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After gang rape, Richmond students come together for healing

November 4, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

The white streamers were everywhere ― worn as armbands, headbands, neckties, leg-bands ― as hundreds of Richmond High School students gathered on the football field.

Tales of hard times on the coast

October 31, 2009 By Michael Robert Langdon

On California's north coast, the sea used to provide many a worker and family a decent living - but no longer.

Port Chicago disaster remembered

July 24, 2009 By Special to People’s World

320 men died on July 17, 1944, in a munitions explosion aboard a ship being loaded at the Port Chicago Navy Magazine with armaments bound for the war in the Pacific.

Historic local victory points the way forward

February 20, 2009 By Bob Patenaude

RICHMOND, Calif. — Along with its historic national result, the 2008 election brought groundbreaking local victories, too — among them, passage of Measure T by this city’s voters. The measure, called by its supporters “A Fair...

California budget: Back to Square One, as disaster looms

January 9, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

he Gordian knot that is California’s budget process got a lot more complicated this week, as Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Jan. 6 vetoed a complex of compromise budget measures legislative Democrats sent him for signature, after...