By Huda Ahmed/ Oakland Crime happens to people everyday, but it’s the emotional toll on victims that is often overlooked. This is a story of a woman who was beaten and robbed over 20 years ago. The incident still haunts her despite the passage of time.

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By Ayako Mie/BERKELEY

Growing up, Virada Chatikul was a shy girl. She was too embarrassed to speak in front of her classmates in school.  But that all changed one day when she was 15 and was attending the traditional dance performance at the Berkeley Thai Temple Sunday Food Offering.

“I really wanted to be part of a group that I could really identify with myself as a Thai American growing up in San Francisco,” said Chatikul, a second-generation Thai American. “I really cannot imagine what trajectory my life would have taken if I had not been part of this program.”

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by Nick Burns/BERKELEY

Inside the Bancroft Hotel’s craftsman-style ballroom, a rare meeting of Berkeley’s green minds occurred on Thursday for the 2008 Sustainability Summit and Green Gathering. Over locally grown and produced wine, beer, an assortment of tapas—and, of course, a small carbon footprint—a who’s who of environmental leaders mixed, mingled, promoted environmentally conscious projects and recognized local organizations for achievements.

Hosted by the Ecology Center and the City of Berkeley’s Office of Economic Development, the 2008 Sustainability Summit and Green Gathering sought to provide an open forum to exchange ideas and name four of the year’s most Earth-friendly projects “Champions of Sustainability.”

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Ayako Mie/BERKELEY

After more than a year of controversy surrounding placement of cell phone antennas, the Berkeley Planning Commission recommended Wednesday to the city council that only one firm be allowed to install antennas at any one location, and that those antenna frequencies be monitored annually. Read the full story

by Paula Lehman/OAKLAND  Voters in Oakland, where there have been over 100 homicides so far in 2008, on Tuesday turned down a ballot measure that would have put 105 officers and 75 police services technicians on the street over the course of three years. But it wasn’t a lack of campaigning that ruined Measure NN’s chances; instead, many people believe that it was the unfulfilled promise of an earlier crime-fighting measure that killed this year’s initiative.

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By Huda Ahmed/ WEST OAKLAND  Although gentrification is not a new issue, it is still a nightmare for many Americans. One example is West Oakland, where a low income, African American population struggle to keep their homes in the midst of the current economic crisis and development, which priced many of them out of the area.  As a result, Oakland’s African American population has decreased from 35 to 30 percent in the last six years, according to the figures collected by the U.S. Census in 2000 and 2006.

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by Tasneem Paghdiwala/WEST BERKELEY

Jeanne Blackshear works at an art supply store near the Berkeley Amtrak Station in West Berkeley, and she has lived three blocks from the tracks for four years. Blackshear says it took her that long to get used to the constant sound of the horns. But now she has a baby, and he wakes up crying through the night on schedule with the trains. “We’re trying to move out of the neighborhood, and the noise is one of the biggest reasons,” she says.

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By Ayako Mie/WEST BERKELEY

The Berkeley City Council on September 23rd reviewed recommendations that would determine how much homeowners would have to pay if they decide to convert their properties into condominiums.

At the center of the debate are the city’s mitigation fees launched in 2005 to help create new affordable housing. Once a rental unit is converted to a condominium, the seller must give the city a percentage of their sale. The Berkeley Housing Department then uses that money to build affordable housing.

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By Nick Burns/BERKELEY

Berkeley’s City Council met last night to review the Climate Action Plan that hopes to drastically reduce the city’s carbon footprint. The proposal received criticism and support from Berkeley residents. The recommendations to create high-density housing and implement Community Choice Energy produced intense discussion among council members and attendees alike.
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By Angela J. Bass/OAKLAND

On Monday evening, East Oakland’s Tassafaronga Recreation Center was crammed with local residents who complained about headaches that they said were caused by the noxious fumes from nearby factories.

Residents had come to hear the results of a new report, “Cumulative Impacts in East Oakland: Findings from a Community-Based Mapping Study,” led by Communities for a Better Environment, a grassroots organization that trains local residents to monitor pollution levels in their neighborhoods.

The yearlong study examined the impact of unchecked pollution sources on communities of color within the Hegenberger Corridor, a toxic hot spot bordered by San Leandro St., International Blvd., 98th Ave, and the Hegenberger Expressway.

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