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Friday November 01, 2024 - 01:35:00 PM. Sophie Hahn’s recent election email message “Expanding Our Parks and Green Spaces!” takes her to new heights of hypocrisy and certainly brings into question her other campaign goals. Just start with the first sentence – “As Berkeley grows, it’s essential to invest in public spaces that serve ...
Don't trust anyone over 30, unless it's Jack Weinberg
Apr 6, 2000 · The man who coined the phrase “Don’t trust anyone over 30” turned 60 years old Tuesday. Jack Weinberg uttered the phrase – which became one of the most memorable expressions of the turbulent 1960s era – during the height of …
Elect Margot Smith for State Assembly - Berkeley Daily Planet
Feb 25, 2024 · Margot Smith for Assembly FPPC #146308 P. O. Box 9419, Berkeley, CA 94709 . [email protected] 510-660-5508
Alleged Problem Cops Leave BPD. Category: Page One from The …
Mar 2, 2007 · By Judith Scherr. Friday March 02, 2007. Two problem cops, apparently friends, have left the Berkeley Police Department. Officers Steven Fleming and Sean Derry, both 30 years old, were put on paid administrative leave in August, before leaving the department, having allegedly committed very different offenses, according to Chief Doug Hambleton ...
Reza Valiyee, a Man of Perpetual Motion - Berkeley Daily Planet
Thursday August 20, 2009 - 11:13:00 AM. Richard Brenneman. Reza Valiyee, a landlord with a long history of building without city permits on some of his 22 Berkeley properties, blocks the lens of a reporter’s camera. Reza Valiyee claims to have invented what physicists have long declared impossible: the perpetual motion machine.
Famed Deaf Sculptor Died 75 Years Ago in Berkeley
Aug 3, 2010 · Famed Deaf Sculptor Died 75 Years Ago in Berkeley. Tilden in 1903, when he was near the height of his success and popularity. Tilden’s “Football Players” on the Cal campus is the oldest piece of permanent outdoor sculpture on the University grounds. Thirty years ago Tilden’s “Bear Hunt” statue was plucked by a crane from the ...
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Aug 8, 2013 · In the early hours of June 18, Michael Hastings was found dead in the flaming wreckage of his car. The 33-year-old journalist was, perhaps, best known for the 2010 Rolling Stone cover story that ended the career of Army General Stanley McChystal. According to initial press reports, Hastings was driving south on Los Angeles' North Highland Avenue when he "apparently lost control of [his car ...
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Dec 19, 2001 · By John Geluardi Daily Planet staff. Wednesday December 19, 2001. It’s 1:30 p.m. on a chilly afternoon at the south end of Aquatic Park, and about 15 men are engaging in a long-standing tradition in the remote and secluded area – cruising for casual sex with strangers. The small parking lot at the end of Bolivar Drive is filled with cars.
Anti-Israelism: Only in Berkeley By JOHN GERTZ
Sep 20, 2005 · Right! Only in Berkeley. Raging anti-Israelism is a study in such nuttiness. As far as I am aware, this is unique in all the country to our fair city and seems to rest on a confluence of four intertwined sources: 1) The Peace and Justice Commission, which was until recently peopled almost exclusively by Berkeley’s radical left.
Memoir follows untimely death - Berkeley Daily Planet
Aug 15, 2002 · Memoir follows untimely death. By David Scharfenberg, Daily Planet Staff. Thursday August 15, 2002. “When I’m in the air on a clear day, I don’t want it to end. When I’m on the ground I can’t wait to be back up in the sky,” wrote Barbara Cushman Rowell for her forthcoming memoir, “Flying South: A Pilot’s Inner Journey,” from ...