[BerkeleyDailyPlanet] Well, finally!

[Updates from the Berkeley Daily Planet]

Okay.  No excuses.  I just neglected to press "send" the first time I wrote
this letter.  So, now, let's take it again from the top.  Here are two
weeks of updates for your reading pleasure.

*Current Issue <http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-20>*

*Opinion*

*Editorials*

There's an uproar brewing in Berkeley's civic core
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-20/article/43045?headline=There-s-an-uproar-brewing-in-Berkeley-s-civic-core--Becky-O-Malley>
*02-20-2015*

*Public Comment*

New: Calculating community benefits: Cash should not be the answer
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-20/article/43054?headline=Calculating-community-benefits-Cash-should-not-be-the-answer--Thomas-Lord>
*Thomas
Lord* *02-23-2015*

Save the Shattuck Cinemas; Save 2230 Shattuck; Save Downtown Berkeley
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-20/article/43051?headline=Save-the-Shattuck-Cinemas-Save-2230-Shattuck-Save-Downtown-Berkeley--Kelly-Hammargren>
*Kelly
Hammargren* *02-20-2015*

2211 Harold Way and Community Benefits: An open letter to the Zoning
Adjustments Board and the Berkeley City Council
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-20/article/43044?headline=2211-Harold-Way-and-Community-Benefits-An-open-letter-to-the-Zoning-Adjustments-Board-and-the-Berkeley-City-Council--Rob-Wrenn-former-member-of-the-Planning-Commission-and-Downtown-Area-Plan-Advisory-Committee>
*Rob
Wrenn, former member of the Planning Commission and Downtown Area Plan
Advisory Committee* *02-20-2015*

2211 Harold Way: Who Benefits?
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-20/article/43041?headline=2211-Harold-Way-Who-Benefits---Dean-Metzger-for-BNC>
*Dean
Metzger, for BNC* *02-19-2015*

Obama's Visit to Stanford
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-20/article/43046?headline=Obama-s-Visit-to-Stanford--Jagjit-Singh>
*Jagjit
Singh* *02-20-2015*

Correction
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-20/article/43053?headline=Correction--Charles-Siegel>
*Charles
Siegel* *02-21-2015*

Saving Monarchs Redux
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-20/article/43049?headline=Saving-Monarchs-Redux--Mary-McAllister-Gar-Smith>
*Mary
McAllister, Gar Smith* *02-20-2015*

Chapel Hill shootings
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-20/article/43048?headline=Chapel-Hill-shootings--Ramlah-Malhi>
*Ramlah
Malhi* *02-20-2015*

*News*

Berkeley Police arrest suspects in December shooting
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-20/article/43052?headline=Berkeley-Police-arrest-suspects-in-December-shooting---Dave-Brooksher-BCN->
*Dave
Brooksher (BCN)* *02-20-2015*

*Columns*

ECLETIC RANT: Right to work laws contributing to vanishing middle class,
wealth inequality
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-20/article/43047?headline=ECLETIC-RANT-Right-to-work-laws-contributing-to-vanishing-middle-class-wealth-inequality--Ralph-E.-Stone>
*Ralph
E. Stone* *02-20-2015*

ON MENTAL ILLNESS: Recognizing Delusions Helps Resolve Them
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-20/article/43038?headline=-ON-MENTAL-ILLNESS-Recognizing-Delusions-Helps-Resolve-Them---Jack-Bragen>
*Jack
Bragen* *02-19-2015*

SENIOR POWER: Walkies
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-20/article/43039?headline=SENIOR-POWER-Walkies--Helen-Rippier-Wheeler-pen136-dslextreme.com>
*Helen
Rippier Wheeler, pen136 at dslextreme.com <pen136 at dslextreme.com>* *02-19-2015*

*Arts & Events*

Great Chamber Music by Renaud Capuçon and Khatia Buniatishvili
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-20/article/43050?headline=Great-Chamber-Music-by-Renaud-Capu-on-and-Khatia-Buniatishvili--Reviewed-by-James-Roy-MacBean>
*Reviewed
by James Roy MacBean* *02-20-2015*

