The Point Richmond Farmer"s Market made its third Wednesday appearance yesterday with much acclaim. A certified market operated by the Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association, the market runs every Wednesday from 4:00 P to 8:00 PM. It is a real community event....

Click here to access Chevron"s 2008 Annual Report to its shareholders. Click here for the Alternative Chevron Annual Report, "The True Cost of Chevron," prepared by CorpWatch, a "non-profit investigative research and journalism to expose corporate malfeasance and to...

Richmond is not the only city that struggles with how late to continue conducting a council meeting, but in most cities that debate revolves around how long public speakers have to make their point. Last week in Richmond, the debate turned to muzzling City Council...

Richmond Civic Center - where past meets future John King Monday, May 25, 2009 As much as anything, civic centers are designed to send a message. Modest or grand, cutting edge or conservative, they project how a city sees itself and what it wants to be. Images View...

Click on the following links for the 2009 Richmond Community Survey results that will be discussed at the may 26 City Council meeting. " http://sireweb.ci.richmond.ca.us/sirepub/cache/2/w2v2qeubohsczoatscs4dke2/12226005222009082908572.PDF "...

Rosie the Riveter WW II Home Front National Historical Park Ranger Betty Soskin may be seen at http://cbs5.com/community/biracial.mixed.race.2.1014540.html, KPIX http://cbs5.com.

NEWS RELEASE Contra Costa County MARY NEJEDLY PIEPHO Board Supervisors, District III JOHN GIOIA (joy-a) Board Supervisors, District I FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 22, 2009 For more information contact: Karyn Cornell - Field Representative Office of Supervisor Mary Piepho...

Mayor and Councilmembers: This is the weekly report for the week ending May 22nd, 2009. 1. Meeting Notes The next City Council meeting is this Tuesday, May 26th, beginning with a Closed Session at 5:00 PM, followed by a brief joint City/Redevelopment meeting, leading...

The following recent article from the San Francisco Chronicle describes the $121 million project to rehabilitate the historic Federal Office Building at 50 U.N. Plaza in San Francisco. The project, which will utilize stimulus funds, is based on a Program Development...

From Mike Madrid [madrid@californiacitynews.org]: Countdown: 10 Most Liberal, Most Conservative California Cities Fancy your city a bastion of conservative values... or a "people's republic"? The SacBee has compiled a list of the 10 most ideological cities in the...

In a study by "Heal the Bay," Richmond"s Keller"s Beach "fared the worst among East Bay beaches." Keller"s Beach is located in Miller Knox Regional Shoreline and is administered by the East Bay Regional Parks District. It is not clear how the study differentiated...

Contra Costa Superior Court Judge Zuniga handed down a tentative ruling yesterday on the challenge to the EIR on the Chevron Energy and Hydrogen Renewal Project that sustained all of the contentions of the plaintiffs that the EIR was flawed. For background, see...

After about an hour of oral argument this morning, Contra Costa Superior Court Judge Zuniga declined to issue an immediate ruling, but one is expected soon. She agreed to continue to study legal papers submitted and the oral arguments, but left the impression that she...

In addition to celebrating our 100th birthday (the RPD Centennial event), our personnel were busy this weekend with many calls for service and several very serious situations. What follows is just a sampling of the good work from the past several days. As you can see,...

Dear Friends, I am please to let you know that Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner is holding mobile office hours at my office once a week. You can meet and talk to her staff to discuss issues that are important to you here in West County. Her office hours information is:...

Richmond architecture-engineering firm Interactive Resources has been retained by Bass Electric to provide structural design for what Recurrent Energy describes as "California"s largest solar PV system and the nation"s largest municipal solar project." Recurrent...

Richmond, with 32 miles of shoreline on San Francisco Bay, has more waterfront than any other city. That means our shoreline is always in the news. From historical to cutting edge, here are two stories that feature Richmond. " Point Richmond-based Graham Hawkes...

Richmond summer youth work program needs business to step up By Katherine Tam West County Times Posted: 05/15/2009 12:00:00 AM PDT Updated: 05/17/2009 05:21:43 PM PDT Richmond teens are lining up for summer job training by the hundreds, but there aren't enough...

The Green is Gold Expo sponsored by the Richmond Chamber of Commerce and the City of Richmond played to a full house at Richmond"s increasingly high profile Ford Assembly Plant. The Ford Plant was also featured yesterday on KGO. For a video, see...

The City of Richmond and the Chevron Products Company executed a Community Benefits Agreement (Agreement) on July 31, 2008. The Community Benefits Agreement creates a Richmond Community Fund that, beginning in 2009, receives $1,000,000 annually for 10 years to fund...