W: Vote your conscience. Adds two higher tiers to 2018’s homeless-services tax (Measure P), and makes the tax permanent, removing voter oversight. The City Council has so far used these funds to ...

YES Proposition 3, Right to Marry and Repeal Proposition 8 Amendment. A "yes" vote supports this constitutional amendment to repeal Proposition 8 (2008), which defined marriage as a union between one ...

It is time for the United States to follow France’s lead and work towards a just peace, not by fueling violence, but by advocating for a ceasefire and a path to dialogue. The lives of so many ...

Five years ago, October, 2019, trump surrendered to Turkey's strongman, Erdogan, pulling our troops that were guarding our Kurd allies, who successfully defeated ISIS, from Northern Syria. That left a ...

The Night We Lost Him Laura Dave (5 stars) A mystery set in New York City and Carpinteria, California. A well written mystery that centers around the death of a famous hotel magnate, Liam Noone. His ...

And a "mental illness" is a medically caused illness. No one should be ashamed of that. It should not invoke the disrespect of others. And when someone says something insulting, condescending, or that ...

Powerful Much has been made (and rightly) of Joe Biden's shuffling walk and bumbling speech but he could now be seen as one of the most powerful leaders on Earth. All thanks to the Supreme Court. Much ...

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Worth Noting: Yom Kippur Jewish Holiday begins at sundown Friday, October 11 and ends at nightfall on Saturday, October 12. The next City Council meeting is October 15 at 6 pm. The agenda is available ...

These days there’s no shortage of long, literate comments offered to the Berkeley Daily Planet. They are about a variety of topics, but sooner or later almost all gravitate toward the same area: the ...