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...

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,...

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,...

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...

The one thing everyone agrees on is that they don’t want any homeless people in THEIR neighborhood. The leaders of the Fairmede-Hilltop and Hilltop neighborhood councils have organized a 1,700 signature petition against the proposed safe park at the virtually...

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I had an opportunity today to visit an operating small scale mockup of a plant at the UC Field Station that can transform organic waste into liquid fuels such as syngas, jet fuel and diesel as well as produce hydrogen, all with little or negligible greenhouse gas...

Join me as I present the 2021 State of the City! Tuesday, February 23 │ 6:30 pm Zoom Webinar ID: 993 1220 5643 Zoom Passcode: ccmeeting Online: https://zoom.us/join Call In: +1 669 900 6833 TV: Ch. 28 (Comcast), Ch. 99 (uVerse) Stream: www.youtube.com/c/KCRTTV Mayor's...

Like every neighborhood proximate to a site being considered for a Safe Park to serve RVs occupied by unhoused persons, the Hilltop community is pushing back hard. No one wants a homeless person in their neighborhood, whether in a tent or an RV. How did this happen? I...

I learned a lot about oil spills and cleanups this week. We apparently dodged a bullet on what turned out to be a relatively small spill with no lingering effects, but I learned a lot, and I think others did also. I got my first notice via text message from I believe...

To those who wish to attend the next Richmond Southeast Shoreline Area (RSSA) Community Advisory Group (CAG) Meeting, the Zoom information follows: From: Carolyn Graves <Carolyn.Graves@kp.org> Sent: Saturday, February 6, 2021 2:19 PM To: Tom Butt...