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Judge Hits Berkeley Tree-Sitters With Injunction to Leave

By Richard Brenneman

Tuesday October 30, 2007

On Monday a Fremont judge granted an injunction that broadens his earlier order, which banished one named tree-sitter, to include all occupants of the trees, as well as to bar their supporters from the Memorial Stadium oak grove. -more-

City’s Creative Financing May Help Residents, Businesses Go Solar

By Judith Scherr

Tuesday October 30, 2007

The number of Berkeley homeowners and businesses with rooftop solar collectors could multiply in the next few years, if a complex financing proposal pans out. -more-

Confusion Continues to Plague Peralta District Measure A

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor

Tuesday October 30, 2007

The citizens’ oversight committee for the Peralta Community College District Measure A facilities bonds, which has not issued required minutes or a report on its activities for the year and a half since the bond measure was passed, descended into something close to disarray this month with confusion over its membership. -more-

Downtown Advisory Panel Rules Out Point Towers

By Richard Brenneman

Tuesday October 30, 2007

Point towers are out for downtown Berkeley and 10-story apartment buildings are in—or eight floors for office and commercial buildings. That’s the solid consensus emerging from Monday morning’s meeting of DAPAC’s Land Use subcommittee—the six-member panel tasked with writing the new downtown plan’s central chapter. -more-

Dow Comes to Berkeley, Sparking Student Protest

By Richard Brenneman

Tuesday October 30, 2007

Dow Chemical, the company whose very name sparked violent student protests during the Vietnam War era, is coming back to the UC Berkeley campus. -more-

West Branch Library Re-Opens After Refurbishment

By Phila Rogers, Special to the Planet

Tuesday October 30, 2007

Letter Mistakenly Sent to County’s Party-Affiliated Voters

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor

Tuesday October 30, 2007

LeConte Neighbors Protest Proposed Project

By Riya Bhattacharjee

Tuesday October 30, 2007

Signing of UC-BP Biofuel Pact Is Imminent, Say Lab, UCB

By Richard Brenneman

Tuesday October 30, 2007

LPC to Vote on BHS Historic District Nomination

By Riya Bhattacharjee

Tuesday October 30, 2007

Police Blotter

By Rio Bauce

Tuesday October 30, 2007

Congresswoman Barbara Lee speaks out against the war in Iraq at a labor rally at the San Francisco Federal Building Oct. 27 prior to the commencement of a peace march, in which thousands walked from Civic Center to Dolores Park. Photograph by Judith Scherr.