News Updates

Flash: Boy Dead, Mother Hospitalized

By Richard Brenneman
Tuesday October 09, 2007
A student at Emerson Elementary School in Berkeley is dead, his mother has been hospitalized, and police are questioning her as the suspect in the boy’s death. -more-


News

Native Americans Rally for Return of Ancestral Remains

By Judith Scherr
Tuesday October 09, 2007
Native Americans and their supporters rallied on the UC Berkeley campus Friday, demanding that the university return the remains of Indian ancestors so that they can be buried according to custom. -more-

Council Takes Another Look at Public Comment

By Judith Scherr
Tuesday October 09, 2007
The question of public comment at council meetings is back before the council today (Tuesday), with Mayor Tom Bates adding greater opportunity for public comment than in earlier iterations of his plan, but not enough to satisfy SuperBOLD (Berkeleyans Organized for Library Defense), the organization that had threatened to sue the city for skirting the state’s open meeting laws with inadequate opportunities for the public to speak at public meetings. -more-

UC Class Debates Tobacco Industry Funds

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Tuesday October 09, 2007
Anti-tobacco advocate Stan Glantz spoke about tobacco money and tainted research at the University of California at last Tuesday’s Talkin’ Tobacco De-Cal class at UC Berkeley. -more-

While Berkeley Boils Over Bus Rapid Transit, Neighboring Cities Give It Mixed Reviews

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Tuesday October 09, 2007
While the reaction to AC Transit’s ambitious Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) proposal has not stirred up the sort of public controversy in Oakland and San Leandro that it has in Berkeley, interviews with city officials show that the transit district may have a way to go before the development of a BRT plan will win approval in those cities as well. -more-

Running Wolf Announces Drive to Recall Mayor Bates

By Richard Brenneman
Tuesday October 09, 2007
Unable to defeat Tom Bates in a challenge at the polls last year, Berkeley tree-sitter Zachary Running Wolf launched a second campaign Monday, this one aimed at a recall election to unseat the mayor. -more-

Alta Bates Walkout Wednesday; Hospital Seeking Nursing Temps

By Richard Brenneman
Tuesday October 09, 2007

Downtown Committee Examines Role of City’s Historic Buildings

By Richard Brenneman
Tuesday October 09, 2007

Guma Looks Back at Stint as Pacifica Executive Director

By Judith Scherr
Tuesday October 09, 2007

Zoning Board to Approve Controversial Blood House Project

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Tuesday October 09, 2007

School District to Appoint New Youth Commissioners

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Tuesday October 09, 2007

The Great Radio Hope: Tribal Stations Could Solve Indian Country’s Communications Gap

By Neelanjana Banerjee, New America Media
Tuesday October 09, 2007

Berkeley High Beat: A Stressful Time of Year

By Rio Bauce
Tuesday October 09, 2007

Native American activists, with Clarence Atwell of the Apache tribe at the microphone, rally for the return of ancestral remains at UC Berkeley on Friday. Photograph by Judith Scherr.
Native American activists, with Clarence Atwell of the Apache tribe at the microphone, rally for the return of ancestral remains at UC Berkeley on Friday. Photograph by Judith Scherr.

Editorials

Editorial: Experiencing the New Old Pasadena

By Becky O’Malley
Tuesday October 09, 2007
At a concert on Sunday night we encountered a friend in the seat behind us who has been active on multiple city commissions for many years. I asked him if I’d missed anything, since I’d been in Pasadena over the weekend. He said he didn’t know, because he’d been out of town too. I asked if it was a vacation. “It was outside of Berkeley,” he said. “That’s all it takes to make it a vacation.” But at intermission time I spotted him chatting with another commissioner, and threatened jokingly to bust them for a violation of the Brown Act, California’s open meeting law. -more-

Reader Commentaries

Letters to the Editor

Tuesday October 09, 2007

Commentary: A Developers’ Shell Game

By John Curl
Tuesday October 09, 2007

Commentary: Lacking Mechanisms to Deal With the Mentally Ill

By Jack Bragen
Tuesday October 09, 2007

Commentary: Remembering and Missing Naim and Halal Market

By Glen Hauer
Tuesday October 09, 2007

Columnists


Arts & Entertainment

Arts Calendar

Tuesday October 09, 2007

The Theater: Japanese Puppet Theater Comes to Zellerbach

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday October 09, 2007

‘Whatever She Wants’ Opens at Paramount

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday October 09, 2007

Events Calendar

Berkeley This Week

Tuesday October 09, 2007