Plans for Ashby BART Project Continues After Grant Denial
Despite rumors to the contrary, the Ashby BART Task Force is very much alive—though in what form and to what ends remain open questions. -more-
Despite rumors to the contrary, the Ashby BART Task Force is very much alive—though in what form and to what ends remain open questions. -more-
It’s the end of an era for yet another independent Berkeley retailer. -more-
Will there be a new Berkeley Bowl market in West Berkeley or not? -more-
After almost two years of staff-management strife, a page has turned at the Berkeley Public Library: Wednesday evening the Board of Trustees announced the departure of the embattled library director and the appointment of an interim replacement. -more-
This is Part Two of a two-part series on tutoring. Part One ran in the June 6 issue. -more-
Berkeley Transportation Commissioner Rob Wrenn charged Wednesday night that “UC Berkeley uses the programs least likely to succeed” to reduce car use by students, faculty and staff. -more-
It’s official: a renewed parcel tax to support Berkeley’s public schools will go before voters this November. -more-
The California Health Facilities Financing Authority announced last week that Berkeley’s LifeLong Medical Care clinics will receive a $408,374 grant and the Berkeley Free Clinic will receive $35,264 out of the $40 million grant money issued statewide. -more-
When Berkeley Art Center Director Robbin Henderson came to the City Council, beret in hand, asking councilmembers to restore funding slashed three years ago, the unanimous body moved the question to the growing list of projects to be considered when the council puts together its final budget this month or next. -more-
A plan to put a $50-per-homeowner levy on the November ballot to upgrade the Berkeley’s 100-year-old storm drain system is water under the bridge, at least for now, says Councilmember Linda Maio. -more-
With the defeat of the library bond measure on Tuesday’s ballot, there will be no expansion at the West Berkeley Library. There will be no new space for computers or for kids to sit and read, no new room for the literacy program and its tutors, according to library officials. -more-
Thank you for Mr. Allen-Taylor’s stimulating review of Charles DeBose’s The Sociology of African-American Language. Not long ago I submitted a book review to a left leaning, youth oriented newspaper in San Francisco but was informed they don’t print book reviews. So thank you for encouraging us all to put our thinking caps on. -more-
Next year, the Berkeley Art Center hopes to celebrate its 40th anniversary. The Center, housed in a small gem of a Ratcliff building beside the creek in Live Oak Park, has been displaying the work of Berkeley artists since 1967. But the prospects for a 2007 celebration are far from certain. The more likely scenario is that Berkeley’s municipal art gallery will be forced to close down before its anniversary date arrives. Its budget has been shrinking every year and if the city cannot restore the grant for the coming year to the 2001 level, the Center will not be able to keep its doors open. -more-
A unhappy milestone has just passed. On May 31, our latest 15-year lease on Nexus from the Berkeley-East Bay Humane Society expired. Although Nexus is attempting to negotiate with the Humane Society to purchase the property, the Humane Society had indicated they intended to place a metal fence around the vacated building on June 1. That fence did not go up on that date, but who knows about tomorrow? -more-
A divided Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 Thursday to approve a $13.25 million, three-year voting machine contract with Sequoia Voting Systems of Oakland, ending, for the present, the county’s relationship with controversial Diebold Election Systems. -more-
“He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher—the Wonder House as the natives called the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that ‘fire-breathing dragon,’ hold the Punjab; for the great green bronze piece is always first of the conqueror’s loot.” -more-
The job of the news media is supposed to be to report on the news as we find it. -more-
It’s a tough world for the seemingly fragile butterfly. -more-
In 1881, Irish-born playwright George H. Jessop wrote a minor comedy-drama titled Sam’l of Posen, the Commercial Drummer whose lead character, a shrewd Jewish peddler with a heart of gold, attains bourgeois respectability by means of little wiles interleaved with honesty. -more-
Although I am generally sympathetic with the varied plights of the home buyer, I have to admit, in all my curmugeonitude that I have no tears to shed for anyone in Berkeley that has to meet the requirement of our RECO ordinance. -more-
Broadway Terrace Nursery is a tad off my regular circuit, and it had been too long since I’d dropped in when I dashed there last Saturday. It was just before closing time—a good time to watch the staff get its collective mettle tested. I was as impressed as I’d been on the regrettably few occasions I’d visited before. -more-
