News

Warm Pool Plans Criticized For Parking Lack

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Friday July 13, 2007
Warm water pool users got a look at what the proposed warm water pool at the Berkeley Unified School District’s Milvia Street site would look like on Wednesday at the Disability Commission meeting. -more-

City Council Delays Iceland Decision

By Judith Scherr
Friday July 13, 2007
The public hearing at the Tuesday night City Council meeting was supposed to focus on whether the council should uphold or overturn a commission’s landmark designation of the 1939 art deco structure that houses Berkeley Iceland at Derby and Milvia streets. -more-

Appeal Denied, Elmwood Project Opponents Vow To Keep Fighting

By Judith Scherr
Friday July 13, 2007
Elmwood neighbors and merchants lost their bid to overturn zoning board approval of a proposed retail development at College and Ashby avenues at the City Council Tuesday. Opponents say the proposal for stores, a gym and large restaurant-bar is too big for the small shopping district. -more-

UC Regents Expected to Approve Lab’s Expansion

By Richard Brenneman
Friday July 13, 2007
The UC Regents are scheduled to approve two key environmental documents Monday, setting the stage for a major expansion at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. -more-

Controversial Planning Manager Rhoades Quits

By Richard Brenneman
Friday July 13, 2007
Few people who’ve encountered him are indifferent to Mark Rhoades, whose departure was announced this week by city Planning and Development Director Dan Marks. -more-

Supervisors Blast Children’s Hospital for Bond Measure

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Friday July 13, 2007

Oakland Sues over Uncollected Garbage

Bay City News
Friday July 13, 2007

Wrecking Ball Scheduled For Earl Warren Hall

By Richard Brenneman
Friday July 13, 2007

Council to Hear Trader Joe’s Building Appeal

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Friday July 13, 2007

DAPAC Pace Quickens With Deadline Nearing

By Richard Brenneman
Friday July 13, 2007

Arson Repeated at Mental Health Center

By Rio Bauce
Friday July 13, 2007


ELS architect Ed Nolen explains the design of the warm pool at the Disability Commission meeting. Photograph by Riya Bhattacharjee.
ELS architect Ed Nolen explains the design of the warm pool at the Disability Commission meeting. Photograph by Riya Bhattacharjee.

Editorials

Editorial: Does Anyone Know What’s Going On?

By Becky O’Malley
Friday July 13, 2007
President Bush increasingly inhabits a parallel universe. His Thursday press conference displayed a remarkable disconnect from the current thinking of most Americans and even of many elected officials in his own Republican party. Most Americans, from all parties, now understand that our main, our only, goal in Iraq is to get out, though there are still some differences of opinion as to the manner of our going. There has been approximately no progress toward the subsidiary goal of helping the indigenous Iraqis establish a civil society based on what in this country we call democratic values. Staying there longer won’t change much. It’s possible that immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces would exacerbate the factional war among Iraqis, but even that is not certain. -more-

Reader Commentaries

Letters to the Editor

Friday July 13, 2007

Commentary: Smart Growth: Let’s Not Dumb it Down

By Rob Browning
Friday July 13, 2007

Commentary: The Importance of Saving Iceland

By Wendy Schlesinger
Friday July 13, 2007

Commentary: Ode to Bus Rapid Transit

By Doug Buckwald
Friday July 13, 2007

Healthy Living: Happiness is a Choice

By Annie Kassof, Special to the Planet
Friday July 13, 2007

Columnists





Quake Tip of the Week: Brace Your Chimney?

By Larry Guillot
Friday July 13, 2007

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Calendar

Friday July 13, 2007


SFMOMA Highlights Art of Sculpture

By Peter Selz, Special to the Planet
Friday July 13, 2007

Trinity Lyric Opera Stages Copland’s ‘The Tender Land’

By Jaime Robles, Special to the Planet
Friday July 13, 2007


Events Calendar

Berkeley This Week

Friday July 13, 2007