Most of the management criticisms in the articles were extracted from a HUD “PHARS Internal Summary of Assessment,” an internal memo dated June 18, 2012, largely based on 2011 data, which is by now ...

The East Bay's Non-commercial VoiceLeaning to the east and threatened by collapse, the tree did something that trees are not widely known to do: It grew a leg. On the side of the tree that had begun ...

The East Bay's Non-commercial VoiceGar Alperovitz, currently a Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, has been writing books about wealth, democracy and national security for 48 ...

The project would displace all of the existing businesses along the north frontage of University Avenue between Shattuck and Walnut since each building would require major construction. However, Smith ...

Turnout this year was 81.5% of registered voters in Berkeley, up from 78.1% in the 2016 presidential election. The Covid pandemic, however, reduced the pool of potential voters as the UC student ...

Far from being an ancient indigenous art, Irish crochet was invented in the mid-1800s as a way of enabling families and communities to survive the potato famine. The invention is generally credited to ...

Some parallels can be drawn between forcing women to carry pregnancies against their will, and forcing people deemed mentally ill to receive medication and other treatment against their will. There ...

While Trump got trounced, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris did not do as well in Berkeley as previous Democratic presidential candidates. Berkeley is not number one in percentage of votes for Harris ...

The East Bay's Non-commercial VoiceThe draft is a form of forced enslavement that has no part in a country that claims to be founded on "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." The Constitution ...

It is not like the Hopkins Corridor Project happened in a vacuum. Margot Smith and former Mayor and Disaster and Fire Safety Commissioner Shirley Dean have been sounding the alarm for months: The ...

The East Bay's Non-commercial VoiceOne hundred and fifty years ago this year, Douglas Tilden was born. Half that time--seventy-five years ago, August 6, 1935—he was found dead, apparently from a heart ...

Yet, this should not include restrictions on upward mobility. It should not include the presumption or the requirement that we are incompetent. And it should not include lumping us into a category of ...