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Part 10: A hopeful vision for the future
North Richmond knows the blues of economic and social decay, but a brighter day will come – the real question may be when.
Read MoreWest County voters to decide on parcel tax to save Doctors Medical Center
Residents of West Contra Costa County will vote this fall on a special parcel tax to support the ailing Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo. The five-member West Contra Costa County Healthcare District board, the elected body that oversees the public hospital’s operations, voted unanimously last week to approve a ballot measure that would raise over $5 million per year to pay for the hospital’s continued operations.
Read MorePart 8: North Richmond, where the city’s boundaries end
Civic leaders who seriously grapple with the question of how North Richmond can break its ruinous cycle of crime, poverty and decline often come to the conclusion that its current political arrangement is untenable – and that the city would fare better if it was annexed to Richmond.
Read MoreRichmond’s neighborhoods come alive for National Night Out
Nearly two dozen parties sprung up in Richmond Tuesday afternoon, and all of them entertained local police as guests.
Read MorePart 7: North Richmond’s troubled environmental history
From the corner of Filbert Street and Chesley Avenue, the unofficial center of North Richmond, a person gets the full sensory onslaught that the community has endured for decades.
Read MoreCommunity members, leaders meet, cross lines
Roughly 100 residents of Richmond and unincorporated North Richmond gathered at the Civic Center Monday to hear an assortment of city, county and industry leaders weight in on how to ease the unemployment and crime that plagues their communities.
Read MoreRichmond, North Richmond, to gather tonight for anti-crime meeting
With the city and its unincorporated North Richmond neighbor still in the throes of a month wracked with violence, city and county leaders are inviting residents to community meeting tonight at 4 p.m.
Read MoreDoctor’s Medical Center faces grim prognosis
What would happen if West Contra Costa County’s largest hospital was forced to shut its doors or seriously downgrade its emergency room operations? It would be very bad, according to a study released last week by the county health department’s Emergency Medical Services agency. Yet hospital officials say a permanent closure of Doctor’s Medical Center San Pablo, whose largely low-income and elderly patient population makes it difficult to run profitably, is looming unless they are able to secure state or other funding soon.
Read MorePart 6: North Richmond’s unceasing struggle
From 2005 to 2010, at least 28 homicides occurred in the county area of North Richmond alone, an area with a population that has averaged about 2,300 people.
Read MorePart 5: North Richmond man
For more than a decade, one man has been the de facto elected representative of the nearly 3,000 residents of unincorporated North Richmond.
Read MoreRichmond hosts prison re-entry forum
California’s prison population must by law get smaller, and that means more ex-convicts in local communities.
Read MorePart 4: North Richmond’s moribund housing projects
In the 1940s and 1950s, the growth of public housing projects swept across urban America. North Richmond was no exception.
Read MoreRichmond to host homeless support event
An event aimed at helping Contra Costa County’s burgeoning homeless population is expected to draw nearly 1,000 people to the Richmond Municipal Auditorium Wednesday
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