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Claremont Hotel For Sale, Shattuck Hotel in Escrow

By MATTHEW ARTZ
Friday February 06, 2004
A deal has been all but completed to sell the 94-year-old Shattuck Hotel and turn it into short-term student housing for international students, said city officials and hotel employees. -more-

Berkeley This Week

Friday February 06, 2004
FRIDAY, FEB. 6 -more-

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Friday February 06, 2004
CORRECTION -more-

Arts Calendar

Friday February 06, 2004
FRIDAY, FEB. 6 -more-

Funding Crisis Confronts Berkeley Food Programs

By JAKOB SCHILLER
Friday February 06, 2004
When word broke last week that the city’s largest free dinner, the Quarter Meal, will be reducing service and possibly closing, many wondered what further hits await Berkeley food programs already facing cuts in both city and private sector funding. -more-

BERKELEY FREE FOLK FESTIVAL

Friday February 06, 2004
BERKELEY FREE FOLK FESTIVAL -more-

Claremont Sale News Revealed by Leaders Of Boycott Campaign

By JAKOB SCHILLER
Friday February 06, 2004
The Claremont Resort and Spa—the East Bay’s premier resort—is up for sale. -more-

Downtown Berkeley: Who’s Minding the Shop?

By BARBARA GILBERT
Friday February 06, 2004
What is happening in Berkeley’s downtown core, who is in charge, what is the vision? Despite being a longtime civic activist, I have no coherent idea of what is going on downtown beyond a series of catch-as-catch-can projects of varying degrees of attractiveness and plausibility, and behind the loud noise of a downtown boosterism that evidently masks a lot of confusion. Having checked with other citizen activists and city officials who should be in the know about downtown, I am convinced that no one is minding the downtown shop or has any clear notion of what our downtown will be like in 2020. -more-

Newport to Leave KPFA

By JAKOB SCHILLER
Friday February 06, 2004
KPFA General Manager Gus Newport announced Monday that he’s stepping down after eight short months at the helm of the Bay Area’s best-known alternative radio station. Newport said personal commitments, including the need to be with his 91-year-old mother who lives in New York, contributed to the decision. -more-

Despite Lawsuit, School Board Adopts Racial Criteria

By MATTHEW ARTZ
Friday February 06, 2004
Amid a testy debate that unlocked the door on one of the Berkeley Unified School District’s most sensitive issues—white flight—the school board Wednesday approved a plan to further integrate elementary schools despite warnings from one board member that it was picking an unnecessary legal fight. -more-

FedEx Error Foils Fulbright Hopes of UCB Students

By MATTHEW ARTZ
Friday February 06, 2004

Planners Choose 24 Panelists To Probe UC Hotel Proposal

By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR
Friday February 06, 2004

Gaia Building Takes Another Property Tax Hit

J Douglas Allen Taylor
Friday February 06, 2004

News Analysis: Gender Poses Headaches for Legislators

By WILLIAM O. BEEMAN Pacific News Service
Friday February 06, 2004

UnderCurrents: Pandas, Flying Squads, and Two Bloody Weeks

J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR
Friday February 06, 2004

A Daring ‘Helen’ Bogs Down in Second Act

By BETSY HUNTON Special to the Planet
Friday February 06, 2004

What’s for Dinner? Voles Top the List for Raptors

By JOE EATON Special to the Planet
Friday February 06, 2004

Upcoming Special Events

Friday February 06, 2004

EGRET’s Volunteers Serve People and Wildlife

By STEVEN FINACOM Special to the Planet
Friday February 06, 2004

Jakob Schiller:
              
              Heather Noyes shared a meal with Mike Douglas Wednesday at the Quarter Meal.
Jakob Schiller: Heather Noyes shared a meal with Mike Douglas Wednesday at the Quarter Meal.

Editorials

Coit Settles Strawberry Creek Pollution Suit

By MATTHEW ARTZ
Friday February 06, 2004
A national cleaning chain settled a lawsuit last week that charged it with polluting Berkeley’s Strawberry Creek. -more-

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