News

Telegraph Peet’s Wins Approval at ZAB

By Suzanne La Barre
Tuesday July 18, 2006
Three days after one Berkeley institution closed its doors on Telegraph Avenue another won overwhelming approval to open. -more-

Office Depot Beats Out Local Vendors for City Contract

By Suzanne La Barre
Tuesday July 18, 2006
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-

Ward Leaves OUSD with Far-Reaching Changes

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Tuesday July 18, 2006
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-

Youth Program Ordered Off Toxic Site

By Richard Brenneman
Tuesday July 18, 2006
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-

Council Looks at Condo Issues, Alcohol Problems

By Judith Scherr
Tuesday July 18, 2006
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-

Developer Fee Would Replace Inclusionary Unit Requirement

By Judith Scherr
Tuesday July 18, 2006

Overman Tapped to Challenge Wozniak for District 8 Seat

By Rio Bauce, Special to the Planet
Tuesday July 18, 2006

Residents Appeal Mixed-Use Development on San Pablo

By Suzanne La Barre
Tuesday July 18, 2006

New Planning Process for South and West Berkeley

By Richard Brenneman
Tuesday July 18, 2006

Mayor Plays Firefighter Mayor Tom Bates opened up a fire hose Saturday during Fire Operations 101, an event sponsored by the Berkeley Firefighters Association. Councilmembers and high-ranking city staff suited up to operate chain saws to hack through roofs, use the Jaws of Life to open crashed cars and walk through a burning training trailer. Photograph by Dave Sprague.
Mayor Plays Firefighter Mayor Tom Bates opened up a fire hose Saturday during Fire Operations 101, an event sponsored by the Berkeley Firefighters Association. Councilmembers and high-ranking city staff suited up to operate chain saws to hack through roofs, use the Jaws of Life to open crashed cars and walk through a burning training trailer. Photograph by Dave Sprague.

Editorials

Warm Water Pool Funding Back Before Councilmembers

By Judith Scherr
Tuesday July 18, 2006
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-

Reader Commentaries

Letters to the Editor

Tuesday July 18, 2006

Web-Only Letters to the Editor

Tuesday July 18, 2006

Commentary: Analyzing the Revised Landmarks Ordinance

By John English
Tuesday July 18, 2006

Commentary: Affordable Housing And the Redistribution Of Wealth in America

By Frances Hailman
Tuesday July 18, 2006

Columnists

Column: Lame, Crippled, Insensitive And Politically Incorrect

By Susan Parker
Tuesday July 18, 2006

Red Alert Issued for The Yellow Dodder

By Ron Sullivan, Special to the Planet
Tuesday July 18, 2006

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Calendar

Tuesday July 18, 2006

250 Years Old and Still Full of Surprises

By Ira Steingroot, Special to the Planet
Tuesday July 18, 2006

‘Girl of the Golden West’

By Jaime Robles, Special to the Planet
Tuesday July 18, 2006

Events Calendar

Berkeley This Week

Tuesday July 18, 2006