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...

This is a $6,000 scholarship that any Richmond resident who is a high school graduate can access. It is not competive. March 17, 2023 View this email in your browser Richmond Promise scholarship application due March 17 Today is the last day for eligible seniors in...

Next Club Meeting Our next meeting will take place at the Richmond Country Club (address below) on Friday, March 17, 12:30pm. How Amarok Society Women Are Transforming Their Communities Through Education Rotary Clubs around the world are pioneering the way toward...

You can view the current City Manager's Weekly Report here: City Manager's Weekly Report 03/10/2023

The venerable Hotel Mac restaurant, closed since the onset of COVID appears to be headed towards new life. According to the Richmond Standard, Richmond’s only remaining consistent news source, the historic Hotel Mac’s Restaurant and Bar in Point Richmond has been...

Richmond Ferry to add new trips on weekdays March 7, 2023 The Richmond Standard Richmond Ferry Terminal Richmond Ferry service to and from San Francisco is expanding, with a new trip in each direction on weekdays: eastbound at 11:20 a.m. and westbound at noon. The...

The City of Richmond government is stranger than fiction. You can’t make this stuff up. The bizarre has become business as usual. The recipient of a multi-million-dollar contract with the City of Richmond sits on the City Council. The District 6 councilmember lived...

Raven SR Waste-To-Hydrogen Production, March 10 Learn about Raven SR’s non-combustion waste-to-hydrogen production facility that will be built at Republic Services’ closed landfill later this year. Raven will be diverting waste, reducing emissions and creating...

Guess who's back! After a long winter break we are back with our 1st tournament of the year! Bring your best game to the 10th Annual Williams-Easterling Community Chess Tournament on Saturday March 11, 2023. The tournament recognizes their contribution to promoting...

You can view the current City Manager's Weekly Report - FEMA Disaster Recovery Center here: City Manager's Weekly Report 03/07/23 FEMA Disaster Recovery Center

At last night’s City Council meeting, the City Council continued a pattern of giving away public land for private use, approving the encroachment at 8 Western Drive, where the property owner enclosed a substantial portion of Western Drive with a fence to create a...

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

Once again, the incompetent and corrupt director and deputy director of public works are recommending giving away a significant chunk of public property to legalize an illegal land grab. See Next Land Grab Set for March 7, February 23, 2023. Click here for the 8...

Back in November of 2022, I appointed several very good candidates to the Design Review Board (DRB). The RPA City Council declined to approve them because they stated that the new mayor should be making the appointments, a break with tradition that includied when...

2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the year Shirley and I arrived in Richmond. Long before I got into Richmond politics, we started a family and a business here. The 1970s saw the beginning of two flagship projects for Richmond, Marina Bay and Hilltop Mall. The former...

This is the second installment of A Political History of Richmond. To download, click here. As I compile these, I find two remarkable things, (1) The media coverage back in those days was extraordinary -- detailed, objective and thorough, and (2) past is truly...

I am working on a political history of Richmond beginning 50 years ago when I moved to Richmond. The project will come in installments, broken down by in two parts, not necessarily in chronological order, first the decades of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s before I was...

After giving away some 1,400 square feet of public property and approving a fence at 130 East Scenic that the majority of the neighborhood opposed, the incompetent and corrupt city attorney, public works director and city engineer are poised to present and advocate...

You can view the current City Manager's Weekly Report here: City Manager's Weekly Report 02/17/2023

How Red Rock Island became the only privately owned island in San Francisco Bay The 5.8-acre island near the Richmond Bridge has had many owners and has been for sale many times. Charles Russo/SFGATE Tessa McLean, SFGATE Feb. 22, 2023 Updated: Feb. 22, 2023 10:39 a.m....