Berkeley Councilmember Jesse Arreguin takes a look early this morning on the computer at his Bancroft Street headquarters at the Alameda County Clerk's election results page, which shows that he's won his race for re-election.
Berkeley Councilmember Jesse Arreguin takes a look early this morning on the computer at his Bancroft Street headquarters at the Alameda County Clerk's election results page, which shows that he's won his race for re-election.

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Flash: KPFA Morning Show Staff Fired

Tuesday November 09, 2010 - 09:18:00 AM

The entire staff of the KPFA Morning Show has been fired. See the next issue, now in the process of being posted, for details and comments.. -more-



Press Release: AC Transit Bus Riders Demand Parity with Airline Customers

From urbanhabitat.org
Monday November 08, 2010 - 04:07:00 PM

Ten days after the second round of service cuts to AC Transit this year, bus riders and their allies will be joined by Alameda County Supervisors Keith Carson and Supervisor Nate Miley, Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin and other elected officials at a rally to launch the AC Transit Accountability Campaign. They will gather at 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 9 at 14th and Broadway in Oakland. The campaign aims to raise sufficient and sustainable funds to return AC Transit to its pre-2010 service levels. Bus riders are asking Alameda County's elected officials - from the local to the Congressional level - to join them and fight for AC Transit riders just like they fought for BART's Oakland airline travelers. -more-


Flash: Worthington Wins for Berkeley Council, Jean Quan Ahead for Oakland Mayor in Ranked Choice Decisions

Friday November 05, 2010 - 05:25:00 PM

The Alameda County Registrar of Voters has posted the unofficial results of the Ranked Choice Voting tallies in Berkeley and Oakland. -more-


Flash: Mehserle Gets Two Years

By Bay City News
Thursday November 04, 2010 - 10:05:00 PM

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge sentenced former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle to two years in state prison today for involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of unarmed passenger Oscar Grant III. -more-


Press Release: David Bacon at La Pena with Grandmothers Against the War

From Bonnie Hughes
Thursday November 04, 2010 - 10:01:00 PM

Photojournalist David Bacon: "Protecting Oil Companies and Attacking Unions -- US Policy in Iraq and the US", presented by Grandmothers Against the War and US Labor Against the War, 7 pm, Sunday, November 7, 2010; donation; La Peña Cultural Center; 3105 Shattuck Avenue,Berkeley, California -more-


Berkeley Police Arrest 17-year-old for Shooting Friend

By Allecia Vermillion (BCN)
Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 09:57:00 PM

A 17-year-old boy was arrested today in Berkeley in connection with the Saturday shooting of his teenage friend, a police spokeswoman said. -more-


Press Release: KPFA Workers To Picket Thursday to Oppose Cuts to a Quarter of Staff

From Mal Burnstein
Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 09:33:00 PM

Union workers at America’s first listener-sponsored radio station, KPFA 94.1 FM, have mobilized to oppose imminent dramatic cuts to KPFA staffing by their parent organization, the Pacifica Foundation. The Morning Show, Against the Grain, Hard Knock Radio, and the Evening News all appear slated for severe program changes and/or decimating cuts, which may include other vital positions at KPFA. The station has already cut nearly a fifth of its workforce over the past year. -more-



Page One

Updated: Incumbents Win Most Berkeley Races

Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 01:36:00 AM

Official Alameda County election results as of 1:30 a.m. show incumbent Councilmembers Jesse Arreguin, Gordon Wozniak and Linda Maio winning re-election in Districts 4, 8 and 1 respectively. Councilmember Kriss Worthington got 49.79% of the first place votes for District 7, so he’ll be trying to pick up about 6 more votes on Friday when third place finisher Ces Rosales’ votes are added to votes for Worthington or George Beier. -more-



Green Mayor Wins, Casino Loses In Richmond

By Bay City News
Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 10:33:00 AM

Voters in Richmond appear to have re-elected Gayle McLaughlin for a second term as the city's Mayor, according to complete unofficial election results. -more-



