Measure T, the street light tax, was the only tax measure which didn’t pass Nov. 7. Although it got 63.3 percent of the vote, the measure needed at least 66.66 percent of the votes. But Berkeley won’t ...

Donald Trump started his second presidential term on January 20 th. Trump has made a lot of news, but what has he accomplished? Let us consider his campaign promises. The Economy: Trump defeated ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Berkeley Neighborhoods Council (BNC) is writing this letter because of deep concerns expressed by many Berkeley neighborhoods over the increasing threat to the well-being of residents and the ...

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? Berkeley ...

The tracks are long gone (replaced by a tidy bicycling and walking path that crosses the city while the Berkeley School has since taken up residence on the site of the old station building) but what ...

California’s most pre-eminent sculptor of the late 19 th century was both a disabled Berkeley man and one of the first artists from the then-young state to earn international attention and acclaim.

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. I was a child in the 1930s. We ...

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 ...

The East Bay's Non-commercial VoiceEDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a series about people and businesses that make things in Berkeley. People don’t often think of Berkeley as a factory town, but ...