A blaze triggered by a faulty water heater demolished a $1.3 million home in the Berkeley Hills early Tuesday morning, reports Deputy Fire Chief David P. Orth. -more-
A developer unveiled Friday plans for a 5.5-acre, two-block corporate, retail, condo and artists’ development for West Berkeley. -more-
Berkeley officials are planning another lawsuit against UC Berkeley’s development plans—this time challenging the quarter-billion-dollar complex planned for the Memorial Stadium area. -more-
Aimee Allison is hoping that the third time is the charm. Pat Kernighan is hoping that history keeps repeating itself. -more-
There were no surprises at the Berkeley Citizens Action Endorsement convention Sunday afternoon, with the 30-year-old group that once was Berkeley’s progressive electoral powerhouse endorsing longtime members Mayor Tom Bates, and City Councilmembers Dona Spring, Kriss Worthington and Linda Maio. -more-
Oakland’s massive Oak-to-Ninth development project entered familiar territory this week with another citizen lawsuit filed in Superior Court against the controversial project. -more-
For neighbors of UC Storage at Ward Street and Shattuck Avenue, approval of placing 18 antennas atop the four-story building is the last straw. -more-
Planning commissioners face two action items on the agenda Wednesday. -more-
Creation of a major new UC Berkeley museum complex on Center Street inched a step closer Monday with the close of applications for the position of project architect. -more-
Two 19-year-old men were convicted today of second-degree murder for beating and kicking a 100-pound homeless woman to death in Berkeley last year. -more-
Berkeley’s City Club and the First Church of Christ, Scientist are among 25 Bay Area architectural and historic treasures competing this fall for one million dollars in grant funding from the American Express Foundation through the National Trust for Historic Preservation. -more-
Pope Benedict XVI may be too old and conservative for what is best for the Catholic Church. However, the undeserved bad media coverage and misinterpretation of his out of context comments are appalling. Most of the media is sound-biting the controversy into a wider spreading of unfortunately horrible publicity that does not present the facts of the situation, only furthering the damage. Peace is what the world needs more of, not inflaming violence and those who want to escalate it. -more-
I greatly appreciate the forum you have provided for airing viewpoints on a very contentious set of issues, and the effort you made in a recent editorial with regard to anti-Semitism. Nevertheless, difficult problems remain that must be brought to light. Before I go further: My own background is a left-wing, non-Zionist Jew. -more-
Randy Shaw’s long attack on the record of Mayor Bates was a study in strange contradictions and outright errors. I’ll just take a few moments to point out a few of them. -more-
By ROBERT CHEASTY -more-
The record-breaking, triple-digit heat wave that rolled through California this summer did untold harm to the state’s $31.8 billion agricultural industry—cooking walnuts in their shells, killing dairy cows and wilting tender greens in the field. -more-
Several years ago, my husband Ralph returned home from a stay in Oakland’s Kaiser hospital and insisted he’d been kidnapped by aliens. He e-mailed an acquaintance in Wisconsin and told her she was the only witness to his abduction. He asked her to write down everything she had seen for a lawsuit he planned to pursue. I called a Kaiser doctor to discuss Ralph’s mental state. -more-
I’d like to be able to make some kind of Berkeley connection with the California Academy of Sciences’ new exhibit, “Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries.” But geology is against me. There was no there here during the dinosaur era: the coast of North America ended about where the Sierra Nevada is now. Westward, there were volcanic island arcs, ancient equivalents of Japan or the Philippines, then open ocean. -more-
Summer Heat Wave Impacts Local Farmers’ Market 09-26-2006
Editorial: The Planet Endorses . . . 09-22-2006
Letters to the Editor 09-26-2006
Commentary: In Defense of the Pope By Carol Gesbeck DeWitt 09-26-2006
Commentary: Zionism, Judaism and the Promised Land By Carl Shames 09-26-2006
Commentary: Attack on Mayor Was Misguided By Don Jelinek 09-26-2006
Commentary: Golden Gate Fields Pushes for Casino, Mall By Robert Cheasty 09-26-2006
