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Water taxi from Richmond to San Francisco launches today

By Nebiat Assefa Melles | November 14, 2016 |

Heron water taxi, transports 40 passengers at one time from Richmond to San Francisco back and forth. Photo by Nebiat Assefa Melles

Tideline Marine Group launched a new Richmond-to-San Francisco water taxi today. The commuter service will run Mondays through Fridays on three vessels that will transport passengers between Marina Bay and San Francisco’s Pier 1.5.

ELECTION 2016: Richmond, California

By Nebiat Assefa Melles | November 7, 2016

Quanah Parker Brightman, resident and United Native Americans, Inc. Executive Director. Photo by Nebiat Assefa Melles.

Election day is just around the corner. Before everything comes to a close, we walked around Richmond, stopping at Civic Center Plaza and Marina Bay, to ask residents what they thought about the upcoming vote.

Making Waves students clean up Baxter Creek

By Brittany Patterson | October 17, 2012 |

On Saturday, students from Making Waves teamed up with The Watershed Project for a trash assessment and cleanup effort at Baxter Creek, which was recently named one of California’s trashiest waterways. From cardboard and paper, to styrofoam and plastic bags—and even the occasional shoe—students and other volunteers removed debris and freshened up the area. Richmond…

Video: Disco single saves lives

By Tiffany Neely | September 29, 2012

Who would’ve thought that the 1970s disco hit “Stayin’ Alive” would one day literally help people stay alive?

Meet Jazz Hudson, the revolutionary poet

By Vanessa Carr | March 30, 2011 |

Twenty-two year old spoken word artist Jazz Hudson has been rocking East Bay mics since the eighth grade. From her first writer’s workshop at the West Oakland Library — where her father sent her to “curb that mouth of hers” — she has performed from the streets of Oakland and Richmond to the national stage, often with her three-year-old son Nassor at her side.