Elizabeth Warren Addresses the Savio Memorial Lecture at UC Berkeley

By Gar Smith
Tuesday November 02, 2010 - 12:57:00 PM

The 14th annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture () drew a huge crowd to UC Berkeley's Pauley Ballroom on Thursday, October 28. The event honors the memory and legacy of a remarkable student leader whose presence and passion became synonymous with the favor of the Free Speech Movement, which rocked the Berkeley campus in 1964. The unprecedented student sit-in and occupation of Sproul Hall — and the mass-arrest that followed — reverberated across the country challenging the established order of the Eisenhower years and triggering the social ferment that became known as "The Sixties." (For details, see the FSM Archives .) -more-



Press Release: U.C. Police Report Armed Robbery in the 2700 Block of Haste Street

From Mitchell J. Celaya III, Chief of Police
Tuesday November 02, 2010 - 01:03:00 PM

On Monday, November 1, 2010, at 3:05 a.m. two male UC students were walking on the 2700 block of Haste Street. The two noticed a male walking towards them. As the male walked past them he pulled out a semi-automatic handgun, pointed it at them and demanded their property. The victims complied and the suspect was last seen fleeing on foot westbound on Haste Street. BPD searched the area but was unable to find the suspect. The victims were not injured during this encounter. -more-



Second Suspect Charged in Berkeley Shooting

By Jeff Shuttleworth (BCN)
Monday November 01, 2010 - 09:52:00 PM

A second man has been charged with murder for the fatal shooting of Gary Ferguson Jr. near a Berkeley barbershop in broad daylight last week. -more-



Public Comment

Letters to the Editor

Monday November 01, 2010 - 09:10:00 PM

The King's English -more-


New: The Pepper Spray Times

By Grace Underpressure
Sunday November 07, 2010 - 12:10:00 PM

Editor's Note: The latest issue of the Pepper Spray Times is now available. -more-


Anti-Psychotic Medication: By Force or Choice?

By Jack Bragen
Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 10:45:00 AM

My upbringing wasn’t highly unusual. I believed I was much more different a person than I actually was. I was a fairly typical Jewish boy; shy with girls, intellectual, and ambitious. However, in high school, I was bullied to the extent that I wanted to get out of school and go to work early. This I did. However, my job wasn’t much to brag about, looking back on it. The job also caused me to be somewhat isolated. And at age seventeen, my behavior inexplicably became bizarre and dangerous. My older brother had exhibited mental problems at the same age. Now I was acting strange and bad enough that I was put into a mental hospital. -more-


Editorial

Avoiding the Inevitable

By Becky O'Malley
Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 10:25:00 AM

When Barack Obama won the presidency two years ago, the naysayers amongst us worried that the Bush financial tsunami was just about to crest, and that he and his party would be stuck with cleaning up the mess. Or even worse, that the Democrats would be blamed for it, even though the Republicans caused it.

Count me among the Cassandra crowd. (Recap: she was the ancient Greek who accurately predicted catastrophes but no one believed her.) And we were, of course, sadly, right. It was inevitable. And as predicted, the Democrats have paid in this election for the sins of George W. Bush and company. -more-


The Editor's Back Fence

New: Check Out These Links

Saturday November 06, 2010 - 11:28:00 PM

Frances Dinkelspiel on berkeleyside.com has a sensitive story about a Berkeley High freshman of 14 who was shot and killed by an older boy (17) who was supposedly his best friend. Reports in The Daily Californian and other publications differ slightly from this account. Berkeley police have yet to release much concrete information about this shooting--a number of questions are still unanswered. -more-


The Envelope Please!

Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 11:42:00 AM

The results of the Daily Planet’s Measure R cartoon contest have been tabulated.

