Oakland Police officers confer on the Shattuck Avenue sidewalk in the aftermath of a shooting at a 59th Street home when a resident reportedly shot and seriously wounded an intruder Tuesday morning.
Richard Brenneman
Oakland Police officers confer on the Shattuck Avenue sidewalk in the aftermath of a shooting at a 59th Street home when a resident reportedly shot and seriously wounded an intruder Tuesday morning.

Extra

UC Berkeley Republicans Want Parking Space of Their Own

By Judith Scherr
Wednesday April 30, 2008 - 05:24:00 PM

If the City Council gives its OK, the UC Berkeley College Republicans may have a parking space of their own on Shattuck Avenue on Wednesday afternoons, directly across the street from the Code Pink anti-war, anti-recruitment demonstrations in front of the Marine Recruiting Center -more-


Housing Commission To Hear Report on Hillegass Building

By Richard Brenneman
Wednesday April 30, 2008 - 05:06:00 PM

Members of the Housing Advisory Commission (HAC) on Thursday will look at efforts to rehabilitate the low-income housing building located just across the street from People’s Park. -more-


Week’s Second Shooting Alarms North Oakland Neighbors

By Richard Brenneman
Tuesday April 29, 2008 - 05:22:00 PM

An early Monday evening running gun battle left one man critically injured and police searching for a lime green car which had struck several cars during an exchange of gunfire with a pedestrian. -more-


LPC Takes Up UC Berkeley Landmark Projects, Fidelity Savings Bank Building

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Tuesday April 29, 2008 - 04:42:00 PM

The Berkeley Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) at its meeting Thursday will hear a presentation on landmarked UC Berkeley campus projects which are in their planning phase. -more-


State Committee calls for Aerial Spray Moratorium

By Judith Scherr
Tuesday April 29, 2008 - 04:30:00 PM

The state Senate Environmental Quality Committee unanimously passed a resolution yesterday (Monday) calling for a moratorium on aerial spraying for the light brown apple moth (LBAM) until the state agriculture department “can demonstrate that the pheromone compound it intends to use is both safe to humans and effective at eradicating the light brown apple moth.” -more-


Police Seeks Suspects in Two Mass Gropings

By Richard Brenneman
Monday April 28, 2008 - 04:54:00 PM

Posted Mon., April 28—Campus police are looking for two different groups of young men who harassed and sexually groped young women over the weekend. -more-


May Day Marches Call for Workers Rights, Unconditional Amnesty

By Judith Scherr
Monday April 28, 2008 - 04:39:00 PM

Posted Mon., April 28—Three Bay Area marches on May Day—and an eight-hour shutdown of West Coast ports—will merge traditional calls for better pay and benefits with support for the rights of immigrants and a call to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. -more-


Power Outage Downs Some City Phones

By Judith Scherr
Monday April 28, 2008 - 03:32:00 PM

Posted Mon., April 28—A power outage affecting some 300 AT&T phone customers interrupted phone service at a number of Berkeley offices this morning, according to Public Information Officer Mary Kay Clunies-Ross. By 2 p.m. all phones and services were back on line. -more-


Evening Meter Use Draws Critics

By Judith Scherr
Monday April 28, 2008 - 03:35:00 PM

Posted Mon., April 28—If Mayor Tom Bates and councilmembers Laurie Capitelli and Dona Spring have their way, free evening parking in downtown Berkeley may be a luxury of the past. -more-


Neighbors Oppose Thai Temple Restaurant Operation, Seek to Curb Expansion Plans

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Friday April 25, 2008 - 05:00:00 PM

Russell Street residents faced off Thursday against their neighbors at the Berkeley Thai Temple, charging them with running a commercial restaurant in a residential neighborhood, bringing litter and congestion to the area, every Sunday. -more-



Page One

BUSD Largest Contingent in Capitol PTA Rally

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:35:00 AM

Berkeley Unified School District PTA members made their district proud when they formed the largest contingent at the “Flunk the Budget” California State PTA rally in Sacramento Thursday. -more-



North Oakland Man Shoots Intruder

By Richard Brenneman
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:12:00 AM

Oakland Police are investigating a Tuesday morning shooting in which neighbors say a North Oakland man shot an intruder breaking into his 59th Street home. -more-



Santa Cruz County Wins Stay on Moth Spray Plans

By Judith Scherr
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:16:00 AM

The courts and the governor took independent actions Thursday that resulted—at least temporarily—in stopping the planned aerial and ground spraying for the light brown apple moth. -more-



