Berkeley Mother Sentenced For Murdering Her Son, 9
Posted Wed., April 16—A Berkeley woman who admitted murdering her 9-year-old son will spend at least eight years in prison under terms of a plea bargain announced Wednesday. -more-
Posted Wed., April 16—A Berkeley woman who admitted murdering her 9-year-old son will spend at least eight years in prison under terms of a plea bargain announced Wednesday. -more-
Posted Wed., April 16—The Berkeley Unified School District rescinded 38 of the 60 potential layoff notices it sent out to teachers and counselors last month in response to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposal to cut $4.8 billion from the state education budget. -more-
While laughter at a funeral might seem incongruous, then so was Jay Walter. Speaker after speaker described a man both outrageously public and exceedingly private. -more-
Results from testing water collected from the Berkeley Aquatic Park last week after a sewage spill showed no contamination, city officials told the Planet Monday. -more-
A week after the newly empowered Oakland School Board announced that they had made their choice for an interim superintendent, controversy over the move continued to simmer. -more-
A week after the newly empowered Oakland School Board announced that they had made their choice for an interim superintendent, controversy over the move continued to simmer. -more-
In the 400 years since the first slavery ships docked on the Virginia coast, the African-American Freedom Movement has raised up a continuing series of larger-than-life leaders—Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X. But arguably the most talented of that group, but perhaps the least appreciated, remembered, or studied, is the man whose 110th birthday anniversary is being celebrated this month—Paul Robeson. -more-
Jupiter Beerhouse and Restaurant’s proposed expansion into adjacent Café Panini would replace the cafe, zoning officials told the Planet Monday. -more-
Berkeley’s City Council Monday spurned a Planning Commission proposal to have a city density bonus law in place in the event Proposition 98 passes in the statewide June 3 election. -more-
Construction begins Wednesday on the new guest house at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. -more-
Berkeley Technology Academy’s (B-Tech) hour-long discussion on youth violence with Barrios Unidos co-founder Daniel “Nane” Alejandrez Friday was the first of many events the school hopes to host for its Latino students, who make up 45 percent of the school’s population. -more-
A prosecutor told jurors today that they should convict Christopher Hollis of murder for firing shots that killed his close friend Meleia Willis-Starbuck, a popular Berkeley High School graduate and Dartmouth College student. -more-
A red Pontiac Firebird collided head on with a Berkeley public school bus carrying five students from John Muir Elementary School at 3:50 p.m. Friday. -more-
The recent disclosure of a memo by Boalt Law School faculty member John Yoo has given that school and the University of California itself a long overdue public relations nightmare. “Overdue” because quite enough was known about Yoo’s role in justifying the Bush regime’s claims to the dictatorial powers it has taken that a small group of concerned citizens held a weekly vigil outside his class several years ago. That vigil was almost entirely ignored by faculty and students too hurried or plugged in to their iPods to pause or take a leaflet let alone join. When Fernando Botero’s horrific paintings of torture came to Doe Library, few faculty members on panels organized to discuss them mentioned that the man largely responsible for the atrocities Botero depicted is a campus colleague. But when the New York Times published an editorial (reprinted in the International Herald Tribune on April 5) with the clause “Yoo, who inexplicably teaches law at the University of California,” mud finally stuck to Alma Mater’s teflon robes, and the administration had to act. -more-
The small number of Bus Rapid Transit supporters (one third or less of those who spoke) who showed up at the Planning Commission public hearing on BRT on April 9 spent much of their time urging the commission to endorse a “preferred alternative” route for BRT so AC Transit can move ahead with finalizing the environmental impact report on the project. -more-
No matter how you look at it, Barak Obama’s March 18 speech on race was a Category 5 news event; it did for political reporting what Katrina did for disaster reporting. It lacked the ugly pictures but it generated a comparable multitude of comments buoyed by passion and collectively covering every conceivable aspect, from the super-sublime to the hyper-ridiculous. On the left it was rated breathtaking, historic, momentous, from the center it was deemed provocative, memorable, moving and conservatives tagged it hypocritical, duplicitous, deceptive. Titled “A More Perfect Union,” the speech arrived in the aftermath of a hurricane of publicity about the passionate preachments of a man of God, Obama’s pastor, but the devastation that came later was entirely an act of man, as was Katrina’s. -more-
