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		<title>Talks break down, Richmond North Shoreline plan in limbo</title>
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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>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>Statewide legislation to ban roadside animal sales</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/12/28/statewide-legislation-to-ban-roadside-animal-sales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lexi Pandell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s common for vendors to sell animals on the roadside or at weekend flea markets in Richmond, but that may change next month. Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation this summer that bans unregulated pet sales. The two-part law goes into effect on Jan. 1 and prohibits the sale of animals on roads, street corners, parking...]]></description>
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		<title>Debate stirs over two-year on-ramp closure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacey Kennelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The California Department of Transportation is planning a project that would close an I-580 on-ramp near the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge for at least two years, forcing residents to enter westbound and cross the bridge into Marin County.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Ban the box&#8221; resolution passes, fracas erupts at City Council meeting</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/11/23/ban-the-box-resolution-passes-fracas-erupts-at-city-council-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Lartaud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The City Council voted Tuesday to remove a question about criminal convictions from city employment applications, saying the yes/no “box” was an onerous requirement for ex-convicts. Question 14, displayed prominently on the first page of all applications for city jobs, asks: “Have you ever been convicted of a crime?” Opponents of the question have long...]]></description>
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		<title>City Council adopts Bicycle Master Plan and Pedestrian plan</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/11/03/city-council-adopts-master-bicycle-pedestrian-plans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Kenyon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After more than three hours of contentious debate Tuesday, the City Council adopted an environmental review of a Bicycle Master Plan and a Pedestrian Plan that keeps the city on course to add bike lanes and pedestrian improvements to city streets. The plan would put select Richmond roads on what Richard Mitchell, Richmond’s director of...]]></description>
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		<title>Neighbors celebrate Arbor Day and honor the victim of a hit and run</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/10/24/neighbors-celebrate-arbor-day-and-honor-the-victim-of-a-hit-and-run/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendi Jonassen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After his sister passed away about a month and half ago, Keoni Larot moved to Richmond. A day after he arrived, David Cox, a neighbor in a wheelchair, was killed on the corner directly in front of Larot’s new house in a hit and run that remains unsolved. The North and East Tree Team, with...]]></description>
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		<title>Rough road ahead: Richmond’s pavement program to suffer budget cuts</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/10/04/rough-road-ahead-richmond%e2%80%99s-pavement-management-to-suffer-budget-cuts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Xiaoqing Pi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sit for a minute and watch cars drive the stretch of road on Barrett Avenue from Harbor Way to Seventh Street, and you can see bad pavement in action. A red Range Rover trips over an uneven patch with a jolt. The Camry behind it slows down and creaks as tires meet pothole. A white...]]></description>
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		<title>City Council&#8217;s uneasy calm</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Kenyon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, a Richmond Human Rights Committee member likened the antics on the City Council dais in recent weeks to the "Jerry Springer Show."

But Tuesday's council meeting was hardly daytime shock material.]]></description>
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		<title>A North Richmond tribute to the man, the &#8216;Fred Jackson Way&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As one of the dozens of buoyant well-wishers put it Thursday night, these services didn’t have the feel of a funeral – there was too much joy in the room. ]]></description>
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