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 ...

Recall Alameda County DA Pamela Price . Districtwide 62.9% Yes . Berkeley 41.8% Yes . Berkeley Mayor . Adena Ishii, who has never held any elective office, came in first in 6 of 8 City Council ...

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 part of dark Blue California does not conform to the ...

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

The election to fill the vacant District 7 Council position is April 16. City Council Committees except the Agenda and Rules Committee and undefined “certain exceptions” are suspended until May 1.

I often think I should approach writing the Activist’s Diary like plein air painting by picking a .point in time and stopping, but the world and the City keep moving on while I write. I finished Naomi ...

After neighbors on Keeler showed up at the Transportation Commission on Thursday complaining about the condition of their street in the hills, I decided it was time for another drive into the Berkeley ...

The East Bay's Non-commercial Voice. If you haven’t been following the Hopkins Corridor Project, the redesign to replace parking with bike lanes along the section of Hopkins with the Monterey Market ...

Only 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 and beautiful creature will return ...

I was at a gas station this morning, a place I frequent (because I'm addicted to a product they sell), and an employee there made a remark that made me think. You can't judge a person by outward ...

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

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 ...