A gas leak in the area of Panoramic Way and Orchard Lane near the University of California at Berkeley football stadium has caused authorities to shut off gas for residences above nearby Bancroft Way for most of the day today, Berkeley police said. -more-
Three men have been arrested on suspicion of home invasion robbery and other crimes for allegedly taking items from two University of California at Berkeley students at gunpoint on Tuesday afternoon, police said. -more-
On April 3, 2018 at 12:32pm, two Cal Berkeley students were walking into an apartment building on the 2600 block of Regent Street when they were approached by two men who had been loitering nearby with a group of men. One of the two suspects produced a handgun and demanded the victims’ property. Following the robbery the suspects fled southbound on Regent Street.
Officers flooded the area and within minutes stopped three men who matched the descriptions provided by the victims. One of the three was found in possession of a loaded, semi-automatic handgun with an extended magazine. He was also found in possession of stolen property belonging to one of the victims.
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Trumper Tantrums
Under the March 25 headline "Trump's impulses threaten White House credibility," Pennsylvania Republican Charlie Dent observed how Donald Trump's "lack of impulse control" was proving a problem for politicians "on both sides of the aisle." And then Dent got specific, citing Trump's long history of "disorder, chaos, instability, uncertainty, intemperate statements."
You might say Trump's reputation has been seriously Dented. Which brings us to the appointment of John Bolton.
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The weekly summary is a voluntary civic commitment in the hope that you can be just a little better informed. Local does matter. The summary isn’t just for you, I use it too throughout the week deciding which of the many City meetings need attention. My apologies for the late post. The packets for the coming week are especially thick. -more-
A puma (mountain lion) was spotted early Monday morning on the Clark Kerr campus of the University of California at Berkeley, university police said. -more-
A woman who died after being hit by an Amtrak train in Berkeley last week has been identified.
Brianna Combash, 31, was riding a bike when she was struck and killed by a passenger train on Tuesday night, according to Amtrak and the Alameda County coroner's bureau.
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If you’ve been exposed to the New Testament, either in church or just Bible as Literature class, you might recall that as Jesus was dying on the cross he invited one of the thieves who were being killed at his side to join him in Paradise that day. The lesson we were supposed to learn from that verse (Luke 23:43), at least at my school, is that no one is beyond forgiveness, that it’s never too late to repent. -more-
If you’re thirsting to understand our increasingly cold, jaundiced, at times carcinogenic society, James Baldwin’s singular insight about America and his dizzying, divine command of the English language are as refreshing as an icy elixir on the hottest day in hell. -more-
General H.R. McMaster is resigning as national security adviser to be replaced by the ultra-hawkish, bomb throwing, John Bolton. This spells doom for US foreign policy. Bolton has openly backed war against Iran and North Korea, and was a prominent supporter of the “shock and awe” U.S. invasion of Iraq, to this day – which was the worst foreign policy decision in decades squandering trillions of dollars and sending thousands of Americans and millions of Iraqis’ to their early graves. He has openly backed bombing Iran and North Korea which might spell the early demise of the planet. He and his unstable future boss are a clear and present danger. -more-
As a former member of the San Francisco Shelter Monitoring Committee and a former Social Worker at the Homeless Advocacy Project, I have seen first hand the need for more supportive housing for those with mental and physical health conditions. Actually, anyone living on the street for any length of time is bound to develop a mental or physical problem. The mentally ill and those with physical conditions should be a priority in any plan to homelessness in San Francisco. -more-
Most persons who've been hit with a psychiatric diagnosis aren't in a position to dictate the conditions under which we live. This is a hardship, because many environments we may live in aren't favorable to recovery. -more-
As the Mueller probe continues, there's new evidence about the interaction between the Trump campaign, a sinister British political consulting firm -- Cambridge Analytica, and Facebook. They collaborated to steal the 2016 election. By the way, there's a Russia connection. -more-
To my mind, Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor, composed in 1902, is without doubt the greatest symphony of the twentieth century, rivaled only by Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. I might even claim that Mahler’s Fifth is the greatest symphony since Beethoven, rivaled only by the Brahms Fourth. Rankings aside, however, no one, I believe, can hear Mahler’s Fifth Symphony in a live performance by a top-level orchestra and come away unmoved and unimpressed. Surely everyone who heard one of the four performances this week of Mahler’s Fifth by San Francisco Symphony came away with a sense of awe and appreciation for this giant of a symphony. (Due in part to its 75-minute length, but also because of its bold ambitions and enormous wealth of detail, Mahler’s Fifth is often nicknamed the “Giant.”) -more-
