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On Tuesday, City Council verified the signatures for putting the Richmond Kids First Initiative on the 2018 ballot. The embattled initiative, which supporters had worked to put on the 2016 ballot, would allocate up to 3 percent of the city’s general fund over the next 10 years for a special fund for children’s and youth services.
Most major cities in the East Bay have raised their minimum wage in recent years, and more increases are on the way. With the minimums varying from one place to the next, some workers say they are starting to chase pay increases by enduring longer commutes.
A Wednesday night panel discussion on the state of health care in Richmond and West Contra Costa county underscored the community’s anxiety over access to medical treatment.
On April 17, the Oakland Ballet Company hosts the second annual East Bay Dances Showcase.
As part of the zSharp program at Peres Elementary School, teacher Sonia Hardway instructs her students in the fundamentals of music while also instilling teamwork and compassion in them.
“Ghost Town to Havana,” filmed by Richmond director Eugene Corr, tells the stories behind the youth baseball team the Oakland Royals and its visit to Cuba’s capital.
Despite being one of the dance capitals of the world, with 73 public and private colleges and universities offer dance majors, for decades there hasn’t been a single-subject teaching credential in dance for the California public school system.
Locally Richmond is an occasional series of profiles that highlights the small businesses that contribute to making Richmond a unique community. When does an artist know she has reached a milestone in her career? For Angela Jarman, she knew the minute her work was worn by models strutting down the catwalk of Victoria’s Secret fashion shows. Jarman makes fairy wings—small or big, as intricate or as simple as the client requests—and she is making a name for herself and her niche….
Among the many unorthodox tools Cara Corey has used to make her handmade artist line unique are knitting needles made out of PVC pipe and merino wool fiber (the material before wool becomes “wool”) shipped from the Ukraine. Corey moved to Richmond, California, in 2010 after spending over four years as a newspaper reporter in Des Moines, Iowa. She had written a wide variety of stories about people who owned their own businesses, and at one point, she had her own…