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Office development ban in works

By John Geluardi Daily Planet Staff
Saturday February 03, 2001
The Planning Commission is asking the City Council to save crafts and manufacturing jobs in west Berkeley by enacting a moratorium on the construction and expansion of office space. -more-

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Saturday February 03, 2001

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Saturday February 03, 2001
Community takes a hard look at Berkeley High -more-

Play ‘tough’ to take

By John Angell Grant Daily Planet Correspondent
Saturday February 03, 2001
As the story goes, Canadian playwright George F. Walker, born and raised in Toronto’s industrialized inner city, was driving a cab in the early 1970s when he saw a poster for a local theater company requesting original scripts. -more-

Panthers smother St. Joseph’s 78-50

By Tim Haran Daily Planet Correspondent
Saturday February 03, 2001
St. Mary’s John Sharper missed the game’s opening shot, but he and the rest of the aggressive Panthers team didn’t miss much else as they cruised to a 78-50 win over St. Joseph’s on Friday night. -more-

Technology in schools: blessing and burden

Staff
Saturday February 03, 2001
By Erika Fricke -more-

St. Mary’s loss to Bruins will cost them some rest

By Jared Green Daily Planet Staff
Saturday February 03, 2001
3-1 defeat gives St. Patrick-St. Vincent first-round bye -more-

Schools awarded state money

By Judith Scherr Daily Planet Staff
Saturday February 03, 2001
Principal Patricia Saddler of LeConte School knows how she wants to spend the $22,225 award the state just granted the school because of its improved performance on the Stanford 9 test. -more-

’Jackets contain league’s leading scorer, get a win at De Anza

By Jared Green Daily Planet Staff
Saturday February 03, 2001
Berkeley now 7-0 in ACCAL -more-

House ablaze

Barbarah Hendrickson/Special to the Daily Planet
Saturday February 03, 2001
Smoke and fire pour from a home at 782 Contra Costa Road midday on Friday. Firefighters had the blaze under control in about 20 minutes. The single-alarm blaze that was reported at 11:40 a.m. was probably caused by an electrical malfunction, Assistant Chief David Orth said. Nobody was injured in the fire, which destroyed the second floor of the home and killed two parakeets. Orth reported an early estimate of at least $200,000 damage. -more-

Union activists file charges against online’s Webvan

The Associated Press
Saturday February 03, 2001
FOSTER CITY — Webvan Group could be among the first few dot-coms to push for unionization, but union activists say company rules are hurting their efforts. -more-

FERC finds no abuses in market

The Associated Press
Saturday February 03, 2001

State’s $60 million railroad investment questioned

The Associated Press
Saturday February 03, 2001

Corruption informant will not go to state prison

The Associated Press
Saturday February 03, 2001

Lawyers spar over sale of handguns

The Associated Press
Saturday February 03, 2001

Salmon considered for endangered list

The Associated Press
Saturday February 03, 2001

Stock market forecast murky

The Associated Press
Saturday February 03, 2001

Editorials

State now has to deal with utilities’ debts

The Associated Press
Saturday February 03, 2001
SACRAMENTO — With a $10 billion power-buying plan in place after two days of vote-wrangling, lawmakers prepared Friday for more contentious negotiations over what to do, if anything, about $12 billion in debts claimed by the state’s biggest utilities. -more-

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