On March 20, the United Nations published its annual World Happiness Report, naming Finland as "the happiest country in the world for the seventh year in a row" while (in the words of the New York ...

It came as a surprise when Essa-Pekka Salonen announced last week that he would not extend his tenure as Music Director at San Francisco Symphony beyond the 2024-25 season. Salonen cited as his reason ...

I am closing in on the mark of sixty, and I expect I will make it into old age. Additionally, I have retained my faculties, and I don't have dementia. This description is contrary to the prognosis I ...

Two disturbing responses to last night's City Council meeting. The first, Sophie Hahn's shocking statement at Kate Harrison's resignation. Ms Harrison carefully delineated her principled stand in her ...

City Council returns from winter recess on Tuesday. From 11 am – 12 pm is the online Arts Program webinar on grants. At 1:30 pm the Commission on aging meets in person. At 6 pm the Planning Commission ...

Summary. In the Middle East, two groups of people – Palestinians and Israelis – struggle for self-determination and have been doing so since the early decades of the 20 th century. Failure to ...

The first week of August was a perfect kind of week. The Berkeley City Council was on summer recess and so were most of the boards and commissions. Trump was finally indicted for his attempted coup ...

If you haven’t been following the Hopkins Corridor Project, the redesign to replace parking with bike lanes along the section of Hopkins with the Monterey Market and locally owned shops has created an ...

In Berkeley (California), there is a struggle against developers for the preservation of People’s Park, a memorial to decades of opposition to police violence and brutality. In Atlanta (Georgia), ...

It seems like every time I sit down to finish my Activist’s Diary something new drops. Now I find myself two weeks behind with public participation in city meetings on the chopping block, and the most ...

Only a few weeks are left to see Berkeley’s beloved burrowing owl before it departs from its winter home at the water’s edge of Cesar Chavez Park. Whether this rare and beautiful creature will return ...

The Hopkins Corridor Plan promoted by biking extremists who have captured key City officials, departments, and politicians has caused a huge increase in the civic awareness of many normally placid ...