Back Stories
Opinion
Editorials
What's the News Today, and Why?
09-21-2011
The Editor's Back Fence
About the New Schedule
09-22-2011
It's a New Schedule for the Planet
09-21-2011
Keep Those Comments Coming under the Planet's New Schedule
09-20-2011
A New Schedule: PLEASE READ
09-19-2011
A New Schedule: PLEASE READ
09-17-2011
A New Schedule: PLEASE READ
09-16-2011
Cartoons
Cartoon Page: Odd Bodkins, BOUNCE
09-21-2011
Public Comment
New: Letters
09-22-2011
Death Panel Machine
By Bruce Joffe
09-21-2011
City Stalls Its Response to Report about Unfunded Liabilities
By James Fousekis
09-21-2011
Is Arreguin's "Vacancy Registration Fee" a Solution to Downtown Berkeley Problems?
By Thomas Lord
09-20-2011
A New Paradigm for Downtown Berkeley's Retail Spaces?
By Thomas Lord
09-20-2011
Letters
09-18-2011
An Explanation of My Withdrawal from Cal
Ruby Pipes
09-19-2011
Communicating with BART
By Thomas Lord
09-18-2011
Letters
09-17-2011
Richmond Council Fails to Pass Sustainable Marijuana Ordinance
By Tom Butt, Richmond City Council
09-17-2011
Letters
09-17-2011
Oakland Children's Art Museum's Ban on Palestinian Works is Futile
By Joanna Graham
09-16-2011
Richmond Council Fails to Pass Marijuana Ordinance
By Tom Butt, Richmond City Councilmember
09-17-2011
News
New: Protesters in Berkeley March against Tuition Hikes, Occupy Classrooms
By Scott Morris (BCN)
09-22-2011
Press Release: Bayer Biotech Workers in Berkeley Send Company a Stinging Rebuke
From Craig Merrilees, ILWU
09-22-2011
New: "Unofficial Mayor" of Telegraph Busted for "Interfering" with a Cop As Medheads Get Front-Row Seats
By Ted Friedman
09-22-2011
Updated: California Nurses Strike at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley and Elsewhere
By Laura Dixon, Bay City News Service
09-22-2011
Nurses Strike Throughout California
By Bay City News Service
09-22-2011
Just Another Berkeley South Side Crime Story: Who Killed People's Park Activist Gina Sasso?
by Ted Friedman
09-22-2011
Mark Coyote
By John Curl
09-22-2011
Updated: Families Say Release of Hikers is "Best Day of Our Lives"
By Jeff Shuttleworth (BCN)
09-21-2011
Flash: Two UC Berkeley Graduates Released in Iran
By Bay City News
09-21-2011
Berkeley's Public Housing Units May Be Bought by Billionaire (Analysis)
By Lynda Carson
09-21-2011
Press Release: Negotiations at Bayer’s bio-tech plant in Berkeley break down: Company refuses to protect jobs after taking taxpayer subsidies
From Craig Merrilees, ILWU
09-19-2011
New Thousand Oaks Urns Dedicated
By Steven Finacom
09-19-2011
Columns
New: Dispatches From The Edge: Arms, China & the Obama Administration
By Conn Hallinan
09-22-2011
New: Laura's Law in a Nutshell
By Ralph E. Stone
09-22-2011
Senior Power… The Only Disease
By Helen Rippier Wheeler
09-22-2011
My Commonplace Book (a diary of excerpts copied from printed books, with comments added by the reader.)
By Dorothy Bryant
09-22-2011
New: On Mental Illness: Something for Nothing
By Jack Bragen
09-22-2011
Wild Neighbors: Post-Communist Birds
By Joe Eaton
09-21-2011
The Public Eye: Job Wars: Republicans Strike Back
By Bob Burnett
09-19-2011
Senior Power… Where's the Lavender Soap?
By Helen Rippier Wheeler
09-19-2011
On Mental Illness: Permission to Be Happy
By Jack Bragen
09-17-2011
Dispatches From the Edge: Of Kabul & Tet & Generals
By Conn Hallinan
09-16-2011
Arts & Events
Theater Review: Golden Thread Premieres Night Over Erzinga
By Ken Bullock
09-21-2011
Theater Review: Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup at Berkeley Rep
By Ken Bullock
09-21-2011
Theater Review: Remember the Ladies: Poor Players at Unitarian Fellowship and Live Oak Theater
By Ken Bullock
09-21-2011
Around & About Music: Fall Free For All; Inga Swearingen's Swedish Farm Jazz
By Ken Bullock
09-21-2011
Theatre Review: Eye from the Aisle: A DELICATE BALANCE by Edward Albee--if your hair is gray, do not hesitate to get a ticket while they last.
by John A. McMullen II
09-19-2011
Don't Miss This
By Dorothy Snodgrass
09-19-2011
Architecture Review: Flashy Architecture and Bad Urbanism at the Berkeley Art Museum
By Charles Siegel
09-18-2011