Rodents Scare Parents Away From Willard Park Tot Lot By Riya Bhattacharjee
It’s official. Parents and children at Willard Park need a Pied Piper. And fast. -more-
It’s official. Parents and children at Willard Park need a Pied Piper. And fast. -more-
An Oakland City Councilmember said Saturday that the Chief of the Oakland Police Department has a plan to almost triple the number of police officers on Oakland streets at peak crime periods, but said that implementation of the plan is being delayed by Mayor Jerry Brown and City Council President Ignacio De La Fuente because of opposition from the Oakland Police Officers Association labor union. -more-
The West Berkeley Bowl marketplace will usher in significant and unavoidable traffic, a new report says. -more-
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) wants to get rolling on a rapid bus route through Berkeley, Oakland and San Leandro. -more-
The City Council will begin its session tonight (Tuesday) at 5 p.m. with a workshop looking at what it might mean for Berkeley to join other cities to replace PG&E with a locally owned energy supplier. -more-
Richmond City Councilmember Gayle McLaughlin announced Sunday that she will run for mayor in the November elections. -more-
A provision in the No Child Left Behind Act could threaten the jobs of as many as 76 Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) para-professionals. -more-
The message of this year’s annual Muslim Awareness Week was even more urgent than in previous years. -more-
Despite reports that the Albany Waterfront Coalition (AWC) plans a counter-intitiative to oppose a ballot measure being circulated by environmentalists to block a proposed shopping mall at Golden Gate Fields, no such proposal is in the works, says the group’s spokesperson. -more-
Despite the patrician heritage and the family fortune, Otis Chandler liked to come off as an ordinary guy. But he wasn’t, and that’s why he’ll be missed. -more-
BANGKOK—Catherine Deneuve, grand dame of world cinema, sat serenely on stage at the International Bangkok Film Festival recently and declared her admiration for Asian films thusly: “I think Brokeback Mountain is something special.” -more-
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez declares that his country is in the forefront of a new “Bolivarian revolution” sweeping Latin America. -more-
I would like to thank the Daily Planet for two recent articles that included one of my favorite places in Berkeley—Berkeley Iceland. While I have no financial connection to Iceland or its owners, I do feel a strong connection with this uniquely Berkeley asset. As the father of one of those “...young girls laughing and skating...” that Marta Yamamoto wrote about in her South Berkeley exploration, I often tell people that Iceland is my second home—one that needs repair, but worth saving. -more-
On March 8, the Planning Commission takes up the proposed Berkeley Bowl project again. More traffic versus better access to groceries; loss of scarce industrial land versus jobs and tax revenue—these are the some of the tradeoffs under consideration. -more-
Hitler managed the Holocaust. He managed it so that in Germany everyone knew and no one knew. There would be worse news tomorrow. The wastes were picked up; the busses ran. Everyone knew, and didn’t know. It was happening. It happened. In his introduction to The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer comments that Hitler was able to commit his high crimes and misdemeanors because the Germans were too torpid, too stupid, and too blind. -more-
The quasi-political operatives in the Berkeley mayor’s office placed their final salvo against Berkeley’s Landmarks Preservation Ordinance on the Internet on Friday night. For those who are interested, it can be found in the quaintly named Bates Update Update section of the city’s website. With attachments and appendixes, it’s much too long for citizens to read and comment on before the City Council votes tonight (Tuesday) to adopt it in principle; and anyway, rumor has it that Bates has the votes to do whatever he wants. City Hall insiders say that Capitelli, Anderson, Wozniak, Moore and Maio are in the bag. Doughty veteran Betty Olds is a long-time environmentalist and her own woman, so she might cast an independent vote at the last minute. Kriss Worthington and Dona Spring are the conscience of the council, though he sometimes votes with the majority if he knows his side is going down anyhow. She’s a tiger who votes her principles to the end. -more-
This year I watch the 78th Academy Awards from the ninth floor, east wing of Oakland’s Kaiser Permanente Hospital. I sit in an ergonomically incorrect chair and crane my neck upward toward a small TV hanging from the ceiling. -more-
