Economy
North Richmond is alive with community gardens.
The bald fade, the Caesar, the mohawk. Your Search Is Over Barbershop does it all.
Residents living in Richmond’s Iron Triangle Neighborhood will have access to free Internet from four to five Wi-Fi locations within the next year. The effort is part of a two-year $1 million grant through the California Emerging Technology Fund, via Building Blocks, a cooperative of more than 30 city and county agencies dedicated to the advancement of families in Richmond’s Iron Triangle neighborhood.
Point Richmond is known as a tight-knit community with a unique, small town charm, and a vote today by the Richmond City Council will determine if people in the community can keep out businesses they think will mar that ambience. The Council will vote this evening on an ordinance to prevent so-called formula restaurants from setting up shop in the neighborhood until next January.
The wastewater treatment plant in Point Richmond will soon restart full operations, said Aaron Weiner, district manager at Veolia Water, the company that runs the facility. Solid waste processing at the plant was shut down in early October, 2010. Since then, the company has been hauling about a hundred trucks of solid human waste each week to an East Bay Municipal Utility District facility in Oakland.
Cortland “Corky” Boozé is a rarity in local politics: The hard-luck local provocateur who finally broke into the inner circle.
Mayor Gayle McLaughlin said Richmond is on the ascent.
A new web-based program aims to enhance locals’ cyber skills.
The new left-leaning city council faces steep challenges ahead.