Obituary: The Sad, Sudden Death of Bernard J. Tyson, the First Black CEO of Kaiser Permanente
Bernard Tyson, Kaiser Permanente CEO, has died at age 60. ...
11 Nov
03 Nov
Racial Equity Team Says Accountability’s Key to Equity
The Richmond racial equity team says accountability from city staff and communicating better with the local community are needed to achieve its goals of advancing past racial equality to include...
01 Oct
Seven Ways California’s New “Rent Cap” Law Would Affect You
Although Assemblymember David Chiu prefers to call AB 1482 a “rent cap” bill instead of a rent control bill, it includes a number of provisions other than the limit on...
19 Sep
Public Invited To See Final Yellow Brick Road Plans
The nearly final plans for the Yellow Brick Road - a safe walking and bike route through the Iron Triangle area of Richmond - are available for the public to...
17 Sep
Lawyer Alleges Citywide Voting in Richmond is Racially Unfair
A Walnut Creek attorney has accused the city of Richmond of having a voting system that results in racially biased voting....
11 Sep
City Council Bans E-cigarettes Sales in Richmond
The Richmond City Council on Tuesday voted to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes and vaping products until they’re reviewed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration....
07 Sep
Bay Area Kaiser Workers Prepare to Strike
The nation’s largest strike in over a decade looms after 37,5000 California Kaiser Permanente workers approved a walkout that would start in October. ...
04 Sep
City Planner Outlines Construction Projects
The City of Richmond is booming. That was the unspoken — yet clear — message from the city’s Planning and Building Services Director Lina Velasco during a presentation to the...
13 Aug
Working, But Still Homeless, in California
When Coleen Sykes Ray started an organization with her daughter in 2015 to help homeless women, the Stockton, California resident had no idea she, too, would be homeless four years...
13 Aug
Video Games Blamed for Mass Shootings Yet Again
The recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton again left people searching for answers. President Donald Trump and others blamed the violence on video games, invoking a decades-old trope...
11 Aug
Journalists Lament Big Tech’s Footprint on News
The tech industry is eating the newspaper industry’s lunch and skipping out on the bill, according to current and former news executives, reporters and Congressman Mark DeSaulnier, who spoke on...
02 Aug
How to Get Your Share of the $700M Equifax Settlement
Last week, Equifax agreed to pay $700 million as part of a settlement for its handling of a 2017 data breach that exposed the personal information of 147 million people,...
18 Jul
Lights for Liberty Illuminates the ‘Root Causes’ of Central American Migration
The Lights for Liberty vigil was a series of events held across the nation July 12 to protest the Trump Administration’s immigration policies, specifically the conditions in immigrant detention facilities....
17 Jul
Naval Weapons Station to Become Regional Park
By Michael J. Fitzgerald | Photo credit: CNWS_Stephen JosephThe Concord Naval Weapons Station officially joined the East Bay Regional Park District July 13 in a ceremony at the former naval...
16 Mar
‘Sisters in Solidarity’ Delivers on Its Message
Empowered women empower women. This was evident at the annual Sisters in Solidarity event, hosted by the City of Richmond. ...
