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 ...

On March 20, the United Nations published its annual World Happiness Report, naming Finland as "the happiest country in the world for the seventh year in a row" while (in the words of the New York ...

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 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 ...

If you enjoy the weekly Chavez Park Conservancy newsletter, you may have read about a remarkable bird called a Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) that recently visited our shoreline. It forages for ...

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), ...

It seems like every time I sit down to finish my Activist’s Diary something new drops. Now I find myself two weeks behind with public participation in city meetings on the chopping block, and the most ...

It has begun. The race for the California State Senate seat is on. Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin will be filling out his dance card in his run for State Senate. Nancy ...

Only a few weeks are left to see Berkeley’s beloved burrowing owl before it departs from its winter home at the water’s edge of Cesar Chavez Park. Whether this rare and beautiful creature will return ...

The Hopkins Corridor Plan promoted by biking extremists who have captured key City officials, departments, and politicians has caused a huge increase in the civic awareness of many normally placid ...

You may have heard the astounding statistic estimating that about one in four adults suffer from some type of mental condition in a given year. Additionally, if my memory serves me, one in three ...