Commentaries

Reader Commentaries: (Berkeley Daily Planet)

15 May 2008

Just before their May 21 public meeting on raising fares, AC Transit is proposing to buy more Van Hool buses the riders and drivers hate. Nineteen more of the no-bid buses imported from Belgium at $577,739/bus for a total of $10,977,041.

Reader Commentaries: (Berkeley Daily Planet)

15 May 2008

The battle for political control in Berkeley has been handily dominated by progressives for 20 years. But that victory was consolidated not in the body of a party but in the persons of Mayor Tom Bates and Assemblymember Loni Hancock.

Reader Commentaries: (Berkeley Daily Planet)

15 May 2008

Most people who know of Loni Hancock remember her as mayor of Berkeley, from 1988 to 1995. At that time she faced very real and important criticisms for the way she ran the city.