Opinion

Editorials

The November Election Starts in October This Year

By Becky O'Malley
Tuesday September 07, 2010 - 09:40:00 AM

Now that Labor Day is behind us, the campaigns have begun in earnest. The next election is less than a month away.

What, you say? I thought the election was in November. Well, not any more. Not just in November. -more-


Cartoons

Odd Bodkins: The Lucky Booger

Dan O'Neill
Tuesday September 07, 2010 - 10:51:00 AM

Odd Bodkins: The Man in the Moon

Dan O'Neill
Tuesday September 07, 2010 - 10:44:00 AM

Public Comment

Letters to the Editor

Tuesday September 07, 2010 - 12:28:00 PM

Innocent Man on Death Row; Religious Communities Support Tolerance; More Firing, More Pay for CEOs; Celebrating the Demise of the BDP; Goodbye and Good Riddance; KPFA; Tea Party Racism; -more-


New: Protest Koran-Burning-Christians: Public Reading of Koran at Ohlone Park on Saturday

By Rabbi Michael Lerner
Thursday September 09, 2010 - 10:24:00 PM

On Saturday, September 11, a Florida minister, Terry Jones, together with 50 of his followers, is planning an act of religious hatred and intolerance, the public burning of copies of the Qur'an (the Muslim holy scriptures containing the words of the prophet Muhammad). This hateful act has been widely condemned around the world, and reminds many of us of the infamous burning of Jewish books by the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages (most existing copies of the Talmud were burnt in the 13th century) and of the burning of all Jewish books in Germany under Nazi rule in the 1930s. Thank God both the Church and Germany have evolved a long way since those infamous acts!!! So now we have some extremist Protestants doing this (and of course most Christians reject this kind of hatred, just as most American Moslems reject the hatred spread by some Muslim extremists in the Middle East), and leaders of the Republican Party are declining to condemn them, according to media reports today Sept. 8th. -more-


New: Why You Can’t Burn the Qur’an without Burning the Bible

By Gar Smith
Thursday September 09, 2010 - 09:50:00 PM

When World Dove Outreach Center Pastor Terry Jones announced his plans for a “Koran” conflagration, every other low-rent, back-pocket preacher in the Great American Boondocks took heart. A compliant media had let it be known that just the right blend of religious intolerance mixed with a pyrotechnic photo-op was a guaranteed gate-pass to national broadcast celebrity. -more-


What Bell and Berkeley Have in Common

By Victoria Peirotes
Tuesday September 07, 2010 - 10:57:00 AM

Last month the Los Angeles Times reported that the 38,000, largely impoverished city of Bell, CA, paid its city manager $787,000 and its police chief $457,000. CNN videoed citizens who were “Mad as Hell”. State Attorney-General Jerry Brown descended, suggesting laws may have been broken. And CALPERS, the public employee pension administrator, launched an investigation. As it turns out, the salaries were only the tip of the iceberg. The perks and pensions added up to double the numbers above. What does Bell have to do with Berkeley? As it turns out, we have a lot in common. -more-


Pacific Steel Casting Pollution Problems Again Before Berkeley City Council

By Janice Schroeder
Tuesday September 07, 2010 - 09:48:00 AM

Pacific Steel Casting Company (PSC) is still emitting toxic pollution into our air. Some community members are still feeling nauseous, getting headaches, having difficulty breathing, and experiencing asthma attacks when the pollution from Pacific Steel Casting Company is in the air. -more-


The Pepper Spray Times

by Grace Underpressure
Tuesday September 07, 2010 - 10:55:00 AM

The Diabetes Epidemic

By Jack Bragen
Tuesday September 07, 2010 - 11:00:00 AM

A couple of decades ago, diabetes was an unusual disease associated with people who were very skinny and who apparently were born with a genetic defect. In the 1980’s, type I diabetes was the most common, and its cousin, brought on in part by poor and excessive diet, had not yet proliferated to engulf a large portion of the population. -more-


An Open Letter to The Ecology Center

From The IWW
Tuesday September 07, 2010 - 11:11:00 AM

To the Board of Directors of the Ecology Center:
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