Talk of the Point

Three firefighters union reps were face to face with Richmond city reps at about 2:30 this afternoon in “impact bargaining” when in walked assistant city attorney Leveron Bryant with the day’s big news.

Fire Station 61 will stay open–most of the time. The department will hold rolling closures on “the Oakland model,” Oakland’s solution to its […]

Yesterday, the Point’s city councilman Tom Butt asked the city clerk to put closing of the fire station on the December 2 agenda. That leaves nine days for the Point Richmond Neighborhood Council to organize a mass showing. Are you nervous?

In Butt’s memo he asks the logical questions–why is it closing?, when?, what alternatives were […]

As if we didn’t need another anecdote about the fire station’s importance to the Point. Here comes Mike Nova, the Rosamaria’s Cafe owner. He had just sat through today’s business associaton meeting where he listened to the uproar over the station’s expected closing.

Outside Hotel Mac, a Hidden City Cafe cook told him about […]