Erik Olson
              JOSE CHAVEZ waits for work on Hearst Avenue Thursday, as he does most days. Chavez said he was a general contractor in his native El Salvador before moving to the Bay Area. He said he takes English classes at night and hopes to take the contracting license exam soon.
Erik Olson JOSE CHAVEZ waits for work on Hearst Avenue Thursday, as he does most days. Chavez said he was a general contractor in his native El Salvador before moving to the Bay Area. He said he takes English classes at night and hopes to take the contracting license exam soon.

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Slump Stalls Labor Project

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG
Friday April 18, 2003

It was almost 11 a.m. on Wednesday and Tony Lacayo, seated in a van on Hearst Avenue, hadn’t received a single call from someone needing workers. -more-



Kids, Grown-ups Brave Rain For Youth Arts Festival

By FRED DODSWORTH
Friday April 18, 2003

More than a hundred adults and uncountable children braved the elements to attend the 11th Annual Youth Arts Festival at the Berkeley Arts Center at 1275 Walnut St. in north Berkeley Wednesday evening. -more-



Letters to the Editor

Friday April 18, 2003

CESAR CHAVEZ -more-



Arts Calendar

Friday April 18, 2003


Activists Win Emeryville Fight; City Abandons Appeal Role

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG
Friday April 18, 2003

Under pressure from activists this week, Emeryville pulled out of a high-profile legal fight pitting over 200 American cities against disability rights advocates in a battle over sidewalk accessibility. -more-



Nisker Brings New Age Scoop To Cody's Reading Monday

By ANDY SYWAK
Friday April 18, 2003

Former news director at the old Jive 95 radio station, KSAN, and later at KFOG, Wes “Scoop” Nisker, will speak at Cody’s Books on Telegraph Avenue Monday evening to discuss his new book, “Big Bang, The Buddha and The Baby Boom: The Spiritual Experiments of My Generation.” -more-



Arms Justification Not Borne Out

By WILLIAM O. BEEMAN
Friday April 18, 2003

The stated purpose of the war in Iraq was to defend the United States from Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Thus far no weapons have been found. Moreover, according to United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix and two top Iraqi scientists who have given themselves up, there are none of any significance to be found. -more-



Iran Delivery Continues Despite War Warnings

By JOHN GELUARDI
Friday April 18, 2003

Despite stiff warnings from the Department of State, and increasingly hostile rhetoric from the Bush Administration, a group of city employees and a former city council member leave for Iran today to deliver 1,200 badly needed wheelchairs. -more-



Single Payer System for All Is Answer to Health Crisis

By LONI HANCOCK
Friday April 18, 2003

As individuals struggle with personal finances and businesses ponder their bottom lines, state and local governments face budget deficits of historic proportions. Over seven million Californians, about one in five, have no health insurance whatsoever. Many others are underinsured. Hospitals and health plans are closing and merging, making access to health care more difficult. The cost of health care continues to explode. -more-



Hancock Bill to Eliminate Exit Exam Requirement

By ANGELA ROWEN
Friday April 18, 2003

For most of her life Alanna Baeks, a junior at Berkeley High School, has been told all she needed to do to get her diploma is accumulate the necessary course credits and eke out a C-minus average. Now she isn’t sure she’ll graduate, even though she’s taking the required classes and making reasonable grades. -more-



Support Assembly Health Care Bill

By JOSEPHINE ARASTEH
Friday April 18, 2003

Write a letter of support to State Senator Sheila Kuhl for SB 921—Health Care for All Californians Act, scheduled for a hearing before the Senate Insurance Committee, at 9 AM on April 30. The more letters of support she receives, the better the chances of the bill passing. Local co-sponsors are Don Perata, Wilma Chen and Loni Hancock. -more-



UC Forum Mourns Lost Iraq Treasures

By ANGELA ROWEN
Friday April 18, 2003

Local scholars met this week to discuss the antiquities looting in Iraq, calling it a devastating blow to the world’s cultural heritage. -more-



Features

Berkeley Briefs

Friday April 18, 2003

Bates Award -more-


Police Blotter

By JOHN GELUARDI
Friday April 18, 2003

Sather Gate suicide -more-


Citizens Must Participate to Shape Budget

By JOHN GELUARDI
Friday April 18, 2003

If there’s a favorite city program you want to save from next year’s looming budget cuts, the best way to do it is to start making noise, and lots of it, according to the League of Women Voters. -more-


Wheelchair Donation Program

By JOHN GELUARDI
Friday April 18, 2003

The Wheelchair Foundation was established in 2000 by Bay Area philanthropist Kenneth E. Behring. The goal of the organization is to provide wheelchairs to as many of the estimated 130 million people who need them worldwide. -more-


