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Domestic partner law for city contractors eyed

By John Geluardi Daily Planet Staff
Tuesday February 20, 2001
After a background report was bogged down for two years in various departments, the City Council tonight will finally ask staff to prepare a domestic partner ordinance for city contractors. -more-

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Tuesday February 20, 2001

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Perspective

By Yoichi Clark Pacific News Service
Tuesday February 20, 2001
YOKOSUKA, JAPAN – The uproar over the sinking of a Japanese fishing trawler by a U.S. nuclear submarine has overlooked the question of whether anyone could have survived inside the sunken vessel. -more-

Arts & Entertainment

Tuesday February 20, 2001
924 Gilman St. All shows begin at 8 p.m. unless noted $5; $2 for a year membership Feb. 23: Subincision, 30 Second Fury, AKA Nothing, No Common Sense, Stalin’s War; Feb. 24: Slow Gherkin, Plus Ones, 78 RPMS, Merrick, Enemy You 525-9926 -more-

Oakland filmmakers nominated for Oscar

Bay City News
Tuesday February 20, 2001
OAKLAND — Two Oakland filmmakers are once more in the running for Oscars in the Feature Documentary category. -more-

Plentiful plans for park

Judith Scherr/Daily Planet
Tuesday February 20, 2001
The Eastshore State Park, recently purchased by the state, contains 1,800 acres of land and water that stretches along the shoreline from Richmond to Oakland. Tonight the council will consider approval of a series of meetings in preparation for a general plan for the park. A separate planning meeting is also being held tonight by the East Bay Regional Parks District at 7 p.m. at Hs Lordships Restaurant at the Berkeley Marina. The first public workshop is scheduled for March. -more-

City to look at local Prop. 21 impacts

By Judith Scherr Daily Planet Staff
Tuesday February 20, 2001
Has Proposition 21 criminalized youth in Berkeley? Some councilmembers want the Youth Commission to take a hard look at the results of the state law that makes it easier to try teens as adults. They want to know its specific impact in Berkeley. -more-

Watch dog group calls for Tritium workshop

By John Geluardi Daily Planet Staff
Tuesday February 20, 2001
The Committee to Minimize Toxic Waste, the community watch dog group concerned with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Tritium Labeling Facility, is calling for a workshop to examine a city consultant’s report on possible tritium releases at the labs during a major fire. -more-

Bar association OKs immigration policies

The Associated Press
Tuesday February 20, 2001
SAN DIEGO — The leadership of the American Bar Association voted Monday to recommend ending “zero tolerance” school discipline policies and stopping the government’s use of secret evidence in most immigration cases. -more-

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Mediator appointed for Napster squabble

The Associated Press
Tuesday February 20, 2001
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge has appointed a mediator in the case between the recording industry and Napster, the free Internet song-swapping service. -more-

Editorials

Confidence collapsing after bullish market

By John Cunniff The Associated Press
Tuesday February 20, 2001
NEW YORK — Could those deteriorating consumer confidence figures be a measure also of how spoiled Americans have become after a decade of plentiful credit, easy payments, lots of jobs and rising stocks? -more-

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