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Op-Ed: Activists disappointed by Cal moves at Gill Tract
People in Occupy the Farm work on the Gil Tract in Albany. Photo: Occupy the Farm Activists who have been advocating for an urban farm at the Gill Tract in Albany say they are disappointed by a recent...
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Outgoing Rent Board Commissioner: ‘More work to do’
Igor Tregub: sits on the Housing Advisory Commission Reflecting on his four years of service, outgoing Berkeley Rent Board Commissioner Igor Tregub looks back, in an Opinionator piece published today,...
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Op-Ed: Wider sidewalks would revitalize Southside
Bancroft Way near Telegraph Avenue. Photo: Charles Siegel Berkeley resident and environmental activist Charles Siegel argues, in an Opinionator piece published today, that a key step on the way to...
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Op/Ed: It’s time to act on homelessness in Berkeley
At the November elections Berkeley voters rejected Measure S, a controversial proposal that would have banned sitting on commercial sidewalks. City Councilman Jesse Arreguín believes it’s important to...
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Op/Ed: Berkeley must restore the mural in Ohlone Park
A section of the Ohlone Park mural. Photo: Bill Newton Twenty years ago the late Dona Spring, a City Council member, asked Stephen Most to find an American Indian artist to paint a mural on the BART...
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Op-Ed: A BHS senior caught in Boston lockdown reflects
Jalena Keane-Lee Jalena Keane-Lee, a senior in Berkeley High’s International Baccalaureate program, left Berkeley on Thursday to visit two of the colleges to which she had been accepted: Barnard in New...
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Op-Ed: False alarms take up valuable Berkeley police time
Burglar alarms, in particular silent ones, result in wasted police time. Photo: ell brown/Creative Commons More than 6,000 police dispatches are made annually to homes and business when sensors are...
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Op-Ed: Berkeley needs a year-round youth shelter
Bed and belongings in the YEAH shelter, photographed on the final morning before the summer closure Last week, Berkeley’s only youth shelter closed its doors for the summer, as it does every year....
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Op/Ed: City must keep the fair redistricting map in play
The Berkeley Neighborhoods Council map Last month the Berkeley City Council considered seven submitted maps that aim to adjust council district boundaries to correct for population and demographic...
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Op-Ed: Minimum wage process must be questioned
Photo: Zoetnet/CC The city of Berkeley is considering raising its minimum wage. In his recommendation to the city’s Labor Commission, which has been studying the issue, Mayor Tom Bates asked the panel...
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Op-Ed: What June 26 meant for me
Dawn and Audrey On June 26, two pieces of legislation related to same-sex marriage made history and had an immediate impact on thousands of families across the country. In an Opinionator piece...
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Op-Ed: It’s time to lift the floor for all low-wage workers
As the city of Berkeley considers raising the minimum wage in line with related policy changes in San Francisco, Van Nguyen argues, in an Opinionator piece published today, that a higher minimum wage...
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Protesters told to leave steps of Berkeley post office
Friday night was movie night for the protesters camped out at the Main Post Office at 2000 Allston Way. Photo: Ted Friedman After spending almost a week sleeping in tents pitched on the steps of the...
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Op-Ed: Save the post office by finding a new use for it
Post Office. Photo: DH Parks Ever since news broke that the U.S. Postal Service had plans to sell Berkeley’s main post office on Allston Way, city and state officials, community activists, and...
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Op-Ed: Turn post office into European-style market
The Berkeley Downtown Post Office. Photo: Daniel Parks Ever since news broke that the U.S. Postal Service had plans to sell Berkeley’s main post office on Allston Way, city and state officials,...
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Op-Ed: We need to work together for a safer community
Photo: Anshul Nigham/CC Last week, Adena Ishii, a senior student at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, was mugged in the street close to where she lives. A bystander saw what was happening and did...
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Op-Ed: City must be creative in new use for Post Office
Protesters camped outside the downtown Berkeley Post Office to show their opposition to its sale. Photo: Eden Teller The U.S. Postal Service is set to list Berkeley’s downtown Post Office for sale....
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Op-Ed: Why we moved our startup from SF to Berkeley
Downtown Berkeley. Photo: Tracey Taylor Sure, San Francisco is a diverse, exciting city with good coffee, but there are several reasons why Berkeley is a more attractive proposal for startups, argues...
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Op-Ed: We need transit to get kids to Tom Bates fields
The Tom Bates Regional Sports Complex Nancy Humphrey, a soccer mom who drives to the Tom Bates Regional Sports Complex in West Berkeley several times a week, acknowledges that the fields have been a...
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Op-Ed: City should approve new affordable housing project
Photo: Ted Friedman How can we end homelessness in Berkeley? The answer is more housing — specifically more affordable housing, according to Jason Budge, who argues the point in an Opinionator piece...
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