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John Gioia
John Gioia is an American politician. He has served on the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors in Contra Costa County, California since 1998 and was re-elected three times. He served as chair in 2002, 2006 and 2010. John Gioia is a Democrat. Contra Costa supervisorial seats are non-partisan. History John Gioia was first elected to the Contra Costa Board of Supervisors in 1998, after successfully challenging incumbent Jim Rogers, and was re-elected three times. He served as chair due to the regular rotation of the role amongst the Supervisors in 2002, 2006 and 2010. Gioia represents 210,000 residents in the westernmost urban area of the county including El Cerrito, Richmond, San Pablo, Pinole, and the unincorporated communities of El Sobrante, Kensington, Montalvin Manor, North Richmond, East Richmond Heights, Rollingwood and Tara Hills. Gioia is a recognized leader in Bay Area regional government on air quality issues. He was appointed by Governor Brown to serve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contra Costa County Board Of Supervisors
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors is the governing body for Contra Costa County, California in the San Francisco Bay Area's East Bay region. Members of the Board of supervisors are elected from districts, based on their residence. Members As of May 4, 2018, the current supervisors for each district are: * District 1: John Gioia, Chair * District 2: Candace Andersen, Vice Chair * District 3: Diane Burgis * District 4: Karen Mitchoff * District 5: Federal Glover District Composition Contra Costa County is divided in to five districts, each representing different communities within the county. Their composition is as follows: * District 1: Richmond, San Pablo, El Cerrito, part of Pinole, and the unincorporated communities of East Richmond Heights, El Sobrante, Kensington, Montalvin Manor, Tara Hills, North Richmond, and Rollingwood. * District 2: San Ramon, Danville, Alamo, Lafayette, Moraga, Orinda, Canyon, Rossmoor, Parkmead, Saranap and a portion of Waln ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctors Medical Center
Doctors Medical Center (originally Brookside Hospital) was an eight-story, 120-bed public hospital in San Pablo, California which served 250,000 residents in western Contra Costa County from 1954 to 2015.Voters OK tax to keep San Pablo hospital open Carolyn Jones, ''San Francisco Chronicle'', 16-11-2011, access date 27-02-2012Doctors Medical Center '''', 01-05-2005, access date 17-02-2011 History |
Card Club
A cardroom or card room is a gaming establishment that exclusively offers card games for play by the public. The term poker room is used to describe a dedicated room in casinos that is dedicated to playing poker and in function is similar to a card room. Such rooms typically do not offer slot machines or video poker, or other table games such as craps or roulette as found in casinos. However, a casino will often use the term "cardroom" or "poker room" (usually the latter) to refer to a separate room that offers card games where players typically compete against each other, instead of against "the house". Overview In the United States, stand-alone cardrooms are typically the result of local or state laws and regulations, which often prohibit full-fledged casino gambling. This was typically the case in California until the advent of casino gambling offered by Native American tribes in the 1990s, though card rooms continue to flourish and even expand there. Since games played in c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casino San Pablo
Casino San Pablo is a Native American reservation with a gambling hall located in San Pablo, California.Richmond rejects tribe's plans for casino resort Carolyn Jones. San Francisco Chronicle. 07-04-2011. Retrieved 07-04-2011. It is operated by the . It is adjacent to the site of the now demolished Doctors Medical Center. The former medical center was sold to the tribe in 2017. History The site, formerly a trailer park and the Lucky Lanes ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Point Molate Naval Fuel Depot
Point Molate Naval Fuel Depot is a decommissioned United States Navy fueling station on the western shore of Richmond, California on San Francisco Bay. It has undergone years of litigation and debate as to its redevelopment with proposals ranging from a billion dollar casino project, parkland, housing, and other mixed uses. History For centuries the Ohlone people fished at this location, later in the late 1800s it was the site of a Chinese shrimp camp. The depot opened in 1941 on the site of a former winery and shrimp camp and was closed during the Clinton-era base closures and realignments in 1995Point Molate Naval Fuel Depot KCRT, access date 19-02-2009 and operationally on September 30, 1998. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Native American Gaming
Native American gaming comprises casinos, bingo halls, and other gambling operations on Indian reservations or other tribal lands in the United States. Because these areas have tribal sovereignty, states have limited ability to forbid gambling there, as codified by the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988. As of 2011, there were 460 gambling operations run by 240 tribes, with a total annual revenue of $27 billion. History In the early 1970s, Russell and Helen Bryan, a married Chippewa couple living in a mobile home on Indian lands in northern Minnesota, received a property tax bill from the local county, Itasca County.Kevin K. Washburn"The Legacy of Bryan v. Itasca County: How an Erroneous $147 County Tax Notice Helped Bring Tribes $200 Billion in Indian Gaming Revenue"92 Minnesota Law Review 919 (2008). The Bryans had never received a property tax bill from the county before. Unwilling to pay it, they took the tax notice to local legal aid attorneys at Leech Lake Legal Ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urban Gaming
