News

Helios, BP Program Draw Fire from Public During Environmental Hearing

By Richard Brenneman
Friday December 21, 2007
The planned BP biofuel lab, designed to house a multinational oil giant’s $500 million research program, means profits without honor, Berkeley residents declared Monday night. -more-

Courtroom Date Set For ‘Trader Joe’s’ Suit

By Richard Brenneman
Friday December 21, 2007
By Richard Brenneman -more-

Stolen Newspapers Alarm Publishers

By Zelda Bronstein, Special to the Planet
Friday December 21, 2007
Alarmed by a recent surge in newspaper theft, a coalition of Bay Area newspaper publishers is asking local authorities to help pursue thieves both on the street and at the recycling businesses where they fence the stolen goods. -more-

Council Opts to Send Out New Bid for Recycling

By Judith Scherr
Friday December 21, 2007
The City Council voted Tuesday to go out anew to the garbage/recycling industry to offer bidding on a contract that would include recycling 25,000 tons of rubbish that now goes into landfills. -more-

Tot Lot Neighbor Hit with Restraining Order

By Judith Scherr
Friday December 21, 2007
Neighbors of the Becky Temko Tot Lot on Roosevelt Street claimed victory on Thursday after Commissioner Jon Rantzman granted a three-year restraining order against Art Maxwell, a tot lot neighbor accused of harassing park users. -more-

Restaurant Robbery Spree

By Rio Bauce
Friday December 21, 2007

Police Blotter

By Rio Bauce
Friday December 21, 2007

Planning Commission Critiques LBNL Building

By Richard Brenneman
Friday December 21, 2007

BUSD Superintendent Hired

By Rio Bauce
Friday December 21, 2007

La Méditerranée Celebrates 25 Years

By Richard Kloian
Friday December 21, 2007

Laughter is the Best Medicine

By Fusako de Angelis
Friday December 21, 2007

The Aftermath of the Quake

By Judith Hunt
Friday December 21, 2007

Grandmama Remembers: My First Christmas, 1924

By Maya Elmer
Friday December 21, 2007

Coppola’s Latest

By Joe Kempkes
Friday December 21, 2007

2008: A Year Of Predictions

By Scott Badler
Friday December 21, 2007

The Birdman of Berkeley

By Randall Busang
Friday December 21, 2007

The Baboons

By Sherry Bridgman
Friday December 21, 2007

Only in Berkeley

By Paula Zurowski
Friday December 21, 2007

Downtown Berkeley

By Ralph Dranow
Friday December 21, 2007

Bay Area Rockin’ Solidarity Labor Solidarity Chorus

By Edith Monk Hallberg
Friday December 21, 2007

Trusting

By Alana M. Williams
Friday December 21, 2007

A Solstice Poem

By Mary Wheeler
Friday December 21, 2007

Circa Berkeley

By J. Cote
Friday December 21, 2007

Bless My Soul

By Al Durrette
Friday December 21, 2007

Four Bridge Players Too Far

By Garrett Murphy
Friday December 21, 2007

Beginning Spring Semester With Gogol

By Hilda Johnston
Friday December 21, 2007

A World Apart

By Meredith Jaeger
Friday December 21, 2007

My Favorite Wedding

By Mike Meagher
Friday December 21, 2007

Finding meaning in Iraq

By Pete Walker
Friday December 21, 2007

The Twelve Days of Eco-Awareness

By Patricia Leslie
Friday December 21, 2007

Growing Up On Piedmont Avenue

By Anna Mindess
Friday December 21, 2007

Christmas Should Be All Year

By Mariana Castilho Rogedo
Friday December 21, 2007

Solstice

By Chadidjah McFall
Friday December 21, 2007

Work, Work, Work

By Margot Pepper
Friday December 21, 2007

2007 Holiday Recollections

By Helen Rippier Wheeler
Friday December 21, 2007

This Christmas

By J. Cote
Friday December 21, 2007

Walking in Tilden on Tuesdays

By Bei Brown
Friday December 21, 2007

Arise, Sir ...

By David Vásquez
Friday December 21, 2007

Change of Residence

By Kay Y. Wehner
Friday December 21, 2007

What We Do in Our Spare Time

Friday December 21, 2007

To Poets

By Nozomi Hayase
Friday December 21, 2007

Do I Have a Song to Sing?

By Bill Trampleasure
Friday December 21, 2007

Philosophical Frogs

By John Maes
Friday December 21, 2007

2020

By Roopa Ramamoorthi
Friday December 21, 2007

The Little Pond

By Janet Turman
Friday December 21, 2007

Corn Bread

By Cherrie Williams
Friday December 21, 2007

Poems

By Patrick Fenix
Friday December 21, 2007

Deluge

By Roopa Ramamoorthi
Friday December 21, 2007

Brief Encounters

By Esther Stone
Friday December 21, 2007

Berkeley environmentalist Sylvia McLaughlin, who turns 91 next week, spoke at a public hearing Monday to criticize the Helios building planned for LBNL and the research that will happen there. Photograph by Richard Brenneman.
Berkeley environmentalist Sylvia McLaughlin, who turns 91 next week, spoke at a public hearing Monday to criticize the Helios building planned for LBNL and the research that will happen there. Photograph by Richard Brenneman.

Editorials

Editorial: Deck Us All With Boston Charlie

By Becky O'Malley
Friday December 21, 2007
The current issue is one that readers will either love or hate. Much of it has been written by readers themselves, and not everyone thinks that’s a good idea. -more-

Reader Commentaries

Letters to the Editor

Friday December 21, 2007

Commentary: The Planet and Democracy

By Ben H. Bagdikian
Friday December 21, 2007

Commentary: The Drive to Oust the Middle Class from Inner City Public Schools

By Margot Pepper
Friday December 21, 2007

Columnists

About the House: While My Bathroom Floor Gently Rots

By Matt Cantor
Friday December 21, 2007

Garden Variety: Happy Holidays, Everyone, And Remember to Keep The Sol in Solstice

By Ron Sullivan
Friday December 21, 2007

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Calendar

Friday December 21, 2007

A Guide to Bay Area Holiday Events

By Ken Bullock
Friday December 21, 2007

Holiday Gift Ideas: A Few of the Best DVD Releases of the Year

By Justin DeFreitas
Friday December 21, 2007

Events Calendar

Berkeley This Week

Friday December 21, 2007