Local food expert Michael Pollan was on CNN Monday night explaining why no one should be surprised that 550 million eggs have been recalled because they may have been tainted by salmonella. Salmonella in eggs can be linked back to the 1970s and 1980s when industrial farmers started crowding chickens together to streamline their growth, [...]
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Arnieville disability protest to be dismantled
A month after they set up a tent encampment on a median on Adeline, the Arnieville protestors are closing up camp – but they are not abandoning their cause. While there will no longer be a cluster of tents along one of Berkeley’s busiest streets, those protesting proposed state budget cuts to in-house aides will [...]
Some Berkeley city offices to close two days a month
Some Berkeley city offices will be closed two Fridays a month, as well as the week between Christmas and New Years, under the $318 million city budget adopted Tuesday night by the City Council. The customer counter at 1947 Center Street, as well as city offices at 2180 Milvia Street, will be closed 29 days [...]
Comment: When Tom met Shirley in support of pools
Robert Collier, co-chair of the Berkeley Pools Campaign, writes about this week’s press conference for Measure C, which is on the ballot in next Tuesday’s election. At a press conference late Tuesday, Mayor Tom Bates and former Mayor Shirley Dean temporarily set aside their longtime rivalry to join forces in denouncing the anti-Measure C campaign. “We’ve [...]
Berkeley’s Pollan in Time 100
There’s something decidedly random about Time’s annual celebration of the “100 most influential people in the world”. Does anyone really think Scott Brown is one of the 50 most influential senators, to say nothing of top 100 in the world? Golfer Phil Mickelson? Really? But it’s nice that Berkeley gets a look in. Our own [...]
Comment: Measure C creates a legacy
Robert Collier lives in North Berkeley and is co-chair of the Berkeley Pools Campaign. He writes about the intensifying campaign for Measure C: In Berkeley, local folk know it’s election season when the city’s streets begin to be garlanded with election signs supporting one or another candidate or ballot measure. By that standard, this weekend [...]
No nude, peacock-feather massages for Berkeley
If you’ve ever wondered about the origin of the word “wellness”, wonder no more. In his Sunday On Language column in the New York Times Magazine, Ben Zimmer explores the subject in depth. And, interestingly, there’s a strong Berkeley connection to the answer. In 1984, Tom Dickey launched the Berkeley Wellness Letter, a monthly newsletter [...]
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Comment: the truth about the pools bond
Yesterday, Berkeleyside published an anti-pools bond comment by Marie Bowman. Robert Collier, co-chair of the Berkeley Pools Campaign, writes that there were numerous errors of fact in Bowman’s comment and he feels he’s in a “closed loop” where every statement requires immediate correction: In Washington, D.C. and around the country, conservatives are hoping they can [...]