Letter to the Editor: Sierra Club Position 09-26-2006
Letters to the Editor 09-22-2006
Commentary: Cody’s Goes Global, Leaving Local Shoppers Behind By Anne Blackstone 09-22-2006
Commentary: A Choice Between Bad Food and No Food at All By Eric Weaver 09-22-2006
Flash: Million-dollar Blaze Torches Hills Home By Richard Brenneman 09-26-2006
Major West Berkeley Development Project Unveiled By Richard Brenneman 09-26-2006
City, University Set for Another Legal Showdown By Richard Brenneman 09-26-2006
Oakland Council Candidates on Familiar Ground With Third Race In Just a Year By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor 09-26-2006
Berkeley Citizens Action Endorses Its Own By Judith Scherr 09-26-2006
Third Lawsuit Filed Against Oak-to-Ninth Project By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor 09-26-2006
City Council to Review Antennas, Demolition of Historic Building By Judith Scherr 09-26-2006
Creeks and Telegraph Top Planning Agenda By Richard Brenneman 09-26-2006
UC Ready to Hire Museums Architect By Richard Brenneman 09-26-2006
2 Men Convicted In Murder of Homeless Woman By Bay City News 09-26-2006
Berkeley Landmarks in the Running for Grant Funding By Steven Finacom, Special to the Planet 09-26-2006
School Board Hears Nutrition Services Reorganization Plan By Riya Bhattacharjee 09-22-2006
Police Review Hearings Nixed In Response to Court Decision By Judith Scherr 09-22-2006
Council Postpones San Pablo/Harrison Decision for a Week By Judith Scherr 09-22-2006
Staff Density Plan Chosen Over Committee Recommendation By Richard Brenneman 09-22-2006
Black Officials Hold Oakland Forum on Police Contract By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor 09-22-2006
Panel Recommends Raising Downtown Parking Fees By Richard Brenneman 09-22-2006
Community Wants Input Into Library Director Search By Judith Scherr 09-22-2006
Court Denies Preliminary Injunction in CBE Lawsuit Against Pacific Steel By Riya Bhattacharjee 09-22-2006
Oak-to-Ninth Opponents File Lawsuit Amendment By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor 09-22-2006
BHS Student Assaulted By Riya Bhattacharjee 09-22-2006
City Offers Reward In Student Murder By Richard Brenneman 09-22-2006
Commission Targets Need For West Side Art Space By Richard Brenneman 09-22-2006
Police Blotter By Richard Brenneman 09-22-2006
Column: Fighting Aliens at Alta Bates By Susan Parker 09-26-2006
Things with Feathers: Looking Back at Dinosaur Days By Joe Eaton, Special to the Planet 09-26-2006
Column: Undercurrents: Jerry Brown, Departing, Leaves a Mess Behind Him By J. Douglas Allen-Taylo 09-22-2006
News Analysis: Campaign 2006: The Issues, the Stakes, the Prospects By Arthur I. Blaustein, Mother Jones 09-22-2006
The Best Guys in Town By Phila Rogers, Special to the Planet 09-22-2006
East Bay Then and Now: Spring Mansion Modeled After Empress’ Island Palace By Daniella Thompson 09-22-2006
About the House: Home Inspection Confidential By Matt Cantor 09-22-2006
Garden Variety: Here Come the Fall Plant Sales — Native and Other By Ron Sullivan 09-22-2006
Quake Tip of the Week By Larry Guillot 09-22-2006
Arts Calendar 09-26-2006
The Theater: Beckett’s ‘Happy Days’ at City Club By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet 09-26-2006
Moving Pictures: ‘Milarepa’ Screening Benefits Tibetan Charities By Justin DeFreitas 09-26-2006
Moving Pictures: Taiwan Film Festival Comes to UC Campus By Justin DeFreitas 09-26-2006
Books: Burdick’s Lost ‘The Ninth Wave’ Deserves New Life By Steve Tollefson, Special to the Planet 09-26-2006
Things with Feathers: Looking Back at Dinosaur Days By Joe Eaton, Special to the Planet 09-26-2006
Berkeley This Week 09-26-2006
Arts Calendar 09-22-2006
Moving Pictures: Two Early German Expressionist Classics Restored By Justin DeFreitas 09-22-2006
Moving Pictures: Dr. Mabuse: Lang's Masterpiece of Pulp on DVD By Justin DeFreitas 09-22-2006
The Theater: A Really Big Show In the Forest of Arden By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet 09-22-2006
The Best Guys in Town By Phila Rogers, Special to the Planet 09-22-2006
East Bay Then and Now: Spring Mansion Modeled After Empress’ Island Palace By Daniella Thompson 09-22-2006
About the House: Home Inspection Confidential By Matt Cantor 09-22-2006
Garden Variety: Here Come the Fall Plant Sales — Native and Other By Ron Sullivan 09-22-2006
Quake Tip of the Week By Larry Guillot 09-22-2006
Berkeley This Week 09-22-2006
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