Spring 2015 Walking Tours
Berkeley Historical Society
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-20/article/43043?headline=Spring-2015-Walking-Tours-br-Berkeley-Historical-Society-->
*02-20-2015*

A WEEKEND ADVENTURE: San Francisco: Alcatraz Island
@LARGE, Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-20/article/43040?headline=A-WEEKEND-ADVENTURE-San-Francisco-Alcatraz-Island-br-LARGE-Ai-Weiwei-on-Alcatraz--Carole-Terwilliger-Meyers>
*Carole
Terwilliger Meyers* *02-19-2015*

Hélène Grimaud and Rotterdam Philharmonic at Davies Hall
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-20/article/43042?headline=H-l-ne-Grimaud-and-Rotterdam-Philharmonic-at-Davies-Hall--Reviewed-by-James-Roy-MacBean>
*Reviewed
by James Roy MacBean* *02-19-2015*
Previous Issue <http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-13> Opinion
Editorials

The State of Berkeley, as Explained by the Mayor
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-13/article/43035?headline=The-State-of-Berkeley-as-Explained-by-the-Mayor--Becky-O-Malley>
*02-13-2015*
Public Comment

Open Letter to the Berkeley Zoning Adjustment Board
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-13/article/43031?headline=Open-Letter-to-the-Berkeley-Zoning-Adjustment-Board--Stevanne-Auerbach>
*Stevanne
Auerbach* *02-12-2015*

Greenwashing in Berkeley--again
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-13/article/43030?headline=Greenwashing-in-Berkeley--again--Russ-Tilleman>
*Russ
Tilleman* *02-12-2015*
News

Police investigating fire at Claremont Middle School in Rockridge
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-13/article/43036?headline=Police-investigating-fire-at-Claremont-Middle-School-in-Rockridge---Keith-Burbank-Scott-Morris-Bay-City-News->
*Keith
Burbank/Scott Morris (Bay City News)* *02-16-2015*

Arreguin's police measures passed by the Berkeley City Council.
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-13/article/43032?headline=Arreguin-s-police-measures-passed-by-the-Berkeley-City-Council.-->
*02-12-2015*

Got Milkweed? Can a Petition Move Monsanto to Pay $3.2 Million to Save a
Butterfly? (News Analysis)
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-13/article/43033?headline=Got-Milkweed-Can-a-Petition-Move-Monsanto-to-Pay-3.2-Million-to-Save-a-Butterfly-News-Analysis---Gar-Smith>
*Gar
Smith* *02-13-2015*

Mildred Parish Massey
1924-2015
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-13/article/43037?headline=Mildred-Parish-Massey-br-1924-2015-->
*02-19-2015*
Columns

Barack Grows Coattails
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-13/article/43034?headline=Barack-Grows-Coattails--Bob-Burnett>
*Bob
Burnett* *02-13-2015*

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDGE:Europe: What Is To Be Done?
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-13/article/43028?headline=DISPATCHES-FROM-THE-EDGE-Europe-What-Is-To-Be-Done---Conn-Hallinan>
*Conn
Hallinan* *02-12-2015*

ON MENTAL ILLNESS: The "Revolving Door" of Repeated Hospitalizations
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-13/article/43027?headline=ON-MENTAL-ILLNESS-The-Revolving-Door-of-Repeated-Hospitalizations--Jack-Bragen>
*Jack
Bragen* *02-12-2015*
Arts & Events

West Coast Premiere of The Ghosts of Versailles at Los Angeles Opera
<http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-02-13/article/43029?headline=West-Coast-Premiere-of-The-Ghosts-of-Versailles-at-Los-Angeles-Opera--Reviewed-by-James-Roy-MacBean>
*Reviewed
by James Roy MacBean* *02-12-2015*


Spring continues apace. Hyacinths.  Cedar waxwings.  What's not to like?
Get out and get under!


Best wishes,

*Becky O'Malley*
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