13 Aug

When Coleen Sykes Ray started an organization with her daughter in 2015 to help homeless women, the Stockton, California resident had no idea she, too, would be homeless four years later....

13 Aug

The recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton again left people searching for answers. President Donald Trump and others blamed the violence on video games, invoking a decades-old trope that’s not supported by credible evidence....

11 Aug

The tech industry is eating the newspaper industry’s lunch and skipping out on the bill, according to current and former news executives, reporters and Congressman Mark DeSaulnier, who spoke on a panel July 31 in downtown San Francisco....

11 Aug

In high school, I learned some financial literacy skills, like how interest works, how to fill out tax paperwork, and how insurance can cover different things. I spent about half a school year learning about these things, but, naturally, I forgot some of them....

05 Aug

Tacos Tacos y Tacos! owner Walter Williams started thinking about opening up a pop-up taco stand last December, and during May’s Fourth Friday in the Park celebration at Unity Park, he opened his business for the first time....

02 Aug

Throughout American history, there have been many violent, racist acts, namely retribution against those breaking the de facto Jim Crow customs of the South or the de jure laws of discrimination....

02 Aug

Last week, Equifax agreed to pay $700 million as part of a settlement for its handling of a 2017 data breach that exposed the personal information of 147 million people, or about half the people in the United States....

01 Aug

Sobriety ultimately comes down to the person practicing it, but that doesn’t mean that person has to go it alone. People who want to lessen alcohol dependence in Richmond promoted that idea by walking together recently....

01 Aug

Andrew Yang is reportedly the first Asian American to run for president of the United States. Leer en Español By Michael J. Fitzgerald Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang said technology is not getting enough attention as Americans are seeking to blame something for their employment problems. "I'm running as an action president," Yang told...

28 Jul

There was resounding support to reinstate three top administrators of the Contra Costa College District when its governing board opened the issue to public comment at its July 24 meeting....

26 Jul

More than 150 people took to Civic Center plaza before the July 18 meeting, where planning commissioners considered an ordinance that would effectively ban the storage and handling of coal and petroleum coke, a byproduct of the oil refining process....

24 Jul

Richmond's City Manager Carlos Martinez, fired from his post Tuesday by a split city council vote, said he believes union objections to his recommendations for "organizational restructuring" was a part of the reason why the council acted to terminate his five-year contract after just 9 months....

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