Sunshine Law Draft Hearing Postponed, Citizens’ Group Gets Extension

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:17:00 AM

The Berkeley City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to postpone the public hearing on the Berkeley city attorney’s draft sunshine ordinance—which promises greater access to local government—to October and granted a 90-day extension to complete their work to the citizens’ group working on an alternate draft. -more-



Citizens to City: Tread Lightly on Tax Measures

By Judith Scherr
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:20:00 AM

Berkeley voters are more likely to approve a bond measure on the November ballot that supports watershed management and clean stormwater issues, but few would be willing to shell out their hard-earned dollars for a new skate park. And they’d be more willing to add a $50 item to their tax burden than a $150 item. -more-



Council Approves Staff’s Density Regulations to Head off Prop. 98

By Judith Scherr
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:21:00 AM

The City Council adoption Tuesday around midnight of an ordinance that would add open-space and parking regulations in all commercial-area development, a preemptive strike against possible fallout from the passage of Proposition 98, was a disappointment to some West Berkeley residents who hoped to see the passage of a competing ordinance—one that would have limited building heights along San Pablo Avenue. -more-



Features

Berkeley Lawyer Files Class-Action Suit against Pacific Steel

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:29:00 AM

Community members turned the heat up a notch on Pacific Steel Casting Tuesday when Berkeley lawyer Tim Rumberger filed a class-action nuisance lawsuit against the foundry on behalf of thousands of West Berkeley neighbors. -more-


Freeway Crash Kills Emeryville Man

By Richard Brenneman
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:31:00 AM

A 21-year-old Emeryville man died and two people were injured in a spectacular crash on Interstate 80 at Ashby Avenue early Wednesday. -more-


Assembly Candidates Weigh In On Health Care Debate

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:32:00 AM

The Daily Planet sat down with the four candidates in the California Assembly District 14 race recently and asked their views on various issues. The Daily Planet will reproduce portions of their responses in upcoming issues, beginning this week with the issue of health care. -more-


BUSD Approves $1.4 Million Old Gym Plan

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:33:00 AM

The Berkeley Board of Education voted Wednesday to proceed with the South of Bancroft Plan—which calls for the demolition of the nationally landmarked Old Gym to make room for a stadium and 15 new classrooms, with the option of relocating the warm-water pool located inside it to a site on Milvia Street—and approved $1.4 million for Baker Vilar Architects to design the new facilities. -more-


BUSD Brings Back All Teachers from Layoff List

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:34:00 AM

The Berkeley Unified School District was able to bring back all its “pink-slipped” classroom teachers Wednesday, after the district rescinded potential layoff notices for 11 multiple-credentialed teachers. -more-


Southside Plan Concerns Prompt Added Review Time

By Richard Brenneman
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:37:00 AM

Planning commissioners voted Wednesday night to extend the comment period on the draft environmental impact report (DEIR) for Berkeley’s long-delayed Southside Plan. -more-


Cell Phone Critics, Companies Slam City Wireless Proposals

By Richard Brenneman
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:40:00 AM

Proposed revisions to Berkeley’s wireless ordinance ran into opposition Wednesday night both from neighbors, who branded the proposals as weak, and from phone companies, which said they were too strict. -more-


Firm Founded by UC’s Keasling Lauches Biodiesel Venture with Sugar

By Richard Brenneman
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:41:00 AM

A private company founded by the head of one of two UC Berkeley programs created to turn plants into fuels for planes, trains and automobiles is launching a commercial venture to turn sugar cane into diesel fuel. -more-


Public Comment

Letters to the Editor

Monday April 28, 2008 - 04:48:00 PM

Posted Mon., April 28 -more-


Letters to the Editor

Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:27:00 AM

ALTERNATIVE TO BRT -more-


Commentary: North Shattuck Is Fine — It’s Downtown That Needs Improvement

By Linda Trujillo Bargmeyer
Tuesday April 29, 2008 - 04:31:00 PM

Laurie Capitelli begins his April 18 Daily Planet commentary standing at Vine looking south “down a vibrant Shattuck Avenue thronging with pedestrians…spilling out across traffic to claim and use the grass median strip.” What he does not say, is that this thronging mass of pedestrians does not continue down Shattuck Avenue or continue into the real downtown of Berkeley. -more-


