Richmond Police Dept Receives F+ for Requests for Records
The bad news is that the Richmond Police Department broke the law with respect to responding to public records requests. The good news, if there is any, is that we are not alone. A West County Times investigative piece, which can be found for the next few days at...
Coalition of Concerned Citizens Sues Over Point Richmond Shores
The Coalition of Concerned Citizens of Point Richmond ("CCC") have sued the City of Richmond and Toll Brothers over the Terminal One/Point Richmond Shores project. The City was served yesterday afternoon. The complaint alleges multiple causes of action. Essentially,...
City Manager’s Weekly Report for the Week Ending January 12, 2007
Mayor and Councilmembers: This is the weekly report for the week ending January 12th, 2007. 1. Meeting Notes The next regular City Council meeting is on Tuesday, January 16th, convening at 8:30 AM for a Closed Session, reconvening for the Redevelopment Agency meeting...
Council Seat May Be Filled Next Week
Posturing for appointment to the vacant City Council seat continues as the item will most likely show up on the January 16 City Council agenda. I remain committed to Corky Booze, who was the choice of Richmond voters in the November 2006 election. In addition to the...
Railroad Finally Caves on West II Quiet Zone
After Ron Ries, Federal Railroad Administration, Staff Director for Crossing Safety & Trespass Prevention Division, surgically dismantled the railroad"s final desperate objections to the West II Quiet Zone, BNSF finally shut off their horns earlier this week at...
East Bay Express on Richmond Homicides
A Small City's Big Problem Distrustful of police, fearing retaliation, witnesses to Richmond's violent crimes keep quiet, and assailants get away with murder. By Ben Hubbard Article Published Jan 10, 2007 Here's how people get away with the ultimate crime: Just before...
Red Oak Victory to be Featured in Eye on the Bay
The information on the TV show featuring the SS Red Oak Victory is posted on http://www.ssredoakvictory.org and on http://www.pointrichmond.com/. The show will air Tuesday, January 23rd at 7:00PM on channel 5; the show is called "Eye on the Bay. The Red Oak will be...
Richmond Bay Trail New Year Report
New Year greetings from TRAC, the Trails for Richmond Action Committee. The upbeat Richmond Bay Trail New Year Report has been published and is available on TRAC's colorful, informative web site for viewing or downloading at http://www.pointrichmond.com/baytrail/ ....
SF Chronicle on Richmond Inauguration
RICHMOND Green Party mayor takes the reins She promises to start jobs program, cut homicide rate - Jason B. Johnson, Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, January 10, 2007 Richmond became the largest city in the nation with a member of the Green Party as its elected mayor...
Those Were the Days of Sunshine and Roses
Here is a nice article from the January 3, 2007, Los Angeles Times. It is the story of a small company that I helped start in about 1975 to construct solar energy applications. Sun Light & Power Company started in Point Richmond over 30 years ago. It was...
Container Port Plan B
From the Lava Java Cafe, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii... Although details are very sketchy, I have confirmed that advocates for a Richmond container port remain undaunted following the collapse of the plan to turn Wildcat Marsh into a gigantic port. The new plan, in some ways,...
Nice LA Times Piece on Chief Magnus
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-richmond2jan02,0,6659410.story A hire that's a cold contrast To stem its crime rate, Richmond, Calif., turned to the police chief of Fargo, N.D. He's made quite an impact. By Rone Tempest Times Staff Writer January 2, 2007...
6th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference
For those of you who are following the process of the new Richmond General Plan, you may want to consider attending the premier national conference on the cutting edge of planning, maintaining and operating safe, livable and healthy cities. It"s not cheap, but I...
January-February Newsletter for East Brother Island
Click here to see the January-February edition of the Foghorn. Click here to visit the website. We always need volunteers, and East Brother is a great place to go to help out. Click here for information about volunteering.
Will Richmond be Heaven in 2007?
For the laments of 2005 and the wishes for 2006, click here for the MSWORD version (with hyperlinks), or click here for a PDF. One thing I am noticing is that I am getting less and less input on this from E-Forum readers. I don"t know what that means. Maybe people are...
Harpreet Sandhu Selected to Fill Vacant City Council Position
After dozens of speakers made impassioned pleas for the City Council to select November 2006 election runner-up Corky Booze, the City Council acted with dispatch to appoint Harpreet Sandhu to fill the position vacated when Gayle McLaughlin was elected mayor. Sandhu...
Conjure City – Richmond Entertains a Vision-a-Week for Its Shoreline
Conjure City – Richmond Entertains a Vision-a-Week for its Shoreline
Volunteers Sought for Annual Homeless Count
VOLUNTEERS BEING SOUGHT TO HELP COUNT THE NUMBER OF HOMELESS IN CONTRA COSTA In another step in Contra Costa Health Services" 10-year plan to end homelessness in Contra Costa County, volunteers are being recruited for a count of the county"s unsheltered homeless...
City Manager’s Weekly Report for the Week Ending December 29, 2006
Mayor and Councilmembers: This is the weekly report for the week ending December 29th, 2006, and the last weekly report for 2006. 1. Meeting Notes The next regular City Council meeting is the swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday, January 9th at 6:30 PM, convening in the...
Find Out What Richmond is in Store For
Thursday, December 28 7:00 pm - 10:00pm. Admission = $5.00 'Greening' A Hopeful Moment: An evening with Ralph Nader, Matt Gonzalez, Gayle McLaughlin, Peter Camejo & Ross Mirkarimi New College of California is proud to present 'Greening' A Hopeful Moment:...