News

Local Businesses Raise Money for Students

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Tuesday April 17, 2007
As Anuradha Biswa Karma waits for her grade-four textbooks in an obscure part of the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal, little does she know that there is someone working in Berkeley to send her the money to buy them. -more-

State Senate to Hear Single-Payer Health Care Bill Wednesday

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Tuesday April 17, 2007
Single-payer universal health care advocates in California begin their second try in two years to make their cause state law when the state Senate Health Committee holds a hearing in Sacramento this Wednesday afternoon on state Sen. Shirley Kuehl’s (D-Santa Monica) SB 840. -more-

Faculty Senate Nears Showdown Over UC-BP Pact

By Richard Brenneman
Tuesday April 17, 2007
UC Berkeley faculty will cast their ballots Thursday on competing resolutions triggered by the largest corporate grant in the history of the American university. -more-

Deal Looks Familiar to Novartis Grant Reviewer

By Richard Brenneman
Tuesday April 17, 2007
To Alan P. Rudy, the furor surrounding the developing half-billion-dollar research pact between BP and UC Berkeley is deja vu writ large. -more-

Hancock Sponsors Global Warming Forum

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Tuesday April 17, 2007
Assemblymember Loni Hancock sponsored her second major public gathering in her assembly district in two months, holding a town hall meeting on global warming at Berkeley City College that attracted several hundred participants and presentations from several local and state agencies. -more-

Downtown Committee Looks At UC Sites, Green Planning

By Richard Brenneman
Tuesday April 17, 2007

KyotoUSA Backs Solar Project at Washington School

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Tuesday April 17, 2007

Two-Story Additions Dominate Zoning Agenda

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Tuesday April 17, 2007

Ask Alberto Gonzales: What About Petrona Tomas?

By Hilary Abramson, New America Media
Tuesday April 17, 2007

Berkeley Businesses Blaze a Green Trail

By Marta Yamamoto, Special to the Planet
Tuesday April 17, 2007

Oppenheimer: The Road to Alamos

By Phil McArdle, Special to the Planet
Tuesday April 17, 2007

Rajen Thapa from Taste of the Himalayas, Tuanchai Sapsuwan of Thai Delight, Saraswati Clere of Yogakula and David Hahn at Friday’s fundraising event. Photograph by Riya Bhattacharjee.
Rajen Thapa from Taste of the Himalayas, Tuanchai Sapsuwan of Thai Delight, Saraswati Clere of Yogakula and David Hahn at Friday’s fundraising event. Photograph by Riya Bhattacharjee.

Editorials

Editorial: Do We Need More Parking, or Just Smarter Parking?

By Becky O'Malley
Tuesday April 17, 2007
Ah yes, parking. Glad you asked. Today we’re exercising a little-used editorial prerogative, reading an opinion submission before it’s published and responding in the same paper. -more-

Reader Commentaries

Letters to the Editor

Tuesday April 17, 2007

Commentary: Parking: If You Don’t Build it, Will They Come?

By Laurie Capitelli
Tuesday April 17, 2007

Commentary: Letter to My Children’s Children’s Children On the End of Republican Government

By Marvin Chachere
Tuesday April 17, 2007

Commentary: Planting a Peace Garden

By Barbara Wentzel
Tuesday April 17, 2007

Commentary: The Political as the Personal

By Carolyn North
Tuesday April 17, 2007

Columnists

Column: The Public Eye: Looking for Accountability in Iraq

By Bob Burnett
Tuesday April 17, 2007

Column: Challenging the Ordinary With Notaries, Declarations, Certificates, Affidavits

By Susan Parker
Tuesday April 17, 2007

Wild Neighbors: En Garde! Jays Discover the Pointed Stick

By Joe Eaton
Tuesday April 17, 2007

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Calendar

Tuesday April 17, 2007

Arts and Entertainment Around the East Bay

Tuesday April 17, 2007

The Theater: Actors Ensemble Presents ‘Lysistrata’

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday April 17, 2007

Chinese-Cuban Revolutionaries Still Lead Cuba

By Barbara Greenway, New America Media
Tuesday April 17, 2007

Events Calendar

Berkeley This Week

Tuesday April 17, 2007