Third party voting was down sharply compared to 2016. In that year, 6.5% voted for third party candidates with Green Party candidate Jill Stein coming in second with 4.6% of the vote, putting her ...

When I was a young man, an eighteen-year-old, to be exact, I was psychotic, and I was unaware that what you do can have consequences. Some consequences of actions, even actions taken at the tender age ...

In the early hours of June 18, Michael Hastings was found dead in the flaming wreckage of his car. The 33-year-old journalist was, perhaps, best known for the 2010 Rolling Stone cover story that ended ...

What should progressives do when confronted with the fact that they live in a city that honors a figure who has advocated beliefs or committed acts that progressives would normally condemn? Berkeley ...

In Joaquin Miller Park, in the hills above Oakland, California, the remains of an ancient tree are on display. Taller than a standing human, the rings of the remnant stump reveal a long and challenged ...

The term "safety mechanism" when referring to mentally ill people can be applied in numerous respects. One of them was relevant to me when I had several relapses of psychosis (that were usually six ...

Editor's Note: The latest issue of the Pepper Spray Times is now available. You can view it absolutely free of charge by clicking here. You can print it out to give to your friends. Grace ...

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 ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a series about people and businesses that make things in Berkeley. People don’t often think of Berkeley as a factory town, but manufacturing has been going on here ...

A recently-revealed account of the founding of People’s Park, the south-of-campus former political battleground which celebrates its 35th birthday today as the archetype of ‘60s radicalism, alleges ...

It was another full week and there is plenty to report on what I did attend even though I missed the Cedar Rose Park Renovation, the Solano Business District meeting, the Zero Waste Commission, the ...

Only a few weeks are left to see Berkeley’s beloved burrowing owl before it departs from its winter home at the water’s edge of Cesar Chavez Park. Whether this rare and beautiful creature will return ...