Make Streets Safe, Chair Riders Urge
Still mourning the loss of beloved friend Fred Lupke, Berkeley wheelchair advocates have started gearing up for a fight to make Berkeley streets and sidewalks safer. -more-
Still mourning the loss of beloved friend Fred Lupke, Berkeley wheelchair advocates have started gearing up for a fight to make Berkeley streets and sidewalks safer. -more-
Indian Rock—for strangers to North Berkeley—is an ancient volcanic outcropping in a small city park just above Marin Circle. Though modest in height on the access road side, its flattish top affords splendid panoramic views over a picturesque wooded neighborhood to the Golden Gate, the “City by the Bay,” Angel Island, and Mt. Tamalpais. The Peninsula Hills stretch away to the far left, the grand terrain of Marin to the far right. -more-
The Saga of the Kent Nagano Berkeley Banners has taken on something of the quality of a 19th century German symphony, with enough tension and plot twists to keep the audience abuzz through the intermission, sincerely convinced it’s getting its money’s worth. -more-
The 7th Annual Arab Film Festival winds up its Bay Area run in Berkeley Sunday, with screenings and a closing night party at UC Berkeley’s Wheeler Auditorium Film. -more-
The conservative legal foundation sponsoring a lawsuit challenging race-based desegregation in Berkeley public schools is now taking aim at the UC Berkeley student government. -more-
The union representing the 10,000 teaching assistants, readers and tutors of the University of California system announced late Thursday that they would stage a one-day walkout Friday to protest what they called unfair labor practices at the school. -more-
When Lucie Buchbinder brought the Bread Project to town last April, she joined the ranks of food visionaries who’ve made Berkeley famous for culinary innovation infused with a passion for justice. -more-
The aptly named Killer Tomatoes, a Bay Area advocacy/watchgroup, will take to the streets Friday to protest the appearance of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman at the City Club in Berkeley, where UC Berkeley’s Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy will honor her as the 2003 Alumnus of the year. -more-
Crews from the University of California were scheduled to cut down a grove of nearly 12 acres of eucalyptus trees at the head of Claremont Canyon Friday in a move campus officials said is designed to prevent wildfires in the hills. -more-
The Chief Financial Officer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was placed on administrative leave last week after a routine audit uncovered faulty bookkeeping practices. -more-
The National Labor Relations Board announced it will hold a January hearing to determine if Berkeley-based non-profit Building Opportunities for Self-sufficiency (BOSS) violated labor laws when it imposed higher health care costs on their unionized work force. -more-
A wing of the Franklin Preschool, which burned in a suspected arson last month, will need to be demolished, said Lew Jones, director of facilities for the Berkeley Unified School District. -more-
NEW ORLEANS—All my friends are so pleased these days that the state of California is out-circusing Louisiana. “Louisiana politics ain’t so bad,” they say. “Look at Arnold.” That’s when I remind them of just what a sideshow our traditional political circus can be. Or a veritable zoo, even. -more-
As someone who organized Chinese Americans to protest the treatment of Wen Ho Lee—the Los Alamos scientist accused of spying and who was later exonerated—I already see parallel patterns emerging in the arrest of Capt. James J. Yee, a Muslim U.S. Army chaplain at Guantanamo Naval Base. -more-
California Democrats woke up to a nasty shock this week—the (possibly growing) possibility that Arnold Schwarzenegger could actually become the next governor of this state. In one of the most Democratic-leaning states in the nation, how could this happen? Credit California Republicans with some pretty good generalship. But also note a series of rolling Democratic Party mistakes, compounding exponentially, each one rising upon the last until it seems that only a last minute miracle can save the election. -more-
