Political campaign season highlights the two realities that constitute Richmond. On one hand we have the Establishment, represented by the Chamber of Commerce, the Council of Industries and large real estate developers. Chevron looms particularly large in the first...

Mayor and Councilmembers: This is the weekly report for the week ending October 27, 2006. 1. Meeting Notes The next regular City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, November 14th. Note that the City Council previously moved its first meeting of November to...

Today"s West County Times carries an account of a serious accident that killed one bicyclist and seriously injured another on the westbound shoulder of I-580 on September 24 just east of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge toll plaza. This stretch of the freeway is shared...

WCCUSD Board Members Charles Ramsey, Glen Price and Karen Pfeiffer formed a majority vote at last Wednesday night's School Board meeting that was both visionary and courageous to ensure the funding match for $2 million grant form California Cultural and Historical...

See Item 2, below: Mayor and Councilmembers: This is the weekly report for the week ending October 20, 2006. 1. Meeting Notes The next regular City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, November 14th. Note that there were no study session items necessitating a...

Three seemingly unrelated stories (all copied at the end of this email) involving Richmond broke this week. The City Council voted to proceed with a $10 million plan to temporarily relocate the Police Department out of the Hall of Justice pending construction of a new...

Following are two versions of Chevron"s 52nd Conservation Awards at san Ramon last week. The first is the Chevron press release, and the second is from a web site called "Oil Change International." It would have been nice if one of Richmond"s conservationists, such as...

Following are two versions of Chevron"s 52nd Conservation Awards at san Ramon last week. The first is the Chevron press release, and the second is from a web site called "Oil Change International." It would have been nice if one of Richmond"s conservationists, such as...

Almost overnight, the anti-Measure T signs sprouted on Richmond street corners like yellow star thistles in spring trying to scare Richmond voters into thinking taxes and rents would be rising. And when we came home tonight, we found the first anti-Measure T mailers...

Bay area roads ranked Posted on Wed, Oct. 18, 2006 By Kiley Russell CONTRA COSTA TIMES The quality of Bay Area roads improved slightly in 2005 but nearly 20 percent of the region's cities and counties still struggle to maintain their streets adequately, according to a...

A sample of thousands of pieces of recently rediscovered 60-year old art created by Children at the Maritime Child Care Center during World War II riveted visitors" attention during a Sunday afternoon open house held today in conjunction with the National Trust for...

I"m not going to make an endorsement for mayor, but I am going to share some perceptions that may be useful. Irma Anderson I have already recommended against the reelection of Irma Anderson for mayor (Anybody but Anderson, September 19, 2006). Anderson can be...

This is the weekly report for the week ending Friday, the 13th of October 2006. 1. Meeting Notes The regular City Council meeting on Tuesday, October 17th will convene at 5:00 PM for a Closed Session, followed by a Redevelopment Agency Meeting at 6:30 PM, and the City...

Out-of-state property rights extremists are trying to sell to California a radical new definition of "takings," mandating compensation to property owners any time a social or environmental measure allegedly "harms" their property. Far from protecting property rights,...

Chip Johnson"s column in today"s San Francisco Chronicle provides a good lead in for my endorsement of Measure T. Measure T is actually an amendment to Richmond"s business license ordinance, which is at least several decades out of date, if not a century, and well due...

We hope everyone is continuing to go to Partners in Preservation (http://www.partnersinpreservation.com) to vote for Richmond"s Maritime Child Care Center every day, and now you will have a chance to visit it at an Open House on Sunday, October 15, 2006, 1:00 - 4:00...

To get aid, lighthouse must be a beacon for votes RICHMOND: Online contest could bring new doors and windows to 100-year-old landmark (To vote, Click on http://www.jeld-wen.com/lighthouse) By Chris Treadway Posted on Wed, Oct. 11, 2006 CONTRA COSTA TIMES East Brother...

Mayor Anderson, who was reportedly upset that a majority of planning commissioners appointed by her rejected the EIR for Point Richmond Shores appears to now be joining critics of the project. In a letter dated October 5, 2006, to the Coalition of Concerned Citizens...

This is one of the strangest things I have come across recently. I can"t decide whether it is art, sociology, anthropology or just BS. I don"t know if it puts Richmond down, praises it or simply pokes fun at it, or all of the above. I guess if you want to know more,...

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS"DIABLO VALLEY 500 St. Mary"s Road, #14 Lafayette, CA 94549 October 6 2006 Dear Candidates for West Contra Costa Unified School District Gov. Board: Robert W. Brower, Anton Jungherr, Madeline Kronenberg, Marguerite Meade, Antonio Medrano, Audrey...