Larry Bensky was kind enough to forward to us an article by Dan Eggen, from Sunday’s Washington Post. The headline is “Permissible Assaults Cited in Graphic Detail.” -more-
Who was it who said that anyone who isn’t outraged just hasn’t been paying attention? -more-
Editorial: Time for the Law School to Clean House 04-11-2008
Letters to the Editor 04-15-2008
Commentary: Yoo’s Presence and the Faculty’s Silence By Gray Brechin 04-15-2008
Commentary: Bus Rapid Transit: Heed the Lessons of the BART Experience By Steven Finacom 04-15-2008
Commentary: A More Perfect Perspective By Marvin Chachere 04-15-2008
Letters to the Editor 04-11-2008
Commentary: Bus Rapid Transit Needs More Study By Vincent Casalaina 04-11-2008
Commentary: BRT Poor Choices: The Fault of the City of Berkeley By Bruce Wicinas 04-11-2008
Commentary: Oakland, Call Off the Blight Police By James Sayre 04-11-2008
Commentary: The Noble American Tradition of Tax Resistance By Gar Smith 04-11-2008
Commentary: Biofuelishness Tanks; Where Do We Go Now? By James Singmaster III 04-11-2008
Commentary: Flunk the Budget 04-11-2008
Berkeley Mother Sentenced For Murdering Her Son, 9 By Richard Brenneman 04-15-2008
38 BUSD Teacher Layoff Notices Rescinded By Riya Bhattacharjee 04-15-2008
Firefighter’s Colleagues Recall a Memorable Man By Richard Brenneman 04-15-2008
Closed Section of Aquatic Park to Re-Open Today By Riya Bhattacharjee 04-15-2008
Controversy Continues Over OUSD Hiring of Interim Superintendent By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor 04-15-2008
Controversy Continues Over OUSD Hiring of Interim Superintendent 04-15-2008
Oakland Celebrates 110th Birthday of Paul Robeson By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor 04-15-2008
Jupiter Restaurant’s Expansion Will Replace Cafe Panini By Riya Bhattacharjee 04-15-2008
Council Rejects Interim Density Bonus Proposal By Richard Brenneman 04-15-2008
Work Begins on LBNL Guest House By Richard Brenneman 04-15-2008
B-Tech Addresses Increase in Latino Student Population By Riya Bhattacharjee 04-15-2008
Prosecutor Asks Jurors to Convict Hollis of Murder Bay City News 04-15-2008
Car Collides with Berkeley School Bus By Riya Bhattacharjee 04-15-2008
Fire Department Log By Richard Brenneman 04-15-2008
Police Blotter By Rio Bauce 04-15-2008
First Tests Negative, but Aquatic Park Section Remains Closed after Sewage Spill By Riya Bhattacharjee 04-11-2008
Law School Dean Defends Yoo Against Calls for Dismissal; Yoo to Speak Monday 04-11-2008
UC Berkeley Opens Campus for Saturday's Cal Day By Steven Finacom Special to the Planet 04-11-2008
Researcher Presents the Facts about the Hayward Fault By Steven Finacom Special to the Plant 04-11-2008
East Bay Tibetans, Chinese Clash Over S.F. Olympic Torch Relay By Riya Bhattacharjee 04-11-2008
Residents Say No To Bus-Only Lanes By Richard Brenneman 04-11-2008
Aquatic Park Section Off Limits After Sewage Spill By Riya Bhattacharjee 04-11-2008
Southside Plan Resurfaces After Years in Urban Limbo By Richard Brenneman 04-11-2008
Planning Commission Endorses Tighter Density-Bonus Controls By Richard Brenneman 04-11-2008
Firefighter Processional Honors Fallen Colleague By Richard Brenneman 04-11-2008
Oakland School Board Chooses Analyst for Interim Superintendent By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor 04-11-2008
Oakland Homeowner Files Lawsuit against Measure Y By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor 04-11-2008
Warm Pool Users Lobby Board of Education By Riya Bhattacharjee 04-11-2008
BUSD Rally Against State Budget Cuts By Riya Bhattacharjee 04-11-2008
Berkeley High Beat: Student Intent to Register Due May 1 By Rio Bauce 04-11-2008
Clarification 04-11-2008
Wild Neighbors: Strawberry Canyon and UC’s Edifice Complex by Joe Eaton 04-15-2008
Column: Dispatches FromThe Edge: The Story Behind the Battle for Basra By Conn Hallinan 04-11-2008
Column: Culture Wars in Oakland By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor 04-11-2008
Garden Variety: Too Mulch of a Good Thing By Ron Sullivan 04-11-2008
Arts Calendar 04-15-2008
Aurora Theatre Stages ‘Trojan Women’ By Ken Bullock, Special to The Planet 04-15-2008
Wild Neighbors: Strawberry Canyon and UC’s Edifice Complex by Joe Eaton 04-15-2008
Berkeley This Week 04-15-2008
Super Simple Green Solutions: 12 Steps to Make a Difference By Alisa Rose 04-15-2008
Spring Historical Walking Tours Start Saturday By Steven Finacom, Special to the Planet 04-15-2008
Arts Calendar 04-11-2008
‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ for Youngsters By Ken Bullock 04-11-2008
‘Firebird’ at The Crucible By Ken Bullock 04-11-2008
Arts & Entertainment: Sekimachi and Stocksdale at the Berkeley Art Center By Zelda Bronstein 04-11-2008
Garden Variety: Too Mulch of a Good Thing By Ron Sullivan 04-11-2008
Berkeley This Week 04-11-2008
A Green Village School Developed by Indians and Americans By Krishna P. Bhattacharjee 04-11-2008