Commentary: Berkeley’s Skate Park: Backslide on the Chrome-6

By L A Wood
Monday April 28, 2008 - 05:09:00 PM

Posted Mon., April 28—From the beginning, the idea of converting an industrial property in the middle of our manufacturing district to recreational fields and a skate park, was pure folly. -more-


Commentary: White House Keeping Tensions High With Iran

By Kenneth Thiesen
Monday April 28, 2008 - 05:05:00 PM

Posted Mon., April 28—Over the past week top Pentagon officials have upped the Bush regime’s verbal attacks against Iran in what may be a prelude to actual military attacks. -more-


Commentary: A Pilot Project for Democracy

By Steve Martinot
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:45:00 AM

With respect to the North Shattuck Plaza, a proposal which recently resurfaced in the city’s Master Pedestrian Plan, and whose “comment period” has recently ended, I write concerning both the issue and the process. To the issue of the plaza as proposed I stand opposed. The process to which I refer is that of government imposition of such plans (to which I stand opposed) without the active and informed participation in their formulation by those who will be effected by them. A “comment period” does not constitute participation. -more-


Commentary: The Berkeley Skate Park — Setting the Record Straight

By Doug Fielding
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:47:00 AM

The Daily Planet had a headline article regarding concrete cracking at the skate park. Mixed in with this was my name, as well as eight-year-old comments about environmental issues from someone on the Disability Commission. There is no connection here. -more-


Commentary: Multi-Use Aquatic Center Would Serve Everyone

By Stephen Swanson
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:48:00 AM

The city is considering placing a bond measure on the ballot to rebuild our public pools. Pools built nearly half a century ago, in cooperation between the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) and the city, have reached their life expectancy. Crumbling infrastructure makes these pools increasingly expensive to maintain and keep viable financially and operationally. As a result, two of the three outdoor neighborhood public pools in Berkeley are closed most of the year, with West Campus pool closed even on summer weekends. Only King pool serves its North Berkeley neighborhood year around. Additionally, the city’s Warm Water Pool, housed in Berkeley Highs Old Gym, must be relocated and rebuilt. Now is the time to look at alternative scenarios. Now is the time to explore facilities that can support existing programs and act as a springboard to launch new, exciting, aquatic programs. -more-


Commentary: Loyalty Oath Mania Overtakes El Cerrito

By Rosemary Loubal
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:50:00 AM

Remember Joseph Heller’s Catch 22? “All the enlisted men and officers on combat duty had to sign a loyalty oath to get their maps from the intelligence tent, a second loyalty oath to receive their parachutes from the parachute tent, a third loyalty oath, etc.…Every time they turned around there was another loyalty oath to be signed…To anyone who questioned the effectiveness of loyalty oaths, [Captain Black] replied that people who were loyal would not mind signing all the loyalty oaths they had to. To anyone who questioned the effectiveness of the loyalty oaths, he said people who really owed allegiance to their country would be proud to pledge it as often as required.…The more loyalty oaths a person signed, the more loyal he was.” -more-


Commentary: More Taxes for Berkeley Homeowners?

By Barbara Gilbert
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:52:00 AM

City officials are considering a panoply of new tax measures for the November 2008 ballot. The measures under discussion include the following projects, either separately or bundled in some fashion: public safety-police; public safety-fire; public safety-youth violence prevention; watershed management; warm water pool; (the forgoing are referred to herein as “the city measures”); and a very big general parks and recreation measure, including all pools, several playing fields, a new skate park, and more. Additionally, the library and BUSD are each very interested in substantial capital improvement measures ($25 million for the library), but appear to have made a deal to hold off until the city gets a first crack at the voters this coming November. Note that there will also likely be some regional and state revenue measures, as well as some potential changes (to extract more dollars) in the way that the State of California taxes property owners. -more-


Commentary: No Compromise On Apple Moth Pesticide

By Maxine Ventura
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:56:00 AM

In the printed edition of “Fight Against Moth Spray Gains Boots on the Ground” by Judith Scherr on April 8, the event our collective organized for Thursday, April 10, from 7-9 p.m. at the Berkeley Ecology Center was mistakenly credited to Pesticide Action Network (PAN). We are not affiliated with them, nor do we wish to be confused with them, because our organizations have very different approaches to anti-pesticide action. We advocate no compromise about chemical substances that harm human and environmental health, while they refuse to take a complete no toxics stand. -more-


