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Homeless able to ‘drop in’

By Jennifer Dix Special to the Daily Planet
Thursday August 24, 2000

It never occurred to Anne Marie Foley that she could end up homeless. -more-


Calendar of Events & Activities

Thursday August 24, 2000


Thursday, August 24

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Letters to the Editor

Thursday August 24, 2000

Voters should think about the president’s veto power -more-


Avenue still plagued by problems

By William Inman Daily Planet Staff
Thursday August 24, 2000

Music festival on city streets

By Josh Parr Daily Planet Staff
Thursday August 24, 2000

It’s a Berkeley Sabbath. -more-


Principal retiring after 32 years with district

By William Inman Daily Planet Staff
Thursday August 24, 2000

Rosa Parks Elementary School Principal Rebecca Wheat says that over three decades as an educator in Berkeley have simply sailed by. -more-


Berkeley employee faces car bomb scare

Staff
Thursday August 24, 2000

UC Berkeley Police and and Berkeley Police bomb squads checked out the car of a UC Berkeley employee that was parked on city property Tuesday evening after the employee recieved several threatening calls saying there was a bomb in the car, said Lt. Bud Stone, Bomb Squad Commander for the police. -more-


Parking controversy on 4th St. grabs spotlight

By Josh Parr Daily Planet Staff
Wednesday August 23, 2000

Who’s paying? It’s the question of the Millennium. -more-


Calendar of Events & Activities

Wednesday August 23, 2000


Tuesday, August 22

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Disabled meeting request via phone draws fire

By Judith Scherr Daily Planet Staff
Wednesday August 23, 2000

When Karen Craig and other disabled members of various city commissions have health or wheelchair emergencies, they would like to attend meetings via speaker phone. -more-


UC, fire officials call for fire safety

By William Inman Daily Planet Staff
Wednesday August 23, 2000

Liquor store robbed at gunpoint

Staff
Wednesday August 23, 2000

A masked man pulled a knife on the owners of U.S. Liquors at 2997 Sacramento Street around 4 p.m. Sunday and robbed the store while the husband had the couple’s infant son in his arms, police said. -more-


Bomb scare appears to end without incident

Staff
Wednesday August 23, 2000

Tragic fire explained

By William Inman Daily Planet Staff
Tuesday August 22, 2000

Arash Azarkhish said he did all he could to help his new neighbors across the street escape from the deadly fire Sunday. -more-


Calendar of Events & Activities

Tuesday August 22, 2000


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Tuesday August 22, 2000

MUSEUMS -more-


Activists say public lacks information on schools’ measure

By Judith Scherr Daily Planet Staff
Tuesday August 22, 2000

Some citizens have been butting heads with bureaucrats, demanding to see the text that would accompany Measure AA, the schools’ facilities bond measure to appear on the Nov. 7 ballot. -more-


Rented house may have lacked smoke detectors

By William Inman Daily Planet Staff
Tuesday August 22, 2000

Fire Inspectors have determined that the fire Sunday at 2160 Martin Luther King Way that claimed the lives of UC Berkeley student Azalea Jusay, 21, and her parents, Francisco and Florita Jusay, both 46, of Lakewood, began when someone left a box of clothes or papers on top of or too close to a floor heater on the first floor of the two-story, 60 year-old wooden home. -more-


Breland says breast cancer won’t keep her from hard race

By Judith Scherr Daily Planet Staff
Tuesday August 22, 2000

Councilmember Margaret Breland decided to stand up and confront the whispers. At a Monday evening press conference, the 65-year-old councilmember announced that she was fighting a winning battle over breast cancer. -more-


Some delays for safety building

By Josh Parr Daily Planet staff
Tuesday August 22, 2000

The Big One never came. But its threat inspired a new generation of public buildings designed to endure the inevitable devastation. Though delayed by a few months, the Ronald Tsukemoto Public Safety Building is scheduled for an early October occupation by the Berkeley Police Department and the Fire Department’s administrative team. -more-


Move-in day in the dormitories

By Joe Eskenazi Daily Planet Correspondent
Monday August 21, 2000

Sunday was D-day in Berkeley. D stands for “Dorm,” by the way. -more-


Calendar of Events & Activities

Monday August 21, 2000


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“TV Sucks My Ass” feels like a failed TV show

By John Angell Grant
Monday August 21, 2000

Berkeley’s Impact Theater specializes in new plays for a 20-something audience that grew up on television, film and music, without much experience in live theater. -more-


Letters to the Editor

Monday August 21, 2000

City efforts increase danger on University Ave. -more-


Shuttles might help traffic, parking needs

By William Inman Daily Planet Staff
Monday August 21, 2000

Trying to find a place to park downtown before 5 p.m. is about as frustrating as a Rubik’s cube. -more-


Berkeley activist claims LA victory

By Martha Mendoza Associated Press
Monday August 21, 2000

LOS ANGELES — Lisa Fithian marched, jogged, skipped and trudged more than 20 miles this week through the streets of Los Angeles. She pleaded with police officers. She cajoled angry, masked anarchists clad in black. She chanted into megaphones. -more-


Someone’s watching

By Judith Scherr Daily Planet Staff
Saturday August 19, 2000

It’s not quite big brother, but the Berkeley Unified School District is on the county’s “watch” list. -more-


Calendar of Events & Activities

Saturday August 19, 2000


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Let the good times roll

By Joe Eskenazi Daily Planet Correspondent
Saturday August 19, 2000

Out here in the Bay Area, one doesn’t often find a bayou, riverboat or streets named after distilled liquors. One can, however, find plenty of the music that fits these images – just like cayenne pepper goes with shrimp etouffee. -more-


Local U.N. support group moves in next to old friends

By William Inman Daily Planet Staff
Saturday August 19, 2000

The East Bay Chapter of the United Nations Association Information and UNICEF Center is celebrating its re-opening today, next to the Berkeley Gray Panthers headquarters. -more-


Suit alleges cruelty to performing elephants

By Drew BeckSpecial to the Daily Planet
Friday August 18, 2000

A California-based animal rights group is doing what it can to force circuses to stop using elephants in their acts, even invoking the Endangered Species Act in its quest. -more-


St. Mary’s will get to take on teams their own size in new conference

By Jared Green Daily Planet Staff
Friday August 18, 2000

Panthers join Bay Shore Athletic League, will face schools closer to their own enrollment. -more-


Calendar of Events & Activities

Friday August 18, 2000


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Friday August 18, 2000

Elk-eater should fight crime and poverty, not radioactivity -more-


Decision delayed on BHS security cameras

By William Inman Daily Planet Staff
Friday August 18, 2000

After enduring yet another arson fire early Saturday morning, the School Board put off a decision to approve the installation of security cameras, which some say could deter such mayhem and protect the students at Berkeley High. -more-


Prof says danger less than thought for big one in Berkeley

By Michelle Locke Associated Press Writer
Friday August 18, 2000

University of California scientists say the northern half of the Hayward Fault that runs beneath the east San Francisco Bay area may not be as dangerous as previously thought. -more-


High school suffers another arson attack

By William Inman Daily Planet Staff
Friday August 18, 2000

Another arson at Berkeley High School doesn’t bode well for the coming school year, just two weeks away. -more-


Robbery cause of murder

Daily Planet Staff
Friday August 18, 2000

Robbery appears to be the motive in the shooting murder of Dwight Cornell Garland, 34, of Berkeley early Wednesday morning, Berkeley Police say. -more-


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