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 ...

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 ...

EDITOR’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 manufacturing has been going on here ...

Berkeley Harris 52,902 89.8% Trump 3,032 5.1% Stein 1,593 2.7% Others 1,399 2.4% Among U.S. cities with populations of 100,000 or more, Berkeley has the lowest vote percentage for Trump, with Trump ...

A recently-revealed account of the founding of People’s Park, the south-of-campus former political battleground which celebrates its 35th birthday today as the archetype of ‘60s radicalism, alleges ...

In modern day society in the U.S., with our level of technology, medicine, and economic opportunity, government and citizens are obliged by common ethics to take care of those who could not survive on ...

In the past, some psychologists theorized that schizophrenia passes from one generation to the next because the parents are or were "schizophrenogenic." This was a way of blaming parents for the ...

Resurrecting a book is probably like raising Lazarus. It can happen, but only with a little divine intervention. On the other hand, there are scientifically documented cases—like Their Eyes Were ...