13 Sep

Diego Garcia, 43, has lived in Richmond for 40 years. In his early years, Garcia struggled with violence, finding himself in a gang, shot and eventually jailed. By the age of 20, he turned his life around and began a youth group in the Easter Hill neighborhood. For the following...

13 Sep

Ada Recinos, 27, is running for her first full term on the Richmond City Council. She has been on the council since 2017 after being appointed the position last fall. Prior to her time on the council, Recinos worked on Richmond’s Human Rights and Human Relations Commission....

11 Sep

Vinay Pimple, 50, was appointed to fill a vacant seat on the Richmond City Council in 2015 and served as a councilmember until January 2017. He is making his second run for the council. Originally from India, he moved to Richmond in 2010. He is an attorney and former teacher...

07 Sep

Dave Schoenthal, 50, is originally from Redondo Beach, but has lived in Richmond for nearly two decades. Making his second run for city council, the self-described “volunteer-aholic” and is a part of Richmond’s Economic Development Commission, the Point Richmond Business Association Board of Directors and Richmond’s Homeless Taskforce....

07 Sep

Carole Johnson, 48, is a community activist making her first run for City Council. Johnson has lived in Richmond for over 20 years and is a member of the City of Richmond Homeless Task Force and the Contra Costa Racial Justice Coalition. ...

05 Sep

Demnlus Johnson III, 25, is a fourth-generation Richmond native on his second run for city council. After graduating from college in 2015, Johnson returned to his hometown and now serves as chair of the city’s Economic Development Commission...

04 Sep

The CC Pulse asked members of our reporting team to answer one question: In 30 years what do you predict will be said about the era/generation and time we are living in now? Here’s what they had to say...

03 Sep

Built over 100 years ago, the Hotel Mac has sustained and re-energized Point Richmond as one of the most prominent of the 330 structures officially recognized as the Point Richmond Historic District. ...

01 Sep

The new Dirt World Bike Skills Park will be holding its grand opening from 10 a.m. to sundown on Saturday, Sept. 1. The park is located next to the McVittie Post Office Annex, between Chanslor and Ohio avenues and 20th and 23rd streets....

30 Aug

El 15 de agosto, asistí a una de las últimas clases de la serie en el Centro Comunitario San Pablo. Se centró en el azúcar, la sal y los alimentos procesados ​​y no procesados. Me abrió los ojos y me dejó mucho más claro sobre lo que como y cómo...

30 Aug

Old school means you hold yourself accountable for your actions. We don’t complain about the outcome of situations. We stand by our actions....

28 Aug

Jessica Salazar Collins, a Bank of America customer for nearly 20 years, called BofA to ask why her debit card had been declined. Eventually, she learned that her account had been frozen, because her husband had not responded to a bank postcard inquiring about his citizenship status....

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