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...

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...

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/ ....

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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

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...

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...

Although the West 2 Quiet Zone went into effect at 12:01 AM this morning, BNSF chose to ignore it. This follows a letter writing volley between W. Douglas Werner of BNSF and Assistant City Attorney Carlos Privat, wherein Privat warned, "Should BNSF sound its horns in...

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:...

Directions and Parking The Roxie Cinema is located in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District, at 3117 16th Street between Valencia and Guerrero. Local Muni are the 22 and 53 (both at 16th & Valencia), 33 (18th & Valencia), 14 (16th & Mission), 49...

Mayor-elect Gayle McLaughlin will be sworn in on the evening of January 9, 2007, and that moment will mark the beginning of the next great race " for the City Council seat she instantly vacates. According to the City Charter, the City Council has 60 days to appoint...

Last week the first six of 24 freeway exit signs marking Richmond points of historical interest were installed. To see one of the six Point Richmond Historic District signs, Click here. In 2004, I found out that a city could obtain Caltrans approval for freeway signs...

On December 19, 2996, the City Council accepted a report from Planning Director Richard Mitchell, who presented a summary of potentially broad-based changes to the process of discretionary review of development projects. Mitchell took his authority from the following...