to ten years, but never before...

OIL AND GAS: Refineries challenge property taxes (Monday, March 19, 2012) In Montana, two local refineries are challenging $17 million in property taxes. Cenex, a refinery owned by CHS Inc., is challenging $13 million in property taxes dating back to 2009. That money...

CHEVRON RICHMOND News Release Seven Richmond Nonprofits Improve Education and Create Jobs Results Enabled by Chevron’s Investments through the California Partnership Initiative RICHMOND, Calif., April 25, 2012 – Leaders from nonprofits, schools and local governments...

Chevron boss John Watson made $25 million in 2011 San Francisco Business Times by Steven E.F. Brown, Web Editor Date: Friday, April 13, 2012, 1:27pm PDT Related: Energy, San Ramon, Oil & gas Enlarge Image Chevron paid its CEO and chairman, John Watson, $24.7...

Chris Treadway: Excitement builds toward opening of Rosie the Riveter visitors center By Chris Treadway Contra Costa Times Posted: 04/23/2012 03:41:20 PM PDT Updated: 04/23/2012 05:34:20 PM PDT Richmond is embracing and celebrating its history as never before as...

Dueling proposals compete for federal money to build security center at Richmond port By: Robert Rogers | April 24, 2012 – 10:26 am City Council officials will decide tonight whether to halt federal grant-funded project to convert a building into a port security...

Ritterman to step aside, field open for candidates for Richmond City Council Jeff Ritterman passes the mic to Marilyn Langlois on Sunday. (Robert Rogers/Richmondconfidential) By: Robert Rogers | April 23, 2012 – 1:19 pm Jeff Ritterman is out. Marilyn Langlois and...

On April 17, 2012, the Richmond City Council majority had the wisdom of authorizing additional evaluation of the Riggers Loft as a n alternate location for the proposed grant-funded Security and Operations Center. The structural evaluation should be completed in less...

Vorderbrueggen: Richmond politics get ugly By Lisa Vorderbrueggen Contra Costa Times Posted: 04/20/2012 06:00:00 PM PDT Updated: 04/21/2012 09:37:34 PM PDT Richmond's bare-knuckle politics are rarely confused with the silken-glove civility of Danville, but even the...

From: Sidney Sweeney [mailto:sidney@aiaeb.org] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 10:10 AM To: Butt, Tom Subject: RE: City of Richmond Historic Preservation Awards Ceremony and Reception on May 7, 2012. We have a few spots left on tomorrow’s tour of the East Bay Center for...