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Commission Landmarks UC Memorial Stadium

By Richard Brenneman
Tuesday June 06, 2006
UC Berkeley’s Memorial Stadium joined the ranks of Berkeley’s landmarks Thursday by a unanimous vote of the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC). -more-

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Tuesday June 06, 2006

Reader Commentaries

Commentary: Ballot Language for Parcel Tax Should Be Clear to Pass

By Stevie Corcos
Tuesday June 06, 2006
Last Wednesday night, I went to the school board’s public hearing to express my concern about how the superintendent’s proposed new parcel tax of over $19 million would be spent. -more-

Commentary: Bus Riders Need Equal Access to Funds

By Keith Carson
Tuesday June 06, 2006
Fifty years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and public transportation, more specifically buses, became the stage from which the civil-rights movement was launched. The paradox is that today discrimination is alive and well in mass-transit bus service. In the Bay Area, for instance, a federal civil-rights lawsuit is pending in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, charging that the Bay Area’s Metropolitan Transportation Commission (which plans and allocates the majority of funding for the area’s transit needs) supports a “separate and unequal transit system” that discriminates against poor transit riders of color. -more-

Commentary: A Traditional Neighborhood at Ashby BART

By Charles Siegel
Tuesday June 06, 2006
It is possible to build housing at Ashby BART to create a sizable neighborhood park, and to make the neighborhood more livable. Let me describe what could be done in a sketchy way, using approximate numbers. -more-