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Michael Pollan speaks on egg recall

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, [...]

Berkeley Bites: Lucia Sayre, Physicians for Social Responsibility

In many ways Lucia Sayre is your typical Berkeley resident: She has a fondness for farmers’ markets, growing her own greens, and eating local foods. As director of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, a nonprofit group that promotes public health policies, she wants to do more than make a [...]

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 [...]

Operation Frontline: Teaching the needy to cook in Bay Area communities

A couple of Saturdays ago, on a gorgeous sunny day when many Berkeleysiders were likely heading out for a hike, contemplating another coffee, or barely out of bed, I stopped by a cooking class taught at Ursula Sherman Village on Harrison Street, a transitional living facility for the  homeless in West Berkeley. Sponsored by Operation [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]