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Friday November 01, 2024 - 01:35:00 PM. Sophie Hahn’s recent election email message “Expanding Our Parks and Green Spaces!” takes her to new heights of hypocrisy and certainly brings into question her other campaign goals. Just start with the first sentence – “As Berkeley grows, it’s essential to invest in public spaces that serve ...
Don't trust anyone over 30, unless it's Jack Weinberg
Apr 6, 2000 · The man who coined the phrase “Don’t trust anyone over 30” turned 60 years old Tuesday. Jack Weinberg uttered the phrase – which became one of the most memorable expressions of the turbulent 1960s era – during the height of …
Life before Vaccines: Growing up in the 1930s and 40s
Aug 30, 2019 · The East Bay's Non-commercial Voice. Medical science has profoundly changed our lives. I am sure that I would not have survived to this old age without antibiotics, advances in epidemiology and surgery.
Famed Deaf Sculptor Died 75 Years Ago in Berkeley
Aug 3, 2010 · Famed Deaf Sculptor Died 75 Years Ago in Berkeley. Tilden in 1903, when he was near the height of his success and popularity. Tilden’s “Football Players” on the Cal campus is the oldest piece of permanent outdoor sculpture on the University grounds. Thirty years ago Tilden’s “Bear Hunt” statue was plucked by a crane from the ...
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Nov 1, 2024 · The East Bay's Non-commercial Voice. One day before the presidential election (November 4, 2024), the Chronicle published the Open Forum piece: Trump’s power could go unchecked by Erwin Chemerinsky, preeminent liberal Constitutional Law scholar and dean of the UC Berkeley School of law.Surely, no one who read the piece learned anything they did not already know about Trump.
Nature Shows Its Right Angles - Berkeley Daily Planet
Sep 7, 2012 · Features. Nature Shows Its Right Angles. Gertrude Stein's observation, "There is no straight line in nature," has prompted critics to supply a long list of nature's linear rebuttals—the path of a falling acorn on a windless day, the flat membrane that forms at the merging of two soap-bubbles, the hexagonal walls of a honeycomb, the edge of a ...
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May 9, 2021 · Item 23 on the Berkeley council’s May 11 agenda is a request from Councilmember Kate Harrison that the council endorse Roadmap Home 2030 and send state legislators a letter urging them to adopt the recommendations of the plan. For reasons detailed below, Harrison should pull the item, wait until the community has vetted Roadmap Home 2030 in its entirety, and then decide whether she still ...
Pink Man returns to Berkeley in multimedia show
May 30, 2002 · It seems to work. Several years ago, Pink Man was named “Favorite Local Character” in a San Francisco Chronicle readers’ poll—no small feat when you consider the multitude of colorful personalities thronging the Bay Area. And now he’s appearing on stage. “I Wheel,” an original multimedia performance, is at the Live Oak Theater May ...
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Dec 19, 2001 · By John Geluardi Daily Planet staff. Wednesday December 19, 2001. It’s 1:30 p.m. on a chilly afternoon at the south end of Aquatic Park, and about 15 men are engaging in a long-standing tradition in the remote and secluded area – cruising for casual sex with strangers. The small parking lot at the end of Bolivar Drive is filled with cars.
Local News and Opinion from The Berkeley Daily Planet
Jan 12, 2021 · On December 8, the Berkeley City Council made its most important land use decision of 2020: It approved the Adeline Corridor Plan, authorizing much greater density in a historically Black neighborhood that has undergone significant gentrification and displacement. The plan area encompasses 86 acres along Adeline Street and Shattuck Avenue ...