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Taggers Stage Costly Raids On Telegraph,College Avenue By RICHARD BRENNEMAN

Friday April 08, 2005
Graffiti vandals armed with glass-etching acid struck hundreds of windows along College and Telegraph avenues on two consecutive nights this past week, inflicting hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. -more-

Margaret Breland Dies at 69 By MATTHEW ARTZ

Friday April 08, 2005
Margaret Breland, one of Berkeley’s toughest political fighters, has succumbed to her long struggle with cancer. She died in her sleep at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley Thursday morning. She was 69. -more-

Teachers Rally at Board Meeting As Contract Dispute Escalates By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR

Friday April 08, 2005
Berkeley teachers took their increasingly rancorous contract dispute back to the Berkeley Unified School District board meeting Wednesday night, filling the Old City Hall Council chambers with union members and supporters chanting “Fair Contract Now!” -more-

Thai Temple Doesn’t Hesitate to Tear Down Garden By MATTHEW ARTZ

Friday April 08, 2005
For urban gardeners and several neighbors of the Thai Buddhist Temple, it was the Berkeley chainsaw massacre. For the temple it was a new beginning. -more-

Staff Charges Library Dumped Too Many Books By MATTHEW ARTZ

Friday April 08, 2005
Several Berkeley library employees contend that a stepped-up effort to thin the library’s collection in the past year has been so rushed that valuable books were carted off in dumpsters. -more-

Firefighters Fired Upon by Pellet Gun While on Drayage Patrol By MATTHEW ARTZ

Friday April 08, 2005

County Worker Surrenders In Rose Garden Slasher Case By MATTHEW ARTZ

Friday April 08, 2005

Creeks Task Force Asks for $100,000 to Begin Work By MATTHEW ARTZ

Friday April 08, 2005

Special Council Meeting for Foothill Bridge By MATTHEW ARTZ

Friday April 08, 2005

Spirited Landmarks Meeting Focuses On Maybecks, Preservation Ordinance By RICHARD BRENNEMAN

Friday April 08, 2005

Two Berkeley Landmarks Singled Out for Honors By RICHARD BRENNEMAN

Friday April 08, 2005

Feds Launch Corruption Probe of New Bay Bridge By RICHARD BRENNEMAN

Friday April 08, 2005

Negroponte Film Coincides With Nomination to New Post By JAKOB SCHILLER

Friday April 08, 2005

Laurette Goldberg, 1932-2005 By ROBERT P. COMMANDAY

Special to the Planet
Friday April 08, 2005

Letters to the Editor

Friday April 08, 2005

Editorial Cartoon By JUSTIN DEFREITAS

Friday April 08, 2005

Jerry Brown Gives Us the Aging Rock Star Tour J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR

Undercurrents
Friday April 08, 2005

Fire Department Log By RICHARD BRENNEMAN

Friday April 08, 2005

RFID: Many Problems, Little Public Discussion By PETER WARFIELD and LEE TIEN

Commentary
Friday April 08, 2005

Firefighter Compensation a Complicated Issue By DAVID SPRAGUE-LIVINGSTON

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Friday April 08, 2005

Maria King Memorial

Friday April 08, 2005

Arts Calendar

Friday April 08, 2005

Extraordinary Encounters with Insects in Gardens and Houses By SHIRLEY BARKER

Special to the Planet
Friday April 08, 2005

Berkeley This Week

Friday April 08, 2005

Editorials

Public is Watching School Dispute By BECKY O'MALLEY

Editorial
Friday April 08, 2005
It seems that the suggestion in this space and in a letter or two that some teachers somewhere might be less than optimum touched a nerve. We’ve received and printed a number of very defensive letters from teachers, many of them zeroing in on one sentence in a long editorial which was generally supportive of teachers’ demands for better pay and smaller classes. This is the offending sentence: -more-

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