We get just enough sun in between the rains to keep us hoping, this time of year; just enough life showing in the trees and plants, wild and tame, to make us believe that there’s more to the world than cold and mud. The plums have blossomed and are starting to get down to summer’s business, unfurling their leaves to catch the sun of longer days. The buckeyes—just look at the bunch in the center strip on Sacramento south of University!—are spreading translucent green hands out to the plenty flowing from the sky. The sun itself, as the world turns our side to face it straight-on, begins to touch us with palpable energy. -more-
Editorial: Berkeley’s Landmark Ordinance Hits the Soup By BECKY O'MALLEY 03-07-2006
Editorial: Free Speech For Everyone, Whether We Like Them or Not By BECKY O"MALLEY 03-03-2006
Correction 03-07-2006
Correction 03-03-2006
Letters to the Editor 03-07-2006
Commentary: Thoughts on Iceland By Tom Killilea 03-07-2006
Commentary: Making a Better Berkeley Bowl By BETSY MORRIS 03-07-2006
Commentary: Citizen Silence on Bush Regime Must End By Ariel Parkinson 03-07-2006
Letters to the Editor 03-03-2006
Additional Letters to the Editor 03-03-2006
Commentary: Ashby-Adeline Intersection Fix Should Be Part of Plan By DAVID SOFFA 03-03-2006
‘Clean Money’ Bill Lacks Major Element By KEITH WINNARD 03-03-2006
Rodents Scare Parents Away From Willard Park Tot Lot By Riya Bhattacharjee 03-07-2006
Oakland Police Plan Delayed By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 03-07-2006
Public Hearing Revives Debate Over West Berkeley Bowl By SUZANNE LA BARRE 03-07-2006
Inter-City Rapid Bus Transit on the Fast Track By SUZANNE LA BARRE 03-07-2006
Council Takes on Landmarks Law, Instant Runoff Voting By JUDITH SCHERR 03-07-2006
McLaughlin Announces Run for Richmond Mayor By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 03-07-2006
No Child Left Behind Act Threatens Professional Jobs By SUZANNE LA BARRE 03-07-2006
UC Students Combat Muslim Stereotypes By JUDITH SCHERR 03-07-2006
No Albany Counter-Initiative Planned, Says Measure Foe By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 03-07-2006
Police Blotter By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 03-07-2006
First Person: Otis Chandler: A Publisher with a Conscience By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 03-07-2006
Fire Department Log By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 03-07-2006
News Analysis: ‘Brokeback’ to ‘Kill Bill’: We’re All Asians Now By ANDREW LAM New American Media 03-07-2006
News Analysis: The New Bolivarian Revolution in Latin America By TED VINCENT Special to the Planet 03-07-2006
UC Berkeley Students Get Naked To Protest Sweatshop Labor Practices By SUZANNE LA BARRE 03-03-2006
Newcomer Takes On Pacific Steel Casting Pollution By SUZANNE LA BARRE 03-03-2006
Albany Mall Foes Generate Ballot Initiative By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 03-03-2006
Aquatic Park Awarded Grant to Protect Habitat By JUDITH SCHERR 03-03-2006
Death on the Lagoon By JUDITH SCHERR 03-03-2006
Trustee Sykes Refuses to Give Up Post By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 03-03-2006
Expired Paramedic Certification Under Investigation By SUZANNE LA BARRE 03-03-2006
Planners Seek to Accomodate Walkers in the City By JUDITH SCHERR 03-03-2006
Peralta Construction Bond Measure OK’d By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 03-03-2006
Column: Watching the Academy Awards From Room 921 By Susan Parker 03-07-2006
The Chemical Reactions of Spring Buds By RON SULLIVAN Special to the Planet 03-07-2006
Column: Dispatches From The Edge: Desert Faux: The Sahara’s Mirage of Terrorism By Conn Hallinan 03-03-2006
Column: Undercurrents: Extreme Idea: Look to Oakland for Police Recruits By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 03-03-2006
East Bay Parks Have Designs on Your Time By MARTA YAMAMOTO Special to the Planet 03-03-2006
East Bay:Then and Now: Arts & Crafts on the Fire’s Edge By DANIELLA THOMPSON 03-03-2006
About the House: Be Aware of Lead Poisoning in Older Homes By MATT CANTOR 03-03-2006
Garden Variety: The Magic of Going Native (with Plants) By RON SULLIVAN Staff 03-03-2006
Arts Calendar 03-07-2006
Life in Berkeley on the Day of the Great Quake By RICHARD SCHWARTZ Special to the Planet 03-07-2006
The Chemical Reactions of Spring Buds By RON SULLIVAN Special to the Planet 03-07-2006
Berkeley This Week 03-07-2006
Arts Calendar 03-03-2006
Arts: PBO Celebrates Mozart’s 250th Year By IRA STEINGROOT Special to the Planet 03-03-2006
Arts: What Happened to King Lear’s Daughters’ Mother? By BETSY HUNTON Special to the Planet 03-03-2006
Arts: ACT Performs August Wilson’s ‘Gem’ By KEN BULLOCK Special to the Planet 03-03-2006
Arts: Pacific Film Archive Screens Films By and About Women By JUSTIN DeFREITAS 03-03-2006
Arts: Deception, Transgression and Regression By JUSTIN DeFREITAS 03-03-2006
East Bay Parks Have Designs on Your Time By MARTA YAMAMOTO Special to the Planet 03-03-2006
East Bay:Then and Now: Arts & Crafts on the Fire’s Edge By DANIELLA THOMPSON 03-03-2006
About the House: Be Aware of Lead Poisoning in Older Homes By MATT CANTOR 03-03-2006
Garden Variety: The Magic of Going Native (with Plants) By RON SULLIVAN Staff 03-03-2006
Berkeley This Week 03-03-2006