UNDERCURRENTS OF THE EAST BAY AND BEYOND
Columns Written For The Berkeley Daily Planet Newspaper, Berkeley, CA
2003
The Danger
Ahead
Following George W. Bush Into The Iraqi Abyss
December 26, 2003
Strom Thurmond's
Kin
Class Acts From The Late Senator's Children...White And Black
December 19, 2003
The Kool-Aide
Test
Angry Thoughts On The Takeover Of The Oakland Public Schools
December 12, 2003
Enemy At
The Gates
The California Highway Patrol Takes After The Sideshows
December 5, 2003
Priorities
Another High-Speed Police Chase Death In Oakland
November 28, 2003
Figuring
FCMAT
Who Are These People, And What Gives Them The Right To Run Our Schools?
November 21, 2003
Billy Lockyer
And The Sacramento Shakes
Odd Comments On The Road To The Governor's Seat
November 14, 2003
Concerning
The Continuing American Dialogue On Race And Other Impertinent Affairs
Thomas Jefferson, Howard Dean, And White Men With Confederate Flags
November 7, 2003
Snookered
Did Don Perata And Wilma Chan Orchestrate Any Challengers Out Of The District
9 State Senate Race?
October 31, 2003
Scooty
Time
Our Government Running Around In Circles
October 24, 2003
Discussing
(And Repenting) At Leisure
The New Governor's Ballot Plans, And The Affair Of The Fifteen Women (Continued)
October 17, 2003
Uphill
All The Way
What Confronts Mr. Schwarzenegger
October 10, 2003
The Demo
Recall Blues
Four Ways That The Democrats Screwed Up The Gubernatorial Race (And The Race Ain't
Even Over Yet)
October 3, 2003
Oakland's
Murderous Summer
And No Bright Solutions
September 26, 2003
While Cruzing
Through Oakland
A Question Not Asked, Another Question Ducked, By The Lieutenant Governor
September 19, 2003
Sharing
Our Mayor
A Pragrmatic Solution To Oakland's Neighborhood Problems
September 12, 2003
Color Unconsciousness
Thoughts On Ward Connerly's Proposition 54
September 5, 2003
California
Crazy
Thoughts In The Middle Of The Recall
August 29, 2003
The Need
For Speed
Ins And Outs Of Our Addicition To Fast Driving
August 22, 2003
The East
Bay Express Gary Coleman For Governor Issue
A Failed Attempt At Humor
August 15, 2003
Another
High-Speed Police Chase Crash
Another Familiar Oakland Police Department Story
August 8, 2003
On Win-Winning
And Milking
Mayor Brown Reveals Much (Too Much?) In Bar Association Speech
August 1, 2003
Countering
Gray's Lunacy
Towards A Progressive Choice On Gubernatorial Recall Day
July 25, 2003
Entering
The Dissemblation Nation
The Bush Administration's Deceipt on Iraqi Nuclear Weapons
July 18, 2003
Preserving
Preservation
A Plan For Downtown Development
July 11, 2003
The Mysterious
Maneuvers Of Mayor Brown
Robert Bobb's Gone, And What About Harry Edwards?
July 4, 2003
Finding
The Non-Alternative
Sideshow Dilemma Needs New Approach
June 27, 2003
Who Cries
For Oakland?
State Took Over Oakland Schools In Haste
June 20, 2003
Making
An Argument
Alice Arts Center Deflects Mayor's Attack
June 13, 2003
Curbing
The High-Flying Police
The Gathering Legislation Against High-Speed Police Auto Chases
June 6, 2003
Jerry Brown's
No Caped Crusader
The Mayor's State Attorney General Credentials
May 30, 2003
One Child
Who Don't Go Down So Easy
Chan Bucks Perata In State Senate Race
May 23, 2003
Waiting
For The Facts
What Caused The Death Of Breeonna Mobley?
May 16, 2003
None So
Blind As...
Alice Arts And The Mayor Who Does Not See
May 9, 2003
A People
Of Starts
Literature, Americans, And The War In Iraq
May 2, 2003
Suspicious Minds
What Was Senator Perata's Role In The State Takeover Of The Oakland Schools?
April 25, 2003