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Berkeley’s 1923 fire, 100 years later | At 28, he died on Berkeley’s streets | House with famed communal hot tub up for sale

Martin Nicolaus

Posted inOpinion

Opinion: Berkeley Marina plan would destroy Cesar Chavez Park

by Martin Nicolaus April 29, 2022, 3:22 p.m.August 4, 2022

There are real needs for maintenance and improvement in the park but the city’s plan in its current iteration will not solve those financial problems.

Posted inCommunity

Peace restored at Berkeley park on Memorial Day

by Martin Nicolaus May 28, 2019, 7:00 a.m.October 4, 2022

Working under cerulean skies with a fresh westerly breeze, six volunteers spent part of Memorial Day bringing the Peace Symbol in Cesar Chavez Park back to life.

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Opinion: Don’t allow cannabis festivals in César Chávez Park

by Martin Nicolaus March 07, 2019, 8:30 a.m.October 4, 2022

City Council members will consider allowing three cannabis events a year, where people can smoke and buy on site. They wouldn’t permit this in other city parks, but they regard César Chávez Park as a dumping ground.

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Opinion: Contractors play games with city contracts to extract more money; it must stop

by Martin Nicolaus Oct. 16, 2018, 8:41 a.m.August 4, 2022

Contractors working with the city submit artificially low bids to win projects and then ask for multiple changes that hike the cost way up. The city plays along.

Posted inCommunity

A rare burrowing owl spotted at Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley

by Martin Nicolaus Oct. 10, 2018, 6:00 a.m.October 4, 2022

There was excitement at the Berkeley park as the last time one of the cute owls was seen there was in March 2017.

Posted inArts

‘Pictures of a Gone City’ by Richard Walker paints vivid, learned portrait of the Bay Area

by Martin Nicolaus May 16, 2018, 7:00 a.m.August 4, 2022

Every city, every movement, every industry, every issue, every leading mover and shaker gets its due in this masterwork by the emeritus professor of geography at UC Berkeley.

Posted inArts

In his autobiography, Carl Anthony offers his story, and the story of race and place

by Martin Nicolaus Nov. 09, 2017, 2:30 p.m.October 4, 2022

This intellectual and political book tells the story of a single, extraordinary life, but also explores in detail original humanity and the modern African diaspora.

Posted inOpinion

Opinion: Everybody wants better bathrooms at Cesar Chavez Park — except the parks director

by Martin Nicolaus May 09, 2017, 9:15 a.m.October 4, 2022

The director of the Parks Recreation and Waterfront Department seems to have a strange and troubling resistance to replacing park Porta Potties with permanent bathrooms.

Posted inOpinion

Opinion: Berkeley’s new council needs to shake up its Parks and Waterfront Department

by Martin Nicolaus March 22, 2017, 9:00 a.m.October 4, 2022

Unless the Parks and Waterfront Department gets real, the T1 bond money will be a case of pouring new wine into cracked old bottles.

Posted inOpinion

Op-ed: Utility-free restrooms in Cesar Chavez Park — A briefing

by Martin Nicolaus Jan. 19, 2016, 8:48 a.m.October 4, 2022

Cesar Chavez Park has had porta-potties for 25 years Photo: Martin Nicolaus The need for permanent restrooms in Cesar Chavez Park has been on the City’s agenda since at least 1977, when the North Waterfront Park Land Use Plan said that “of course, a park headquarters building and restroom structures will be needed for the […]

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