For so long I’ve wanted Berkeley to live up to its history. Instead on October 24, 2023, Richmond, California, was first city in the nation to call for a ceasefire in the Israel Gaza war. San ...

While Trump got trounced, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris did not do as well in Berkeley as previous Democratic presidential candidates. Berkeley is not number one in percentage of votes for Harris ...

Don Macleay Wednesday November 13, 2024 - 04:20:00 PM Here in Oakland California, we had our own slip into darkness on election day. Our local version of the reactionary backlash in the deep Democrat ...

The East Bay's Non-commercial VoiceMonday, 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 ...

The map opens to the entire state of California. Typing Berkeley into the box with the magnifier will center it over Berkeley. By clicking on the + symbol the map can be enlarged to the point where ...

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

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 ...

“We hope that Governor Newsom recognizes that SB118 will hurt students more than help and not sign this bill. UC Berkeley does not have the capacity to handle more students, and more than 10% of ...

When I was a young man, an eighteen-year-old, to be exact, I was psychotic, and I was unaware that what you do can have consequences. Some consequences of actions, even actions taken at the tender age ...

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 ...

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 ...

If this system of paid parking is implemented, the cost of parking to everyone who doesn’t have an A permit will rise. If there are other nearby areas that don’t impose this parking fee, then some of ...