The Opinion Pages

Editorials

Editorial: Annual Report

By Becky O'Malley
Tuesday April 01, 2008
The obits are everywhere this week: “Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive. Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable just four years ago.” -more-

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Tuesday April 01, 2008

Reader Commentaries

Commentary: Seeing the Positive Reality of Change in West Berkeley

By Steven Donaldson
Tuesday April 01, 2008
West Berkeley, according to a West Berkeley Artisans and Industrial Companies (WEBAIC), John Curl, Rick Auerbach and their host of experts at a recent meeting on the West Berkeley Plan and Sustainablity Berkeley, is a thriving industrial area in balance with the economy and the environment, supporting artists and living wage jobs. -more-

Commentary: Obama — Guilty By Association

By Jack Bragen
Tuesday April 01, 2008
It is not good enough for a presidential candidate to have the right views on the issues, they must not associate with anyone deemed offensive. This is the sort of intolerance and witch hunting that the media does in the United States to knock anyone down for any reason. -more-

Commentary: The Winter Soldier Investigation and our National Movement for Liberation and Popular Democracy

By Marc Sapir
Tuesday April 01, 2008
The town hall forum on the future of Media and the Pacifica Network, beautifully moderated by JR of the Prisoners of Conscience Committee (POCC) Block Report and held at Eastside Cultural Center in East Oakland on Friday (March 21) might be a watershed—or it might not. -more-