More on the Parenthood beat [NY Times]
City website plans to help fill vacant business spaces [Daily Cal]
Jams with an English accent [Mercury News]
Ski store rolls the dice on snow next year [WSJ]
Photo: Fairy door by kyesekiya from Berkeleyside Flickr pool
Posts under ‘News’
The Berkeley Wire: 3.10.10
Breaking: Berkeley High principal Slemp to retire
Jim Slemp, principal of Berkeley High School, said today he plans to retire at the end of this school year. The announcement was made at this morning’s public announcements at the school.
Slemp has been at the center of this year’s controversy over the future of extra time for science labs at BHS. He proposed in [...]
Berkeley prisoners in Iran phone home
The three UC Berkeley graduates held in Iran were allowed to phone their relatives for the first time on Tuesday, CNN reports. Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal were detained last July 31 after crossing the border into Iran while on a hiking trip in Iraqi Kurdistan. They are being held on charges of [...]
The Berkeley Wire: 3.9.10
Event honors high-achieving middle and high school students [Daily Cal]
UC Berkeley to use waitlists in admissions process [UC Berkeley]
Berkeley one of least safe places for cyclists and pedestrians [Daily Planet]
Berkeley hosts Empowering Women of Color conference [Oakland Tribune]
UC engineers head to Chile to document quake’s impact [UC Berkeley]
Photo: Floral gate in Berkeley by Szymek S./Berkeleyside [...]
The Berkeley Wire: 3.8.10
Michael Chabon to speak in Jewish lecture series [UC Berkeley]
Cities must define core services [San Francisco Chronicle]
Opinion: If you can afford Stanford why pay less for Berkeley? [CNN]
Berkeley’s Jerome Randle named basketball player of the year [Pac 10]
Photo of Berkeley wall by Szymek S./Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
Yee named District’s Woman of the Year
Berkeley’s Mable Yee, founder of EngageHer.org, has been named Woman of the Year from Assembly District 14 by Assemblymember Nancy Skinner. Yee founded EngageHer.org, a national organization developing leadership skills among multicultural girls and women using conferences and workshops as well as digital technologies and social media. Engage Her is launching two campaigns this year [...]
The Berkeley Wire: 3.5.10
NBC drama Parenthood’s Berkeley is “hella” inaccurate [Fancast.com]
New property taxes for Berkeley under consideration [Berkeley Voice]
Berkeley drops everything to read [Berkeley Daily Planet]
Mentor program helps close achievement gap at BHS [Coco Times]
Photo: SW from top of Panoramic by dougsmi/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
The Berkeley Wire (all-action edition): 3.4.10
Tracking the demonstrations [NY Times]
Voluminous live blog of the Day of Action [Daily Cal]
Excellent slide show of Sather Gate action [Oakland North]
An even better Flickr photo set [Flickr]
[Photo by Youth Radio from UC Berkeley Protest set on Flickr]
LGBT center may leave Berkeley
According to The Bay Area Reporter, the Pacific Center, one of the most established LGBT community centers in the country, may move from Berkeley to Oakland this summer. The owner of the buildings on Telegraph Avenue where the Pacific Center has been based since 1978 has put the properties on the market for $1.7 million. [...]
Day of action starts
From early this morning, pickets were out at the main entrances to the University of California Berkeley for the Day of Action to protest cuts to education, K-12, community college and university, in California. At the Hearst entrance, about 20 picketers were handing out leaflets and encouraging passersby to join today’s protest. Bus and truck [...]
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