President Trump’s recent proposal regarding Gaza, outlined in a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has sparked global outrage. His suggestion that the U.S. should “own” ...
It’s been quite a week. On Monday, February 3, 2025 when I called in to the Berkeley Council’s Land Use, Housing & Economic Development Committee to make a non-agenda comment, I said I had been ...
Lying may not be unique to human beings. I can vaguely recall seeing an animal documentary, in which some animal essentially lied in specific scenarios--for purposes of survival. I don't recall what ...
The word on the street is “watch what they do, not what they say”. Except when it’s “believe them when they tell you what they’re going to do”. Or try Dorothy Parker’s phone greeting: “what fresh hell ...
Here’s an interesting four-part take on Berkeley politics which ran on San Francisco’s 48hills.org site. The author, Zelda Bronstein, is a Berkeley resident, a former Berkeley planning commissioner ...
n one of Donald Trump’s first acts in office, he stripped away protections for schools, hospitals, and places of worship from immigration enforcement. These were once safe spaces where people could ...
Donald Trumps third week in the oval office was characterized by three major failures: tariffs, foreign policy, and negative court orders. The number of Trump executive orders diminished as Trump ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025: At 3 pm is the 3x3 Committee meeting in the hibrid format on housing. From 4 – 5:30 pm is the Alcatraz/Adeline Restroom meeting on zoom.