Jakob Schiller:
              
              A skateboarder catches some air at Harrison Street Skateboard Park.
Jakob Schiller: A skateboarder catches some air at Harrison Street Skateboard Park.

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Election Contests Set (By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR) In All Four City Districts

By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR
Friday August 13, 2004

After a hectic period that began with the announcement of veteran Councilmember Maudelle Shirek’s disqualification for the November ballot, the filing deadline for candidates in the fall Berkeley City Council election closed with some minor shakeups, the non-appearance of one potential major candidate, and some interesting, competitive races developing. -more-



Environmentalists Team With Chevron To Offer Pt. Molate Park — Not Casino (By RICHARD BRENNEMAN)

By RICHARD BRENNEMAN
Friday August 13, 2004

Bay Area environmental groups have teamed up with petro-giant Chevron to launch a new proposal that could spell trouble for a Berkeley developer’s plans to install a massive casino and hotel complex on Richmond’s Point Molate. -more-



Berkeley Technophiles Launch Campaign Software Revolution By RICHARD BRENNEMAN

By RICHARD BRENNEMAN
Friday August 13, 2004

The newest revolution to emerge from Berkeley may seem quieter—even geekier—than those surrounding People’s Park and the Free Speech Movement, but its architects hope its effects will prove even more enduring in reshaping the fabric of the American body politic. -more-



Berkeley This Week Clanedar

Friday August 13, 2004

FRIDAY, AUGUST 13 -more-



South Berkeley Residents See New Ed Roberts Campus Plans By RICHARD BRENNEMAN

By RICHARD BRENNEMAN
Friday August 13, 2004

South Berkeley residents who live near the Ashby Bart Station gathered Wednesday night to view the latest plans for the Ed Roberts Campus, the two-story center for disability rights, education, training and advocacy named after the founder of the city’s internationally known Center for Independent Living. -more-



Features

U.S. May Root For Chavez in Venezuelan Referendum By FRANCISCO JOSÉ MORENO Pacific News Service

By FRANCISCO JOSÉ MORENO Pacific News Service
Friday August 13, 2004

President Hugo Chávez seems almost certain to win the recall referendum called for this coming Sunday in Venezuela. -more-


Police Blotter

By RICHARD BRENNEMAN
Friday August 13, 2004

Berkeley Heist Leads to Serial Robber Bust -more-


The President Turns a Phrase, Not a Corner By DAVID KUSNET AlterNet

By DAVID KUSNET AlterNet
Friday August 13, 2004

Just as the Democratic Convention was wrapping up in Boston, President Bush’s handlers announced that he’d be hitting the campaign trail with an amped-up stump speech. -more-


John LeConte Jory

Friday August 13, 2004

John LeConte Jory died Aug. 8, 2004. He was born in Berkeley on Sept. 3, 1924 and missed his 80th birthday by only one month. He grew up in Berkeley, spent World War II as a pharmacist’s mate in the Navy in the South Pacific, studied business administration at Cal, worked for the City of Berkeley as a recreation supervisor for 15 years, took care of his handicapped wife, Cathy, until she died in 1988 and after that, took care of other elderly people. -more-


Raised in America, Cambodian Youths Face Deportation By KATHERINE SEAR Pacific News Service

By KATHERINE SEAR Pacific News Service
Friday August 13, 2004

SAN FRANCISCO—Ratana Som, 24, is trying to turn his life around. The ex-drug dealer works at a nonprofit in the city’s Tenderloin district, a high-crime neighborhood where his family and many other Cambodian refugees first arrived in the early 1980s. But along with 1,400 other young Cambodian Americans convicted of aggravated felonies, Som faces deportation. -more-


Buying Police Access With a Pre-Paid Cell Phone J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR

J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR
Friday August 13, 2004

We come across an article in this Wednesday’s San Francisco Chronicle, headlined “Community Buys Into Cleaning Up Its Streets.” An awful idea emerges. -more-


Letters to the Editor

Friday August 13, 2004

POLICE BLOTTER -more-


Those Phantom Parking Tickets

Friday August 13, 2004

Editors, Daily Planet: -more-


ZAB Failed to Make Required Findings In La Farine Decision; Council Punts By ZELDA BRONSTEIN

By ZELDA BRONSTEIN
Friday August 13, 2004

Zoning Adjustments Boardmember Laurie Capitelli wishes that “people would get their facts straight” about ZAB’s unanimous approval of La Farine’s application for a use permit for a retail bakery with incidental seating at 1820 Solano Ave. (Letters, Daily Planet, Aug. 6-9). -more-


Neighbors Gain Ground By RICHARD BRENNEMANIn Battle to Scale BackSisterna Tract Duplexes

By RICHARD BRENNEMAN
Friday August 13, 2004

The ongoing battle between neighborhood preservationists and the developer who plans a pair of duplexes in the recently landmarked Oceanview Sisterna Historic District flared anew this week during a three-hour-plus hearing before the Landmarks Preservation Commission. -more-


Reunion Celebrates World Music Anniversaries By GRAEME VANDERSTOEL Special to the Planet

