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In a move that could impact the city’s highly-anticipated campaign season, Chevron Corp. and city leaders on Tuesday brokered a tax deal that markedly eases tensions between the energy giant and the city.
Will Haynes, 16, has no problem telling you what’s on his mind. Just ask him. Or don’t. He might tell you anyway. The Kennedy High School junior and RYSE youth center staple has wisdom beyond his years and a flair for media skills to match.
“The proposed casino project at Point Molate will have a profound impact on the landscape. The Point is not necessarily beautiful or majestic; relics of its past lay rusting and falling apart. Gates and fences restrict access.”
Dueling visions for the city’s future could be heading for a day of reckoning with city voters in November. A Chevron Corp-backed measure to slash utility taxes for residents has paid hands fanning throughout the city on a mission to collect 4,000 signatures.
Richmond’s City Council delivered a unanimous verdict against Arizona’s controversial immigration law. The council voted 6-0 to cease all public business with the state and companies that operate there.
On Monday night, it was regular folks from the neighborhood around Nystrom Elementary School who were taking the lead in addressing challenges in their community.
A community meeting tonight for the roughly 40-square block area in the southern section of the city’s Iron Triangle could mark a major step in a long-building local civic improvement initiative.
Former Mayor George Livingston spent a lifetime on the front lines of progress. Meeting with Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., becoming one of the city’s first black elected officials, and now sharing his wisdom with the next generation.
Chevron’s plans to expand operations to refine a wider range of crude oil at its Richmond refinery have been halted by a California court.