Rent board pays $210K to former employee to settle retaliation charges
Public documents strongly suggest that Jay Kelekian, the former executive director, is the person who is alleged to have retaliated against the former employee.
Frances Dinkelspiel
Frances Dinkelspiel, Berkeleyside and CItyside co-founder, is a journalist and author. Her first book, Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California, published in November 2008, was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Her second book, Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California was published in October 2015 and was both a New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Frances is a former staff reporter for the Syracuse Newspapers and the San Jose Mercury News. Her freelance work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, People Magazine, Daily Beast, the San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere.
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UC Berkeley tells tenants of 112-year-old rent-controlled building they must leave
Cal said it will offer $54,000 or more to the occupants of 1921 Walnut St. to leave so it can build a 760-bed student housing project there.
On his way out, Trump pardons Anthony Levandowski, Berkeley engineer who stole trade secrets
He pleaded guilty in federal court to taking information on driverless cars from Google but will no longer face 18 months in federal prison.
UC Berkeley to start drilling for soil samples in People’s Park, the next step in building housing there
Cal plans to construct housing for 1,200 students on one of Berkeley’s most historic sites.
Art project or statement? Statue of pioneering Black Berkeley legislator briefly defaced
Someone put a white skeleton mask and some graffiti on the statue of William Byron Rumford on Sacramento Street.
How to get rid of your Christmas tree in Berkeley. Hint: You can’t leave it on the curb
Trees must be cut up and put in green plant debris carts or taken whole to the city’s transfer station.
First COVID-19 vaccines given to health care workers at Alta Bates Hospital
Doctors, nurses and technicians who work in the emergency department at Alta Bates were vaccinated Saturday.
As she takes the helm at the Berkeley Library during a pandemic, Tess Mayer says she’s up to the challenge
The new director joins from the King County Library System in Washington, the busiest library system in the U.S.
Update: Red flag warning issued for the Berkeley and Oakland hills through Monday evening, a rarity for December
A red flag alert in December is highly unusual but reflects the fact that there has been very little rain this fall.
Berkeley orders demolition of 7-story building that burned for several days
The building is unsafe and the top five floors, made of wood, must be removed by Dec. 31.
Berkeleyside is hiring a new editor-in-chief
The new editor-in-chief will lead our pioneering nonprofit newsroom to new heights in its second decade.
For this Berkeley woman, the University Avenue fire has left her with no place to live
Marsha Tolliver had to leave the room she was renting and was forced to choose between buying a uniform for work or paying for a hotel.
Berkeley bids adieu to the controversial Big People statues
The statues stood on the pedestrian bridge over I-80 for 12 years. It will take 3 days to remove them.
Update: Fire almost extinguished at 7-story building in downtown Berkeley
After burning for three days, the fire at 2067 University Ave. is now extinguished and only a small number of Berkeley firefighters remain on scene.
6-alarm fire in downtown Berkeley is biggest city has seen since 2011
Firefighters and police responded to a six-alarm fire in downtown Berkeley on Saturday evening at a building under construction.
Berkeley has started removing the Big People statues on the I-80 pedestrian bridge
The ‘”love-em” or “hate-em” art pieces will be gone by Tuesday.
