Live music, arts fair, local food and drinks, kid’s activities – including a video game truck and pumpkin patch Point Richmond Business Association October, 2023 Fall Fest is This Saturday 10/28 Point Richmond Fall Fest is coming up this Saturday and it will be a...

As if we didn’t have enough home-grown problems, the Richmond City Council seems periodically drawn to taking sides in recurring struggles involving Israel and Palestinians, especially Gazans, governed by Hamas. Gayle McLaughlin appears to have particularly strong...

Calling all the brave little goblins and ghouls of Richmond, CA! Are you searching for a Halloween adventure that's both thrilling and safe? Look no further, because your friendly neighborhood Police Department has got you covered! Mark your calendars for Saturday,...

The Riggers Loft Wine Company has filed a lawsuit against its landlord, the Surplus Property Authority of the City of Richmond, for unlawfully and illegally, and in bad faith, forcing it to pay excess rent and penalties, trying to coerce an illegal eviction and trying...

The vacant lot between the Ford Building and Marina Way South is designated “High Intensity Mixed Use (Major Activity Center” in the Richmond General Plan 2030, because of its proximity to the Richmond Ferry Terminal, the Bay Trail, the Rosie the Riveter Visitor...

Even though the City Council is under a Federal Court judgment to “maintain and secure” Point Molate (including Winehaven), it has done neither. The move to provide some minimal protection during the coming rainy season would not have happened without the lawsuit...

Urban Tilth, a Richmond nonprofit that has been officially delinquent in filing with the State of California Department of Justice since May 2022, is on next week’s City Council agenda to receive over $10 million in sole source contract funding from the City of...

On Saturday, September 20, 2023, Rosie the Riveter Trust celebrated its 24th anniversary with the Trust’s Annual Fundraising Gala at the Craneway – the best one yet!. Rosie the Riveter Trust is the nonprofit partner of Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National...

California schools superintendent Tony Thurmond joins the race for governor in 2026 Tony Thurmond has led California’s Department of Education since 2018. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond is seen March 30, 2023. His California Department of...

Even though elected public service is just a memory for me now, what we achieved in Richmond lives on. Two years ago, Contra Costa Climate Leaders issued a Local Government Report card, awarding Richmond as 1st Place in progress on addressing the climate crises. See...

It’s that time again! Bring your best game to the 4th Richmond Community Chess Festival’s National Chess Day celebration at the 15th Annual Spirit & Soul Event on Saturday, October 14, 2023. This is a free community chess event; pre-registration is highly...

As mayors of two very close cities of about the same size, Jesse and I worked on many of the same issues, such as homelessness, health care, education and economic development. He was my alternate as a BCDC commissioner, and when I left, he became the ABAG-appointed...

Interactive Resources is 50 years old today! 48 years ago, we erected what was then the largest wind generator in California and the first to cogenerate with the grid. See https://youtu.be/MPBdHcMxgeA and https://youtu.be/xwy6xO57WF8.

Every year about this time, I think about Covid the Corvid who brought some levity to our first year of COVID-19. It has been three years now, since Covid the Corvid told us “goodbye” and flew off to become a wild crow. For the story, see Covid the Corvid – Free as a...

__________________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACTS: Katherine Rife, The Latina Center, krife@thelatinacenter.org, (202) 340-8989 Trina Jackson-Lincoln, City of Richmond, trina_jackson@ci.richmond.ca.us, (510)...

Read in Los Angeles Times: https://apple.news/ARJ-fUoegTGeR7loFPFvtzw I proposed this in 2018 (Managed Homeless Camps, June 27, 2018) but the City Council did not have the backbone to move ahead. They looked at dozens of sites but always caved in to neighborhood...

As a highlight - 13 Rosies - now in their 100s or close to that will be joining us to celebrate our theme this year which is If it weren't for the Rosies... JOIN US FOR THIS YEARS ROSIE GALA! TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE! Saturday, September 23, 2023 More information, to...

One of my enduring complaints about the City of Richmond is a deeply embedded culture that fails to follow through on permits, approvals and agreements. Once the approval has been made, the City is gone forever. Following are two examples from what were very...

Almost everyone asks me, “How do you like retirement?” I have to explain that while I have involuntarily (termed out) transitioned from being an elected official, I have hardly retired. Incidentally, no longer being saddled with the responsibilities of elected office...

Point Richmond Music (PRM's) free summer concert series concludes this Friday, with Lady Bianca and Soji & the Afrobeat Band! View this email in your browser Season Finale w/ Lady Bianca & Soji & the Afrobeat Band this Friday, 9/8! Point Richmond Music...