Dear Friend of the Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour and Green Home Features Showcase, The free, online Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour takes place in just nine days! If you haven’t registered for the Saturday and Sunday, April 15 and 16 event, now is the...

Please join us in celebrating our 2023 Plant to Plate Interns! Sunday, April 30th, 4:00 pm -- 6:00 pm At Anaviv Kitchen, 600 Hoffman Blvd. Richmond CA 94804 Food and Beverages will be served. Please RSVP by replying to this email . If you can't come but want to...

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This is the second in a series of recollections I have of my 50 years living in Richmond. Click here for Richmond in the 1980s. The decade of 1980 was one of far-reaching changes in Richmond, as new residents led a transition from the industrial past to a vison of a...

Next Club Meeting at La Strada Restaurant Our next meeting will take place at the La Strada Restaurant on Friday, April 7, 12:30pm. La Strada Restaurant is located at 2215 Church Ln, San Pablo. Please note that lunch is $30. EarthGrid RPC EarthGrid™ is developing the...

It was 1974, less than two years after we started Interactive Resources, when Gary McDonough and Yves Martin asked us to design a restaurant for them on an ugly lot under a giant billboard on Market Street in San Francisco. The challenge was that they had almost no...

You can view the current City Manager's Weekly Report here: City Manager's Weekly Report 03/31/2023

City Council executes about face on Point Molate By Katie Lauer, award-winning reporter In a stunning reversal of policy going back decades that has ignited bitter fights and unending litigation, the RPA-controlled Richmond City Council reached a far-reaching...

Here's a link (https://richmondcarotary.org/miraflores/) that explains Richmond Rotary’s Miraflores Centennial Project 2020 that will one day be installed in the Mriaflores Sustainable Greenbelt when the development is back on track. Also attached is an older article...

Council appoints public defender to police review commissionSoren Hemmila Mar 29, 20233 min The President of the Richmond Police Officers Association and members of the Police Review Commission are expressing concern over the city council's recent appointment of a...

A new Richmond news source, the Grandview Independent has recently debuted. The website https://www.grandviewindependent.com describes it as follows: Welcome! This is Grandview Independent, a brand-new digital media publication offering news, information, and stories...

Guests are welcome! Next Club Meeting Our next meeting will take place at the Richmond Country Club (address below) on Friday, March 31, 12:30pm. The Impact of the Japanese Internment Act of 1942 Jim Oshima Why speaking about Japanese American mass incarceration...

Yesterday, March 27, 2023, the Brickyard Cove Alliance for Responsible Development (BCARD) filed an appeal to the City Council on the PG&E site project approval by the Planning Commission. It included many of the issues I recited in the March 24, 2023, E-FORUM,...

Tomorrow, on March 29, we commemorate National Vietnam War Veterans Day, and the City of Richmond is a Commemorative Partner in the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration Commemorative Partner Program. See National Vietnam War Veterans Day PSA on Vimeo. We...

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You can view the current City Manager's Weekly Report here: City Manager's Weekly Report 03/24/2023

After two outstanding stints as keepers for East Brother Lighthouse, Bryan and Stephanie Wesolek are moving on. Figure 1 - Bryan and Stephanie Wesolek The Board of Directors of East Brother light Station, Inc. a 501(c)c nonprofit, began our new keeper search back in...

Back in the day, we had planning staff, a Design Review Board and a Planning Commission that protected the interests of residents. That was before the incompetent and corrupt city attorney preempted legal and traditional protections, essentially took over Richmond...

Shirley and I attended the CivicWell Policymakers Conference at Asilomar last week. CivicWell was formerly the Local Government Commission (LGC), and the Policymakers Conference at Asilomar was formerly the Ahwahnee Conference at Yosemite. Yosemite was not available...

Next Club Meeting Dear Tom, Our next meeting will take place at the Richmond Country Club (address below) on Friday, March 24, 12:30pm. Richmond Shimada Friendship Commission Richmond and Shimada, Japan celebrated the 60th Anniversary of our Sister City relationship...