Gar Smith is the winner by a nose, followed closely by Justin DeFreitas, with J.Epstein a very respectable third and Matt Breault and Joseph Young not far behind. -more-


Columns

The Public Eye: Election 2010: Remembering Weimar

By Bob Burnett
Monday November 01, 2010 - 05:20:00 PM

It’s been 77 years since Adolph Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, ending the fourteen-year democracy known as the Weimar Republic. A long time ago but painfully relevant as the November 2, 2010 elections near, because there are ominous parallels between Germany in 1933 and the United States in 2010. -more-


Dispatches From The Edge: Money Wars: Beating Up On Beijing?

By Conn Hallinan
Monday November 01, 2010 - 03:33:00 PM

Are the U.S. and China on a collision course? Consider the following: -more-


Senior Power: Death of “a prophetic visionary.”

By Helen Rippier Wheeler
Tuesday November 02, 2010 - 01:32:00 PM

Dr. Robert Neil Butler, M.D.-- psychiatrist-turned-gerontologist -- died in July. He was the first to articulate the concepts of "ageism" and of "productive aging." -more-


Cartoon Page: Odd Bodkins, BOUNCE

Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 04:57:00 PM

Arts & Events

Film Review: A Rare Glimpse Inside Sri Lanka’s Deadly War

By Gar Smith
Monday November 01, 2010 - 09:21:00 PM

Three young tourists, a woman and two male friends, travel to a distant and dangerous part of the world. They cross a restricted border and find their lives changed forever. This sounds like the saga of Sarah Shourd, Jeff and Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal but this is the story of another trio — three student journalists from Europe who crossed into the killing fields of Kilinochchi at the end of Sri Lanka’s bloody rampage against the LTTE — the Liberation Tigers. -more-


Eye from the Aisle: “Wonderfully Cheesy” DRACULA at Center Rep

By John A. McMullen II
Monday November 01, 2010 - 09:17:00 PM
Madeline H. D. Brown and Eugene Brancoveanu

At intermission, I spied this witty actress with whom I’ve worked, and asked her what she thought about the play. “Wonderfully cheesy!” she quipped. It was pithy and apropos. -more-


Eclectic Rant: Bob Dylan: "The Brazil Series" Paintings & Drawings in Copenhagen

By Ralph Stone
Monday November 01, 2010 - 05:15:00 PM

On our recent trip to Copenhagen, we visited the National Gallery of Denmark (Statens Museum for Kunst) for the first public showing of Bob Dylan's "The Brazil Series," 40 acrylic paintings and eight drawings he created during the period 2009-10. Yes, the Dylan of "Blowin' in the Wind," " Mr. Tambourine Man," and "Like a Rolling Stone" fame. Actually Dylan has been sketching most of his life. -more-


Eye from the Aisle: PENELOPE-- Graves is a Berkeley treasure!

By John A. McMullen II
Monday November 01, 2010 - 03:35:00 PM
Jan Zvaifler in the title role.

There is a wave of Iliad and Odyssey plays washing over the East Bay: the “Salt Plays” at Shotgun, and now PENELOPE’S ODYSSEY by Gary Graves at Central Works playing at the historic Berkeley City Club. -more-


