View in a web browser » MTC Policy Advisory Council Recruitment Applications are open for the next 4-year term of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's Policy Advisory Council. Beginning in January 2022, the 27-member body of Bay Area residents will weigh in on...

Following is the June 2021 report from the Contra Costa Coordinated Outreach, Referral, Engagement (CORE) Program. It provides a good profile of Richmond’s homeless population. Of the 140 unduplicated contacts, 43% had substance abuse disorders, 38% had chronic health...

Next Friday, July 16th, I will be hosting a grand re-opening of the Richmond Transit Center from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in front of 1600 Nevin Ave. We invite you to join us. Although the Richmond Transit Center never ceased operation during COVID-19, record –low...

Following is the 21st Bay Trail Richmond Mid Year Report prepared by TRAC, the Trails for Richmond Action Committee. This upbeat, colorful report summarizes great strides made toward completing and improving the Bay Trail in Richmond. The City Council approved a...

Travel East Brother Island, in the San Francisco Bay, is hiring an innkeeper Freda Moon, SFGATE July 6, 2021Updated: July 6, 2021 4 a.m. The lighthouse station at sunset. Cynthia C. via Yelp It’s been called a “dream job,” and when this Bay Area innkeeping position...

The reactions to last night’s fireworks were overwhelming on Nextdoor, Facebook and in emails to me. Perhaps the saddest was an email about a dog that died of fright from fireworks explosions. Following are samples of the emails I received. Dear Mayor Butt, An...

Following is the Richmond Fire Department summary of last night’s activities compiled by Battalion Chief Aaron Osorio and forwarded by Chief Michael Smith: All Richmond Fire companies (except 63) were extremely busy from 1700-0100 hours. From 0730 on 7/4 through 0730...

Nat Bates has been on the City Council off and on since 1967, making him the senior member, and he has seen a lot. I think he has finally seen too much. From: Nathaniel Bates <natbates@comcast.net> Sent: Sunday, July 4, 2021 1:55 PM To: XXXXXX Subject: Re:...

Visit the ship tomorrow and get a discount on wine! Dear Tom, Northern California is famous for shipyards and vineyards... Kaiser-Richmond Shipyards produced 747 ships during World War II and built them faster and at lower cost than any other shipyard. That's why the...

For months, persons opposing the development of the former Zeneca site (now called Campus Bay) have been complaining that sea-level rise has been underpredicted in environmental analysis of the project and that greater sea level rise will infiltrate the buried...

In the bitter debate over defunding Richmond Police, critics of the police like to point out the relatively few instances of police misconduct and characterize them as routine and typical and one of the justifications for reduction in force. To show that such isolated...

The interim assistant city attorney, Heather McLaughlin (no relation to Gayle McLaughlin) correctly reported at the June 29, 2021, City Council meeting that two votes taken in a protracted and contentious (my description) closed session to terminate City Manager Laura...

Back in 2020, the California State Auditor deemed the City of Richmond the 5th most financially at risk city in California and the #1 risk for unfunded pension liability. Yesterday, June 30, 2021, the Joint Legislative Audit Committee of the California Legislature...

It was a simpler time when Richmond residency was a geographical term. You either lived inside the city limits, or you didn’t. It was actual Richmond residents who elected City Council members and communicated with then in various ways about local policies, programs...

Check out these news stories on yesterday’s incident where Oakland’s Violence Prevention Chief (their version of the ONS) was being interviewed when a couple of armed persons pulled up to rob them of the camera and other valuables. It was only one the armed security...

Despite herculean efforts by the anti-Campus Bay wackos to delay or derail the Prospective Purchaser Agreement (PPA) as a strategy to prevent the timely transfer of ownership for the Campus Bay project, the PPA has been successful, and the transfer of ownership is on...

A media monitoring company called Metro Monitor emailed about their data service. They compile any newspaper, radio, or television exposure someone has and develop reports about viewer reach and other information. Like most solicitations, they offered to send a...

This is the story: In 2017, I discovered that the building originally known as the “Richmond Intermodal Transit Center,” built at cost of several million dollars largely from grants, had become obsolete before it was completed. It was originally envisioned as a...

The following is from the Richmond Community Fund, which is soliciting community-based organizations to support ERAP through funding from Contra Costa county. Request for Proposals: Contra Costa County Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) Outreach, Application...

California's only Black female police chief has a smaller force and a big challenge Rachel Swan June 19, 2021, Updated: June 19, 2021 4 a.m. Richmond Police Chief Bisa French hands stickers out to local kids following a Walking School Bus event to promote safe streets...