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The Nose on Berkeley's Yes on T Committee Grows Even Longer
10-26-2012
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Planet Endorsements Now Online
10-25-2012
Public Comment
New: Zoo Executives’ Backroom Deals on Measure A1
By Ruth Malone
10-31-2012
New: Why I'm Voting for Max Anderson
Jane Stillwater
10-31-2012
For the record: a message from your firefighters and police officers:
By James Geissinger
President, Berkeley Fire Fighters Association
10-29-2012
New: Support Change: Voting Recommendations
By Tim Hansen, with the help of friends
10-31-2012
New: Romney's Sense-Defying Proposals
By Jack Bragen
10-29-2012
New: Vote NO on Measure A1?
How could I ask you to vote against Animal Care?
By Anita Wah
10-29-2012
No on Berkeley Measure S: Sitting on the Sidewalk is a Time-Honored Tradtion
By ChristopheRobin Byers
10-28-2012
West Berkeley Thrives as a Manufacturing Ecology
By Bernard Marszalek
10-25-2012
Yes on Measure V: Let’s avoid the fate of California’s bankrupt cities
By Priscilla Myrick
10-25-2012
The City of Berkeley's Borrowing
By Ted Edlin
10-26-2012
New: Election Year 2012
By Romila Khanna
10-31-2012
“We Can’t Allow the People to Steal This Election!”
By Barb Weir
10-25-2012
New: The Nobel Peace Prize for War
By Michael Parenti
10-25-2012
News
New: What is the California Real Estate Independent Expenditure Committee, and What Are They Doing in Berkeley?
By Thomas Lord
11-01-2012
New: Councilmember/Realtor Capitelli and the Police Chief’s $500,000 House Loan from the City of Berkeley
By Zelda Bronstein
10-31-2012
Updated: Real Estate Committee Pays for Mailers and Ads for Berkeley Council Candidates Moore and Capitelli
By Becky O'Malley
10-31-2012
New: Worthington Slams Berkeley City Management of Two-Week Voicemail Outages
By Jeff Shuttleworth (BCN)
10-31-2012
New: Who Manages the Economy Better, Republicans or Democrats? (News Analysis)
By Arthur I. Blaustein
10-31-2012
New: Former Berkeley Mayor Dean Charges Candidate Capitelli with Violating State Campaign Law
By Becky O'Malley
10-30-2012
New: Anonymous Email Tip Alerts Police to Potential Bomb on UC Berkeley Campus
By Sasha Lekach (BCN)
10-30-2012
Press Release: [Berkeley Headed for Football Hell]: Friday Night Game at Memorial Stadium
From Mary Kay Clunies-Ross
10-30-2012
New: UC Law Clinic Report Says Sit-Lie Prohibitions Don't Work as Promised by Sponsors
By Bob Offer-Westort
10-28-2012
Rent Board Slate Group Charged with Violating Berkeley Campaign Finance Laws (News Analysis)
By Rob Wrenn
10-25-2012
Berkeley Photographer Wins US Stamp of Approval
By Gar Smith
10-26-2012
"Clean Coal" (First Person)
By Daniel Borgström
10-25-2012
The Berkeley Election in the Planet: Past Issues
10-28-2012
The Planet's November 6 Ballot Recommendations
By the Berkeley Daily Planet Editorial Board
10-25-2012
Columns
New: THE PUBLIC EYE: Four Keys to an Obama Victory
By Bob Burnett
10-29-2012
AGAINST FORGETTING: US Presidential Debate: America’s National Insecurity
By Ruth Rosen
10-25-2012
THE PUBLIC EYE: Obama Finds Mojo, Wins Final Debate
By Bob Burnett
10-25-2012
ECLECTIC RANT: Tasers May Not Be As Safe As Advertised
By Ralph E. Stone
10-25-2012
ON MENTAL ILLNESS: Diverse Levels of "Functioning"
By Jack Bragen
10-25-2012
Arts & Events
Around & About Theater: Last Minute Announcement, One Night Only--Dan Carbone in 'Kingdom of Not' & 'Up From the Ground'--Tonight Only
By Ken Bullock
10-26-2012
Around & About Music: Nancarrow At 100--remarkable Celebration of Composer, November 2-4, UC Berkeley Venues
By Ken Bullock
10-26-2012
Theater Review: 'Richard the First,' a Trilogy of Plays by Gary Graves--Central Works at the Berkeley City Club
By Ken Bullock
10-29-2012
Around & About Theater: Ragged Wing Ensemble's 'Within the Wheel'--Free Performances in Live Oak Park Installations
By Ken Bullock
10-29-2012
Nureyev: A Life in Dance
By Dorothy Snodgrass
10-25-2012