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The ranking system lets each City Council district get its concerns met.
They are the High-Achieving Progressive Professionals buying the $1 million+ homes in the flats. They are well-off and progressive and Berkeley residents should engage their skills, as well as challenge them.
Rather than functioning as an alternative route for Interstate 80, San Pablo needs to serve the people who live, work, shop and go to school in our community.
I am a 15-year-old freshman at Berkeley High. No one handed me the responsibility to speak for the planet, but I feel like it's mine all the same because those in power aren’t doing enough to end environmental injustice.
Berkeley's bicycle infrastructure is a particularly glaring problem because the city talks a big game but delivers so little.
Last year, Berkeley City Council declared a climate emergency. This year, its actions betray that declaration.
This issue should move to the forefront of every City Council meeting until it is resolved.
The City Council just adopted a five-year paving plan that will allocate $47.81 million to pave the streets. Unfortunately, that is not enough to seriously address the problem. The city should spend more.
Sparks from utility wires have caused 1,500 fires in California. Tilden Park has many feet of aging high-voltage PG&E electrical lines and transformers, which are still above ground. They are a hazard.
There's a way to make BART better, faster and different for under $3 billion.
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