News

BHS Sophomores Face Exit Exam

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Friday February 09, 2007
A day after Berkeley High School students mourned the sudden death of Vice Principal Denise Brown, over 800 Berkeley High sophomores filed into the gymnasium to take the California High School Exit Exam Tuesday. -more-

Referendum Drive Seeks to Halt Brower Center Project

By Richard Brenneman
Friday February 09, 2007
Is the referendum fast becoming the weapon of choice for Berkeley voters to challenge City Council decisions? -more-

N. Shattuck Plaza Forum Provokes Heated Debate

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Friday February 09, 2007
When residents and merchants of North Berkeley’s Gourmet Ghetto walked into the North Shattuck Plaza workshop on Wednesday evening, the walls were sans plans, sans easels. -more-

Wozniak’s Web Writings on Wright’s Garage Create Conflict

By Judith Scherr
Friday February 09, 2007
While Councilmember Gordon Wozniak thinks it would be a stellar idea to develop the old Wright’s Garage at 2929-23 Ashby Ave. as a restaurant and shops, some criticize the District 8 councilmember, saying he should keep an open mind on land-use questions that may come before him. -more-

AC Transit Increases Use of Controversial Buses

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Friday February 09, 2007
Despite heated opposition from representatives of both bus drivers and the bus riding community, the Board of Directors of Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District voted unanimously last week to go forward with a contract that would put 50 new revised models of the controversial Van Hool 40-foot buses on East Bay streets. -more-

Shattuck Hotel Restoration Previewed at DAPAC Meeting

By Richard Brenneman
Friday February 09, 2007

Downtown Planners Confront ‘The Elephant in the Room’

By Richard Brenneman
Friday February 09, 2007

Audience Demands to be Heard at PSC Meeting

By Judith Scherr
Friday February 09, 2007

Berkeley School Board Reviews Budget, Lunch Progran

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Friday February 09, 2007


A First Look at Alameda County’s New Juvenile Hall

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Friday February 09, 2007


Mental Health Funding Threatened

By Judith Scherr
Friday February 09, 2007

Correction

Friday February 09, 2007

Fire Department Log

By Richard Brenneman
Friday February 09, 2007

Bush and the Confederacy

By Ted Vincent, Special to the Planet
Friday February 09, 2007


News Analysis: U.S. Schools Benefit from Mexican Largesse

By Louis E. V. Nevaer, New America Media
Friday February 09, 2007

Berkeley High Sophomores take the state high school exit exam in the school gymnasium Tuesday. Photograph by Mark Coplan.
Berkeley High Sophomores take the state high school exit exam in the school gymnasium Tuesday. Photograph by Mark Coplan.

Editorials

Editorial: Lemmings Jump Into Bed With Big Oil

By Becky O’Malley
Friday February 09, 2007
One of my favorite cartoons of all time—I think it was in the New Yorker—shows a stream of little men in stovepipe hats and knee britches hurtling off a cliff. An observer off to one side says to another, “Flemings…” The message? (Do cartoons have messages?) Even Flemings, the sober inhabitants of Flanders, what is now the northern part of Belgium, pictured in britches in late Gothic and early Renaissance paintings, could be gripped by the kind of mass hysteria that sometimes causes little animals (lemmings) to jump off cliffs during frantic migrations. Never mind the natural historians who say that lemmings have gotten a bad rap in this story, that they’re not committing suicide but just fall by accident—the image is compelling, and it certainly applies to human behavior all too often. -more-

Reader Commentaries

Letters to the Editor

Friday February 09, 2007

Commentary: Bush’s War Folly Continues

By Harold Ambler
Friday February 09, 2007

Commentary: We Can Make a Difference

By Michael Barglow
Friday February 09, 2007

Commentary: It’s Not Anti-Semitism, It’s Racism

By John Gertz
Friday February 09, 2007

Commentary: What’s Behind the Anti-Semitism Discussion

By Joanna Graham
Friday February 09, 2007

Columnists

Column: Undercurrents: Election Debate a Typical Multi-Cultural Oakland Mix

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Friday February 09, 2007



About the House: An Introduction to the AFCI Circuit Breakers

By Matt Cantor
Friday February 09, 2007

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Calendar

Friday February 09, 2007


Ed Reed Celebrates New Release at Anna’s

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Friday February 09, 2007

Moving Pictures: Documentary Tells Stories of the Wrongly Incarcerated

By Justin DeFreitas
Friday February 09, 2007

The Theater: ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’ at Masquer’s Playhouse

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Friday February 09, 2007

Berkeley Poets Garcia and Krech Read at Moe’s Books Monday

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Friday February 09, 2007

Events Calendar

Berkeley This Week

Friday February 09, 2007