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 ...

On my kitchen wall there’s a poster with a slogan from World War II Britain: “Keep Calm and Carry On.” In the wake of the recent presidential debate (also known as The Debacle), pundit wannabes could ...

I hope others share my personal reaction to Councilmember Ben Bartlett's latest District Three message, sent twice, which was horror and disappointment. I may be clearly wrong that people have gotten ...

The venerable Takács Quartet, formed in 1975 in Budapest, is now in its 49th year. Cellist András Fejer is the only current member who formed the original Takács Quartet when all its members were ...

After multiple stops and starts, I hope to finally get this off my desk. It has taken nearly three weeks from my first day of COVID episode two (the first was Delta in 2021) to feel normal again. I am ...

AGENDA: Use the link and choose the html option or see the agenda listed at the end of the calendar. AGENDA: 6. Presentation from the Berkeley Housing Authority on the Section 8 Program in Berkeley, 7 ...

Update: Councilmember Harrison has informed the Planet that she is continuing her campaign for Mayor of Berkeley. The election for that office is in November. I have decided to resign from the ...

Two disturbing responses to last night's City Council meeting. The first, Sophie Hahn's shocking statement at Kate Harrison's resignation. Ms Harrison carefully delineated her principled stand in her ...

The plight of hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians, now in Rafah, waiting for hours in line for minimal food, paints a distressing picture. The severe backlog of aid trucks at the Rafah ...

The recent resignation of Harvard University President Claudine Gay marks a disheartening moment for academia, raising critical concerns about the state of higher education. As the first African ...

According to reports in the Daily Cal, on the Berkeleyside website and in private communications with several civic sources, as many as 1400 police officers are expected to come to Berkeley in the ...

A crowd showed up at City Council on October 2, 2023. It was a new crowd, a young crowd, full of people who hadn’t been there before. And many of them appeared to be new to council’s procedures. There ...