A pervasive game is one where the gaming experience is extended out in the real world, or where the fictive world in which the game takes place blends with the physical world. The "It's Alive" mobile games company described pervasive games as "games that surround you", while Montola, Stenros and Waern's book, ''Pervasive Games'' defines them as having "one or more salient features that expand the contractual magic circle of play spatially, temporally, or socially." The concept of a "magic circle" draws from the work of Johan Huizinga, who describes the boundaries of play. The origins of pervasive gaming are related to the concepts of pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing and ubiquitous gaming. Definitions The first definition of a pervasive game was as "a LARP (Live action role-playing game) game that is augmented with computing and communication technology in a way that combines the physical and digital space together". Since then the term has become ambiguous, taking on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crockett, California
Crockett (formerly Crockettville) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Contra Costa County, in the East Bay sub-region of the San Francisco Bay Area, California. The population was 3,094 at the 2010 census. It is located 28 miles northeast of San Francisco. Other nearby communities include Port Costa, Martinez, Vallejo, Benicia, Rodeo, Hercules, Pinole and Richmond. History Crockett is located on the Mexican land grant Rancho El Pinole made to Ygnacio Martinez, and is named after Joseph B. Crockett, a judge on the California Supreme Court. The town started when Thomas Edwards Sr. bought of land from Judge Crockett in 1866. Edwards built his home in 1867 and when other settlers arrived, he started the first general store in Crockett. Edwards' home still stands and is known as "The Old Homestead", a California Historical Landmark. Crocketville post office was established in 1883, and the name was changed to Crockett later that year. "Sugar Town" In 1906, an agricultural coop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark DeSaulnier
Mark James DeSaulnier ( ; born March 31, 1952) is an American politician who has served as the U.S. representative for California's 11th congressional district since 2015. The district includes most of Contra Costa County, a suburban county in the East Bay. He has been a member of the Democratic Party since 2000; before that, he was a Republican. Before serving in the House of Representatives, DeSaulnier was a member the Concord City Council (1991–94), a Contra Costa County Supervisor (1994–2006), and a member of the California State Legislature, representing the 11th State Assembly district from 2006 to 2008 and the 7th State Senate district from 2008 to 2015. Early life and education DeSaulnier was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Edward Joseph DeSaulnier Jr. and Virginia Ann DeSaulnier (née Burke). He was raised in a Roman Catholic family. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in history from the College of the Holy Cross. After his father, a Massachusetts Superior Court j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West County Detention Center
West County Detention Facility is a large coeducational adult medium security Contra Costa County jail in Richmond, California opened in 1991.West County Detention Facility Contra Costa County website, access date 29-01-2009 Overview WCDF is located in the area of the city between Parchester Village to the south, Point Pinole Regional Shoreline to the west and the Hilltop ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nat Bates
Nathaniel Bates is a former mayor and eight-term city councilman of Richmond, California in addition to being a former professional baseball player in the Canadian League in his earlier years. History He arrived in Richmond in 1942 by train from Texas to join his mother whom worked at the Kaiser Shipyards for the World War II home front. He later served in the United States Army and later as a probation officer for Alameda County. Bates was first elected city councilman in 1967 for a six-year-term. He was appointed mayor from 1971 to 1972. He was subsequently re-elected in 1973 to a second term. Then he was elected again for a four-year term (the voters decreased the term) in 1979 until the end of his term in 1983. He was again appointed mayor from 1976 to 1977. That however was not the end of his career; he ran again in 1995 and won a four-year term being re-elected in 1999, 2004, 2008, and 2012. He is a Democrat and ran again winning an 8th term in 2018. At this point in his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond, California City Council
The Richmond City Council is the governing body for the city of Richmond, California. The council consists of the Mayor of Richmond and six other city council members, one designated Vice Mayor. The council members are all elected from the whole city; no members are elected by district or ward. The council members are elected to four-year terms, as opposed to the previous six-year terms. They are not all elected at once. The council members meet every first and third Tuesday of the month and, if necessary, hold special meetings on the remaining Tuesdays. Presently the entire city council is Democratic. History Controversies After Gayle McLaughlin's victory in 2006, the council appointed Harpreet Sandhu who had been the city's Human Relations Director to her vacant city council person seat. The fact that public input was not considered and that the candidates were not revealed to the public outraged many in the community. This led to the passage of an ordinance allowing anyone who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
