News

Programs Aim to Bring Healthy Food to All

By Judith Scherr
Friday July 07, 2006
If you’ve put in your eight-plus hours at the office, fought the traffic home, picked up your kids from childcare, no way are you going home to prepare a gourmet meal. -more-

Allston House Tenants Object To Foul Living Conditions

By Suzanne La Barre
Friday July 07, 2006
The San Francisco Chronicle reported last October that “eight lucky families,” all victims of Hurricane Katrina, would move into a 48-unit apartment complex in West Berkeley under the auspices of a non-profit affordable housing agency. -more-

Council Turns Sights to Resolve War Over Gaia Building

By Richard Brenneman
Friday July 07, 2006
While the City Council is set to resolve one battle of that structural war known as the Gaia Building, other conflagrations still confront city officials and citizen commissioners. -more-

Students Get On Point With Alvin Ailey Summer Camp

By Suzanne La Barre
Friday July 07, 2006
Deangelo Wilson, an aspiring basketball player, is learning a valuable lesson this summer: plies and jump shots are remarkably similar. -more-

ASUC Elections Awash in Controversy, Placing Results in Doubt

By Suzanne La Barre
Friday July 07, 2006
Lies, lawsuits and chalk marks: It’s politics as usual on the UC Berkeley campus. -more-

City Outlines Schedule for Bateman Mall Restoration

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Friday July 07, 2006

News Analysis: Mid-Life Crisis Hits San Jose—And Its Mayor

By Raj Jayadev New America Media
Friday July 07, 2006

Police Blotter

By Richard Brenneman
Friday July 07, 2006

Last Poetry Reading at Cody’s Books

By Judy Wells
Friday July 07, 2006

The True Color of Money

By Sandip Roy, New America Media
Friday July 07, 2006

Activity leader Baron Cope (with cap) takes a group of Frances Albrier Center Summer Fun Camp kids to pick up fresh veggies at the Fresh Farm Choice produce stand for a cooking project on Wednesday. Vendor Joanna Kuunivor suggests some zucchini. Photograph by Judith Scherr.
Activity leader Baron Cope (with cap) takes a group of Frances Albrier Center Summer Fun Camp kids to pick up fresh veggies at the Fresh Farm Choice produce stand for a cooking project on Wednesday. Vendor Joanna Kuunivor suggests some zucchini. Photograph by Judith Scherr.

Editorials

Dones Made Failed Bid For OUSD Property Sale

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Friday July 07, 2006
The office of Oakland Unified School District administrator Randolph Ward has revealed that one of the developers who lost out in the bid to purchase the OUSD Lake Merritt properties was a familiar figure in Lake Merritt development issues: Oakland developer Alan Dones. -more-

Reader Commentaries

Letters to the Editor

Friday July 07, 2006

Commentary: The Pursuit of Happiness: Jefferson, I Think We’re Lost

By Michael Katz
Friday July 07, 2006

Commentary: City Council Puts Public Safety on Back Burner

By Marie Bowman
Friday July 07, 2006

Columnists

Column: Dispatches From the Edge: The United States and Pakistan: Whacking Musharraf?

By Conn Hallinan
Friday July 07, 2006

Column: Undercurrents: Has the OUSD Board of Trustees Been Left in the Dark?

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Friday July 07, 2006

Discover the Many Wonders At Oakland’s Lake Merritt

By Marta Yamamoto, Special to the Planet
Friday July 07, 2006

About The House: LED Down the Road to Cheaper Lighting

By Matt Cantor
Friday July 07, 2006

Garden Variety: Stake Your Young Tree Carefully After Planting

By Ron Sullivan
Friday July 07, 2006

Quake Tip of the Week

By Larry Guillot
Friday July 07, 2006

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Calendar

Friday July 07, 2006

Moving Pictures: Documentary Puts Modern Gay Cinema in Context

By Justin DeFreitas
Friday July 07, 2006

Events Calendar

Berkeley This Week

Friday July 07, 2006