25 Feb

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...

12 Feb

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...

21 Jan

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...

05 Oct

  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...

04 Oct

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...

01 Oct

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...

06 Aug

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 --...

27 Jul

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...

08 Jul

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...

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