Point Richmond Music's free concert series continues on Friday, August 12th with Dirty Cello & The Mad Maggies! View this email in your browser Next Up: Dirty Cello & The Mad Maggies! It was great to see so many of you at our kick-off concert last month! Our...

The Office of Congressman Mark DeSaulnier announced that the City of Richmond has been awarded $250,000 by the U/S. Department of Transportation to initiate a pilot program that will allow the city to collaborate coordinate microtransit and paratransit riders into...

The City of Richmond celebrates its 117th birthday today, August 7, 2022. Like last year, I will be offering a toast at the Factory Bar at noon today. The Factory Bar opened on this same date in 2020. Richmond has been my home for nearly 43% of its life as an...

Last year, Senator Nancy Skinner quietly slipped a $279.5 million appropriation into the State 2021-22 budget ostensibly to improve the Port of Oakland, but it is becoming clearer that the real intent was close funding gaps for infrastructure to serve the proposed new...

MEDIA ADVISORY August 5, 2022 State Awards $6M in Violence Prevention Funding to Richmond City and State leaders will announce a $6 million investment from the California Violence Intervention and Prevention (CalVIP) program to the City of Richmond’s innovative Office...

Hon. Mayor and Members of the City Council: This is the report for the week ending August 5th, 2022. 1. Meeting Notes The Richmond City Council is on their August recess, and will return to session on Tuesday, September 13, 2022. Enjoy the time off! 2. Coronavirus...

In 1918, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution was approved, and a year later, the Volstead Act was passed, instituting Prohibition. There was a local campaign against Prohibition in order to save Winehaven, but Prohibition came, and Winehaven closed forever. Today,...

I am no fan of fossil fuels, and I know we must transition to renewable energy as soon as possible, if we are not already too late. In the building energy sector, Richmond has been a leader – going back nearly 10 years ago by joining MCE, which delivers mostly...

Mothers Against Toxic Housing, Richmond Shoreline Alliance, SPRAWLDEF, Citizens for East Shore Parks, Sunflower Alliance, Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, and Sierra Club had challenged DTSC for not reopening the CEQA review in connection with...

In the case of Winehaven Legacy LLC vs City of Richmond, the Court issued a tentative ruling today that kicked the can down the road. The Court requested supplemental briefs from the parties addressing jurisdictional issues between federal and state courts. The...

The Richmond Progressive Alliance Wishes to Thank Its Financial Supporters In Quick Response from RPA Spin Machine, July 29, 2022, you will see that Suzanne Wilson writes, “RPA does not take corporate money. The Preston-Werner Foundation is not a corporation, nor does...

This message is being sent on behalf of City Manager Shasa Curl Hon. Mayor and Members of the City Council: This is the report for the week ending July 29th, 2022. Meeting Notes There is a Special City Council Meeting scheduled for Monday, August 1, 2022 at 3:00 PM....

The RPA continues to be critical of any politician or political organization that accepts funding from corporations. In the RPA alter-universe, all corporations are evil, whether they sell fossil fuel products, solar collectors or life-saving medicines. Unless, of...

Hey, North and Easters in District 6, if you haven’t seen your City Council member Claudia Jimenez around your neighborhood lately, it’s because she is living in Point Richmond and has been for several months. People tell me that she is living in Jeff Kilbreth’s $1.5...

It must have struck a nerve because it took the RPA Spin Machine only 4 hours to respond to my E-FORUM “Where is Claudia?” In her response, Suzanne Williams, RPA Facebook editor, explained that Claudia was “staying at the home of friends in Point Richmond” while her...

I represent the City of Richmond on the Board of MCE, and I am chair of the MCE Board. MCE Reports Almost 150% Increase in Energy Efficiency in 2021 Board and Municipal Update July 2022 July has been a busy month at MCE! I am excited to provide this update with recent...

With a few tips from the community, we believe we have mostly solved the all-night bass beat mystery on the night/morning of July 23/24. It appears to have been an all-night event staged in a large tent in the vicinity of Parr Boulevard and the Richmond Parkway. The...

Hundreds of people took to Next Door and Facebook last night and even as late at 8:00 AM this morning to complain about an incessant bass tone beat that kept them up all night. Complaints came in from all over Richmond, San Pablo and El Sobrante. People were so upset...

Thanks to information provided by three tipsters, we now know that the mysterious sound that kept West County awake for 12 hours the night of July 23/24 was a birthday party for a 20-year-old at an industrial site adjacent to the Richmond parkway accessed off Goodrick...

I would like to formally announce the appointment of Diana Lopez as our new Deputy Director of Community Services for the Library! Diana has nearly 10 years in public library management and holds a Master of Library and Information Science degree from San Jose State...