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 ...

Berkeley City Hall’s efforts to enable the University of California's expansion in Berkeley have taken a new turn. Having already facilitated the school’s colonization of residential areas in ...

Now that I have been so slow to finish off this Activist’s Diary and fallen into covering two weeks of meetings, it feels like the world has shifted again. Trump’s visit with Viktor Orban at ...

It is clear from his comportment that the Mayor has lost his ethical way. He pockets his rules, yet doesn’t see that he leaves himself with nothing. He doesn’t know how to escape this; he feels those ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first week of August was a perfect kind of week. The Berkeley City Council was on summer recess and so were most of the boards and commissions. Trump was finally indicted for his attempted coup ...

I have not trained myself to have an arsenal of insulting language, or defenses from foresaid from other people ready to be delivered whenever the moment calls for it or when I think I can get away ...

In Berkeley, they say that it is better to refer to the homeless as "houseless" because it describes living on the street without derogatory connotations. It implies one has residency in the town, a ...

If you haven’t been following the Hopkins Corridor Project, the redesign to replace parking with bike lanes along the section of Hopkins with the Monterey Market and locally owned shops has created an ...

In Berkeley (California), there is a struggle against developers for the preservation of People’s Park, a memorial to decades of opposition to police violence and brutality. In Atlanta (Georgia), ...

Look how far we’ve come in thirty years. In 1993 the movie that won the Academy Award for Best Makeup, the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, the Golden Globe Award for ...