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		<title>Richmond Port project on hold as council to weigh two competing sites</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 22:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A divided City Council halted a grant-funded port security construction project Tuesday, opting to put plans for the site on hold while exploring the feasibility of a nearby location. The move delays a nearly $4 million project to build a security and operations center for first responders at 1411 Harbour Way South, the Richmond Port’s...]]></description>
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		<title>Dueling proposals compete for federal money to build security center at Richmond port</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[City Council officials will decide tonight whether to halt federal grant-funded project to convert a building into a port security center. Councilman Tom Butt has for weeks raised concerns about whether the money would be better spent doing the same thing in a nearby structure. Butt says the city’s port operations have devolved into a...]]></description>
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		<title>Ritterman to step aside, field open for candidates for Richmond City Council</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/04/23/ritterman-done-after-one-term-field-open-for-candidates-for-richmond-city-council/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeff Ritterman is out. Marilyn Langlois and Eduardo Martinez want in. The campaign kickoff event at the Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA) downtown offices Sunday drew more than 120 people and featured speeches from this fall’s candidates for city office about platforms and accomplishments. But the biggest news was Councilman Ritterman’s public proclamation that he will...]]></description>
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		<title>Residents come together to clean Point Molate Beach</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/04/22/residents-come-together-to-clean-point-molate-beach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For eight years, a jewel in Richmond has been kept from public view. It’s a stretch of sandy beach, where gentle swells lap against the shore and each day closes with a brilliant sunset framed by the San Rafael Bridge. But Point Molate Beach has been closed since 2004, when the city’s fiscal troubles forced...]]></description>
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		<title>Top McLaughlin aide resigns, joins 2012 electoral field in Richmond</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The race for Richmond City Council 2012 just got more interesting. Longtime mayoral aide and local activist Marilyn Langlois has resigned her post in Gayle McLaughlin’s office to run for a chance to govern beside her former boss. “I will still be very close with the mayor and volunteering in the community,” Langlois said by...]]></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>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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