Tuesday, October 15, 2024 was an interesting day starting in the afternoon with the Agenda Committee and ending in the evening with the Berkeley City Council. At the Agenda Committee the alternate, ...

The dialogues between Athena and the others are barbed and witty. The scenes, or sequences of action that mingle with words, go by quickly, but with the same wit & stamp of relevance as Athena does, ...

Jack Bragen writes often for The Street Spirit News, The San Francisco Street Sheet, and, of course the Berkeley Daily Planet. His work has also appeared in San Jose Mercury, Bewildering Stories and ...

Monday, September 30, 2024 was the long overdue meeting of the Peace and Justice Commission on a “Resolution for an Immediate and Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza, and an End to U.S. Military Aid to Israel ...

The community-sponsored Measure GG would build on these wins and reclaim Berkeley’s mantle of climate leadership. It would provide permanent funding for electrification over 25 years, supplying ⅔ of ...

Amid this horrific scenario, the heroes are the doctors who have vowed to stay with their patients, many breathing their last, defying the inhumane demands of Prime Minister Netanyahu.

W: Vote your conscience. Adds two higher tiers to 2018’s homeless-services tax (Measure P), and makes the tax permanent, removing voter oversight. The City Council has so far used these funds to ...

It seems like the national news media is hanging in anxious anticipation for that “October Surprise” event, revelation, or catastrophe that will swing the Presidential election one way or the other.

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The Electorate: In the United States, there are more than 160 million registered voters. The latest Gallup poll says that 40 percent identify as Independent, 30 percent as Democrat, and 29 percent as ...

YES Proposition 3, Right to Marry and Repeal Proposition 8 Amendment. A "yes" vote supports this constitutional amendment to repeal Proposition 8 (2008), which defined marriage as a union between one ...

This proposal is nothing more than a giant giveaway to BioTech, National Defense and Big Pharma — industries that already profit from government grants and venture capital funding, and that aren't an ...