Talk of the Point

That bookstore you may have been anticipating at 5 West Richmond, within a pint bottle’s throw from the wig-wags, isn’t going to happen. The story is coming soon and until then I know nothing.

No matter what I think of “Simple Architect” Tom Butt, and I do have thoughts, I have to admit that now and then he earns his feed. The latest is his cross-city comparison of revenue sources and expenditure categories.

Buried in his email blast is the real headline: “Of the fourteen cities compared, Richmond has the […]

So there it is, finally. The Trainmaster Building has been carried from the Burlington yard and plopped onto Cutting in to particular relation to the tracks, in the unhappy company of the Plunge and the wretched Todd Hotel (aka, “Gerlach Building”). It seems to promise the Plunge’s respectability while still a Todd-like ruin.

“Simple Architect” Tom […]

I voted for Measure Q, but no one else I know did. Measure Q–which would raise
Richmond sales tax by a half percent–will get clobbered.

Not one person in my sample group of 10 or so could could stop with just a simple “no.” I heard answers like
“Hell no!,” “Are you kidding?,” “No! No! No!..”

Just watch. […]