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Am I Blue? Not on Your Life: Colorful Reflections of a Red-Voting Berkeleyan By RED LANDERS

Friday December 24, 2004

As you should know by now, in the current political vernacular, California is a Blue state. And as reported by Rob Wrenn in the Daily Planet (Dec. 7–9) the Bluest spot in our Golden state was Berkeley—where a full 90 percent of the citizenry voted Blue. -more-

The Unsung Deeds of Pumpsie And Wenzel By WILLIAM W. SMITH

Friday December 24, 2004

I want to use the mountain top of the Berkeley Daily Planet to shout two things that not enough people will otherwise hear or read: Richard Alan Wenzel helped save the world and Pumpsie Green single-handedly lifted the curse of the Bambino! -more-

A Tale of Two Christmases By HELEN RIPPIER WHEELER

Friday December 24, 2004

A Vermont Christmas -more-

Holiday Fairyland in The City By MAYA ELMER

Friday December 24, 2004

From the crest of a hill off Grizzly Peak Boulevard in North Berkeley, the bayshore suburbs twinkled in the creeping twilight as the tour bus left the East Bay for the charismatic magic of The City at night, especially during the holiday season. My thoughts flashed back—really, was it 70 years ago? -more-

A Great Day, Even Without a Home Run By HARRY A. WENTWORTH

Friday December 24, 2004

From a letter dated August 10, 2002 -more-

Editorial Cartoons By JUSTIN DEFREITAS

Friday December 24, 2004

Click here to view the latest work by Planet editorial cartoonist Justin DeFreitasK -more-

Kathryn By KAY WEHNER

Friday December 24, 2004

Three Poems By PHYLLIS HENRY-JORDAN

Friday December 24, 2004

The Tuesday Tilden Walkers By YVETTE HOFFER

Friday December 24, 2004

Berkeley Holiday Fund

Friday December 24, 2004

A Dream for Peace in the Middle East By TRACIE DeANGELIS SALIM

Friday December 24, 2004

Thoughts on a Planetary Life By HILDA JOHNSTON

Friday December 24, 2004

Return to a Closer Place By DOROTHY BENSON

Friday December 24, 2004

People’s Park, Berkeley By STEPHEN McNEIL

Friday December 24, 2004

GMO Food: The Ugly Face of America By RIO BAUCE

Friday December 24, 2004

Malvina Reynolds Way: A Proposal [See Footnote 1] By JIM GINGER

Friday December 24, 2004

On Poetry and Fathers By JUSTICE PUTNAM

Friday December 24, 2004

A Substitute Teacher’s Tale: By EDITH MONK HALLBERG

Friday December 24, 2004

A Call for Solar Energy Production By HARVEY SHERBACK

Friday December 24, 2004

Terrorism Begins at Home: A Personal Encounter With American Paramilitarism in America By PAUL MARCUS

Friday December 24, 2004

Two Giant Fat People By NANCE WOGAN

Friday December 24, 2004

The Year-End General Clean Up By FUSAKO DE ANGELIS

Friday December 24, 2004

Resolutions By BEN DITCH

Friday December 24, 2004

Thankful for a Berkeley Home By ROSE M. GREEN

Friday December 24, 2004

Santa and Bunny By STACEY GREENE

Friday December 24, 2004

The Ideal Governance For the City of Berkeley By FRED FOLDVARY

Friday December 24, 2004

A Poem By BILL TRAMPLEASURE

Friday December 24, 2004

FOR By MARCUS O'REALIUS

Friday December 24, 2004

Jakob Schiller: Brennan Jung, 5, and his dad David were part of a constant stream of visitors to a well-decorated house on Arlington Avenue earlier this week.

Editorials

A Miracle Reborn at the Freight and Salvage By GAR SMITH

Friday December 24, 2004

Last December, songwriter John McCutcheon (the man the Oakland Tribune calls “the Bruce Springsteen of folk music”) slowly approached a microphone at Berkeley’s Freight and Salvage and announced a special song. Those who knew the song grew silent. Those who heard it for the first time were soon nodding their heads in quiet affirmation. Some wept. -more-