City, UC Clash Over Payment for Services
Playing host to UC Berkeley costs the city $10.9 million a year—nearly the same amount as the city’s current budget deficit—according to a recently released city-commissioned fiscal impact analysis. -more-
Playing host to UC Berkeley costs the city $10.9 million a year—nearly the same amount as the city’s current budget deficit—according to a recently released city-commissioned fiscal impact analysis. -more-
The next move in the struggle over Berkeley’s troubled Blood House may be a physical move from its present location. -more-
After temporarily being saved from total elimination, the UC Institute for Labor and Employment (ILE) is on the chopping block again as part of what institute employees say is an attack on labor rights and the interests of working people across California. -more-
Youth was served Sunday when progressives nominated their slate of four candidates for the Rent Stabilization Board who promise to keep the board decidedly pro-tenant and a spring board for politically active UC students. -more-
The students might have gone home for the summer, but concerns about UC Berkeley will be front and center at tonight’s (Tuesday, June 15) City Council meeting. -more-
Berkeley Police are asking the public to help them identify and apprehend the two men who abducted a woman pedestrian last Wednesday and forced her into a car where she was raped, then dropped off in Oakland. -more-
SAN FRANCISCO—In the 1980s, as a Nicaraguan child, I had dreams of Presidente Reagan dying of a heart attack in the middle of a speech. I thought his death would bring the war to an end. Then there would be no more low-flying “black birds” (spy planes) breaking the sound barrier several times a day during school hours. -more-
BUENOS AIRES—In April, approximately 150,000 Argentines filled the streets of downtown Buenos Aires in one of the country’s largest demonstrations since democracy was restored 20 years ago. The organizer did not belong to any of the county’s internationally renowned human rights groups, however. Juan Carlos Blumberg was virtually unknown until the murder of his 23-year-old son Axel, the latest casualty in Argentina’s growing crime wave. -more-
When Patrick Kennedy rose to address Zoning Assessment Board members about the Blood House during ZAB’s regular meeting last week, David Blake took advantage of the controversial developer’s presence to ask Kennedy about the long-empty “cultural use space” in the Gaia Building on Allston Way. -more-
In most countries it is recognized as one of the world’s most powerful organizations. This spring, it is celebrating its 100th anniversary with pomp and circumstance, including photo exhibitions, emotive tributes and a flurry of press attention. -more-
My father left for work at dawn, wearing dungarees and a blue button-down cotton workshirt. On his feet he wore heavy woolen white socks and brown scuffed round-toed boots. He walked fast with a slight bend forward across the front yard and driveway and entered a nearby red barn. That is how he began every day, for more than 40 years—sprinting across grass and gravel to an outbuilding where he raised rodents for a living. -more-
“Our class is run like a college studio with college-level projects, medium, and materials,” Cragmont Elementary School art teacher Joe McClain explained. He was busy readying the classroom for the third and fourth graders who were about to appear. In hi s Bermuda shorts and abstract art t-shirt he hurried around the room, which was colorfully jumbled with student art, easels and supplies, throwing me information along the way. -more-
Berkeley has always supported the protection of the natural habitat for wildlife and creeks. Now others are joining the fight to preserve our open spaces and creeks. Friends of Garrity Creek are fighting a proposed 40-home development that will destroy 1 0 beautiful acres and threaten Garrity Creek that is fed by two natural springs at it’s headwaters and ends when it flows into the San Pablo Bay. The proposed subdivision is SD 01 8533 and is on very steep land behind Hilltop Drive in El Sobrante. -more-
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A coincidence, raising some eyebrows and concerns in musical circles: -more-
Americans struggle each generation with the political, social, and economic issues and impacts of immigration. When these often divisive debates occur, it is worth recalling the experiences of previous eras of immigration. -more-
