Posts Tagged ‘prop. 13’
‘We’re school shopping for mediocre:’ Richmond’s students and parents try to navigate a ‘broken’ education system
Seventeen-year-old Phillip Poe starts his days early. He gets up at 5:45 a.m. so that he can catch a ride to BART with a family member. Then he takes a train to catch a bus, arriving at school just before 8 a.m. His days end late, too. He often doesn’t return until 10 p.m., sometimes…
Read MoreProtesters descend on Chevron tax hearings
About 50 protesters, including some top Richmond elected officials, demonstrated outside county government buildings in Martinez Thursday before filing into a hearing aimed at resolving a tax dispute between Chevron and the Contra Costa County Assessor’s office.
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