News

Classroom Shuffle Outrages Parents

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Tuesday August 29, 2006
Parents of students attending the Extended Day Care (EDC) program at Washington Elementary School in Berkeley are furious that their children had to sit outside in the cold last week because of a mix-up over moving to a new space. -more-

Landmarks Measure Gets Day in Court

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Tuesday August 29, 2006
A Superior Court hearing on the ballot language for Berkeley’s landmark preservation initiative Measure J will be held on an expedited basis Sept. 5 for a decision to be made by the Sept. 7 deadline for finalizing the November ballot. -more-

Alta Bates Neighbors Complain Of Traffic, Construction Noise

By Rio Bauce
Tuesday August 29, 2006
On Friday, the Inter-Neighborhood Hospital Review Committee (IHRC) met with Alta Bates administrators and city officials, regarding traffic issues, construction, and the Bateman Mall. -more-

Disabled Sue Caltrans Over Dangerous Highways

By Judith Scherr
Tuesday August 29, 2006
Whenever Mark Hendrix, who lives near Telegraph Avenue and uses a wheelchair to get around, wants to go down Ashby Avenue to browse at Urban Ore on Seventh Street, he takes the bus. -more-

City Officials Take Blame for Housing Authority Mess

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Tuesday August 29, 2006
Members of the Save Berkeley Housing Authority (Save BHA), low-income Berkeley residents and city officials got together at the South Berkeley Senior Center on Saturday to discuss the future of public housing and the Section 8 program in Berkeley. -more-

Clifton Files Tardy Financial Disclosure

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Tuesday August 29, 2006
Peralta Community College District Trustee Alona Clifton moved to diffuse a potentially embarrassing campaign issue this week, filing a year’s worth of delinquent, semi-annual campaign finance disclosure reports with the Alameda County Registrar’s Office only days after a newly-formed citizens group had filed a complaint over the issue with the California Fair Political Practices Commission. -more-

First Human Death from West Nile in Contra Costa County

By Judith Scherr
Tuesday August 29, 2006

Gates Foundation Taps Local Entrepreneur

Tuesday August 29, 2006

In Brazil, Lula’s Supporters Find an End to Absolutes

By Marlene Nadle, New America Media
Tuesday August 29, 2006

Contra Costa County Candidates Nights

By Judith Scherr
Tuesday August 29, 2006

Police Blotter

By Rio Bauce
Tuesday August 29, 2006

EDC Parent Floriana Santos talks with Monique Moss and her daughter Alliya, a student in the program, in front of the former home of the program last week. The site is now being renovated for use by Berkeley High students, leaving the day care program to share space with Washington Elementary School. Photograph by Riya Bhattacharjee.
EDC Parent Floriana Santos talks with Monique Moss and her daughter Alliya, a student in the program, in front of the former home of the program last week. The site is now being renovated for use by Berkeley High students, leaving the day care program to share space with Washington Elementary School. Photograph by Riya Bhattacharjee.

Editorials

Reader Commentaries

Letters to the Editor: What Opinions Belong in an Open Press?

Tuesday August 29, 2006

Commentary: The University of Oakland: An Impossible Dream?

By Joanne Kowalski
Tuesday August 29, 2006

Commentary: Really Being Green, Not Just Whistling Yourself Green

By Willi Paul
Tuesday August 29, 2006

Columnists

Column: Fleas, Flies, Frank And the Almost Failed

By Susan Parker
Tuesday August 29, 2006

The Rise and Fall Of the City of Paper

By Joe Eaton, Special to the Planet
Tuesday August 29, 2006

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Calendar

Tuesday August 29, 2006

The Berkeley Book Tribe

By Dorothy Bryant, Special to the Planet
Tuesday August 29, 2006

Events Calendar

Berkeley This Week

Tuesday August 29, 2006