Opinion

Richmond City Council and administration made no bones about the urgent need to take care of the community’s water infrastructure when asking voters to renew a tax to make improvements. These are among the facts presented...

I was a single mom during Obama’s first campaign. I worked two jobs which barely covered (the) rent. Even while working more than 40 hours a week in a hospital, I didn’t have health care. I pieced together community supports, a sliding scale clinic when I had the flu, a visit to Planned Parenthood to address a lump in my armpit (it was fine), lots of consulting Dr. Google.

I am an outsider who has never run for public office before, and getting an inside look at the “political process” has been a real eye opener. Simply put, “the powers that be” have every intention of always being the power. This is the definition of the “Deep State” and the “Swamp.” The party only recruits from within, and even from within the club, only the anointed ones are considered worthy of election.

The so-called “slap heard round the world” might have confused the international audience that watched the Academy Awards. Laughing a moment earlier at Chris Rock’s joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s hair, Will Smith got out of his chair, walked up and smacked Rock in the mouth.

Last week, we discussed the process of pulling water from our Willow Creek watershed aquifer and processing it at our Water Treatment Plant. Today, we will look at how that water is pumped into Richmond, held in the water towers and delivered to you.

Suspicions that might arise in this election year – after another census resulted in yet another undercount of minorities – are understandable, even expected. Generally, black and Latino voters lean toward Democrats.

Some April 5 elections will not be on the ballot. There will be no story about Hardin-Central or Orrick boards of education candidates and their views on wearing masks, critical race theory, teacher pay and sexual identity.

Richmond city officials placed a tax issue on the ballot to benefit community residents, and voters will decide whether they agree with the decision April 5 at the polls. Voters are asked to maintain an existing tax at the same average cost the public pays now.