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Carter Focuses in on Palestine/Israel at Packed Zellerbach

By Judith Scherr

Friday May 04, 2007

The 39th president of the United States, former peanut farmer and 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter, got standing ovations and multiple rounds of applause from a packed Zellerbach Hall on the UC Berkeley campus Wednesday afternoon, where he had come at the invitation of two students to speak about his controversial book, Palestine, Peace Not Apartheid. -more-

Report Fails To Quell Furor Over Emeryville Discrimination

By J. Douglas

Friday May 04, 2007

An Emeryville City Manager’s report has concluded that the city does not discriminate against its African-American employees, but the City Council agreed Tuesday night with the city manager’s recommendation that an outside consultant should be hired to do a survey of possible morale problems within the city’s black workforce. -more-

Greenery, Density Color Downtown Panel Talk

By Richard Brenneman

Friday May 04, 2007

Do people who rent or buy residences in so-called transit-oriented development really use mass transit? -more-

Visions of a Future Downtown: An Appraisal

By John Kenyon

Friday May 04, 2007

Ascend into central Berkeley via the steep escalator of subterranean BART, and you are met with a decidedly uncivic scene. People of every age and condition seem intent solely on crossing Center Street or Shattuck Avenue. You can also squeeze past a smaller, more youthful crowd waiting for the bus along the BART plaza edge or just hanging out. -more-

Pacific Steel Settles with Air Quality District

By Riya Bhattacharjee

Friday May 04, 2007

The country’s third largest steel foundry agreed to a settlement with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District Tuesday, which requires it to install a capture hood to control emissions and pay $150,000 in fines to the air district, though not all critics were satisfied by the agreement. -more-

Demonstrators Call for Immigration Rights

By Judith Scherr

Friday May 04, 2007

BHS Students Skip Class for Day of Action

By Riya Bhattacharjee

Friday May 04, 2007

Perata Signs On to OUSD Control Bill

By J. douglas Allen-taylor

Friday May 04, 2007

Burroughs Hired to Write Greenhouse Gas Bill

BY Judith Scherr

Friday May 04, 2007

Police Blotter

By RIO BAUCE

Friday May 04, 2007

AC Transit ‘Partnership’ with Bus Manufacturer Questioned

By J. Douglas

Friday May 04, 2007

Suit Filed Over ‘Naked Guy’ Jail Death

By Riya Bhattacharjee

Friday May 04, 2007

Larry Bensky, Activist-Journalist, Cancels KPFA Show

By Judith Scherr

Friday May 04, 2007

Kids’ Fitness Picks Up Steam in California

By Donal Brown

Friday May 04, 2007

Judith Scherr Former President Jimmy Carter discusses his book Palestine, Peace Not Apartheid with Orville Schell at UC Berkeley on Wednesday.

Editorials

Editorial: Paying for the Privilege of Driving Alone

By Becky O’Malley

Friday May 04, 2007

It’s day six of the missing freeway link, and Berkeley is still standing. Friends have called from all over the country to reassure themselves about us—thanks, folks, but we’re just fine. -more-