Tag Archives: California

Player runs along side opponent, while they are looking the other way

Oilers basketball season shows promise

Can you hear it? The sharp squeaks of sneakers across the shellacked hardwood and the echoing buzz signaling the end of a period? That’s right, it’s basketball time, and the Richmond Oilers are ramping up...
San Leandro-based Aztec dance group Eztli Chicahua performs

Richmond hears El Grito de Dolores loud and clear

The Mexican flag, carried carefully without touching the floor, dwarfed Marco Negrete, a diplomatic attaché from the Mexican Consulate General in San Francisco, as he carried it onto the stage in Richmond’s Restaurante la Revolución....
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Union files request with state over Kaiser staffing

November proved to be one of the most tumultuous months in the now year-and-a-half-long contract negotiations between Kaiser Permanente and its mental health clinicians. Mid-month, the National Union of Healthcare Workers released a 35-page report...
Roland Formica's shop, Odds 'N Ends Waterbeds on San Pablo Ave. in Richmond, is the oldest waterbed specialty store in the world. (photo by: Maggie Beidelman)

Peace, love and waterbeds: Richmond’s best sleep

There is a time machine in Richmond that will take you back. Way back. Where 80s crooners sing of careless whispers and sepia-tinted photographs bring you back to the better days of peace and love....
THe West County Interim Housing Program in Richmond is at full capacity at 85 beds. The homeless shelter's director, Arturo Castillo, said the facility can accommodate the newly released ex-offenders after the passing of the Prison Realignment Act, but more funding is necessary to maintain services. Photo by Hasan Dudar.

Contra Costa homeless shelters unsure about effects of realignment

As the state starts to release prisoners into the supervision of the counties, Contra Costa County’s homeless shelters – where former prisoners often end up because they don’t have family or their identity reestablished upon...

Richmond research firm to announce HIV/AIDS clinical trial findings at national conference Saturday

Richmond-based Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. said Wednesday it is ready to take its HIV and AIDS research – which has the potential to someday provide a functional cure for HIV – to a national conference and...
The 9th Congressional district, represented by Barbara Lee (D) would expand north to include Richmond in the latest plan. (all maps http://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/)

New maps would put Richmond in new federal, state districts

If a redistricting plan moves forward as drafted, Richmond would find itself aligned with Berkeley and Oakland, and shifted away from sharing representation with Contra Costa County communities.