Richmond Confidential

Josh Wolf grew up in Wrightwood, a tiny village in Southern California. In 2002, he moved to the Bay Area. Before becoming a journalist, Josh studied film and psychology at UC Santa Barbara and San Francisco State. He wanted to make movies with big-budgets and subversive scripts, but soon discovered that reality was exciting enough. Josh has worked as CNET, Peralta TV, and KPFA radio. He most recently wrote for the Daily Post in Palo Alto. Josh still can't decide whether it's more important to print the news and raise hell, or to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Recent Comments

• Posted on: Richmond council votes to ban cigarettes at drug stores

  Thanks for commenting Sherry, Why do you think the pharmacies put the patch and the cigarettes in the same basic place? Do you think the tobacco companies require the products be placed together? I haven't yet looked into it, but I have noticed that they are often together on the shelf. As if, cigarettes, chewing tobacco and the patch are just three different types of the same product. #

  October 29, 2009 at 11:12 am

• Posted on: Council says no more pot clubs

  Good job on the story Natalie. I think it's hilarious that the owner of a dispensary would advocate for a moratorium. I mean, almost every business wants as close to a monopoly as possible. But somehow reading it in "print" puts it into focus for me. #

  December 2, 2009 at 7:51 pm

• Posted on: Council approves extension for Point Molate developer

  Don, thanks for your comments. First of all, I didn't get quotes from anyone from this story outside of what was said as part of the public record. You watched me get down the names of everyone who I either missed or who had a name that could be spelled multiple ways. If it so happens that these people are "the crazies," then I guess you should blame their parents. I didn't report on Levine's supposed agenda to harpoon Japanese "whales," and take their money before they reached Vegas because it is as you described it. If there is any validity to Corey Lawrence claims that the city will owe the real estate agent a $1.5 million fee, I do plan to report it. But no evidence backing up that assertion was presented in the meeting. As an advocate for transparency, I feel that the ongoing negotiations between the council and Upstream should have been accessible to the public prior to this week's meeting, but it was the city's decision to utilize the Brown act to obscure what's gone on before now, not mine. As such, I don't know what questions were raised to staff at that time, but I feel that the appropriate protocol would have been to solicit answers to these questions to staff in in open session so that they could have prepared answers in a timely manner for both the council and the public. The stakes for refusing the extension were debated at the meeting, but no responses with any sort of support for that outlook. As such, I decided not to report all the possibilities. As for the EIR deadlines and the fiscal impacts associated with them, I don't remember any of this matter being discussed at the meeting I was reporting on. You say there are a lot of questions left unanswered after reading my article. I'm inclined to agree with you, but I think anyone leaving that meeting was also, in turn, left with many unanswered questions. My attempt was to report on the meeting itself, and I feel I provided a fair representation of what occurred. #

  January 13, 2010 at 4:15 pm

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