A teary-eyed Kaiza Robinson, 5, sat by the door of Jeannie Gee’s kindergarten class about 8:15 a.m. Wednesday morning at Le Conte Elementary School, tugging on her pigtails and wondering just where her mother left her, and when is she coming back. -more-
Some might call Willie Phillips a dreamer. He walks along a city block dominated by dot-commerce e-tailer lofts and gets visions of a funky, ethnic street mercado. He considers the Fourth Street boutiques and cafes and imagines some of the millions in yearly sales returning to the Oceanview community that surrounds it. -more-
The little guys won and Berkeley led the way. -more-
UC Berkeley, backed by local fire agencies, is set to begin a $400,000 fire abatement program Sept. 5 that will thin trees and remove overgrown brush in lands owned by the university in the Panoramic Hill area in hopes of avoiding a repeat of the devastating 1991 Oakland Hills fire that destroyed more than 3,200 homes and caused 25 deaths. -more-
WBNDC Fifth Street proposal not a farmers’ market -more-
Amid the jungle gyms of Totland, May Chao looks at a 5-year-old Chinese-American girl playing with her long black hair and thinks, “Laos was not this easy.” -more-
Meet Niles Xi ‘An Liechtenstein, the freshly sworn-in student director for the Berkeley Unified School District. -more-
The class of 2003 at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Law School has finally enrolled. Minority numbers, which plummeted after the UC Board of Regents banned affirmative action from admission decisions in 1997, rose slightly from 22 percent to 29 percent. The small increase was due primarily to a rise in students of Asian and Pacific Islander descent. -more-
You can’t have too much good karma. -more-
When Mark Covington applied for a clerical position at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory eight years ago, he unknowingly underwent a battery of genetic tests. -more-
Few images are cozier than that of friends and family snuggled around the hearth on a rainy winter’s eve. -more-
Following extensive discussions about health impacts from wood burning, the Community Environmental Advisory Commission concluded that exposure to wood-smoke particles may result in acute and chronic health problems. -more-
by John Angell Grant -more-
In the last decade, Oceanview has transformed from an industrial zone and working class residential area to a lucrative shopping district attracting crowds from as far away as Walnut Creek and Silicon Valley. Thursday night’s meeting of the West Berkeley Project Area Commission brought out all the frustrations of an area under dramatic transition, which one commissioner called, “vignettes of class warfare.” -more-
UC Berkeley is retracting its push for permanent lights at Memorial Stadium – literally. -more-
The return of Ishi to his Indian homeland 80 years after University of California scientists cut out his brain in the interests of science has drawn new attention to the quest to retrieve ancestral bones from museum basements. -more-
Berkeley Police say they believe they’ve caught two suspects responsible for a string of armed robberies during the month of August. -more-
Radioactive emissions from 12 telecommunications antennas set to be affixed to the Oaks Theater on Solano Avenue is worrying Thousand Oaks neighbors. -more-
It was only the first scrimmage, but it looked like the same old story. -more-
Popular knowledge pigeonholes our nation’s young adults as being both ignorant and apathetic when it comes to politics – not that they’d know or care. -more-
BHS field hockey looking for a coach -more-
Local politerati gathered at the Emeryville Holiday Inn on Thursday, contemplating an expansive view of the Bay and a vision of the American political landscape to come. -more-
A speeding car crashed into a duplex on the 1400 block of Hearst Avenue at about 1 a.m. Thursday morning, injuring a lone passenger and bursting into flame, said Assistant Fire Chief Mike Migliore. -more-
Rarely does a camera capture an image which reveals a nation’s soul with poignant ferocity. -more-
