At 8:30 am, June 23, 1995, a loud knock rattled the door of my home in Berkeley, California. One look at the two dour faces and four highly polished shoes tipped me that it wasn't the Jehovah's Witnesses. "FBI!" both men announced, simultaneously flashing badges: "We've received a tip that you may be the Unabomber. We'd like to ask you some questions." There is a sign on our door that reads: "Please remove shoes before entering house." I invited the agents to come inside—after shucking their shoes. As I exp
Berkeley holds a special place, deserved or not, as a city of liberal / progressive ideas and politics. I’ve read every letter/email sent to the Berkeley City Council before its June 6 meeting that I could find (total 193) in “records online” and only two out of that stack were in opposition to the draft of the Bird Safe Ordinance as passed by the Berkeley Planning Commission with a revision submitted by Councilmember Harrison. On May 19, 2023, when the draft of the Bird Safe Ordinance still included reside
The California Supreme Court has recently agreed to hear the case on People’s Park. This objective review by the judicial branch of the win by People’s Park supporters in the Court of Appeal calls into question the motivations of both the executive and legislative branches of state government to obscure the issues of the case. -more-
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