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...

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

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...

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....

As the design for the PG&E site at Brickyard Cove works its way through the entitlement process, an attorney who is a neighbor of the proposed project took a deep dive into legal issues that City staff, including the incompetent and corrupt city attorney are...

I attended my last City Council meeting on January 9, 2023, and I haven’t been back since. But last night I had to weigh in on a proposed encroachment proposed by a property owner a few hundred feet away from my home on East Scenic Avenue. Not surprisingly, the...

View this email in your browser Meet CivicWell's New CEO! We are excited to introduce Bernadette Austin as the new CEO of CivicWell. Bernadette was selected after an extensive search with Azzani Search Consultants following the departure of Kate Wright in March 2022....

According to former Design Review Board Chair Jonathan Livingston, the proposed housing project at the site of the former PG&E gasholder tank at Brickyard Cove has taken a turn for the worse with the full complicity of City staff. Regarding the design, Livingston...

You can view the current City Manager's Weekly Report here: City Manager's Weekly Report 02/10/2023

On Tuesday, February 7, after prolonged discussion that went on until midnight, including a 40-minute monologue by the city attorney, the Richmond City Council finally did what they should have done a year ago, just say no to what became a horrible design for a...

Richmond is one of the eleven cities being sued by pro-housing groups for failing to meet a January 31, 2023, deadline to submit the Housing Element of the General Plan to the California Department of Housing and Community Development. This is good news for...