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Bates Gets Mixed Reviews In New Role as Mayor

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG
Friday April 11, 2003
For the first time in recent memory, Berkeley has a professional politician in the mayor’s office — a schmoozer, a comedian, a dealmaker, a diplomat. He is a 20-year veteran of the state Assembly who, after terming out in 1996, fought like hell to overturn the law that pushed him out of office. -more-

Unscripted: Wiseman Retrospective Spans

ERIC HSU
Friday April 11, 2003
For those accustomed to being spoon-fed our messages at the movies the documentary films of Frederick Wiseman can be a little hard to swallow. -more-

BERKELEY THIS WEEK

Staff
Friday April 11, 2003
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Letters to the Editor

Friday April 11, 2003
IN MY THOUGHTS -more-

Budget Cuts: Bad to Worse

By JOHN GELUARDI
Friday April 11, 2003
City Council previewed four budget-cutting proposals Tuesday that could result in higher parking fines, massive cuts to city services and the loss of over 100 city jobs. -more-

Arts Calendar

Friday April 11, 2003
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Albany Advocates Say Town’s

SHERMAN LIM and JAMES CARTER
Friday April 11, 2003
In his piece “Big Box Targets City” (Daily Planet, April 4-7), John Geluardi raises a number of issues regarding the construction of a Target Store on Eastshore Highway in Albany. -more-

Adams Takes Pulitzer With Reservations

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG
Friday April 11, 2003
Berkeley composer John Adams won the Pulitzer Prize in music this week for his homage to the Sept. 11 victims, “On the Transmigration of Souls,” but his elation was tempered by criticism of the award. -more-

Eleven Ways to Remove Rudeness

BARBARA GILBERT
Friday April 11, 2003
I have lived in Berkeley for 34 years and have been actively involved in civic life for the past six. I have been often dismayed and occasionally sickened by the low, mean level at which many civic participants operate, and I know that this grim atmosphere keeps many intelligent and interested residents away from the civic table. -more-

Comfort Meals, Low Prices

PATTI DACEY
Friday April 11, 2003
I report this more in sorrow than in anger, but I have been flipped off three times in the past couple of weeks by middle-aged women driving expensive vehicles. -more-

Berkeley This Week

Friday April 11, 2003
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Of Speedy’s Downfall

COUNTRY JOE McDONALD
Friday April 11, 2003
The other day my wife brought home a baby bunny. She had stopped at the pet store on the way home from work and picked it out from a bunch of baby bunnies. There is nothing like a baby bunny. They are perhaps the cutest thing in the world. -more-

Hearing Set for Port Violence

—Angela Rowen
Friday April 11, 2003
Both the Oakland Police Department and the demonstrators who clashed with them at Monday’s anti-war protest will have a chance to testify at a hearing later this month. The public hearing will be held before the Public Safety Committee on April 29 at 3 p.m. in Oakland’s City Hall. -more-

Apply Patience to Battle Against Homelessness

SONJA FITZ
Friday April 11, 2003
I work for a Berkeley-based nonprofit organization that offers comprehensive services to help homeless people gain independence. I have worked here for 17 years, and watched as attention to the war on poverty ebbed and flowed as public priorities changed. We are seemingly no closer to a solution than when I first arrived. Or are we? -more-

Health Official Warns New Disease Spreading

By FRED DODSWORTH Special to the Planet
Friday April 11, 2003

City Council Delays Five-Story Project

By JOHN GELUARDI
Friday April 11, 2003

The Scared One

From Susan Parker
Friday April 11, 2003

Police Blotter

By JOHN GELUARDI
Friday April 11, 2003

Berkeley Briefs

Friday April 11, 2003

Unscripted: Wiseman Retrospective Spans Thirty-Five-Year Career in Documentaries

By ERIC HSU Special to the Planet
Friday April 11, 2003

Erik Olson MAYOR BATES poses for city anniversary photograph April 1.
Erik Olson MAYOR BATES poses for city anniversary photograph April 1.

Editorials

John Henry Mitchell Fought to Calm Traffic in Intersection Where He Died

By PAUL KILDUFF Special to the Planet
Friday April 11, 2003
ohn Henry Mitchell, always concerned about the well-being of others, wrote several letters to the city pleading for a stop sign at the busy Shattuck Avenue corner near his home, the very intersection where he was killed by a car in January. -more-

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