News
University’s Foothill Bridge Still Provokes Controversy
By MATTHEW ARTZ
Tuesday July 13, 2004
Sixteen years ago former Berkeley City Manager Hal Cronkite wrote UC Berkeley officials that the city had “no known objections” to a pedestrian footbridge suspended over Hearst Avenue. Tonight (Tuesday, July 13)—three aborted attempts to win city approval and $600,000 later—the bridge that would connect both halves of the Foothill housing complex is finally coming before the City Council.
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Developer Gives First Look At West Berkeley Project Plans
By RICHARD BRENNEMAN
Tuesday July 13, 2004
A San Mateo developer has presented city staff with plans for a 212-unit, five-story West Berkeley housing complex with ground floor commercial space, which would fill the entire block between University Avenue and Addison Street and between Third and Fourth streets.
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City Manager Gives Thumbs Down to Ballot Measures
By MATTHEW ARTZ
Tuesday July 13, 2004
A proposed November ballot initiative billed as an antidote to Berkeley’s strict laws regulating the cultivation of medical cannabis plants would also allow cannabis clubs carte blanche to sprout along commercial corridors, according to a critical report released last week from City Manager Phil Kamlarz.
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City Council to Ponder Arts and Culture Plan
By RICHARD BRENNEMAN
Tuesday July 13, 2004
Five years in the making, the proposed Arts and Culture Plan arrives at the City Council tonight (Tuesday, July 13), with members of the Civic Arts Commission (CAC) presenting their work at the 5 p.m. council working session.
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Debt to HUD Puts Jobs Program in Danger
By MATTHEW ARTZ
Tuesday July 13, 2004
Creek Ordinance Goes Back Before Council
Richard Brenneman
Tuesday July 13, 2004
U.S.-Laos Trade Splits Hmong Communities
By PHA LO
Pacific News Service
Tuesday July 13, 2004
Kenyan Youth Culture Takes Off as Censorship Weakens
By ANDREW STRICKLER
Pacific News Service
Tuesday July 13, 2004
Candidate Kerry’s Non-Southern Strategy
By KENNETH S. BAER
Featurewell
Tuesday July 13, 2004
Police Blotter
By RICHARD BRENNEMAN
Tuesday July 13, 2004
Letters to the Editor
Tuesday July 13, 2004
Affordable Housing Protest Has Been Artificially Promoted
By MARIE BOWMAN
Tuesday July 13, 2004
Committee Responds to Criticism Of Utility Undergrounding Project
Tuesday July 13, 2004
Defending Marriage: What it Really Takes
By MICHAEL KATZ
Tuesday July 13, 2004
Legendary Heath Brothers to Appear in Kensington
By IRA STEINGROOT
Special to the Planet
Tuesday July 13, 2004
Arts Calendar
Tuesday July 13, 2004
Squirrels Survive by Learning the Language of Snakes
By JOE EATON
Special to the Planet
Tuesday July 13, 2004
Berkeley This Week
Tuesday July 13, 2004
Jakob Schiller:
Eva Bluestein, a local Berkeley senior, shows her support Monday during a rally to save low-income senior housing. The rally was held at a proposed low-income housing site located at 2517 Sacramento St.
Editorials
Editorial: California Should Adopt A Fire-Safe Cigarette Law Like New York State’s
Becky O’Malley
Tuesday July 13, 2004
Last week a Berkeley woman died in a fire which started in her bedroom. Neighbors said she was a cigarette smoker. Fire Marshal David Orth has not yet definitively reported on what caused the fire, but he thinks a dropped cigarette was the most probable cause. Statistically speaking, there’s a very good chance it was the cigarette, because many, many fires are started by dropped cigarettes.
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