News

Mother Held as Suspect in Death of 9-Year-Old Son

By Richard Brenneman
Friday October 12, 2007
Amir Hassan, a 9-year-old Emerson elementary school student is dead, his mother has been hospitalized, and detectives are focusing their investigations on her, police said. -more-

Emerson Elementary School Mourns Fourth-Grader

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Friday October 12, 2007
The hands putting up the brightly colored rainbows, hearts and flowers on the walls of the library at Emerson Elementary School Thursday belonged to teachers, friends and classmates of Amir Hassan, the fourth-grader who was found dead inside his Shattuck Avenue apartment Wednesday morning. -more-

Arguments End In UC Stadium Court Case

By Richard brenneman
Friday October 12, 2007
With a smile and a soupçon of praise for the legal talent arrayed before her, Judge Barbara J. Miller retired to her chambers Thursday afternoon to ponder the fate of UC Berkeley’s stadium area development plans. -more-

Council Approves Sale of Air Rights, Sets New Rules

By Judith Scherr
Friday October 12, 2007
While the city’s appraiser said the air rights over a rebuilt City Center Garage is worth $850,000, a developer planning a building adjacent to the garage valued the rights the developer would buy at $22,250. -more-

Alta Bates/Summit Nurses Strike

By Judith Scherr
Friday October 12, 2007
Alta Bates/Summit nurses and their supporters were walking the picket line Thursday in the second day of what the California Nurse’s Association calls “the biggest RN strike this decade.” -more-

Group Behind Dellums Poll Clarifies Intention

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Friday October 12, 2007



Plan for Bowles Hall Over; What’s Next for Landmark?

By Richard Brenneman
Friday October 12, 2007

All Visitors to Show Photo ID at Berkeley High

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Friday October 12, 2007

Binational Health Week Focuses on Latino Mental Health

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Friday October 12, 2007

Freedom Song Network Turns 25

By Judith Scherr
Friday October 12, 2007

Berkeley School Board Reviews Test Scores

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Friday October 12, 2007

A Berkeley Fire Department paramedic carries the mother of 9-year-old Amir Hassan to a waiting ambulance after police discovered the injured woman and her dead son in the rear unit of a small apartment at 3011 Shattuck Ave. Wednesday morning.
              by Richard Brenneman
A Berkeley Fire Department paramedic carries the mother of 9-year-old Amir Hassan to a waiting ambulance after police discovered the injured woman and her dead son in the rear unit of a small apartment at 3011 Shattuck Ave. Wednesday morning. by Richard Brenneman

Editorials

Chronicle Series Panders to Our Worst Instincts

Friday October 12, 2007
Just before the turn of the last century, the United States entered into a war with Spain which was to cost the lives of more than 4,000 Americans and many more Cubans. Spaniards and residents of the Philippines, and which would lead to decades of colonial domination by the United States. It is generally conceded that a major factor which precipitated the entry of this country into the Spanish-American war was the role of what was called “the yellow press,” the sensationalist newspapers which with lurid headlines and passionate front page editorializing whipped up a popular frenzy against Spain. The Hearst newspaper empire played a major role in this effort, which was a guaranteed circulation builder in those days. -more-

Reader Commentaries

Letters to the Editor

Friday October 12, 2007

Recalling Better Times in the Elmwood

By Gus Lee
Friday October 12, 2007

HNA: Guiding Principles for a Collaborative Approach

By NANCY CARLETON, JOHN STEERE and DAWN TRYGSTAD RUBIN
Friday October 12, 2007


Columnists

The Middle East: Of Torpedoes and New Voices

By Conn Hallinan
Friday October 12, 2007

Planners From Another Planet The Public Eye

By Zelda Bronstein
Friday October 12, 2007

The Police Should Stick to Facts, Not Speculate

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Friday October 12, 2007

Victorian ‘Enigma’ in Central Berkeley on View Sunday

By Steven Finacom
Friday October 12, 2007

Fall is Planting and Plant Sale Season

By Ron Sullivan
Friday October 12, 2007

Ceiling Heights Get Real

By Matt Cantor
Friday October 12, 2007

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Calendar

Friday October 12, 2007

Nicholas Bearde to Record Live CD at Yoshi’s Tuesday

By Ken Bullock
Friday October 12, 2007

European Short Films

Friday October 12, 2007

The Good, the Bad and the Brilliant

Friday October 12, 2007

Satirical ‘By George, It’s War’ Opens at La Peña

By Janet Somers - Special to the Planet
Friday October 12, 2007

Events Calendar

Berkeley This Week

Friday October 12, 2007