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By Jennifer Dix
Daily Planet Correspondent
Tuesday February 06, 2001
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Calendar of Events & Activities
— compiled by
Chason Wainwright
— compiled by
Chason Wainwright
Tuesday February 06, 2001
City may give help to Section 8 landlords
By John Geluardi
Daily Planet Staff
Tuesday February 06, 2001
In a bid to encourage more landlords to rent to the poor, the Berkeley Housing Authority will consider guaranteeing security deposits for Section 8 tenants. -more-
ACommunity says public must take over private utilities
By Erika Fricke
Daily Planet Staff
Tuesday February 06, 2001
After a three hour teach-in on the California energy crisis Sunday community members endorsed a resolution to pursue public ownership of utilities, and to refuse to pay the 9 percent rate hike if it becomes permanent. -more-
Musicians seek change for PG&E
By Judith Scherr
Daily Planet Staff
Tuesday February 06, 2001
While UC profs are proffering manifestoes to solve California’s energy crisis and Berkeley radicals are rallying for a state takeover of the gas and electric industries, a few locals, calling themselves Public Utility Kinship Exhibition (PUKE) decided to take matters into their own hands Monday. -more-
Global chip market tops $200 billion
The Associated Press
Tuesday February 06, 2001
SAN JOSE — Driven by the expansion of the Internet and demand for communications equipment, worldwide sales of semiconductors topped $200 billion in 2000, an industry group said Monday. -more-
Features
Volunteers react to news of Xiana Fairchild’s death
Staff
Tuesday February 06, 2001
The Associated Press -more-
Woman gets life for killing sister
The Associated Press
Tuesday February 06, 2001
OAKLAND — A woman who impersonated her sister in public after stuffing her dismembered body in a freezer was sentenced Monday to life without parole, and barred from profiting from the crime. -more-
Canadian students take credit for Golden Gate Bridge stunt
The Associated Press
Tuesday February 06, 2001
SAN FRANCISCO — Blame Canada. -more-
Reagan turns 90; faces broken hip and Alzheimer’s
The Associated Press
Tuesday February 06, 2001
LOS ANGELES — A dozen years after leaving the White House and looking forward to sunset years chopping wood and riding horses, Ronald Reagan celebrates his 90th birthday as a recluse battling old age with Alzheimer’s disease and a broken hip. -more-
Gov. Davis seizes PG&E contracts
The Associated Press
Tuesday February 06, 2001
SACRAMENTO — Seeking to stabilize California’s wild energy market, the governor Monday pursued the first of $10 billion in state power-buying agreements and seized millions of dollars in utility electricity contracts. -more-
Bush to let emergency electricity-sales order expire on schedule
The Associated Press
Tuesday February 06, 2001
WASHINGTON — Standing by his word, President Bush will allow a federal order to expire Tuesday that required wholesale electricity companies to sell to California’s cash-strapped utilities, Bush’s spokesman said. -more-
Kafka-based fable is a feeble attempt
By John Angell Grant
Daily Planet Correspondent
Tuesday February 06, 2001
Walt Disney meets Franz Kafka – sort of – in Michael McClure’s 1979 play “Josephine the Mouse Singer,” which Berkeley’s Last Planet Theater revived Saturday at SomArts in San Francisco, in an unusual musical production that contains a powerful original score by world-renown Bay Area composer Terry Riley. -more-
Parents can earn big tax break
The Associated Press
Tuesday February 06, 2001
WASHINGTON — The unbridled joy of children extends into to the federal tax code, where parents can qualify for breaks for education expenses and student loans, adoption costs and even for simply having a child at all. -more-
Editorial
Businesses, drivers angered by proposed ban on trucks
The Associated Press
Tuesday February 06, 2001
SAN FRANCISCO — Business owners say a proposed ban to keep truck deliveries out of the city’s financial district could wreak havoc on their bottom lines by preventing them from receiving necessary supplies. -more-
