Most of the management criticisms in the articles were extracted from a HUD “PHARS Internal Summary of Assessment,” an internal memo dated June 18, 2012, largely based on 2011 data, which is by now ...

The East Bay's Non-commercial VoiceGar Alperovitz, currently a Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, has been writing books about wealth, democracy and national security for 48 ...

Among cities with populations over 100,000, Washington D.C., Cambridge, MA, and Oakland rank third, fourth and fifth in smallest percentage for Trump. Seattle is the largest city in the U.S. where ...

Some parallels can be drawn between forcing women to carry pregnancies against their will, and forcing people deemed mentally ill to receive medication and other treatment against their will. There ...

The East Bay's Non-commercial VoiceThe draft is a form of forced enslavement that has no part in a country that claims to be founded on "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." The Constitution ...

RHNA, Nexus Study, AMI In Lieu Fees Inclusionary Housing Requirements the Palmer Fix, Density Bonus, SB 330, Chart of Income Categories and Affordable Rents and where to go to stay current with ...

Yet, this should not include restrictions on upward mobility. It should not include the presumption or the requirement that we are incompetent. And it should not include lumping us into a category of ...

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

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

It’s a good sign when the testimonials on the back of a 440-page autobiography include the likes of Noam Chomsky, Ed Asner and Martin Sheen. But that only hints at the praise directed at S. Brian ...

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 ...

Opens October 21 at the Elmwood in Berkeley Filmmaker Craig Atkinson's dad was a Detroit-area cop for 29 years and a member of his town's first SWAT team in 1989. Both the filmmaker and his retired ...