By GRAEME VANDERSTOEL Special to the Planet
Friday August 13, 2004

One of the first uses of the phrase “world music” was in 1974, when the Center for World Music opened its doors at what is now the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts on College Avenue in Berkeley. The Oxford English Dictionary lists it first in 1977, apparently missing all the previous uses in the Bay Area press coverage of the period. Today, a Google search on “world music,” brings up a list of 13,500,000 references within a half second. -more-


Arts Calendar

Friday August 13, 2004

FRIDAY, AUGUST 13 -more-


Sonoma-Marin Cheese Tour Makes a Tasty Trip By KATHLEEN HILL Special to the Planet

By KATHLEEN HILL Special to the Planet
Friday August 13, 2004

One of the most satisfying and relaxing rides you can take in the Bay Area is a tour of local artisan cheese producers in Sonoma and Marin counties. Starting with Vella’s Cheese in Sonoma and ending at Cowgirl Creamery in Point Reyes Station, the trip is about 100 miles roundtrip from Berkeley. -more-


Editorial

Editorial: Cluelessness Rampant By Becky O'Malley

Becky O'Malley
Friday August 13, 2004

Chalabys in the news again. Treason, espionage, murder…who knows where it will end? And who’s surprised? Evidently, yet again, the people in Washington who are supposed to be running the country. It’s scary. What I still fail to understand (and I’m sorry to keep coming back to this point, but it haunts me) is how many of us here in little Berkeley, not to mention our friends in New York and Boston and even in Illinois, West Virginia and Indiana, knew from day one that Chalabys I and II were bad apples, and Bush’s guys didn’t. It’s been all over the Internet, in letters to the editor in hundreds of papers, and the subject of conversation in probably thousands of cafes around the world. -more-


Back Stories

Opinion

Editorials

Editorial: Cluelessness Rampant By Becky O'Malley 08-13-2004

Welcome to River City, Part II: by BECKY O'MALLEY 08-10-2004

News

Election Contests Set (By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR) In All Four City Districts By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 08-13-2004

Environmentalists Team With Chevron To Offer Pt. Molate Park — Not Casino (By RICHARD BRENNEMAN) By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 08-13-2004

Berkeley Technophiles Launch Campaign Software Revolution By RICHARD BRENNEMAN By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 08-13-2004

Berkeley This Week Clanedar 08-13-2004

South Berkeley Residents See New Ed Roberts Campus Plans By RICHARD BRENNEMAN By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 08-13-2004

U.S. May Root For Chavez in Venezuelan Referendum By FRANCISCO JOSÉ MORENO Pacific News Service By FRANCISCO JOSÉ MORENO Pacific News Service 08-13-2004

Police Blotter By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 08-13-2004

The President Turns a Phrase, Not a Corner By DAVID KUSNET AlterNet By DAVID KUSNET AlterNet 08-13-2004

John LeConte Jory 08-13-2004

Raised in America, Cambodian Youths Face Deportation By KATHERINE SEAR Pacific News Service By KATHERINE SEAR Pacific News Service 08-13-2004

Buying Police Access With a Pre-Paid Cell Phone J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 08-13-2004

Letters to the Editor 08-13-2004

Those Phantom Parking Tickets 08-13-2004

ZAB Failed to Make Required Findings In La Farine Decision; Council Punts By ZELDA BRONSTEIN By ZELDA BRONSTEIN 08-13-2004

Neighbors Gain Ground By RICHARD BRENNEMANIn Battle to Scale BackSisterna Tract Duplexes By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 08-13-2004

Reunion Celebrates World Music Anniversaries By GRAEME VANDERSTOEL Special to the Planet By GRAEME VANDERSTOEL Special to the Planet 08-13-2004

Arts Calendar 08-13-2004

Sonoma-Marin Cheese Tour Makes a Tasty Trip By KATHLEEN HILL Special to the Planet By KATHLEEN HILL Special to the Planet 08-13-2004

Signature Snafu Knocks Councilmember Shirek Off November Ballot: By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 08-10-2004

Incumbents Challenged In City Races: By J DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 08-10-2004

Librarians Win Battle Against Ashcroft’s Edict to Censor Statute Documents: By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 08-10-2004

SF Chronicle Cracks Down on Liberal Staffers: By SARAH NORR Beyond Chron 08-10-2004

Faces of Racism: By KAREN POJMANN Pacific News Service News Analysis 08-10-2004

Three-Ton Limit: by JAKOB SCHILLER 08-10-2004

Police Blotter: By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 08-10-2004

Parrots, Pointers and Reading Partners: From SUSAN PARKER Column 08-10-2004

Letters to the Editor 08-10-2004

Some Reflections on the Berkeley-Novartis Report: By ANDREW PAUL GUTIERREZ and MIGUEL A. ALTIERI Commentary 08-10-2004

Clinic Cutbacks Jeopardize Public Health: By MARC SAPIR Commentary 08-10-2004

Northern Coast Offers Vistas of a Vanished Era: By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 08-10-2004

Arts Calendar 08-10-2004

Sticklebacks Still in Strawberry Creek? Maybe...: By JOE EATON Special to the Planet 08-10-2004

Berkeley This Week 08-10-2004