Tag Archives: Tom Bates

Editorials

On voting and sitting

CITY AFFAIRS: The ACLU’s request to revisit placing Measure S on the ballot should not be followed. Berkeley voters deserve the final say.

Late at night on July 10, Mayor Tom Bates faced a tough decision. The Berkeley City Council meeting, at the time focused on placing the contentious “sit-lie” measure on the November ballot, was being derailed by an unruly crowd of the measure’s detractors, who sang loudly in protest. Bates needed Read More…

Op-Eds

Downtown Berkeley marred by huge labs

In Feb. 2007, Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates said, “We are poised to be an international center for the development of new environmental technologies… That opportunity grew with the award of a $500 million biofuels research center to UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab two weeks ago.” Of course you’ve Read More…

Football

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All bets are on for Cal-Fresno State football game

Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin is taking all sorts of risks — not dealing with politics but sports. Swearengin has made two friendly wagers over Saturday’s football game between Cal and Fresno State at Candlestick Park in San Francisco — one with Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates and another with San Francisco Read More…

Editorials

Sit in judgment

CITY AFFAIRS: We hope the Berkeley City Council puts a sit-lie measure on the November ballot to allow the city to decide on the matter.

Walking down Telegraph Avenue can be like navigating a maze, darting around passersby and engaging in conversation with some people while avoiding others. That could change if a sit-lie measure is placed on the November ballot for the city of Berkeley and passed. The civil sidewalks measure — which Mayor Read More…