Area governments say that 150,000 homes in the Bay Area are going to be uninhabitable after the Hayward Fault ruptures, the fault about which USGS seismologist Tom Brocher says, “It’s locked and loaded and ready to fire.” -more-
County Supes Approve Sequoia Voting Contract 06-09-2006
Commission Landmarks UC Memorial Stadium 06-06-2006
Letters to the Editor 06-09-2006
Commentary: Sources of African-American Culture a Conundrum By Jean Damu 06-09-2006
Commentary: Art Center Needs More Money to Stay Open for 40th Anniversary By Kathleen Kahn 06-09-2006
Commentary: Eviction Threat Imperils Nexus Building By Robert Brokl 06-09-2006
Letters to the Editor 06-06-2006
Commentary: Ballot Language for Parcel Tax Should Be Clear to Pass By Stevie Corcos 06-06-2006
Commentary: Bus Riders Need Equal Access to Funds By Keith Carson 06-06-2006
Commentary: A Traditional Neighborhood at Ashby BART By Charles Siegel 06-06-2006
Plans for Ashby BART Project Continues After Grant Denial By Richard Brenneman 06-09-2006
Radstons Quits After 98 Years in Berkeley By Riya Bhattacharjee 06-09-2006
West Berkeley Bowl Faces Mounting Challenges By Richard Brenneman 06-09-2006
Trustees Dismiss Library Head Griffin By Judith Scherr 06-09-2006
Public School Tutoring Industy Lacks Accountability, Students By Suzanne La Barre 06-09-2006
Downtown Planners Tackle Transportation, UC Polices By Richard Brenneman 06-09-2006
Voters to Decide Fate of BUSD Parcel Tax in November By Suzanne La Barre 06-09-2006
Berkeley Health Clinics Awarded State Grants By Riya Bhattacharjee 06-09-2006
Berkeley Art Center Hopes For More City Support By Judith Scherr 06-09-2006
Storm Drain Tax Off City Council Agenda for Now By Judith Scherr 06-09-2006
Libraries Lament Prop. 81 Defeat By Judith Scherr 06-09-2006
Joint Berkeley City Council and Board of Library Trustees Special Meeting June 7 06-06-2006
Time’s Up for Clean Money in November By Judith Scherr 06-06-2006
Free Tutoring Becomes Big Business in Public Schools By Suzanne La Barre 06-06-2006
Landmarks, Condo Conversion Likely to Make Ballot By Richard Brenneman and Judith Scherr 06-06-2006
Clerk: Berkeley Won’t Get IRV This Year By Judith Scherr 06-06-2006
Streaking Seniors Find Doors Locked at BHS By Suzanne La Barre 06-06-2006
UC Downtown Hotel Project Moves Closer to Reality By Richard Brenneman 06-06-2006
BUSD Board to Finalize Tax Measure Wednesday By Suzanne La Barre 06-06-2006
ZAB Considers Berkeley Toyota For Former Berkeley Tire Site By Suzanne La Barre 06-06-2006
Downtown Planners, Transportation Committee to Hold Joint Meeting By Richard Brenneman 06-06-2006
People’s Park Activist Arrested By Riya Bhattacharjee 06-06-2006
Shoddy Reconstruction Angers Afghans By Fariba Nawa, New America Media 06-06-2006
Not on List? Request Provisional Ballot By Judith Scherr 06-06-2006
Candidates Can Substitute Signatures for Fee By Judith Scherr 06-06-2006
Police Blotter By Richard Brenneman 06-06-2006
Column: Dispatches From the Edge: Afghanistan and the Ghost of Kipling’s ‘Kim’ By Conn Hallinan 06-09-2006
Column: Undercurrents: Reporting on Alameda County’s Election ‘Delay’ By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor 06-09-2006
Film Details the World of Wild Butterflies By Steven Finacom 06-09-2006
East Bay Then and Now: Maurice Curtis Brought Brief Splendor to Berkeley By Daniella Thompson 06-09-2006
About the House: Global Warming Begins (and Ends) at Home By Matt Cantor 06-09-2006
Garden Variety: The Jewel Box Dazzle of Broadway Terrace Nursery By Ron Sullivan 06-09-2006
Quake Tip of the Week: Will Your Home Survive? By Larry Guillot 06-09-2006
The Public Eye: Telegraph Avenue’s Hope: Buzz, Not Busway By Michael Katz 06-06-2006
Understanding The Shoes of North Oakland By Susan Parker 06-06-2006
The Bluebird of Hostility: Getting an Evolutionary Edge By Joe Eaton, Special to the Planet 06-06-2006
Arts Calendar 06-09-2006
Savion Glover, D’Rivera at SF Jazz Festival This Weekend By Ira Steingroot 06-09-2006
CalShake’s Presents ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ By Ken Bullock 06-09-2006
Film Details the World of Wild Butterflies By Steven Finacom 06-09-2006
East Bay Then and Now: Maurice Curtis Brought Brief Splendor to Berkeley By Daniella Thompson 06-09-2006
About the House: Global Warming Begins (and Ends) at Home By Matt Cantor 06-09-2006
Garden Variety: The Jewel Box Dazzle of Broadway Terrace Nursery By Ron Sullivan 06-09-2006
Quake Tip of the Week: Will Your Home Survive? By Larry Guillot 06-09-2006
Berkeley This Week 06-09-2006
Arts Calendar 06-06-2006
Arts: Malcolm X the Opera at Oakland Metro By Ken Bullock 06-06-2006
Book Review: Author Examines African-American Language By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor 06-06-2006
The Bluebird of Hostility: Getting an Evolutionary Edge By Joe Eaton, Special to the Planet 06-06-2006
Berkeley This Week 06-06-2006