Talk of the Point

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 […]

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. […]

Ernest T. Grump will vote no on Measure Q next Tuesday. It’s a Richmond measure to raise sales tax by a half percent. But today he’s counting the bits of candy he’ll hand out tonight.

There’s no need to be generous to these little moochers, he says. Why, the same kids come to his doorstep year […]

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 […]

Any newcomer to the Point suspects at a glance that we vote liberal. And many Pointers themselves like to think the community is a little bit different. So each time an election’s vote tallies come out, it’s interesting to see how our votes correlate with nearby counties and thereby express our “different” values.

One thing is […]