The Week

OK, no one actually yelled “timber” Monday as tree
OK, no one actually yelled “timber” Monday as tree
 

News

In search of new city manager

Judith Scherr
Tuesday June 27, 2000

The next city manager will be selected by a supermajority if the mayor has her way. -more-


Calendar of Events & Activities

Tuesday June 27, 2000

Tuesday, June 27

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Berkeley must adopt a more functional design for Interstate 80 bridge

Tuesday June 27, 2000

An open letter to Mayor Shirley Dean and members of the Berkeley City Council: -more-


Shotgun’s Jungle Book misses mark

John Angell Grant
Tuesday June 27, 2000

Shotgun Players opened its fourth outdoor annual summer theatrical tour Sunday afternoon at Willard Park with an original adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s collection of animal stories “The Jungle Book.” -more-


Tuesday June 27, 2000

MUSIC VENUES

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Home invasion robbery suspect remains at large

Marilyn Claessens and Rob Cunningham
Tuesday June 27, 2000

A San Jose man was arrested Monday in connection with a botched home invasion robbery in South Berkeley, but his alleged accomplice remained on the loose. -more-


Letters to the Editor

Tuesday June 27, 2000

Seems to be anarchy in our city government

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Nader inspires faithful Greens

Joe Eskenazi
Tuesday June 27, 2000

OAKLAND – Now more than ever, candidates, party officials and voters seem to be saying that it’s getting easier to be Green. -more-


Only organic coffee for ‘City Hall Café’

Judith Scherr
Tuesday June 27, 2000

When the hard hats and dump trucks clear out of City Hall and the public flows back in, citizens may be greeted by more than new furniture, repainted walls and council agendas. -more-


Budget, bonds, pets top council agenda

Judith Scherr
Tuesday June 27, 2000

On this week’s council agenda there are two different proposals to streamline the city’s tortuous council meetings. One was written by City Auditor Ann-Marie Hogan and the other by Mayor Shirley Dean. -more-


Crews start to cut down trees

Daily Planet Staff
Tuesday June 27, 2000

A plan to spruce up downtown took a highly visible step forward Monday as crews began cutting down trees along University Avenue, part of a taxpayer-funded revitalization effort. -more-


East Bay firefighters train in Tilden Park

Marilyn Claessens
Monday June 26, 2000

The firefighters from six departments who came to Tilden Park Sunday were training to fight a major fire – everyone’s worst nightmare, but always a threat in the East Bay Hills. -more-


Calendar of Events & Activities

Monday June 26, 2000

Monday, June 26

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Letters to the Editor

Monday June 26, 2000

Zero-emission vehicles needed

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Arts & Entertainment Calendar

Monday June 26, 2000

THEATER

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Rental issue closer to fall ballot

Judith Scherr
Monday June 26, 2000

Balancing property owners’ and tenants’ rights is a delicate dance, especially in today’s tight housing market. -more-


Disabled rights campus gets U.S. funding

Dan Greenman
Monday June 26, 2000

The Ed Roberts Campus proposed for the Ashby BART station got a boost from the federal government Saturday, when United States Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater presented the sponsoring organization with a check for $300,000. -more-


Media camp focuses teens’ energy

Peter Crimmins
Monday June 26, 2000

Barbara Zimmerman, professor of film theory in Ithaca, N.Y., recently described the Bay Area as a “media paradise.” All that flickers and streams and pixilates is in our town, and the East Bay Media Center has begun its annual Summer Media Camp to de-mystify the tools for young people in this virtual Eden. -more-


City OKs living wage

Judith Scherr
Saturday June 24, 2000

People who park cars for a company that contracts with the city can expect a wage hike on July 1. And so can other low-wage workers whose employers service the city. -more-


Calendar of Events & Activities

Saturday June 24, 2000

Saturday, June 24

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Fighting for legal equity

Joe Eskenazi
Saturday June 24, 2000

The disturbing vitriol with which people spit out lawyer jokes seems to establish that most Americans feel every member of the legal profession is somehow tied to the O.J. Simpson case, Pat Riley the motorcycle lawyer or the million-dollar settlement for the poor old lady who spilled molten McDonald’s coffee in her lap. -more-


Student housing should be faster, smaller, better

William Marquand
Saturday June 24, 2000

I would like to register my support for the University’s effort to solve the vexing problem of affordable student housing. I would also like to dissuade the University from proposing a beefed-up, three-block “megastructure” on the Southside of Berkeley as its most intelligent response to this need. -more-


Arts & Entertainment Calendar

Saturday June 24, 2000

THEATER

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‘Shrew’ avoids usual trappings

