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The Berkeley Wire: 03.04.13

March 4, 2013 5:05 pm by Berkeleyside Editors
Staring contest by DH Parks

Staring contest. Photo: D.H. Parks

40 years after an acid attack, a life well lived (New York Times)
Cal physicist and Nobel Laureate Don Glaser dies at 86 (Daily Cal)
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Cal ranks 14th for ultra wealthy alumni (Daily Cal)
Where to recycle everything in Berkeley (Patch)
UC Berkeley prof pushes for tax on sugary drinks (Daily Cal)
Op/Ed: How did Kayla Moore die? (East Bay Express)
People working in Berkeley can’t afford to live here, report says (Patch)
Cal students revel in victory in StarCraft tournament (Daily Cal)
Man found dead in Oakland estuary identified (Tribune)
UC Berkeley ranks among Top 10 universities worldwide (LA Times)

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  • guest

    As towns consider their carbon footprint, they should account for the transit of workers who live elsewhere due to high housing costs. Even if a town is walkable, and the buildings in it are efficient, the town may spend huge amounts of energy in the commuting of its workers.

  • bgal4

    Op/Ed: How did Kayla Moore die? (East Bay Express)

    How does Pritchett, a Willard Middle School teacher, get excused from her teaching duties to hold CopWatch press conferences?

  • The_Sharkey

    Copwatch trolls hassling BPD on your dime.
    Your tax dollars at work!

  • The_Sharkey

    Unfortunately the anti-business regressives in Berkeley’s local politics seem to have this issue backwards.
    Instead of trying to create “low income” housing slums, we should be trying to attract higher-paying employers to Berkeley.

    The problem isn’t that the somewhat higher than average rents and home prices in Berkeley has
    caused more people employed here to look elsewhere in the region for
    housing, it’s that the people who live in Berkeley have had to look elsewhere for work.

  • guest

    Minimum carbon footprint requires that all of us, both high and low income workers live near our jobs, together. Two examples from my life: 1) one of the engineering managers at my company lives in Antioch, and commutes by car, 4 days a week to Redwood Shores, 130 miles per day — high income, high carbon footprint, caused by high priced housing on the peninsula. 2) Ride the Golden Gate Transit 40 bus to San Rafael from El Cerrito del Norte. That bus is full of workers who live in the East Bay and have low paid jobs in Marin.

  • Charles_Siegel

    Notice the long shadows in the picture, which would make me guess that the press conference happened after school let out for the day.

    It is odd that this op-ed uses the name Kayla Moore, but the Berkeleyside story used the name Xavier Christopher Moore.

  • EarlyMorningCoffee

    anybody know about he MC accident last night (3/4) at the Sacramento/Ashby intersection?

  • bgal4

    I checked before making any comment.

    Berkeley Coalition Demands Access to Information about Death in Police Custody –
    by Andrea Prichett (Berkeley Copwatch)

    2100 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley
    Event Date:Thu Feb 28, 2013 10:00AM
    Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 10:19PM

  • Charles_Siegel

    My mistake. They were long morning shadows, not long afternoon shadows.

  • emraguso

    I can ask police and try to get back to you about it.

  • EarlyMorningCoffee

    It looked horrific, but since I have not heard anything about it, I’m thinking it looked worse than it actually was.

  • emraguso

    Sounds like the motorcyclist was transported with non-life threatening injuries. We’ll include a bit more info when we get the weekly narratives from police.