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Editorials
Handgun Violence Strikes Again: Another Senseless Shooting in a Berkeley Neighborhood
01-27-2012
The Editor's Back Fence
Fund for Berkeley Murder Victim's Children Will Be Established
01-28-2012
Funding Israel and Berkeley Law
01-28-2012
THIS JUST IN! New Lab to Be Build on UC Berkeley's Richmond Property!
01-24-2012
Cartoons
Odd Bodkins: Squishy (Cartoon)
By Dan O'Neill
01-28-2012
Bounce: Chamaeleon Eyes.gif (Cartoon)
By Joseph Young
01-28-2012
Public Comment
The Tea Party, Planning and Democracy, Part Two (News Analysis)
By Zelda Bronstein
01-27-2012
CNN Attempts to Defame Memory of Martin Luther King
By Jack Bragen
01-28-2012
New: Another Occupy Oakland March Attacked by Police.
By Marc Sapir
01-28-2012
New: Self Immolations and Tibet
By Tenzin Dorjee
01-26-2012
New: Jerusalem Concert by Children's Orchestra Cancelled by Israeli Government Action
By Samia Nasir Khoury
01-24-2012
Welcome Back Streicher!- The Alabama-Arizona Immigration Laws Recall 1935 Germany
By Jean Damu
01-24-2012
One Person, One Vote (Except in Berkeley)
By the Occasional Curmudgeon*
01-24-2012
There's More to Tobacco Story
By Carol Denney
01-24-2012
Happy New Year, Berkeley--The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost
By Jim Fousekis, Berkeley Budget SOS
01-24-2012
News
Press Release: Occupy Oakland Say Oakland Police Violate Their Own Policies
From Occupy Oakland Media Committee
01-29-2012
Oakland Police Say 200 Arrested During Occupy Actions
By Bay City News
01-28-2012
Press Release: Audio of Oakland Press Conference with Mayor Jean Quan and Oakland City Officials
From Sgt. Christopher Bolton, Oakland Police Department and Harry Hamilton Oakland City Administrator’s Office
01-28-2012
Press Release: City Provides Update on Occupy Activities in Downtown Oakland – 10:30 pm
From Sgt. Christopher Bolton, Oakland Police Department and
Harry Hamilton
Oakland City Administrator’s Office
01-28-2012
Occupy Breaks into Oakland City Hall
By Bay City News
01-28-2012
Press Release: Occupy Oakland Responds to Oakland Police Repression Tonight, Demands Accounting of Brutal Tactics, and End to Disinformation
From Jamie Omar Yassin, Occupy Oakland
01-28-2012
Updated: Oakland: At Least 100 People Detained Near YMCA in Occupy Protest
By Bay City News
01-28-2012
Oakland Protesters Prepare for Second Try to Enter Building
By Laura Dixon (BCN)
01-28-2012
Press Release: Update on Occupy Activities in Downtown Oakland – 4:30 pm
From Officer Johnna Watson, Oakland Police Department and Harry Hamilton, Oakland City Administrator’s Office
01-28-2012
Flash: Occupy Oakland Protest: Police Tear Gas, Threaten to Forcibly Remove Protesters
By Laura Dixon (BCN)
01-28-2012
Berkeley Police Identify Victim of Last Night's Murder
By Becky O'Malley
01-27-2012
Video Report on Berkeley Murder Scene Last Night
By Florian Charread
01-27-2012
Flash: Man Shot and Killed on Emerson near Shattuck in Berkeley
By Becky O'Malley
01-27-2012
Police Respond to Berkeley Shooting on Thursday Night
By Erika Heidecker (BCN)
01-26-2012
Free-Market Medicine—A Personal Account
by Michael Parenti
01-27-2012
Fire Hits Great China Restaurant in Downtown Berkeley
By Scott Morris (BCN) and Planet
01-26-2012
Press Release: Alameda County Bans Bags, Mandates Recycling
From Jeff Becerra, Stopwaste.org
01-26-2012
New: The Tea Party, Planning and Democracy(Part One)
By Zelda Bronstein
01-25-2012
New: Two Arrested as Suspects in December Berkeley Shooting
By HannahAlbarazi/JeffShuttleworth (BCN)
01-25-2012
Press Release: Study Shows Restored Wetlands Rarely Equal Condition of Original Wetlands
By Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley Media Relations
01-25-2012
New: Ghosts of the Past: Blake's Re-opening on Telegraph Avenue as Pappy's--a Happy, If Haunted, Reminder of Berkeley's Past
By Ted Friedman
01-25-2012
Columns
THE PUBLIC EYE: Obama’s Common Sense
By Bob Burnett
01-27-2012
ECLECTIC RANT: Remembering Vietnam
By Ralph E. Stone
01-27-2012
SENIOR POWER: Sister Age
By Helen Rippier Wheeler
01-27-2012
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDGE: The U.S., Indonesia & The Times
By Conn Hallinan
01-24-2012
New: WILD NEIGHBORS; The Short but Intense Life of the Tidewater Goby
By Joe Eaton
01-25-2012
MY COMMONPLACE BOOK: (a diary of excerpts copied from printed books, with comment added by the reader.)
By Dorothy Bryant
01-24-2012
Arts & Events
Press Release: Group Demands Mortgage Modification for Noted Author
From The Friends of Jane Powell
01-28-2012
New: AROUND & ABOUT MUSIC: Berkeley Symphony This Thursday: Debussy, Dutilleux, Shostakovich
By Ken Bullock
01-24-2012
AROUND AND ABOUT THEATER
By Ken Bullock
01-25-2012
Don't Miss This
By Dorothy Snodgrass
01-24-2012