Commentary: The Audacity of Clinton and McCain

By Rizwan A. Rahmani
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:58:00 AM

Barack Obama’s political faux pas at the Marin county fundraiser is certainly something he could have done without, especially in light of the fact that his poll numbers were beginning to look good in Pennsylvania against his opponent. We don’t know if he was being candid or he merely misspoke. But whatever his intention was, this is exactly the sort of ammunition you don’t want to provide your opponents in this age of information where news propagates like wildfire click by click. Even though if you read his statement in full and not out of context, the last sentence of that statement doesn’t sound as bad as his opponents may like the voters to realize. But for McCain and Hillary to call him elitist is not only laughable but just plain disingenuous. -more-


Commentary: One Pesky Problem

By Connie Chung
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:59:00 AM

Beware: The United States Department of Agriculture plans to drop bombs of pesticides over the Bay Area this summer. We can thank a former UC Berkeley professor for that. -more-


Commentary:Don’t Let Superdelegates Overrule the Voters

By Paul Rockwell
Friday April 25, 2008 - 10:01:00 AM

In 1903, Wisconsin’s “Fighting” Bob La Follette organized the first primaries in the U.S. La Follette hated boss-controlled conventions. The aim of the primaries, he once said, is to remove the nomination from the hands of professionals. -more-


Editorial

Editorial: Watching Not Much on the Small Screen

By Becky O'Malley
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:23:00 AM

Like every other Left-of-David-Brooks opinion writer in the country, I’m longing to lay into television journalism in general, ABC’s in particular, and especially George Stephanopoulos and Charles Gibson for the travesty of an interview show that was wrongly labelled as a presidential primary debate last week. -more-


Columns

Column: After Hillary: Bitterness?

By Bob Burnett
Monday April 28, 2008 - 03:36:00 PM

Posted Mon., April 28—In the six weeks between the Mississippi and Pennsylvania primaries, the campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination deteriorated into trench warfare. When the dust cleared, Hillary Clinton won a nine-point victory in Pennsylvania, one that moved her no closer to securing the nomination. And the struggle between Clinton and Obama left a trail of bitterness. -more-


Dispatches from the Edge: Paraguay’s Election: Opportunity and Danger

By Conn Hallinan
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:41:00 AM

The recent victory of Fernando Lugo in Paraguay’s presidential election not only broke the right-wing Colorado Party’s 61-year monopoly on power, according to journalist and author Richard Gott, it signals “that the new mood in Latin America is not just a creation of a competent economist in Ecuador, a charismatic colonel in Venezuela, or a couple of union leaders in Brazil and Bolivia, but the result of a heartfelt and deep-rooted desire for change.” -more-


UnderCurrents:Sleaze Factor Suddenly Emerges in Oakland Campaigns

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:43:00 AM

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been engaging in a political-difference dialogue with one of the candidates for Oakland City Council At Large, Charles Pine. I’m not going to go into the details of that dialogue; it’s all on-line, and you can look it up, if you haven’t been following it. I only raise it because I hope this serves as an example of how political dialogue ought to take place. Mr. Pine put his political positions out on his campaign website, following that up with public statements at a candidates forum. I wrote my criticisms in my column about those positions, signing my name to the criticisms. Mr. Pine answered those criticisms in a letter to the editor of my newspaper and liked his answers so much, apparently, that he posted them as well on his campaign website under the link “Exchange With Columnist About Law And Order.” -more-


Understanding the Virtual World of Home Price Fluctuations

By Jane Powell
Friday April 25, 2008 - 10:11:00 AM

If your house disappears from zillow.com, does that mean it no longer exists? Because that’s exactly what happened last month. -more-


Garden Variety: Flowers on Display, Plants For Sale in Sunol Now

By Ron Sullivan
Friday April 25, 2008 - 10:13:00 AM
Dunsinane: Thataway. Lisa Arnold, a hands-on owner, totes Japanese maples to a new display.

