Vorderbrueggen: Chevron's failed appeal delivers ironies aplenty By Lisa Vorderbrueggen Contra Costa Times Posted: 04/07/2012 05:59:00 PM PDT Updated: 04/09/2012 06:35:30 AM PDT Click photo to enlarge FILE - This April 21, 2008 file photo shows a Chevron flag flying...

This is my personal invitation for you to attend the 2012 Gala to support the work of Rosie the Riveter Trust in continuing to improve Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park. I hope that you will become a major sponsor by at least reserving a table...

Recruitment is open for a City Council intern who will assist me and one other councilmember. This job is targeted for a college student. The pay for undergraduates is $18.26 per hour and $19.90 for graduate students. They work up to 15 hours per week. See job...

Corky has asked me to use the E-FORUM to conduct a survey to evaluate his performance on the City Council since he took office in January of 2011. Please send me your responses to this question: On a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being best, please rank Council Member Corky...

I Mayor and Councilmembers: This is the weekly report for the week ending April 6th, 2012. Meeting Notes The next meeting of the City Council is scheduled for Tuesday, April 17th, 2012. Richmond Livable Corridors Project: South 23rd Street Design Charrette, April...

Measuring Refinery Energy Efficiency Medición de la Eficiencia Energética de Las Refinerías Chevron Revised Renewal Project EIR Education Session Sesión Educativa del Impacto Ambiental del Proyecto de Chevron “Revised Renewal” April 4, 2012, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM City...

Richmond High School's urban ag class grows an abundance of beautiful organic vegetables in their school garden, and they have enough to offer some for sale at very low prices ($1/pound) to the community. This week's offering includes: Red Russian Kale, Giant Swiss...

The E-FORUM stringer at the Contra Costa County Supervisors Chamber just reported that the Assessment Appeals Board surprised a lot of people by actually increasing Chevron’s valuation for years 2007-2009, as follows: 2007 increased from $3.413 billion to $3.713...

Click below. Sent by John Gioia: Chevron Findings & Decisions 2007,2008,2009 Chevron Findings & Decisions on Supplemental 2007,2008,2009

Until yesterday, I had not seen Eric Nelson for 43 years, not since we served in Vietnam in 1969. Eric and his wife, Dottie, stayed over with us last night as part of a two -week road trip through California they were finishing up in the Bay Area. Eric is an artist,...

Point Richmond Acoustic presents Songwriters Bill and Kate Isles, with special guest the Henriettas. Ongoing music series continues to present premiere songwriters from around the country. (Point Richmond – March 20, 2011) Point Richmond Acoustic Concerts presents the...

Mayor and Councilmembers: This is the weekly report for the week ending March 30th, 2012. Meeting Notes The next City Council meeting is on Tuesday, April 3rd, beginning with a Closed Session at 5:00 PM, and with the regular agenda beginning at 6:30 PM. City of...

Greetings City Council and Community Members: The Richmond Police Department is nearing its sixth year of operations under a three-district, geographic deployment that emphasizes beat ownership, collaboration and partnerships. It is community policing philosophy in...

The Contra Costa County Assessment Appeals Board is expected to issue a ruling regarding Chevron’s appeal of the assessment for the 2007-9 tax years on Monday, April 2. Following is an article from Richmond Confidential: Life, Death and Taxes: A look at Chevron’s tax...

Berkeley Lab branches out Richmond hopes new lab campus will help revitalize a barren section of city’s bay waterfront Premium content from San Francisco Business Times by Blanca Torres, Reporter Date: Friday, March 30, 2012, 3:00am PDT Photo: LBNL / Roy Kaltschmidt...

In both a bold move and preemptive strike that surprised and shocked Richmond movers and shakers, all four owners of the three properties that make up the highly contentious “North Richmond Shoreline” in Richmond announced on Friday that the entire area will be deeded...

I received the following last night from Toody Maher: NEWS FLASH! Parks Superintendent Chris Chamberlain called me tonight to tell me that the State of California awarded Richmond a $5 million Prop 84 grant to continue developing the Richmond Greenway from 2nd Street...

Rehabilitation of the Maritime Child Development Center, a project of Rosie the Riveter Trust, was funded with some $9 million in grants from the California Cultural and Historical Endowment, West Contra Costs Unified School District, City of Richmond, National Park...

Despite being sponsored and presumably paid for by the U.S. Department of Commerce and sponsored by the Port of Richmond, the Advanced Transportation Market Opportunities In China Seminar that was the subject of My March 25 E-FORUM is not, in fact, open to the public....

The Richmond Office of Neighborhood Safety (ONS) and Devone Boggan have been a hot button issue for Councilmember Corky Booze for years, and ONS has undergone a new wave of public scrutiny after the incident in October involving a fight in the ONS office in the Civic...