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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 ...
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 ...
Life before Vaccines: Growing up in the 1930s and 40s
Aug 30, 2019 · The East Bay's Non-commercial Voice. Medical science has profoundly changed our lives. I am sure that I would not have survived to this old age without antibiotics, advances in epidemiology and surgery.
Nature Shows Its Right Angles - Berkeley Daily Planet
Sep 7, 2012 · Features. Nature Shows Its Right Angles. Gertrude Stein's observation, "There is no straight line in nature," has prompted critics to supply a long list of nature's linear rebuttals—the path of a falling acorn on a windless day, the flat membrane that forms at the merging of two soap-bubbles, the hexagonal walls of a honeycomb, the edge of a ...
Features - Berkeley Daily Planet
Aug 19, 2005 · The East Bay's Non-commercial Voice. What should progressives do when confronted with the fact that they live in a city that honors a figure who has advocated beliefs or committed acts that progressives would normally condemn?
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
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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 ...
Features - Berkeley Daily Planet
Feb 18, 2005 · When I think of my great-grandfather, Walter Gordon, two memories come to mind. One of them was when I was in the fourth grade attending Malcolm X Elementary School in Berkeley.
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Jan 26, 2002 · The East Bay's Non-commercial Voice. High on a Berkeley hillside stands an unusual structure. Called Temple of Wings it served as the home and dance studio for Florence Treadwell Boynton and later for her daughter and son-in …
10 Questions for Oakland Councilmember Desley Brooks
May 8, 2008 · 1. Where were you born and where did you grow up, and how does that affect how you regard the issues in Oakland and in your district? I was born in New Orleans.