John Angell Grant
Saturday June 24, 2000

SAN FRANCISCO – William Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew,” an Elizabethan slapstick comedy about a husband who uses physical and emotional abuse to train his wife to be submissive and dutiful, is a tough play for 21st century audiences. -more-


Library foundation draws closer to fund-raising goal

Dan Greenman
Saturday June 24, 2000

The Berkeley Public Library Foundation announced this week that it received a $300,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation, the largest gift to date in its “We Love the Library” campaign. -more-


Thieves target your identity

Marilyn Claessens
Saturday June 24, 2000

A Berkeley woman went shopping for a new car recently and learned that someone had stolen her identity. -more-


Maio: Customers should ‘prefer’ Berkeley

Marilyn Claessens
Saturday June 24, 2000

Will Berkeley residents buy goods and services in town more than they do now? Councilmember Linda Maio believes education is the answer to preserving customers for the independent businesses that pump character and cash into the community. -more-


Farm purchase will benefit BYA

Daily Planet Staff
Saturday June 24, 2000

North Atlantic Books, a Berkeley publisher, purchased a 27-acre farm in Gustine in the Central Valley Thursday as part of a nonprofit program combining preservation of farmland with the Berkeley Youth Alternative’s (BYA) organic-agriculture program. -more-


Two robberies may be linked

Daily Planet Staff
Saturday June 24, 2000

Police are investigating whether one man was responsible for two eerily similar crimes that were reported just minutes apart early Thursday morning. In both cases, the suspect asked the victim for the time before issuing a threat and stealing some of their belongings. -more-


Local amateur radio club holds annual ‘Field Day’

Daily Planet Staff
Saturday June 24, 2000

The East Bay Amateur Radio Club will conduct its annual “Field Day” this weekend at Caesar Chavez Park at the Berkeley Marina. -more-


Radisson workers get their union

Judith Scherr
Friday June 23, 2000

Berkeley Marina Radisson Hotel workers and their supporters were celebrating victory Thursday, with the news that hotel management had accepted unionization. -more-


Calendar of Events & Activities

Friday June 23, 2000

Friday, June 23

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Davis' transportation plan may come up short

Thomas Elias
Friday June 23, 2000

Few California governors have made themselves as visible as Gray Davis did for one week this spring, as he traveled the state pushing his transportation plan. He set the price tag at $5.2 billion in all his speeches and press releases, even though the actual cost would be three times that. -more-


PFA salutes Library of Congress

Daily Planet Staff
Friday June 23, 2000

Throughout July, the Pacific Film Archive will present restored prints of two dozen classic Hollywood features, in a series saluting the 200th anniversary of the Library of Congress. All the films are in preservation-quality 35mm. -more-


Friday June 23, 2000

THEATER

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Telegraph quotas up for debate

Marilyn Claessens
Friday June 23, 2000

Business and property owners and city officials offered mixed opinions about the value of retaining zoning quotas for restaurants and hair salons on Telegraph Avenue during a planning meeting Wednesday. -more-


Kala Institute awards fellowships

Daily Planet Staff
Friday June 23, 2000

Last week Kala Art Institute of Berkeley announced the winners of this year’s Fellowship awards. -more-


Letters to the Editor

Friday June 23, 2000

Developer is missing real issue on San Pablo

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Board gives green light to school bond and tax

Rob Cunningham
Friday June 23, 2000

As expected, the Berkeley Unified School Board voted Wednesday night to place a school bond and a special tax measure on the November ballot. -more-


Shotgun Players present Kipling book

Daily Planet Staff
Friday June 23, 2000

The Shotgun Players will present a theatrical adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s coming-of-age epic, “The Jungle Book” on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts. The play, adapted by King Middle School teacher Richard J. Silberg, will feature giant puppets, live music and theatrical acrobatics by Bay Area performers. -more-


Trial for parking activist

Daily Planet Staff
Friday June 23, 2000

Rick Young, the second-year Boalt Hall law student who has been protesting the university’s plans for construction of a three-story 1,000- to 1,400-car parking structure, will go to trial Aug. 4 on misdemeanor charges. -more-


Editor leaving Daily Planet

Daily Planet Staff
Friday June 23, 2000

Rob Cunningham, who has served as editor of the Berkeley Daily Planet since its launch last year, will step down from his post on July 15, Publisher Arnold Lee announced today. Cunningham will be succeeded by Judith Scherr, who has worked as the newspaper’s lead reporter since May 1999. -more-


New housing unveiled

Daily Planet Staff
Friday June 23, 2000

Resources for Community Development, a Berkeley-based organization that builds affordable housing, is having a grand opening of Miramar Court and the Mariposa Apartments at Alameda Point, the former Alameda Naval Air Station on June 29 from 4-6 p.m. -more-


