Berkeley and Alameda County election results 2024
Nov 5, 2024 · City Council. Incumbent Terry Taplin won a second term representing West Berkeley while Ben Bartlett kept his seat representing South Berkeley for a third term.Shoshana O’Keefe won the North Berkeley seat Sophie Hahn is vacating, while Brent Blackaby took up Susan Wengraf’s mantle in the Berkeley Hills (). (Read Berkeleyside’s coverage of these races at the links above.)
UC Berkeley Botanical Garden's Tropical House reopens
Sep 5, 2024 · The newly renovated Tropical House at UC Berkeley’s Botanical Garden hosts 250 rare plants from the tropics on display and will open to the public on Sept. 7, 2024, after it closed four years ago for renovations.
Recalling DA Pamela Price will have far-reaching effects
Oct 28, 2024 · In comparison, the people opposing the recall have raised about $340,000 from more than 440 individuals, fundraising committees and businesses as of Oct. 15.. The people opposing the recall. In November 2023, the ACLU of Northern California announced that it opposed the recall campaign against Price.. Yoel Haile, the director of the ACLU’s Criminal Justice Program, has acted as a ...
Kamala Harris’ childhood homes in Berkeley
Aug 19, 2024 · At about age 5 she came back to Berkeley with her mother and sister. When she was 12, her mother moved the family to Canada. While her father lived in Palo Alto and her mother in Oakland during her undergraduate years, there is no readily available record of Harris living in the Bay Area again until she returned after college to attend law school in San Francisco.
Berkeley Rep's '24-'25 shows range from classical to cutting edge
Oct 3, 2024 · The 2024-25 season at Berkeley Repertory Theatre has begun with rave reviews on its first production Mexodus — and that’s just the beginning, with six shows to follow. In addition, a new program lets parents attend a matinee while their children play theater games next door.
Berkeley Half Marathon road closures announced for Sunday
Nov 15, 2024 · A complete list of the closures is available on the city’s website, and a PDF map (above) shows details of detours around the race courses. Riders can monitor changes to bus routes using AC Transit’s ACT RealTime system and service notices. The city listed several “significant” closures lasting large portions of Sunday morning:
Protesters against homeless policy occupy Berkeley’s Old City Hall
Oct 4, 2024 · Demonstrators begin an occupation at Old City Hall in Berkeley, Sept. 28, 2024. Credit: Erin Sheridan. Unhoused residents and advocates are pitching tents on the lawn of Old City Hall in protest of a new Berkeley policy giving the …
Berkeley rent and eviction rules, tenant unions go to voters
Oct 18, 2024 · “Voters consistently support rent control as a key housing strategy,” according to an argument for BB from Mayor Jesse Arreguín, rent board Chair Leah Simon-Weisberg, former rent chair and Berkeley Tenants Union representative Paola Laverde, Harriet Tubman Terrace resident Darinxoso Oyamaselo and Iris Rosenblum-Sellers, a representative from a UC Berkeley academic workers’ union.
Berkeley's Free Speech Movement turns 60
Oct 14, 2024 · An iconic image from the Free Speech Movement, which erupted on the Berkeley on Oct. 1, 1964. Credit: UC Berkeley Libraries. For Robert Cohen, the 60th anniversary of UC Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement is a teachable moment.. Read more stories about the Free Speech Movement in Berkeleyside’s archives. The New York University professor and author of FSM leader Mario Savio’s first ...
East Bay Nosh | Berkeleyside — Restaurant news and more
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