Local Happenings
From the Pulse News Desk, Posted Dec 24, 2014 Holiday Closures Richmond city offices will be closed during the holiday week beginning Wednesday, Dec. 24 and reopening on Friday, Jan. 2, 2015. The...
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Dec
Etsy Gift Guide: Richmond, California
By Sonya Mann Here’s an exciting prospect: shop locally without having to leave your house. With Christmas less than two weeks away, consider buying presents that can support your community at the...
Composting Program Expands to Richmond Businesses
Nancy Deville, The CC Pulse A new weekly curbside service is helping Richmond businesses be a bit greener without the hassle. Richmond Sanitary has launched a commercial food scrap collection...
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Nov
Local Business Review: Narasaki Automotive and Marine
Review , Sonya Mann When my little white Corolla starts rattling under the hood, I take it to Narasaki Automotive and Marine, off of Marina Way South in Richmond. After I step...
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Sep
Comcast Executive VP Touts Broadband Program for Low-Income Families
Event, Peter Schurmann | New America Media When Libier Gonzalez first arrived to the United States from Mexico three years ago, her family could not afford Internet access at home. A...
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Aug
Uche Uwahemu’s Plan for Richmond
Interview, Vernon Whitmore EDITOR'S NOTE: Richmond mayoral candidate Uche Uwahemu came to the Unites States 28 years ago from Nigeria. He grew up in Washington DC, before moving to the Bay Area...
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Aug
Family-Owned ‘Phila Burger’ Dishes Good Vibes
Food Review, Luis Cubas For me, being back home from school for the summer meant one thing: getting some “Phila Burger.” Located on 23rd street, Philadelphia Hoagie Station, otherwise known as simply...
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Jul
Richmond History Museum Hopes to Take a Step Toward the Future
By Nancy Deville If you’re looking to learn more about Richmond’s storied past, an often overlooked historic building in the heart of the Iron Triangle may be a good place to...
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Jul
Why Doctors Medical Center Can’t Close
Commentary, Melvin Willis Back in March 2014 while I was visiting my mom at her home she suddenly lost her breath, and couldn’t catch it. Her breathing was so labored...
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Apr
Young Muslims Choosing to Wear the Hijab Despite Rising Tide of Islamophobia
New America Media, News Report, Anna Challet SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Salmon Hossein, an Afghan-American Muslim working on a joint law and public policy degree at UC Berkeley and Harvard, says...
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Apr
Q&A: Parcel Tax a ‘Last Ditch’ Effort to Save Doctors Hospital
Leer en Español Interview by Vernon Whitmore Editor’s Note: Longtime Bay Area newspaper publisher and The CC Pulse contributor Vernon Whitmore recently sat down with Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia to...
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Mar
Richmond to Have Highest Minimum Wage in State
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...
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Feb
Local Organizations Use Comedy to Protest Keystone XL
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...
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Feb
Chevron Joins News Publisher Wars in Richmond
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...
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Jan
Richmond Residents React to New Fees for Paper Bags
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...
