This past Sunday, I opted to spend my 1,492 nd sunny weekend afternoon in a darkened theatre, so I drove from Oakland through the Cold-to-Hot tunnel to the Dean Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut ...

Thanks to everyone who’s wondered what’s happened to the Planet in recent weeks. The short answer is that we’ve had a couple of family medical surprises which have occupied my time. I haven’t even ...

Introduction The 150-unit Hacienda is the ground zero poster child of Amy Julia Harris’ sensational expose of Richmond’s Housing Authority, so on Friday, February 21, I went to the scene of the crime ...

A year ago, Richard C. Blum, then the chairman of the regents of the University of California, spoke at the Milken Institute’s Global Conference 2009, held at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. The ...

Alperovitz's book, What Then Must We Do?, is published by Chelsea Green, a worker-owned company in Vermont.Gar Smith is the author of Nuclear Roulette, also published by Chelsea Green.Nuclear Roulette ...

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won 93.3% of the vote in Berkeley, or 93.7% if write-ins are not included. Donald Trump and his running mate received 4.0%, up from 3.2% in the 2016 election.

Our Eviction Notice May Be Due . The outbreak of the coronavirus may prove to be a Final Notice from our Planetary Landlord. If we can't learn to stop ripping apart the gown of nature in the pursuit ...

In modern day society in the U.S., with our level of technology, medicine, and economic opportunity, government and citizens are obliged by common ethics to take care of those who could not survive on ...

Monday August 23, 2010 - 03:07:00 PM “I love teaching the kids, seeing their eyes light up when they learn something. But it has to be done in a safe environment.” -- Darwin Greenwell For five months ...

In the past, some psychologists theorized that schizophrenia passes from one generation to the next because the parents are or were "schizophrenogenic." This was a way of blaming parents for the ...

Thursday May 10, 2012 - 12:22:00 PM This week, when the Berkeley City Council majority moved closer to approving new zoning that could line the edge of Berkeley’s Aquatic Park with up to 100 foot high ...

The trial of Derek Chauvin is getting started. The press writes articles searching for ways to say something unimportant about it. On Sunday, 3/28, an article in the SF Chronicle wonders if a “snap ...