Every week Radio Free Richmond highlights events in the city. Here is what's happening from March 20th through March 26th. Continue reading

This is part one of Radio Free Richmond's podcast on body cameras in the Richmond Police Department. You can listen to the audio here and read the transcript below. Continue reading

The City of Richmond is facing a serious budget challenge for next fiscal year 2015-16, and the budget compilation process has just started and will end with adoption in July. The Charter charges the city manager and mayor to prepare  “…an annual budget for submission to the City Council..” Continue reading

An effort to clean up the city’s medical marijuana permit ordinance sparked a contentious debate at last night’s city council. The city decided in the end to half the number of medical marijuana collective permits, but to establish three new permits for medical marijuana manufacturing. Continue reading

I am writing on behalf 250,000 residents of the Bay Area’s West Contra Costa community to request your help by way of a donation or a press release to help save Doctor’s Medical Center. Next month, our community may lose the only Cardiac Center between the cities of Vallejo and Oakland, California. Doctor’s Medical Center has been serving our community for close to 60 years. It is a documented fact that if Doctors Medical Center closes, people are going to die. This hospital serves the poorest and sickest communities in the Bay Area and within Contra Costa County as a whole. It loses approximately $18 million year because the hospital serves the uninsured, underinsured and the indigent and the poor. Here are some facts: The West Contra Costa community houses some of the poorest residents in the Bay Area. Close to eighty percent are People of Color: Latino 36%, African American 27%, Asian 13%. Our community also has the highest health disparities: Continue reading

The Oakland Outlaws and the Richmond Wrecking Belles fought a ruthless neck and neck game at the season opener of the Bay Area Derby Girls (BAD) Saturday night. The two East Bay rivals proved to be just as well matched as when they faced each other at the championship last season. This time, however, it was the Oakland Outlaws who claimed the title of victor — albeit by the narrow margin of four points. Continue reading

Across the water of Marina Bay from Salute E Vita is a little restaurant with some big ambitions. Bubbaloo Café has only been open for two months, but already the owners are working to transform the neighborhood’s restaurant scene. Their goal? To make Marina Bay more accessible, more entertaining, and, most importantly, more delicious. Continue reading

Every week Radio Free Richmond highlights events in the city. Here is what's happening from March 13th through March 19th. Continue reading

The Bay Area Derby Girls are back. The 2015 season of our local roller derby league kicks off on Saturday with a double header, and before the action starts Radio Free Richmond talked with players from the Richmond Wrecking Belles to find out what makes them tick. Continue reading

News Report, RP Editors As concerns about affordable housing and gentrification grow in Richmond, a new study finds that it may not be too late to prevent residents from being displaced. Continue reading