Arts Listings

Stage-San Francisco Through November 14

Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 04:37:00 PM

Stage-East Bay Through November 14

Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 04:35:00 PM

Professional Dance-San Francisco Through November 14

Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 04:34:00 PM

Readings-East Bay Through November 14

Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 04:34:00 PM

Classical Music-San Francisco Through November 14

Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 04:25:00 PM

Classical Music-East Bay Through November 14

Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 04:11:00 PM

Events Listings

Popmusic-East Bay Through November 14

Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 04:33:00 PM

Outdoors-East Bay Through November 14

Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 04:32:00 PM

Museums-San Francisco Through November 14

Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 04:31:00 PM

Museums-East Bay Through November 14

Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 04:30:00 PM

Highlights-East Bay Through November 14

Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 04:29:00 PM

Kids-East Bay Through November 14

Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 04:29:00 PM

General-East Bay Through November 14

Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 04:28:00 PM

Exhibits-San Francisco Through November 14

Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 04:27:00 PM

Exhibits-East Bay Through November 14

Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 04:26:00 PM

Dance-East Bay Through November 14

Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 04:26:00 PM

Back Stories

Opinion

Editorials

Avoiding the Inevitable 11-03-2010

The Editor's Back Fence

New: Check Out These Links 11-06-2010

The Envelope Please! 11-03-2010

Cartoons

Cartoon Page: Odd Bodkins, BOUNCE 11-03-2010

Public Comment

Letters to the Editor 11-01-2010

New: The Pepper Spray Times By Grace Underpressure 11-07-2010

Anti-Psychotic Medication: By Force or Choice? By Jack Bragen 11-03-2010

News

Flash: KPFA Morning Show Staff Fired 11-09-2010

Press Release: Berkeley and National Delegation of Young Jews Challenge American Jewish Leadership At Jewish Federation General Assembly in New Orleans From Jewish Voice for Peace 11-08-2010

Press Release: AC Transit Bus Riders Demand Parity with Airline Customers From urbanhabitat.org 11-08-2010

Flash: Worthington Wins for Berkeley Council, Jean Quan Ahead for Oakland Mayor in Ranked Choice Decisions 11-05-2010

Flash: Mehserle Gets Two Years By Bay City News 11-04-2010

Press Release: David Bacon at La Pena with Grandmothers Against the War From Bonnie Hughes 11-04-2010

Berkeley Police Arrest 17-year-old for Shooting Friend By Allecia Vermillion (BCN) 11-03-2010

Press Release: KPFA Workers To Picket Thursday to Oppose Cuts to a Quarter of Staff From Mal Burnstein 11-03-2010

Updated: Incumbents Win Most Berkeley Races 11-03-2010

Green Mayor Wins, Casino Loses In Richmond By Bay City News 11-03-2010

Elizabeth Warren Addresses the Savio Memorial Lecture at UC Berkeley By Gar Smith 11-02-2010

Press Release: U.C. Police Report Armed Robbery in the 2700 Block of Haste Street From Mitchell J. Celaya III, Chief of Police 11-02-2010

Second Suspect Charged in Berkeley Shooting By Jeff Shuttleworth (BCN) 11-01-2010

Columns

The Public Eye: Election 2010: Remembering Weimar By Bob Burnett 11-01-2010

Dispatches From The Edge: Money Wars: Beating Up On Beijing? By Conn Hallinan 11-01-2010

Senior Power: Death of “a prophetic visionary.” By Helen Rippier Wheeler 11-02-2010

Arts & Events

Stage-San Francisco Through November 14 11-03-2010

Stage-East Bay Through November 14 11-03-2010

Professional Dance-San Francisco Through November 14 11-03-2010

Readings-East Bay Through November 14 11-03-2010

Classical Music-San Francisco Through November 14 11-03-2010

Classical Music-East Bay Through November 14 11-03-2010

Film Review: A Rare Glimpse Inside Sri Lanka’s Deadly War By Gar Smith 11-01-2010

Eye from the Aisle: “Wonderfully Cheesy” DRACULA at Center Rep By John A. McMullen II 11-01-2010

Eclectic Rant: Bob Dylan: "The Brazil Series" Paintings & Drawings in Copenhagen By Ralph Stone 11-01-2010

Eye from the Aisle: PENELOPE-- Graves is a Berkeley treasure! By John A. McMullen II 11-01-2010

Popmusic-East Bay Through November 14 11-03-2010

Outdoors-East Bay Through November 14 11-03-2010

Museums-San Francisco Through November 14 11-03-2010

Museums-East Bay Through November 14 11-03-2010

Highlights-East Bay Through November 14 11-03-2010

Kids-East Bay Through November 14 11-03-2010

General-East Bay Through November 14 11-03-2010

Exhibits-San Francisco Through November 14 11-03-2010

Exhibits-East Bay Through November 14 11-03-2010

Dance-East Bay Through November 14 11-03-2010