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A workforce analysis by Raftelis Financial Consultants to be presented at the May 28 Richmond City Council meeting recommends filling vacancies and adding 74 new positions, including a dozen more police officers, to meet current service level expectations for all of the city’s existing programs and services for $12.
Richmond’s planning staff revealed a group has a new interest in the former Hilltop Mall site during an update of the Hilltop Horizon Specific Plan Thursday evening. Lina Velasco, Richmond’s Community Development Director, said the city was approached with “a potential economic development opportunity” and will pause working
KAREN SUDJIAN TRIO @ Rigger's Loft Friday, May 24, 2024 6 - 9 p.m. JAZZ VOCALIST - KAREN SUDJIAN & JIM DAVIDSON Karen Sudjian is an accomplished jazz vocalist. A songwriter who sings fluently in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Italian, with a mastery of the beautiful and
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It is Taqueria Tuesday! Grandview is back on the Richmond Burrito Trail, chowing down on Super Carnitas Burritos from longtime neighborhood favorite Taqueria La Bamba. This San Pablo Avenue taqueria may be known for its tasty pupusas, those heavenly grilled stuffed cornflour wonders. Pupusas are like a handmade corn tortilla
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The City of Richmond has hired Michael Romero, who was part of the Huntington Beach mobile crisis response team, as manager for the city’s yet-to-be-launched Community Crisis Response Program. According to a biography supplied by the City of Richmond, Romero oversaw operations for the Huntington Beach 24-hour a day,
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A dedication of receptacle art cans bearing the image of Richard "Pedie" Perez III, who died in a police shooting in 2014, was held Saturday in front of Uncle Sam's Liquor Store on Cutting Boulevard before a crowd of family, friends, and community members who came
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The Richmond Police Department has hired an outside investigator after videos of an officer reportedly striking and handcuffing a man as he filmed an arrest near Joe’s Market at First Street and West Macdonald Avenue on May 5. On social media, Richmond Police Chief Bisa French said the police
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Two community groups will propose raising new revenue from oil refining to improve Richmond’s financial health at the upcoming city council meeting on May 21. The agenda item, proposed by Mayor Eduardo Martinez and Vice Mayor Claudia Jimenez, says oil refining negatively impacts the city. Communities for a Better
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With energizer stations providing tote bags, coffee, and snacks, Richmond cyclists joined the Bay Area's largest biking event, marking 30 years of Bike to Work Day. On Thursday morning, participants at more than 300 energizer stations across all nine Bay Area counties, including several in Richmond, warmly greeted
Burrito Trail
This week's stop on the Richmond Burrito Trail has Grandview checking in at Macdonald Avenue's Rincón Rincón Michoacano, the little orange taqueria across from Lovonya DeJean Middle School. A few restaurants have called this location home, including Los Macias Taqueria and El Paraiso Cafe. The tiny
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While new demographic data shows positive population growth in California for the first time since 2020, Richmond’s population continued to shrink last year. The California Department of Finance released a report last week revealing California experienced an estimated population increase of more than 67,000 individuals in the past
Updated: June 12, 2024. The Contra Costa County Coroner has identified 18-year-old Kennedy High School student Jimarion Robinson of San Pablo as the person who died in a May 11 shooting. Richmond Police Chief Bisa French said Robinson appeared to have been killed during a drug deal gone bad. Robinson