I’m sure there’s a reasonable rationale behind it but to a posyhugger, the stretch of road leading into Sunol-Ohlone Regional Park is an instrument of torture. All along the roadcut on your right, if you’re on time for it, you’ll see a fine display of paintbrush, the occasional blue dicks and bindweed, and the first flush of Calochortus albus, the subtly gorgeous white fairy-lantern, much of it conveniently near eye-level as you pass. -more-


About the House: X-Ray Vision and the Developed Basement

By Matt Cantor
Friday April 25, 2008 - 10:16:00 AM

If you get to know anyone well enough, you’ll eventually find out which super-power they have. Most super-powers are fairly innocuous while a few are more apparent and seemingly heroic. My ex-girlfriend could find a parking place in front of coliseum Rock & Roll events. Right smack in front. Stunning. Clearly a super-power. Some people know just when to buy the 24 pack of toilet paper and never run out. For some, this is inconceivable. Some can find the screw they dropped in the grass, while I’ve been forced to leave many behind. Next time you pass some little balding guy on the street, remember, he has a super power. See if you can guess which one he has. It might be a doozy. -more-


Arts Listings

Arts Calendar

Friday April 25, 2008 - 10:07:00 AM

Actors Ensemble Stages ‘Uncle Vanya’

By Ken Bullock, Special to The Planet
Friday April 25, 2008 - 10:03:00 AM

John Schott Join’s Moe’s Poetry Reading

By Ken Bullock, Special to The Planet
Friday April 25, 2008 - 10:05:00 AM

Events Listings

Berkeley This Week

Friday April 25, 2008 - 09:36:00 AM

Back Stories

Opinion

Editorials

Editorial: Watching Not Much on the Small Screen 04-25-2008

Editorial: A Holiday, a Change, a Party—Let the Sun Shine 04-22-2008

Public Comment

Letters to the Editor 04-28-2008

Letters to the Editor 04-25-2008

Commentary: North Shattuck Is Fine — It’s Downtown That Needs Improvement By Linda Trujillo Bargmeyer 04-29-2008

Commentary: Berkeley’s Skate Park: Backslide on the Chrome-6 By L A Wood 04-28-2008

Commentary: White House Keeping Tensions High With Iran By Kenneth Thiesen 04-28-2008

Commentary: A Pilot Project for Democracy By Steve Martinot 04-25-2008

Commentary: The Berkeley Skate Park — Setting the Record Straight By Doug Fielding 04-25-2008

Commentary: Multi-Use Aquatic Center Would Serve Everyone By Stephen Swanson 04-25-2008

Commentary: Loyalty Oath Mania Overtakes El Cerrito By Rosemary Loubal 04-25-2008

Commentary: More Taxes for Berkeley Homeowners? By Barbara Gilbert 04-25-2008

Commentary: No Compromise On Apple Moth Pesticide By Maxine Ventura 04-25-2008

Commentary: The Audacity of Clinton and McCain By Rizwan A. Rahmani 04-25-2008

Commentary: One Pesky Problem By Connie Chung 04-25-2008

Commentary:Don’t Let Superdelegates Overrule the Voters By Paul Rockwell 04-25-2008

Letters to the Editor 04-22-2008

Commentary: Mayor Bates Shuts Real Sunshine Out By Sunshine Committee Members 04-22-2008

Commentary: Hillary: Another Feminist Perspective By Laura Santina 04-22-2008

Commentary: An Open Letter Regarding Professor John Yoo By Paul Glusman 04-22-2008

Commentary: How Blocking U.S.-Colombia Agreement Will Protect Colombians and the United States By Natalie Danielle Camastra 04-22-2008

News

UC Berkeley Republicans Want Parking Space of Their Own By Judith Scherr 04-30-2008

Housing Commission To Hear Report on Hillegass Building By Richard Brenneman 04-30-2008

Week’s Second Shooting Alarms North Oakland Neighbors By Richard Brenneman 04-29-2008

LPC Takes Up UC Berkeley Landmark Projects, Fidelity Savings Bank Building By Riya Bhattacharjee 04-29-2008

State Committee calls for Aerial Spray Moratorium By Judith Scherr 04-29-2008

Police Seeks Suspects in Two Mass Gropings By Richard Brenneman 04-28-2008

May Day Marches Call for Workers Rights, Unconditional Amnesty By Judith Scherr 04-28-2008

Power Outage Downs Some City Phones By Judith Scherr 04-28-2008

Evening Meter Use Draws Critics By Judith Scherr 04-28-2008

Neighbors Oppose Thai Temple Restaurant Operation, Seek to Curb Expansion Plans By Riya Bhattacharjee 04-25-2008

