The recent detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University, raises serious concerns about the suppression of political speech in America. Khalil, an ...

Society is bigoted and it is puritanical. The puritanism is not exclusive to the well-off. Many people who themselves have a disability are intolerant. They merely will find other things to hate.

In Donald Trump’s ethics: the ends justify the means. Trump believes that if the outcome of a policy is good then the actions that produced are morally acceptable no matter how many people are hurt in ...

He accused Zelensky of “gambling with World War III” and demanded more gratitude, despite Zelensky’s repeated thanks for American support. To further insult Zelensky, a member of Trump’s handpicked ...

AGENDA: 11. A. Public Hearing: Standard Conditions of Approval which means when does a building project require a public hearing/review and when is it an approval by staff with no public hearing, B.

When the EMBER Program comes back to council for the first reading on March 25, a fourth fire zone will be created. My takeaways from Fire Chief Sprague’s presentation at the February 11, 2025 4 pm ...

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 ...

Sunday, February 23, 2025: Online CA Democratic Party delegate voting ends at 6 pm, In person voting from 10 am – 2 pm at 1630 Bancroft Way. Monday, February 24, 2025: At 2:30 pm the Agenda Committee ...

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