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City Rents Hit Y2K Levels

By MATTHEW ARTZ
Tuesday September 16, 2003
Katherine Case and Andrew Moore hope their third attempt to move to Berkeley is the charm. In 1999 the housing crunch forced them to Lake Merritt and in 2001 to Richmond in their quest for affordable housing. -more-

Berkeley This Week

Tuesday September 16, 2003
TUESDAY, SEPT. 16 -more-

Letters to the Editor

Tuesday September 16, 2003
RACHEL CORRIE -more-

Hilarity Abounds in Du Bois’ ‘Much Ado’

By DAVID SUNDELSON Special to the Planet
Tuesday September 16, 2003
The gorgeous staging alone is worth the price of admission to “Much Ado About Nothing,” the final production of the season at Cal Shakespeare. The costumes, with a good deal of flamboyant silk, place us in a vaguely but not obtrusively modern Italy (there is one silly joke about a cell phone, however). -more-

Arts Calendar

Tuesday September 16, 2003
TUESDAY, SEPT. 16 -more-

Judges Call Halt To Recall Vote

By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR
Tuesday September 16, 2003
A three-judge federal panel Monday postponed next month’s election because it would involve the use of outdated and unreliable punch card ballots by almost half the state’s voters. -more-

Why I Support Cruz Bustamante For Governor

By MAL BURNSTEIN
Tuesday September 16, 2003
To my progressive friends: -more-

Berkeley Rep’s Leonardo Offering Long on Effects, Short on Drama

By DAVID SUNDELSON Special to the Planet
Tuesday September 16, 2003
Berkeley Rep’s new Roda Theater is a winner: Handsome and comfortable auditorium, good sight lines, a lobby with polished concrete floors and an elegant bar. There is a book shop. Even the bathrooms are pleasant. -more-

NAACP Leader Bond Signs Pledge in Berkeley

By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR
Tuesday September 16, 2003
NAACP National Chairman Julian Bond addressed an early Saturday morning City Hall civil rights breakfast meeting mistakenly billed briefly as an anti-Prop 54 rally. -more-

BOSS Woes Will Fade, Says Nonprofit Director

By BOONA CHEEMA
Tuesday September 16, 2003
I’m writing in response to some recent sensationalized headlines in the Planet that conveyed a very different story about what BOSS is going through than what I know the reality to be. -more-

Decision Vindicates UC Prof

By BECKY O’MALLEY
Tuesday September 16, 2003
Monday’s 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision to delay California’s recall election was a victory, though perhaps short-lived, for UC Berkeley Political Science Professor Henry Brady’s two-year crusade against punch card voting machines. -more-

Huffington Battles Long Odds

By JAKOB SCHILLER
Tuesday September 16, 2003
Polling only three percent in the runup to the on-again, off-again California gubernatorial recall and election campaign, conservative-turned leftist candidate Arianna Huffington has been waging an uphill battle. -more-

Flames Gut Classrooms, Arson is Suspected

By MATTHEW ARTZ
Tuesday September 16, 2003

Berkeley Ferry Service Hangs on Davis’ Decision

By MATTHEW ARTZ
Tuesday September 16, 2003

Fair Trade Coffee Fans Get Grounds for Grins

By JAKOB SCHILLER
Tuesday September 16, 2003

School Board Gets Budget

Tuesday September 16, 2003

Berkeley Briefs

Tuesday September 16, 2003

Indian Incomes Highest Among Bay Immigrants

By RICHARD SPRINGER Pacific News Service
Tuesday September 16, 2003

A Tale of ‘Tweeners’ And Ersatz Lemonade

From Susan Parker
Tuesday September 16, 2003

Jim Hightower Regales Local ACLU Chapter

By JAKOB SCHILLER
Tuesday September 16, 2003

Timely Fascination Keeps Berkeley Biz Ticking

By SUSAN PARKER Special to the Planet
Tuesday September 16, 2003

Mexican History Offers Hints of Prop. 54 Impacts

By THEODORE G. VINCENT Special to the Planet
Tuesday September 16, 2003

Dangers Confront Migrants Winging South

By JOE EATON Special to the Planet
Tuesday September 16, 2003

FLAMES DESTROYED two classrooms at the Franklin Preschool. See story Page Four.
FLAMES DESTROYED two classrooms at the Franklin Preschool. See story Page Four.

Editorials

State Cuts Force City to Rethink Budget

By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR
Tuesday September 16, 2003
How to make up a $1.43 million Berkeley General Fund shortfall caused by the 2003-04 state budget? That’s the gloomy and wholly expected task the Berkeley City Council will take up at tonight’s regular 7:30 p.m. meeting at the Old City Hall. -more-

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