The East Bay's Non-commercial Voice. 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 ...

[Editor's Note: This was received as a press release at 3 on Monday afternoon. A more complete article will follow. Berkeley Police Department Public Information Officer Jamie Perkins confirmed that ...

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 ...

Anyone who doubts that art can change the world should visit the Irish crochet lace show that just opened at the new Lacis Museum of Lace and Textiles in Berkeley. The first thing you’ll notice is 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.

On Monday, April 28, 2025, at 5 pm, the Berkeley City Council will consider the Ceasefire Resolution. passed by Berkeley’s Peace and Justice Commission last year on September 30 in an 8 to 7 vote. For ...

The East Bay's Non-commercial Voice. A world in which women can be drafted? That doesn't register. A gender-neutral draft is being saluted as a victory for women's rights, an open door that promises a ...

Postscript: There are few surviving photos of that first demonstration. A recent check with the Chronicle's photo archivist found no original surviving prints or negatives and no one knew how to ...

In my book, Eccentrics, Heroes, and Cutthroats of Old Berkeley, I presented the stories of 17 culturally important but largely forgotten local people of the 19th century. Other captivating stories I ...

I just saw Oliver Stone's Snowden, a film that Los Angeles Times movie critic Kenneth Turan characterized as an "unashamed mythologizing of Edward Snowden." NPR's David Edelstein, seeming to begrudge ...

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 ...