Dear Richmond City Council: I hereby provide my resignation as the City Manager of City of Richmond, effective December 1, 2021. When I was hired as the City's first female City Manager in January 2020, none of us could have known the challenges of a world pandemic...

The City of Richmond was ordered into federal court on Friday, November 19, by United States District Court Judge Gonzales Rogers, who issued an Order Re Anticipated Request for TRO. The parties are due back in Judge Gonzales Roger’s courtroom today at 10:00 AM for...

In federal court just now, Judge Gonzales Rogers ordered all seven Richmond City Council members to appear in Federal Court in an evidentiary hearing at 2:00 PM on December 1 to testify in person under oath about failure to carry out provisions of the Point Molate...

When Peter Fagrell of Hilco Redevelopment Partners ordered a truckload of 1,000 turkeys to be distributed to Richmond families, the Mayor’s Office stepped up to help with the logistics. Chief of Staff Vern Whitmore teamed with the Richmond Community Foundation,...

In her Order for Evidentiary Hearing, Judge Gonzales-Rogers ordered outgoing City Manager Laura Snideman to join the City Council in federal court on December 1, 2021, which turns out to be her last day at work. What an ignominious way to go out!

Controlling information, secrecy and censorship is a tool long used by authoritarian governments to keep the people both in line and ignorant of what their government is actually doing, and this is the direction the RPA-controlled Richmond City Council is increasingly...

Hon. Mayor and Members of the City Council: This is the report for the week ending November 19th, 2021. 1. Meeting Notes The next Regular City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021. Closed Session begins at 5:00 PM, followed by the Special...

Richmond was one of the early adopters of a civilian review process for police, setting up what is now the Community Police Review Commission (CPRC) in 1984. Although the Commission has been robustly managed and staffed for years, there are scant records of its...

The City Council recently extended the life of the Reimagining Public Safety Task Force for another four years. Does this really make any sense? Has the Reimagining Public Safety Task Force actually accomplished anything? Unfortunately the answer is “no” to both...

It appears that the Richmond Progressive Alliance has pretty much milked all they can from a failed two-year investigation of me for alleged discrimination, retaliation, “corrupt conduct,” “abusing power,” “circulation of information externally,” and more ,that they...

Today, the separation agreement with City Manager Laura Snideman was executed, providing a final date of employment of December 1, 2021. It was signed by Lura Snideman on November 11 and on November 16 by Vice-mayor Demnlus Johnson because I refused to sign it – for...

For those of you who would like to help, the Fire and Police Toy Program will be serving 500 families with food, gift cards and bikes in a COVID-19 safe event at DeJean Middle School on December 18th. The program needs help to make it happen for the families this...

What is Discover & Go? Discover & Go is a program provided by your library that offers free and low-cost passes for museums, science centers, zoos, theatres, and other cultural destinations. You must meet your library's minimum age requirement and live within...

Yesterday, there was a lot of back slapping, chest thumping and high-fiving by RPA City Council members and the Sierra Club (Richmond City Council and Levin Terminal Reach Monumental Settlement to Phase Out Handling of Coal and Petcoke in the City By 2026) as a...

It seems there is good reason that RPA darling Tamisha Torres-Walker has been advocating to defund the police, who, it appears, continue to interfere with her lifestyle. Antioch Councilwoman Charged With Misdemeanor After Interfering with Police Officer written by ECT...

City Manager Laura Snideman will soon be joining City Attorney Teresa Sticker in the mass exodus of Richmond’s top managers from City Hall. Last night, November 9, 2021, with a 6-1 vote in closed session with only me dissenting, the City Council voted to approve a...

Tomorrow is Veterans Day 2021. The tradition that became Veterans Day started as a commemoration of Armistice Day, the time of temporary cessation of hostilities, between the Allied nations and Germany that went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of...

With the resignation of City Attorney Teresa Stricker, contract Assistant City Attorney Heather McLaughlin is quickly becoming the public face of the Richmond City Attorney’s Office. Mc Laughlin (not to be confused with City Council member Gayle McLaughlin) is the...

In this time of COP-26, you may be interested to know that CALCCA is the association of California Consumer Choice Energy aggregators, providing green energy to many parts of California. Our provider in Richmond is MCE Clean Energy. I represent Richmond on the board...

Our lame duck city attorney who resigned last week has truly left the track after losing all her wheels. With four minutes to spare before the 24-hour Brown Act deadline for noticing an agenda item, she (through contract Assistant City Attorney Heather McLaughlin),...