Arts & Entertainment Former PHS English teacher wins poetry award By Reader submission | April 14, 2023 Valentina Gnup won second prize in the 2023 Yeats Poetry Prize competition for her poem, “Doll, It All Goes by So Fast.”
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Emerson Quartet, Art of Iran, ACT’s ‘Rednecks’ By The Artful Observer | Bay City News Foundation | April 14, 2023 A quartet's swan song, digital art from Iran, and new theater are among this week's picks.
Bay Area A state bat? You bet! By Janis Mara | Bay City News Foundation | April 14, 2023 The Pallid bat is a tiny golden insectivore.
Business & Finance Life with Money | Think Like a Freak By Nick Levinson | Park Piedmont Advisors | April 14, 2023 [SPONSORED] The Freakonomics podcast team has lots to say about behavioral finance – that is, the real (versus rational) ways people manage their financial lives.
City Celebrate Earth Day with free compost giveaway By City of Piedmont | April 14, 2023 On April 22 residents can pick up one cubic yard of free compost per household between 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. at the Corporation Yard.
Bay Area Cal State undergraduate workers seek union representation By Rocky Walker | CalMatters | April 14, 2023 Undergraduate student assistants are calling for more work hours, paid sick time, and higher wages.
Around Town 50 years after he was assassinated, why Marcus Foster is more relevant than ever By Carolyn Jones | EdSource | April 14, 2023 PUSD Superintendent Dr. Donald Evans was recognized as "Marcus Foster Educator of the Year" while at Berkeley Unified in 2018.
health Tobacco sales phaseout withers in California without support from anti-tobacco advocates By Alexei Koseff | CalMatters | April 13, 2023 Anti-tobacco groups won’t say why they didn’t support the bill, which was amended to focus on enforcing an existing flavored tobacco ban.
Bay Area Thousands of Californians are missing out on federal student aid. Here’s why By Adam Echelman | CalMatters | April 13, 2023 Increasingly complicated laws and poor communication have made aid dollars harder to come by for some adult students.
Around Town Piedmont Food Fest teams with Appreciating Diversity Film Series on ‘Flavors of Families’ By Roger Tsai | Piedmont Food Fest | April 12, 2023 Five short films will be screened Thursday, April 20 at Ellen Driscoll Playhouse.