Artists to visit Paris

Joe Eskenazi
Friday June 23, 2000

Ah Paris – the city that has never heard of soap, deodorant, pooper-scoopers or artistic constraints. -more-


Deer’s head found in store’s meat case

Daily Planet Staff
Friday June 23, 2000

Two incidents of vandalism occurred this week in the Safeway supermarket at 1444 Shattuck Ave. -more-


Project would revive an ancient calendar

Joe Eskenazi
Thursday June 22, 2000

Calendar of Events & Activities

Thursday June 22, 2000


Thursday, June 22 -more-


Letters to the Editor

Thursday June 22, 2000

San Pablo project meets most of area’s concerns -more-


Thursday June 22, 2000

THEATER -more-


One-sided city budget presentation

Judith Scherr
Thursday June 22, 2000

Jobs for youth and health services for low-income people are among the programs that made it to the proposed liberal/progressive budget presented at Tuesday night’s council session. The council will vote on the proposals next week. -more-


Mayor: Process lacking ‘reason’

Judith Scherr
Thursday June 22, 2000

Most every year, around this time, the mayor and the liberal/progressive faction of the council each publish dueling versions of how to spend the few dollars left over from the city’s fixed costs. -more-


Length of police review period questioned

Marilyn Claessens
Thursday June 22, 2000

The Berkeley Police Review Commission reviewed its concerns last week about the rule that allows the commission only 120 days to investigate complaints of misconduct against Berkeley Police Officers. -more-


News Briefs

Staff
Thursday June 22, 2000

BART elevators will be closed for major repairs -more-


Extended BART hours for annual Pride Parade

Staff
Thursday June 22, 2000

SAN FRANCISCO – On Sunday, BART will operate longer trains for the San Francisco Pride 2000 Parade in San Francisco. -more-


Police Briefs

Staff
Thursday June 22, 2000

Drug arrests made -more-


Police arrest 2 for graffiti

Staff
Thursday June 22, 2000

Four young men were arrested for allegedly defacing two buildings with black spray paint about 1:30 a.m. Saturday. -more-


Knife allegedly used in assault

Staff
Thursday June 22, 2000

A family fight erupted about 10 p.m. Monday on the 1200 block of Ninth Street when a woman’s two daughters visited her and her partner. -more-


Station goes digital

Joe Eskenazi Joe Eskenazi
Wednesday June 21, 2000

Berkeley Community Media is finally able to send its old equipment the way of carbon paper, floppy disks, wooden tennis racquets and 1,200-baud modems. In a long-awaited move, Berkeley-TV Channel 25 has landed a bevy of new cameras and computers, making the painstaking process of linear editing a thing of the past. -more-


Calendar of Events & Activities

Wednesday June 21, 2000


Wednesday, June 21 -more-


Letters to the Editor

Wednesday June 21, 2000

Nuclear research not conducted in Berkeley -more-


Wednesday June 21, 2000

THEATER -more-


BUSD plans $116.5 million bond

Rob Cunningham
Wednesday June 21, 2000

A proposal to place a $116.5 million school bond and a special maintenance tax on the November ballot will be considered tonight by the Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education. -more-


Quick response to ‘fire’ at BHS

Marilyn Claessens
Wednesday June 21, 2000

Court blocks Burma boycott

Judith Scherr
Wednesday June 21, 2000

Berkeley’s three-decade history of standing up to countries whose policies are said to violate human rights took an abrupt turn Monday when the Supreme Court upheld a challenge to a Massachusetts law boycotting Burma. -more-


Applicants sought for BCM board

Staff
Wednesday June 21, 2000

The Board of Directors of BCM is seeking applicants of diverse background and affiliation and with strong ties to community organizations and groups. -more-


Opinion

Editorials

British diplomat to speak at university

Daily Planet Staff
Tuesday June 27, 2000

Peter Gooderham, Counsellor of Politico-Military/European Affairs at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., will be the featured speaker at a noontime lecture Thursday on the UC Berkeley campus. -more-


News Briefs

Daily Planet Staff
Saturday June 24, 2000

Drop off hazardous waste

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Assault arrest made

Daily Planet Staff
Friday June 23, 2000

A woman seated on the trunk of her car at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in a commercial parking lot at 2930 Sacramento St., was threatened by a driver who drove toward her car at high speed. -more-


Teach-in looks at Korean War

Staff
Thursday June 22, 2000

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City set to increase plant debris recycling schedule

Marilyn Claessens
Wednesday June 21, 2000

By Marilyn Claessens -more-