Back in 1853, just half a decade after the Gold Rush overran Spanish/Mexican California, American settlers came to the western shore of the future Berkeley and established the little settlement of Ocean View on the fringe of Jose Domingo Peralta’s land grant ranchero. -more-
Friday, Oct. 3: Ocean View anniversary event #1. 7 p.m. at Finn Hall on Tenth Street, north of Hearst. Dr. Kent Lightfoot, anthropologist, and publisher and author Malcolm Margolin, speaking about the natural character and native American life and culture of the area that became Berkeley. $10 at door, $45 for the series. -more-
Mayor Tom Bates’ Advisory Task Force On City Revenue has recommended that the mayor should support a $250 per year parcel tax increase referendum to be placed on the March 2004 ballot in order to make up for falling city revenues—the same type of bond measure called for in a recent survey of Berkeley voters. -more-
Sorry. It will certainly look like bad taste to some if the Daily Planet allows itself a bit of a gloat over the results of the city’s likely voter survey. But we can’t resist saying, humbly but loudly if that’s possible, We Told You So. What was the first task force appointed by Mayor Bates? The one on the permitting process. And what comes in dead last on the list of voter concerns? The permitting process. And second to last: new housing, also a part of the task force’s charge. So why have almost eight months, uncounted hours of paid city staff time (and unpaid but still valuable volunteer time) been spent on (and we really hate to sound like a broken record) fixing what’s not broke? -more-
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Make Streets Safe, Chair Riders Urge By MATTHEW ARTZ 10-03-2003
Berkeley This Week 10-03-2003
Indian Rock Vista Inspires Creative Vision By JOHN KENYON Special to the Planet 10-03-2003
Arts Calendar 10-03-2003
Banners May Wave, But When? By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 10-03-2003
Letters to the Editor 10-03-2003
Arab Film Festival Ends Sunday With UC Shows By JAKOB SCHILLER 10-03-2003
Campus Prop. 54 Fray Intensifies By MATTHEW ARTZ 10-03-2003
MLK Sale Prompts Questions Stephen Wollmer 10-03-2003
UC Walkout Set 10-03-2003
Bread Project Fuses Passion With Talents By ZELDA BRONSTEIN Special to the Planet 10-03-2003
‘Killer Tomatoes’ Promise Ag Secretary Protest Here By JAKOB SCHILLER 10-03-2003
Police Blotter By MATTHEW ARTZ 10-03-2003
UC Axes Eucalyptus Grove to Block Fires 10-03-2003
LBNL CFO Suspended After Errors Discovered By MATTHEW ARTZ 10-03-2003
NLRB Sets BOSS Hearing By MATTHEW ARTZ 10-03-2003
Fire-ravaged Preschool Must Go By MATTHEW ARTZ 10-03-2003
Louisiana Raised Politics to Gorilla Warfare By RANDY FERTEL Pacific News Service 10-03-2003
Muslim Cleric’s Arrest Stirs Memories of Wen Ho Lee By L. LING-CHI WANG Pacific News Service 10-03-2003
California Democrats Sing the Recall Blues J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 10-03-2003
History Society Events Mark Ocean View’s First 150 Years By STEVEN FINACOM Special to the Planet 10-03-2003
Berkeley History Events 10-03-2003
Mayor’s Task Force FavorsParcel Tax Hike Proposal By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 10-03-2003
City Bond Measure Survey Raises Electoral Questions By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 09-30-2003
Berkeley This Week 09-30-2003
Couple Reopens Favorite San Francisco Jazz Club 09-30-2003
Arts Calendar 09-30-2003
City Council Dreads Prop. 53 By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 09-30-2003
Letters to the Editor 09-30-2003
Theatrics Brighten Women’s History Debut By STEVE FINACOM Special to the Planet 09-30-2003
Lupke Rites Set For Wednesday 09-30-2003
Only Shared Values Can End the Violence By LAURA MENARD 09-30-2003
Critics Challenge Computer Voting By JAKOB SCHILLER 09-30-2003
Stop the Killing By KARL LINN 09-30-2003
Homeless Village Moves Forward By MATTHEW ARTZ 09-30-2003
Bowl Workers File For Election By JAKOB SCHILLER 09-30-2003
Researchers Say Prop. 54 Threatens Health Care By JONATHAN JONES Special to the Planet 09-30-2003
Police Blotter By MATTHEW ARTZ 09-30-2003
UC Debate Pits Palestinian Vs. Israeli Partisans Thursday Night 09-30-2003
Cyber, Fleshly Matchmakers Meet at Salon From Susan Parker 09-30-2003
Jews Discover Alternative Rites in City By JAKOB SCHILLER 09-30-2003
Fire Guts Home on Wheels By MATTHEW ARTZ 09-30-2003