Star at Venus Displays Stellar Taste—Inventive Recipes, Exquisite Execution

By PATTI DACEY
Friday April 18, 2003

My editor suggests that a subtext of desperation in my previous columns might be getting a tad repetitious; that any dwelling on our parlous circumstances (War! Coup! Aging!) is perhaps a trifle tiresome. -more-


SARS Prompts UC To Suspend Travel

Friday April 18, 2003

Due to concerns about severe acute respiratory syndrome, the University of California has suspended education abroad programs to Beijing, China, and ordered students already there to return home immediately. -more-


Cedar Waxwings Take Spring Leave

By JOE EATON
Friday April 18, 2003

I was on my way home from school (fourth grade?) when this treeful of dapper little birds stopped me in my tracks. I’d never seen anything like them: backswept crests, black masks, subtly colored brown and yellow plumage with vivid red markings on their wings. They were carrying on in high-pitched sibilant voices, ignoring me completely. -more-


Sculpture Garden Artist Remembers Active Life

By FRED DODSWORTH
Friday April 18, 2003

Since 1966, Essex Street in south Berkeley has been home to Bruce Arnold and his phantasmagoric, multicultural front yard sculptures. -more-


Berkeley This Week

Friday April 18, 2003

Women in Black Vigil, held every Friday from noon to 1 p.m. at UC Berkeley, Bancroft at Telegraph. -more-


Editorial

A Cause I Can Support

Friday April 18, 2003

A few weeks after 9/11, I hung an American flag in the upstairs bedroom window of our home. It stayed there for almost 16 months, fading in the sunlight that faces Dover Street. -more-


Back Stories

Opinion

Editorials

A Cause I Can Support 04-18-2003

Race Collides With History In Effort to Rename School 04-15-2003

News

Slump Stalls Labor Project By DAVID SCHARFENBERG 04-18-2003

Kids, Grown-ups Brave Rain For Youth Arts Festival By FRED DODSWORTH 04-18-2003

Letters to the Editor 04-18-2003

Arts Calendar 04-18-2003

Activists Win Emeryville Fight; City Abandons Appeal Role By DAVID SCHARFENBERG 04-18-2003

Nisker Brings New Age Scoop To Cody's Reading Monday By ANDY SYWAK 04-18-2003

Arms Justification Not Borne Out By WILLIAM O. BEEMAN 04-18-2003

Iran Delivery Continues Despite War Warnings By JOHN GELUARDI 04-18-2003

Single Payer System for All Is Answer to Health Crisis By LONI HANCOCK 04-18-2003

Hancock Bill to Eliminate Exit Exam Requirement By ANGELA ROWEN 04-18-2003

Support Assembly Health Care Bill By JOSEPHINE ARASTEH 04-18-2003

UC Forum Mourns Lost Iraq Treasures By ANGELA ROWEN 04-18-2003

Berkeley Briefs 04-18-2003

Police Blotter By JOHN GELUARDI 04-18-2003

Citizens Must Participate to Shape Budget By JOHN GELUARDI 04-18-2003

Wheelchair Donation Program By JOHN GELUARDI 04-18-2003

Star at Venus Displays Stellar Taste—Inventive Recipes, Exquisite Execution By PATTI DACEY 04-18-2003

SARS Prompts UC To Suspend Travel 04-18-2003

Cedar Waxwings Take Spring Leave By JOE EATON 04-18-2003

Sculpture Garden Artist Remembers Active Life By FRED DODSWORTH 04-18-2003

Berkeley This Week 04-18-2003

Photo Show Reframes Black Panther Image By JOHN GELUARDI 04-15-2003

‘Vampires’ Has Bite At Under Ground By BETSY M. HUNTON 04-15-2003

Letters to the Editor 04-15-2003

Pioneer Doyle Leaves Legacy Downtown By SUSAN CERNY 04-15-2003

Berkeley This Week 04-15-2003

04-15-2003

Which Way to Cesar Chavez? By JOHN GELUARDI 04-15-2003

Shotgun Founder Dooley Aims Play 'In Your Face' By FRED DODSWORTH 04-15-2003

Visitor to UC Campus Denounces 'Vulgar' Behavior of Protesters Henry Hart 04-15-2003

Scholars Decry Iraqi Looting By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 04-15-2003

Colin Powell Not Lawrence of Arabia By SAGARIKA GHOSE 04-15-2003

Arts Calendar 04-15-2003

Decomposed Bodies Wash Up on Bay Shore By JOHN GELUARDI 04-15-2003

Council Must Account For Benvenue Housing Policy By SHARON HUDSON 04-15-2003

District Plays Musical Chairs With School, Office Buildings By DAVID SCHARFENBERG 04-15-2003

Berkeley Briefs 04-15-2003

Banners Celebrate UC’s Nobel Laureates John Geluardi 04-15-2003

Berkeley This Week 04-15-2003