BUSD Largest Contingent in Capitol PTA Rally By Riya Bhattacharjee 04-25-2008

North Oakland Man Shoots Intruder By Richard Brenneman 04-25-2008

Santa Cruz County Wins Stay on Moth Spray Plans By Judith Scherr 04-25-2008

Sunshine Law Draft Hearing Postponed, Citizens’ Group Gets Extension By Riya Bhattacharjee 04-25-2008

Citizens to City: Tread Lightly on Tax Measures By Judith Scherr 04-25-2008

Council Approves Staff’s Density Regulations to Head off Prop. 98 By Judith Scherr 04-25-2008

Berkeley Lawyer Files Class-Action Suit against Pacific Steel By Riya Bhattacharjee 04-25-2008

Freeway Crash Kills Emeryville Man By Richard Brenneman 04-25-2008

Assembly Candidates Weigh In On Health Care Debate By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor 04-25-2008

BUSD Approves $1.4 Million Old Gym Plan By Riya Bhattacharjee 04-25-2008

BUSD Brings Back All Teachers from Layoff List By Riya Bhattacharjee 04-25-2008

Southside Plan Concerns Prompt Added Review Time By Richard Brenneman 04-25-2008

Cell Phone Critics, Companies Slam City Wireless Proposals By Richard Brenneman 04-25-2008

Firm Founded by UC’s Keasling Lauches Biodiesel Venture with Sugar By Richard Brenneman 04-25-2008

Council Postpones Sunshine Hearing To October, Grants 90-day Extension to Citizens’ Group By Riya Bhattacharjee 04-24-2008

North Oakland Man Shoots Intruder By Richard Brenneman 04-22-2008

CarShare Now Offering Wheelchair-Accessible Vans By Riya Bhattacharjee 04-22-2008

Assembly Candidates Vie For Major By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor 04-22-2008

Council Takes Up Sunshine, Density Bonus, Tax Survey By Riya Bhattacharjee 04-22-2008

Subprime Crisis Hits Berkeley, Exact Dimensions in Dispute By Richard Brenneman 04-22-2008

Berkeley Man Dies in Crash on The Alameda Bay City News 04-22-2008

Planning Commission Tackles Southside Plan EIR By Richard Brenneman 04-22-2008

Pacific Steel Appeal of Court Decisions Begins By Riya Bhattacharjee 04-22-2008

First Person: Show Me the Street Money By Winston Burton 04-24-2008

Earth Day Thoughts on Loss and Limits By Joe Eaton, Special to the Planet 04-24-2008

Food Riots Have Deeper Roots By Christopher McCourt 04-24-2008

Biofuels: Our Latest and Greatest Band-Aid By Elizabeth Jean Dow 04-24-2008

Columns

Column: After Hillary: Bitterness? By Bob Burnett 04-28-2008

Dispatches from the Edge: Paraguay’s Election: Opportunity and Danger By Conn Hallinan 04-25-2008

UnderCurrents:Sleaze Factor Suddenly Emerges in Oakland Campaigns By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor 04-25-2008

Understanding the Virtual World of Home Price Fluctuations By Jane Powell 04-25-2008

Garden Variety: Flowers on Display, Plants For Sale in Sunol Now By Ron Sullivan 04-25-2008

About the House: X-Ray Vision and the Developed Basement By Matt Cantor 04-25-2008

News Analysis: Economic Outlook: High Hopes, Low Expectations By Richard Hylton, Special to the Planet 04-22-2008

The Public Eye: Why Should We Care About Iraq? By Bob Burnett 04-22-2008

Wild Neighbors: By Joe Eaton 04-22-2008

Arts & Events

Arts Calendar 04-25-2008

Actors Ensemble Stages ‘Uncle Vanya’ By Ken Bullock, Special to The Planet 04-25-2008

John Schott Join’s Moe’s Poetry Reading By Ken Bullock, Special to The Planet 04-25-2008

Understanding the Virtual World of Home Price Fluctuations By Jane Powell 04-25-2008

Garden Variety: Flowers on Display, Plants For Sale in Sunol Now By Ron Sullivan 04-25-2008

About the House: X-Ray Vision and the Developed Basement By Matt Cantor 04-25-2008

Berkeley This Week 04-25-2008

Arts Calendar 04-22-2008

El Cerrito’s Contra Costa Civic Theatre Stages ‘Foxfire’ By Ken Bullock, Special to The Planet 04-22-2008

Wild Neighbors: By Joe Eaton 04-22-2008

Berkeley This Week 04-22-2008