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PG&E should’ve known that the outage would drive people to use the website; failing to prepare for that was a huge mistake on PG&E’s part.
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A stretch without sex can be like Charles Dickens’ famous beginning to “A Tale of Two Cities”: It can be both the best of times and the worst of times.
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In 2018, Berkeley became the first city in California — the second in the country — to declare a climate emergency. In the time since, 23 other California cities and counties have followed us in passing such declarations.
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The California Citizens Redistricting Commission is unsurprisingly short of the number of applicants it would like to see as evidenced by the commission twice extending its application deadline.
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In one of my classes, we were trying to measure the impact of policing on the physical and emotional well-being of Black and brown folks.
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It’s not just disabled people who are particularly impressive for doing certain things with our limitations — everybody is, and we just fail to acknowledge it for those whose difficulties aren’t as obvious.
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While it’s a pity that the state hasn’t yet prioritized grade school education, it’s on Berkeley voters to keep teachers in the district and let them do what they do best.
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Most people value the public school system. Yet at the end of the day, there has to be more than lip service towards improving schools.
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California has the fifth-largest economy in the world, yet it still falls 41st in the nation in per-pupil spending.
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I started BPN in 1993 as a UC Berkeley grad student with two young kids, and the organization is now a nonprofit online network for more than 30,000 subscribers in the Bay Area.
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