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Editorials
"Occupy Wall Street" Comes to Berkeley
10-05-2011
The Editor's Back Fence
Hancock Bill Extends Berkeley Solar Finance Scheme to State: Was it a Success or a Failure?
10-06-2011
UC Mines Our Brains for the Sake of Corporate Profit
10-04-2011
This is the Weekend Issue
10-01-2011
Bill Gutting CEQA Passed in Sacramento, Signed by Brown--
Skinner and Hancock Voted Yes
09-30-2011
Cartoons
Cartoon Page: Odd Bodkins: The Happy Couple
Dan O'Neill
10-04-2011
Public Comment
Beware the Hurry to Build at Haste and Telegraph
By Carol Denney
10-05-2011
How Berkeley Employee Costs Eat Up the Rest of the City's Budget
By David M. Wilson, Berkeley Budget SOS
10-04-2011
Pepper Spray Times
Grace Underpressure
10-04-2011
Official Statement from Occupy Wall Street
Forwarded by Estelle Jelinek
10-05-2011
Who has the Right to Remove Benches At Bus Stops? A Bus Stop Bench Story
By Lydia Gans
10-03-2011
Laura's Law Revisited: Response to Ralph Stone
By Jack Bragen
10-01-2011
Tom Friedman Tries to Scapegoat Baby Boomers -- He Should Remember That We Helped Forge American Prosperity
By Ruth Rosen
09-30-2011
News
Berkeley's New Smart Boot System: The Potential for Abuse (News Analysis)
By Thomas Lord
10-06-2011
Steve Jobs: Arab-American
By Shirin Sadeghi (New America Meda)
10-06-2011
Parking Ticket Scofflaws Take Note! Berkeley's About to Boot Your Car
By Thomas Lord
10-04-2011
Mumps Outbreak on UC Berkeley Campus Prompts Call for Vaccination Boosters
By Patricia Decker (BCN)
10-05-2011
Charles Rawson Collier, 1935-2011
10-05-2011
Updated: Nobel Prize News Wakes Berkeley Professor
By Jeff Shuttleworth(BCN
10-04-2011
Berkeley's Northbrae Neighborhood Called One of America's Great Places
10-04-2011
Updated: Daniels to be Interim Berkeley City Manager
10-04-2011
Press Release: UC Berkeley's Saul Perlmutter awarded 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics
From Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley Media Relations
10-04-2011
Press Release: Public Meetings Planned for AC Transit Redistricting Process
From Clarence Johnson, AC Transit Media Affairs Manager
10-03-2011
Does Signing a Petition Give Parents a Voice in Schools?
By David Bacon
10-03-2011
Dr. Toy's Best Toys
By Stevanne Auerbach, Ph.D.
10-03-2011
Columns
Senior Power: The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune. English proverb.
By Helen Rippier Wheeler
10-06-2011
American Pie: A Cautionary Tale About Three Sixth Grade Misfits
By Ruth Rosen
10-06-2011
Dispatches From The Edge: Why The Drone Wars Threaten Us All
By Conn Hallinan
10-04-2011
My Commonplace Book (a diary of excerpts copied from printed books, with comments added by the reader.)
By Dorothy Bryant
10-04-2011
On Mental Illness: The Expectation of Employment
By Jack Bragen
10-03-2011
The Public Eye: There is No Political Middle Ground
By Bob Burnett
09-30-2011
Senior Power… My Generation’s War
By Helen Rippier Wheeler
09-30-2011
Arts & Events
Berkeley Arts Festival Continues
By Bonnie Hughes
10-06-2011
American Teacher Has a Lesson: Superman Is a Myth; Teachers Are the Real Heroes
Review by Gar Smith
10-04-2011
Theater Review: Patience Worth by Symmetry Theatre Company
By Ken Bullock
10-05-2011
Friends of Negro Spirituals Heritage Day is Saturday
By Ken Bullock
10-05-2011
Press Release: Afghanistan Peace Day: On the 10-year anniversary of the US war in Afghanistan, the Afghan and American people call for peace.
From Adam Hudson and Fatima
10-04-2011
Eye From the Aisle: PHAEDRA at Shotgun Players—heart-rending, masterful drama
By John A. McMullen II
10-04-2011
BAY AREA CHILDREN’S THEATRE brings MAGIC SCHOOL BUS to life at Freight and Salvage thru Oct 23
By John A. McMullen
10-02-2011
Don't Miss This in October
By Dorothy Snodgrass
10-01-2011
Sarah Palin: You Betcha!
Film review by Gar Smith
09-30-2011