Telegraph Peet’s Wins Approval at ZAB
Three days after one Berkeley institution closed its doors on Telegraph Avenue another won overwhelming approval to open. -more-
Three days after one Berkeley institution closed its doors on Telegraph Avenue another won overwhelming approval to open. -more-
A multi-year, $1.65-million contract for city office supplies will go to Office Depot, pending approval by the City Council tonight (Tuesday). -more-
With Oakland education leaders traveling to Sacramento this week to lobby for a return to local control of the Oakland Unified School District, OUSD documents reveal that the real power over the future direction of Oakland’s public schools may lie with private foundations. -more-
State officials have ordered a popular after-school tutoring program to leave Richmond’s contaminated Campus Bay after officials and citizens spotted children playing in a toxic off-limits area. -more-
Berkeley Councilmembers Kriss Worthington and Max Anderson are proposing amendments to the city’s condominium conversion ordinance that would prevent condo conversion for 20 years from the date a landlord has quit the rental business for that particular property and would prevent condo conversion for 10 years from the time the owner has enacted an owner move-in eviction. -more-
In an effort to keep people with a variety of income levels in Berkeley, the city instituted its “inclusionary” housing ordinance in 1986, which mandates that developers reserve one-fifth of new housing units for people earning 80 percent of area median income. -more-
Following a Sunday afternoon town hall meeting at Redwood Gardens that attracted 61 Berkeley residents in search of a “progressive” candidate to take on District 8 incumbent Gordon Wozniak in November, a vote of attendees supported Jason Overman, a city rent board commissioner and UC Berkeley student. -more-
A dozen residents have appealed plans for a five-story, mixed-use building on San Pablo Avenue, a project once described by a neighbor as “bursting at the seams.” -more-
As the city prepares to fund one planning process in South Berkeley, the county and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) are launching another on Thursday night. -more-
On July 11 Berkeley’s City Council by a 6-2-1 vote took the first reading on repealing the Landmarks Preservation Ordinance and reenacting it with extensive changes. Presumably it will take the second reading on July 18. This article analyzes key differences between the “old LPO” (originally adopted in 1974 and amended later in the 1970s and 1980s) and the “revised LPO” (the version that at this moment the City Council seems poised to adopt). -more-
The redistribution of wealth upward is proceeding apace in the Bush/neo-con America. What has been a lower class, is rapidly transforming into an under class, while the middle class is becoming the lower class. -more-
Warm-pool users met over the weekend to organize themselves to converge on today’s (Tuesday) City Council meeting to support Dona Spring’s proposal to put a measure on the November ballot to fund the pool used mostly by disabled and elderly people. -more-
I was criticized by letter writers in the last three issues of the Daily Planet for stating that my husband Ralph is confined to a wheelchair. Brian Hill of Albany said he didn’t “mind being called crippled or lame” but “confined to a wheelchair” implied Ralph was “chained to it, with padlocks.” Ann Sieck seconded Brian’s opinion and said she, too, was “good and crippled.” Ruthanne Shpiner stated, “Language and its use or misuse is critical in forming how the public perceives everyone. Such terminology as ‘confined to a wheelchair’ is not only inaccurate, it is offensive.” -more-
One more scary invasive exotic plant has shown up in the East Bay. Susan Schwartz of Friends of Five Creeks issued a bulletin: -more-
Warm Water Pool Funding Back Before Councilmembers 07-18-2006
Editorial: Getting WMD’d in Berkeley 07-14-2006
Letters to the Editor 07-18-2006
Web-Only Letters to the Editor 07-18-2006
Commentary: Analyzing the Revised Landmarks Ordinance By John English 07-18-2006
