A woman crossing the intersection at Adeline and Harmon streets was struck by a car and killed at 9:05 pm last night, according to Berkeley police.
The 58-year old woman was from Oakland, but her identity has not yet been released, said Andrew Frankel, the public information officer for the Berkeley Police Department.
The driver Jesse Donald [...]
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Woman struck by car and killed in Berkeley
Daily Californian reporter arrested at protests
The Daily Californian is reporting that one of its reporters was arrested Thursday while covering the March 4 protests against cuts to public education.
Cameron Burns, 18, who produces content for the newspaper’s website, is still in jail, according to the paper.
“He was last seen by Daily Californian employees filming a rally in Oakland, where 150 [...]
Hundreds rally in support of Berkeley public schools
Hundreds of teachers, secretaries, instructional aides, parents and students gathered along a stretch of Martin Luther King this afternoon to protest funding cuts for public education.
The protestors lined the sidewalk in front of the Berkeley Unified School District building and held up signs saying “Save Our Schools,” “Support Public Education,” and “Honk for Teachers.” Many [...]
Bates downtown plan approved
The Berkeley City Council last night approved on an 8-1 vote Mayor Tom Bates’ revised plan for downtown. Prior to that vote, the council had unanimously voted to rescind the Downtown Area Plan which was approved last July in a 7-2 vote. The only objection to the new plan was from Councilmember Jesse Arreguin, whose [...]
Revised downtown plan put to vote
The main issue on the agenda of tonight’s City Council meeting will be the fate of the Downtown Area Plan (DAP). Passed by the council last July in a 7-2 vote, the plan allowed for some taller buildings in the downtown core, but met resistance from both opponents of greater density and those advocating stronger [...]
Comment: how to make Downtown an economic asset
Almost six months after the Downtown Area Plan was referended and almost five years after the process began, the discussion is starting to heat up again regarding the future of Downtown Berkeley. The referendum gave the council the option to put the plan passed by the City Council on July 14, 2009 on the ballot, [...]
Berkeley’s climate progress seen (sort of)
I’d love to be enthusiastic about City of Berkeley see it! (not my exclamation mark). There are many good intentions in the interactive website, designed to present both the city’s Climate Action Plan and progress towards realizing its goals. But the site has one of the worst user interfaces I’ve encountered in a long time. [...]
Shortcut on Berkeley planning?
Today’s San Francisco Chronicle reports that Berkeley mayor Tom Bates has a new plan to cut the Gordian knot of the city’s planning process:
How do you persuade developers to hire local workers, pay fair wages and build ecofriendly structures with housing for the poor in downtown Berkeley?
The mayor proposes giving them a carrot that’s particularly [...]
A bigger splash: save the pools
Robert Collier lives in North Berkeley and is co-chair of the Berkeley Pools Campaign. Following Tuesday’s City Council decision to approve a June ballot measure on pools, he wrote this commentary for Berkeleyside:
As the worsening California fiscal crisis finally starts to hit home in Berkeley, city voters will have the chance to defend our [...]
The Berkeley Wire: 2.05.10
Cardoons are underrated: Michael Bauer scoffs some at Gather [Chronicle]
Fears for funding of Berkeley Adult School under new budget [Planet]
Berkeley tenants protest loss of public housing [Housing Research]
The View from Berkeley: by artist Leslie Saeta [Painting is my Passion]
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