Most of the management criticisms in the articles were extracted from a HUD “PHARS Internal Summary of Assessment,” an internal memo dated June 18, 2012, largely based on 2011 data, which is by now ...

Far from being an ancient indigenous art, Irish crochet was invented in the mid-1800s as a way of enabling families and communities to survive the potato famine. The invention is generally credited to ...

The East Bay's Non-commercial VoiceGar Alperovitz, currently a Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, has been writing books about wealth, democracy and national security for 48 ...

Some parallels can be drawn between forcing women to carry pregnancies against their will, and forcing people deemed mentally ill to receive medication and other treatment against their will. There ...

Among cities with populations over 100,000, Washington D.C., Cambridge, MA, and Oakland rank third, fourth and fifth in smallest percentage for Trump. Seattle is the largest city in the U.S. where ...

The East Bay's Non-commercial VoiceThe draft is a form of forced enslavement that has no part in a country that claims to be founded on "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." The Constitution ...

I was a child in the 1930s. We lived in a flat across the street from my grammar school playground and I had friends in the neighborhood. It was a time when parents simply said “Go out and play” and ...

Yet, this should not include restrictions on upward mobility. It should not include the presumption or the requirement that we are incompetent. And it should not include lumping us into a category of ...

The Berkeley Film and Video Festivals marks its 19th year this weekend with another vast and varied program of independent productions. If there’s a theme to the annual festival, the theme is that ...

The East Bay's Non-commercial Voice“I love teaching the kids, seeing their eyes light up when they learn something. But it has to be done in a safe environment.” -- Darwin Greenwell For five months at ...

The East Bay's Non-commercial VoiceWe can learn a great deal about ourselves and the present by remembering the past. Here’s the fourth installment of my chronological account of what happened in ...

The East Bay's Non-commercial VoiceThis week, when the Berkeley City Council majority moved closer to approving new zoning that could line the edge of Berkeley’s Aquatic Park with up to 100 foot high ...