Commentary: Affordable Housing And the Redistribution Of Wealth in America By Frances Hailman 07-18-2006
Letters to the Editor 07-14-2006
More Letters to the Editor 07-14-2006
Commentary: Berkeley’s Image After Forty Years By Krishna P. Bhattacharjee 07-14-2006
Commentary: Let Them Eat Bush! By Barbara Gilbert 07-14-2006
Telegraph Peet’s Wins Approval at ZAB By Suzanne La Barre 07-18-2006
Office Depot Beats Out Local Vendors for City Contract By Suzanne La Barre 07-18-2006
Ward Leaves OUSD with Far-Reaching Changes By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor 07-18-2006
Youth Program Ordered Off Toxic Site By Richard Brenneman 07-18-2006
Council Looks at Condo Issues, Alcohol Problems By Judith Scherr 07-18-2006
Developer Fee Would Replace Inclusionary Unit Requirement By Judith Scherr 07-18-2006
Overman Tapped to Challenge Wozniak for District 8 Seat By Rio Bauce, Special to the Planet 07-18-2006
Residents Appeal Mixed-Use Development on San Pablo By Suzanne La Barre 07-18-2006
New Planning Process for South and West Berkeley By Richard Brenneman 07-18-2006
Citizens Rally for Ailing City Housing Authority By Suzanne La Barre 07-14-2006
Council Approves Mayor’s New LPO By Richard Brenneman 07-14-2006
OUSD Could Make Less Than Planned in Land Sale By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor 07-14-2006
Post Office Might Close In Elmwood District By Richard Brenneman 07-14-2006
Warm Pool Measure Wins Approval, Then Postponed By Judith Scherr 07-14-2006
Vandals Strike Warm Water Pool By Judith Scherr 07-14-2006
Sea Scouts Appeal Berkeley Case to Supreme Court By Judith Scherr 07-14-2006
City Council Kills ‘Clean Money’ Ballot Proposal By Judith Scherr 07-14-2006
Berkeley Schools’ Achievement Gap Is Widest in County By Suzanne La Barre 07-14-2006
Local Agencies, Cities Make Preparations for Coming Bird Flu By Riya Bhattacharjee 07-14-2006
Details of Proposed Land Deal Differ From Initial Proposal By J. Douglas Allen-Taylo 07-14-2006
Police Blotter By Richard Brenneman 07-14-2006
Lopez Obrador Wins California Cities in Symbolic Vote By Stan Oklobdzija, New American Media 07-14-2006
Democracy a Buzzword After Failed Taiwan Recall of Chen By Eugenia Chien, New American Media 07-14-2006
News Analysis: The Mexico Election: Obrador is No Gore By Ted Vincent, Special to the Planet 07-14-2006
First Person: The Trick of Knowing How to Keep the ‘Stupids’ at Bay By Marta Yamamoto, Special to the Planet 07-14-2006
Column: Lame, Crippled, Insensitive And Politically Incorrect By Susan Parker 07-18-2006
Red Alert Issued for The Yellow Dodder By Ron Sullivan, Special to the Planet 07-18-2006
Column: Undercurrents: What Did Ward Accomplish in the Oakland Schools? By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor 07-14-2006
First Tibs: Exploring Ethiopian Food at Finfine By B. J. Calurus, Special to the Planet 07-14-2006
About the House: How Trees Do and Do Not Impact Structures By Matt Cantor 07-14-2006
Getting the Real Dirt on Smuggled Plants and Seeds By Ron Sullivan 07-14-2006
Quake Tip of the Week By Larry Guillot 07-14-2006
Arts Calendar 07-18-2006
250 Years Old and Still Full of Surprises By Ira Steingroot, Special to the Planet 07-18-2006
‘Girl of the Golden West’ By Jaime Robles, Special to the Planet 07-18-2006
Red Alert Issued for The Yellow Dodder By Ron Sullivan, Special to the Planet 07-18-2006
Berkeley This Week 07-18-2006
Arts Calendar 07-14-2006
‘As You Like It’ in Neo-Classical Garb By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet 07-14-2006
Staging the Life of Billie Holiday By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet 07-14-2006
Moving Pictures: Lost Treasures Recovered and Restored By Justin DeFreitas 07-14-2006
First Tibs: Exploring Ethiopian Food at Finfine By B. J. Calurus, Special to the Planet 07-14-2006
About the House: How Trees Do and Do Not Impact Structures By Matt Cantor 07-14-2006
Getting the Real Dirt on Smuggled Plants and Seeds By Ron Sullivan 07-14-2006
Quake Tip of the Week By Larry Guillot 07-14-2006
Berkeley This Week 07-14-2006
Correction 07-14-2006