Opinion

Santa, a.k.a. Berkeley Daily Planet Publisher Mike O'Malley, greets shoppers Sarah James, Lizzy P. and baby Cassius on College Avenue in the Elmwood before Christmas. Photograph by Anne Wagley. -more-

We will have victory in Iraq, said President Bush -more-

She sits with her -more-

Daisy Howerton, 9 months, enjoys an issue of the Daily Planet. Photograph by Michael Howerton. -more-

Our town has moments which stand out, and keep me surprised and in love with this place. -more-

Confessions from a West Berkeley Fenix -more-

Daniel Ortega Saavedra of Nicaragua’s Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional is once again president of his country. A hollow shell of the militant Marxist that he was in his first term 1984-1990, one can question how much satisfaction his victory provides for those from Berkeley and elsewhere who trekked to Nicaragua during the 1980s to work for the revolution. -more-

Kuma was adopted from the Milo Foundation in January 2006, and has since spent many happy days greeting visitors to the Berkeley Daily Planet newsroom. Photograph by Caroline Wagley-Pedemonte. -more-

What is it that the City of Berkeley doesn’t get about Californians and their cars? -more-

During my lifetime I have had several narrow escapes from almost certain death. -more-