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		<title>Mayor shares Richmond&#8217;s year in review, year ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mayor and many of the 50 or so residents who filled the Whittlesey Community Room Friday night said it countless different ways, but it all boiled down to the same thing: 2011 was a great year in Richmond. “I can’t think of a place I’d rather live right now,” said longtime resident Mike Peritz....]]></description>
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		<title>Plaintiffs cite cliques, exclusion in Magnus descrimination suit</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Waldholz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cliques, rumors, exclusion: those words came up again and again on Wednesday during testimony in the racial discrimination suit against the city and police Chief Chris Magnus.
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		<title>FEMA&#8217;s levee standards may impose extra insurance on North Richmond residents</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendi Jonassen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The North Richmond neighborhood hasn’t flooded since the Army Corps of Engineers erected levees decades ago around the two creeks. But although their record so far is good, the levees now don’t meet Federal Emergency Management Agency standards.]]></description>
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		<title>Richmond Field Station will be second site for Lawrence Berkeley National Labs</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/01/23/richmond-field-station-will-be-second-site-for-lawrence-berkeley-national-labs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lexi Pandell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[University of California leaders announced this morning that Lawrence Berkeley National Labs has selected the Richmond Field Station as the location of its second site.
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		<title>Richmond program installing solar panels with help of local labor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Juan Lores delivered pizzas in the late 1980s, the area around Pennsylvania Avenue and Sixth Street was so dangerous his manager wouldn’t let his drivers deliver there after dark. A lot has changed in the last 20 years. Lores in 2009 moved his family into the neighborhood he used to steer clear of. And...]]></description>
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		<title>Talks break down, Richmond North Shoreline plan in limbo</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/01/11/talks-break-down-richmond-north-shoreline-plan-in-limbo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four hours of debate Tuesday night brought elected leaders no closer to resolving a decade-long dispute over the future of the city’s North Shoreline. The Richmond City Council deadlocked on three separate development guidelines, finally agreeing only to return the measure to the Planning Commission to craft a fresh approach. The north shoreline is a...]]></description>
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		<title>City officials celebrate friendship, new trade possibilities, with Asian sister cities</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maggie Beidelman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[City officials ground green tea and talked trade with Richmond&#8217;s sister cities of Shimada, Japan, and Zhoushan, China, during a December trip to celebrate a history of friendship and new trade opportunities. Port of Richmond executive director James Matzorkis led the business-related trip to Zhoushan, a city in the northeastern Zhejiang province of Eastern China;...]]></description>
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		<title>Richmond 2011: The year in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2011 was quite a year, to borrow a favorite phrase from longtime resident Sims Thompson, in “our fair city.” I know that’s vague, but it’s tough to turn a pithy phrase that sums up a year in a vibrant, bustling and changing city. We had tragedy and triumph, tumult and harmony. Alliances and rivalries. Echoes of the past and glimmers from the future.]]></description>
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		<title>Workers fired from foundry, community provides support</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Xiaoqing Pi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richmond leaders were on hand to oppose the imminent firings of more than 200 undocumented workers in Berkeley who were flagged in a work eligibility audit conducted by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ]]></description>
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		<title>Protesters descend on Chevron tax hearings</title>
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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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