We don’t get many mule deer in my current neighborhood. But some years back, when I lived in a rickety in-law apartment near the Berkeley Rose Garden, they—along with the raccoons, skunks, and possums—were regulars. They would bed down in the ivy-covered gully below the house, or placidly consume the few things we had managed to grow in the garden (a challenge at best, since it had the kind of drainage you would expect from a former fishpond.) Mostly they were does, sometimes with fawns in tow. Bucks wer e rarer—more circumspect around people, maybe—but a few showed up from time to time. I would admire their racks from a discreet distance, and wonder about the whole antler thing. -more-
Last November, the Daily Planet got a phoned-in tip that six members of the Richmond City Council had taken part in a meeting, “over wine and cheese,” with people the caller identified as “Las Vegas types,” with the subject matter being the possibility of turning Point Molate over to casino gambling interests with Native American connections. The tipster, who identified himself as a rank-and-file environmentalist, said he’d heard a guy talking about the meeting in a bar, and that he loved Point Molate’s natural and historical splendors and was outraged at the idea of putting a casino there. -more-
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City, UC Clash Over Payment for Services By MATTHEW ARTZ 06-15-2004
Developer Asks ZAB To Weigh Blood House Move By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 06-15-2004
Progressives Lobby to Save UC Labor Think Tank From Governor’s Budget By JAKOB SCHILLER 06-15-2004
Two Teenagers Nominated For City’s Rent Board By MATTHEW ARTZ 06-15-2004
Council Set to Receive Report on UC Long Range Plan By MATTHEW ARTZ 06-15-2004
Police Seek Two Suspects in Berkeley Rape Richard Brenneman 06-15-2004
A Nicaraguan Woman Reflects on Reagan’s Death By La Segua Pacific News Service 06-15-2004
Argentines Focus on Today’s War Crimes, Not ‘Dirty War’ Past By Vinod Sreeharsha Pacific News Service 06-15-2004
Kennedy Grilled On Opening of Gaia Building Cultural Space By Richard Brenneman 06-15-2004
At 100, World Soccer Gov’t Still Autocratic, Secretive By MARCELO BALLVEPacific News Service 06-15-2004
Fire Department Log By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 06-15-2004
Police Blotter By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 06-15-2004
‘Most Popular’ For a Day —A Father’s Day Legacy FromSusan Parker 06-15-2004
Berkeley Schools Excellence Project: A Lot of Bang for the Buck By Miriam Rokeach Topel 06-15-2004
Berkeley Is Not Alone in Saving Creeks, Natural Habitat By BARBARA A. PENDERGRASS 06-15-2004
Road Rage is Not Confined to the Road Ways Avis Worthington 06-15-2004
Letters to the Editor 06-15-2004
Nagano, Carlin Team Up to Enhance Beethoven By Janos GerebenSpecial to the Planet 06-15-2004
Photo Exhibit Shows East Bay Italian History By Steven FinacomSpecial to the Planet 06-15-2004
Arts Calendar 06-15-2004
Getting Up Close and Personal With the Mule Deer By JOE EATONSpecial to the Planet 06-15-2004
Berkeley This Week 06-15-2004
Richmond Plans Massive Casino on the Bay By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 06-11-2004
Unions Continue Heated Dispute With Alta Bates Medical Center By Jakob Schiller 06-11-2004
AmeriCorps Threatens to End Willard Project By MATTHEW ARTZ 06-11-2004
UC Hotel Sites Get City Landmark Status By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 06-11-2004
Council Gives Nonprofits Temporary Reprieve By MATTHEW ARTZ 06-11-2004
Commission Delays University Avenue Zoning By MATTHEW ARTZ 06-11-2004
BHS Graduates Get Voting Cards On the Way Out By MATTHEW ARTZ 06-11-2004
Briefly Noted Richard Brenneman 06-11-2004
Police Blotter By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 06-11-2004
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U.S.-Mexico Border Patrol Abuses Greater Than Abu Ghraib By KENNETH J. THEISEN 06-11-2004
Animal Shelter Activist Answers Critic By JILL POSENER 06-11-2004
Letters to the Editor 06-11-2004
Local Play Examines Modern Irish Sweatshops By Betsy Hunton Special to the Planet 06-11-2004
Stern Grove Festival Reflects Eclectic Bay Culture By Steven Finacom Special to the Planet 06-11-2004
Inkworks Celebrates 30 Years of Collective Enterprise By Zelda Bronstein Special to the Planet 06-11-2004
Arts Calendar 06-11-2004
Spectacular Sonoma Coast Is a Delightful Destination By Marta Yamamoto Special to the Planet 06-11-2004
Berkeley This Week Calendar 06-11-2004