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Recall Alameda County DA Pamela Price . Districtwide 62.9% Yes . Berkeley 41.8% Yes . Berkeley Mayor . Adena Ishii, who has never held any elective office, came in first in 6 of 8 City Council ...
The election to fill the vacant District 7 Council position is April 16. City Council Committees except the Agenda and Rules Committee and undefined “certain exceptions” are suspended until May 1.
I often think I should approach writing the Activist’s Diary like plein air painting by picking a .point in time and stopping, but the world and the City keep moving on while I write. I finished Naomi ...
The East Bay's Non-commercial Voice. If you haven’t been following the Hopkins Corridor Project, the redesign to replace parking with bike lanes along the section of Hopkins with the Monterey Market ...
Only a few weeks are left to see Berkeley’s beloved burrowing owl before it departs from its winter home at the water’s edge of Cesar Chavez Park. Whether this rare and beautiful creature will return ...
This series of articles on police militarization was initiated in response to the government (Dept. of Defense) policy of providing military equipment to local police departments. We have evaluated ...
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 ...
I was at a gas station this morning, a place I frequent (because I'm addicted to a product they sell), and an employee there made a remark that made me think. You can't judge a person by outward ...
The East Bay's Non-commercial Voice. 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 ...
When I first became severely psychotic in 1982, apparently my father realized he was in over his head in trying to deal with me alone, and believed I needed professional help. He first took me to an ...
I have a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago (received it at a time when the department was under the control of Milton Friedman). I didn’t enjoy my time at Chicago, but I did come away ...