Thanks to everyone who’s wondered what’s happened to the Planet in recent weeks. The short answer is that we’ve had a couple of family medical surprises which have occupied my time. I haven’t even ...

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 ...

Berkeley, California, is unique. In the 1960s it was hippie heaven. Anti-war political protests and the Free Speech movement flourished. Near the University of California, Berkeley, sidewalk vendors on ...

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 and locally owned shops has created an ...

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 ...

Since 1969, California has required that all local governments plan to meet the housing needs of everyone in the community regardless of income. The state required process for determining how many ...

During the extremely rainy weather in the Bay Area over the recent holidays, like many people I mostly stayed home. One of the ways I entertained myself was to take another look, perhaps for the ...

In the past, some psychologists theorized that schizophrenia passes from one generation to the next because the parents are or were "schizophrenogenic." This was a way of blaming parents for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 care of those who could not survive on ...