This message is being sent on behalf of City Manager Laura Snideman Hon. Mayor and Members of the City Council: This is the report for the week ending April 9, 2021. Meeting Notes The next Regular City Council meeting is scheduled for April 20th , 2021. Coronavirus...

East Brother Lighthouse is by far Richmond’s oldest building and has become an iconic destination for lighthouse lovers everywhere. The lighthouse may, however, be at the end of its successful 40-year run hosting tens of thousands of guests who come to Richmond for...

Those of you who voted in the Richmond Progressive Alliance majority might want to take a look at what was Agenda Item H-30 on the April 6, City Council Agenda. It was removed from the consent calendar and not voted on before the meeting ended at 11:30 PM but it will...

Like most of the Bay Area, Richmond is in a housing crisis – both a quantity crisis and an affordability crisis. The State of California needs to add 3.5 million homes by 2025 to close the housing gap. The latest Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) is a state...

Figure 1 - HHC 159th Engineer Group, 20th Engineer Brigade, 1969 Long Binh, RVN Figure 2 - 1LT Tom Butt at Phu Cuong Bridge, 1969

All Veterans, their spouses, caregivers can get COVID-19 vaccinations from VA 87 Posted on Wednesday, March 24, 2021 4:00 pm Posted in Coronavirus, Health, News Releases, Top Stories by OMR 87 comments 108k views All Veterans, their spouses and caregivers can get...

Virtual events available for National Vietnam War Veterans Day Posted on Wednesday, March 24, 2021 9:00 am Posted in Top Stories by Adam Stump 28 comments 23k views National Vietnam War Veterans Day is March 29, marking the day U.S. Military Assistance Command,...

Richmond Police union boss aims to unseat sheriff in Contra Costa County Rachel Swan March 16, 2021 Updated: March 16, 2021 4 a.m. Comments Richmond Police Officers Association President Benjamin Therriault is running for Contra Costa County sheriff. Scott Strazzante...

According to recent estimates from the House Oversight Committee, the City of Richmond will receive approximately $20,811,816 from the American Rescue Plan. Recently, heated fiscal arguments in Richmond have been over what NOT to cut. In the next couple of years,...

Solving the Homeless Crisis – the One Percent Solution is a work in progress, but it lays out a blueprint for the only sure way to move beyond homelessness. Homelessness in the United States, and in California, has been getting worse since at least the 1980s. it is...

Sadly, no one wants a Safe Parking project in their neighborhood, and after considering and voting on numerous sites, the City Council seems ready to finally give up and simply punt. After voting on February 23, 2021, to locate the Safe Park project at the Civic...

When Richmonders voted last November for two new City Council members, many of them probably thought they had elected independent individuals who just happened to be members of the Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA). These two then joined two others to form a bullet...

Contra Costa County Improves to Red Tier in California's Reopening Plan COVID-19 is spreading slower in Contra Costa than during a post-holiday peak a few weeks ago, allowing some business and community activities to resume in the county for the first time since...

John Knox was a neighbor, a friend, a bond counsel for the City of Richmond, a talented musician, and father of Alex Knox, my first mayor’s campaign manager, mayor’s staff member and former Mayor’s Office chief of staff. He will be missed on many fronts. The social...

This message is being sent on behalf of City Manager Laura Snideman Hon. Mayor and Members of the City Council: This is the report for the weeks ending March 5, 2021. Meeting Notes The next City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 9th, 2021. The Special...

According to British author and toponymist Barclay Simpson, Richmond is the most common place name in the world. All in all, Simpson, a resident of the original Richmond, in Yorkshire, England, claims there are over 90 places with the name Richmond. All are descended,...

As the debate over abolishing single family zoning gains traction, I want to explain why it probably is not something Richmond needs to consider. Unlike Berkeley and other Bay Area communities whose general plans leave little room for increasing the housing stock,...

Because of the confusion about street sweeping as a required regulatory activity, I asked Keith H. Lichten, Chief, Watershed Management Division, SF Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, to explain it. Click here for his response. Lichten writes. “While street...

This message is being sent on behalf of City Manager Laura Snideman Hon. Mayor and Members of the City Council: This is the report for the weeks ending February 26, 2021. Meeting Notes The next City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021. Closed...

The Hilltop NIMBYs were triumphant last night, with Fairmede-Hilltop Neighborhood Council President Arto Rinteela gloating on Everybody’s Richmond California Facebook page, “Thank you ALL: Its Over: Safe PARK WLL NOT be at the Hilltop Mall area. Civic Center is a...