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		<title>Protesters descend on Chevron tax hearings</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/12/15/protesters-descend-on-chevron-tax-hearings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 50 protesters, including some top Richmond elected officials, demonstrated outside county government buildings in Martinez Thursday before filing into a hearing aimed at resolving a tax dispute between Chevron and the Contra Costa County Assessor’s office.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Chevron announces $1 million in grants</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/11/08/chevron-announces-1-million-in-grants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Waldholz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chevron announced $1 million in grants for six local initiatives in job training and science education on Monday. Recipients include the West Contra Costa Unified School District and Contra Costa College. “[We’re] happy to contribute a total of $1 million – that’s easy to say, $1 million,” said refinery General Manager Nigel Hearne at a...]]></description>
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		<title>CyberTran: Small start-up has big dreams</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/10/31/cybertran-small-startup-has-big-dreams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Kenyon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Eugene Nishinaga, the chief technical officer at CyberTran International, ultralight rail is nothing short of a spiritual awakening. &#8220;I was actually driving on the highway, right outside the [Richmond] field station,” he said, “totally coincidence &#8212; and I felt the call of God.&#8221; The call was the impetus for a major shift in Nishinaga’s...]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing opens Monday on Chevron’s $58 million property tax appeal</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/10/23/hearing-opens-monday-on-chevron%e2%80%99s-58-million-property-tax-appeal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Waldholz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chevron will present its case for a $58 million tax refund before an appeals board on Monday, as the company seeks to prove that it overpaid property taxes on its Richmond refinery between 2007 and 2009. Chevron believes the county has overvalued its Richmond refinery by nearly $2 billion per year. 

If the company succeeds in its appeal, it would create a “brutal situation” for the county and cities, Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin said.]]></description>
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		<title>A World War II preschool rings again with children’s shouts</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/09/30/a-world-war-ii-preschool-rings-again-with-children%e2%80%99s-shouts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Harless</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Mexican folk dance, an African-American gospel song, a restored World War II era school building, and a happy principal. “There are two things you can give to children, in general: roots and wings,” said Peppina Chang, the principal of the Richmond College Prep Schools. And today her preschoolers are getting their wings in a...]]></description>
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		<title>Congressman Miller sees Richmond promises</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/09/20/congressmanmillerseespromiseinrichmond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Kenyon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congressman George Miller flies in and out of the Bay Area on a near weekly basis. When he looks down as he flies over Richmond he sees one of the “last big promising corners in the Bay Area.” “What you see is this huge asset with a lot of developable properties,” he said to a...]]></description>
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		<title>Chevron top management changes in Richmond</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/09/20/chevron-top-management-changes-in-richmond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zahid Rafiq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chevron’s Richmond operation will soon have a change in its top management as General Manager Mike Coyle will leave office in the last week of this month to take a job at corporate headquarters in San Ramon. Coyle, who has “proudly” been the refinery GM for three years, said he will leave with a single...]]></description>
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		<title>Ritterman files official complaint against Booze</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/09/15/ritterman-files-official-complaint-against-booze/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 04:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Kenyon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amidst a series of increasingly public disagreements, City Councilmember Jeff Ritterman filed two formal complaints this week to the California Fair Political Practices Commission, alleging that Councilmember Corky Booze has unfairly punished some local businesses and made alliances with others based on campaign contributions. While the complaints reached the state watchdog agency in Sacramento, the...]]></description>
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		<title>A look inside Chevron&#8217;s Richmond refinery</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/09/13/a-look-inside-chevrons-richmond-refinery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Waldholz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visitors gathered in a parking lot off Castro Street, where they were greeted with balloons, candy, hand puppets for kids, information on Chevron’s Renewal Project and postcards of refinery workers through the ages – and asked to leave behind all bags and cameras, for security reasons.]]></description>
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		<title>Chevron offers a glimpse inside</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/09/08/chevron-offers-a-glimpse-inside/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Waldholz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chevron’s Richmond Refinery will open its gates to the public Saturday morning, during its second annual Community Tour Day. Over 500 people from Richmond and surrounding cities have signed up to tour the refinery, an event that Chevron officials hope will help demystify its operations. “People have a lot of misinformation about the refinery, and...]]></description>
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