News Report, Malcolm Marshall Last week, the Richmond City Council voted in favor of a city ordinance that will increase the local minimum wage from $8 to $12.30 an hour by...
News Feature, Edgardo Cervano-Soto Early in February, the State Department opened a public comment period on the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline, part of a pipeline that would carry unrefined petroleum from Canada...
News Report, Sukey Lewis and Asha DuMonthier | New America Media RICHMOND, Calif. -- There’s a good old-fashioned muckraker’s war going on in Richmond, Calif., and Chevron’s “community-driven” news site Richmond Standard...
by Chanelle Ignant Two weeks after its January 1 implementation, Richmond’s Single-Use Bag Ordinance is earning mixed reactions from residents. Chief among the responses are grievances about the 5-cent fee for...
Leer en Español by Luis Cubas You know how the saying goes: “You are what you eat.” The problem is, we don’t always have a choice. In many parts of Richmond, organic...
News Feature, Laura Flynn • New America Media/KALW Editor's Note: In 2002 the California legislature passed AB 117 allowing cities and counties to become electric service providers to residents in their...
Commentary • Sean Shavers | Photo courtesy of Steve Rhodes Editor’s Note: On a nationwide day of strikes on August 30th, fast food workers in 60 cities across the country marched...
Photo Essay • Edgardo Cervano-Soto People call out to Juana Raquel as she pushes her green, wooden, home-built cart through the streets of central Richmond. Children pull back peach-colored curtains and...
Interview, RP Editors RP: What do homeowners facing foreclosure in Richmond need to know right now about the city's plan to invoke eminent domain? Mayor Gayle McLaughlin: We call it the Cares...
Leer en Español News Report • Anna Challet Richmond will move forward with its plans to seize underwater mortgages using eminent domain, raising the stakes in a test case of whether a...
Leer en Español By Edgardo Cervano-Soto For over 100 years, the histories of Richmond and Chevron have been intertwined, to the extent that they sometimes seem like reflections of one another --...
by RP Editors The Richmond City Council voted 6 to 1 to prohibit private contractors that do business with the city from inquiring about past criminal convictions on printed and on-line...
Leer en Español Question & Answer, Nicole Hudley Editor's Note: Last August, an explosion and fire at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, Calif. sent a vaporized plume into the sky and into...
News Feature, Adrienne Chainey Happy Third of July, Richmond! As odd as it seems, the City of Richmond puts on their official fireworks show every year on the third and...
News Report • Donny Lumpkins and Peter Schurmann For years Gregory Greer has gotten up in the early morning hours to make the 15-mile trip from his home in Vallejo to...
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