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		<title>Congressman Miller visits Richmond schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congressman George Miller (D-Martinez) lobbed a lot of questions Thursday afternoon. But he only got one unanimous answer. “How many of you plan to go to college?” Miller asked about 20 Richmond High School students. Every hand shot up. Miller smiled wide. It was part of a more than one-hour after-school conversation between the longtime...]]></description>
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		<title>A life: Former Richmond Mayor George Livingston</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Livingston liked looking back. His hindsight wasn’t marred by what-ifs or dubious intentions. He gave it all he had, and there’s no shame in that. “What I am proud of is I was able to help integrate the city,” Livingston said during a lengthy chat in his Richmond home in February, 2011. “I gave...]]></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>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>Occupy Richmond goes marching by</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/11/02/occupy-richmond-marching-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Waldholz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re on San Pablo Avenue this morning, look around &#8212; Occupy Richmond may be marching by. About a dozen protesters representing Occupy Richmond gathered Wednesday morning on the corner of San Pablo Ave. and Macdonald Ave., before marching down San Pablo toward Oakland City Hall. (photo by: Maggie Beidelman) About a dozen protesters &#8212;...]]></description>
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		<title>Community members provide input at the beginning stages of Richmond&#8217;s Climate Action Plan</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/10/25/community-members-provide-input-at-the-beginning-stages-of-richmonds-climate-action-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendi Jonassen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richmond hosted its first public meeting on its Climate Action Plan Monday, asking for community input about environmental and community priorities and concerns before the city hires a consultant.]]></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>Residents told to expect flaring as Chevron refinery begins maintenance</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/10/06/residents-tol-to-expect-flaring-as-chevron-refinery-begins-mainten/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Waldholz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Residents near Chevron’s Richmond Refinery can expect to see flames at the plant’s flare stacks over the next month and a half, as the refinery enters one of its occasional maintenance periods. On Monday, the refinery began work that will bring an additional 1,650 contractors into Richmond over the next four to six weeks. That...]]></description>
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		<title>City Council praises refinery&#8217;s general manager but criticizes Chevron</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/10/06/city-council-praises-refinerys-general-manager-but-criticizes-chevron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendi Jonassen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The City Council acknowledged Mike Coyle, the former general manager of Chevron’s Richmond refinery who recently was promoted to the company’s San Ramon headquarters, with a proclamation Tuesday night. While many speakers from the community and council members spoke highly of Coyle&#8217;s character, some were extremely critical of Chevron as a company and its role...]]></description>
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