Opinion: A Berkeley reckoning on climate change
Berkeley is on track to fail on its most urgent climate policy imperative: reducing pollution from cars.
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Opinion: Buffy Wicks is the best AD 15 candidate to help solve our housing crisis
Buffy Wicks understands rent stabilization is the only thing that stands between many families and the terrifying prospect of untenable rent hikes or even losing their homes.
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Opinion: It’s time to reform probate court
Predatory for-profit conservators often take advantage of the elderly by charging huge fees and isolating them from the community.
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Opinion: Who is trying to buy the California State Assembly?
Buffy Wicks has raised $542,775 for her campaign for the AD 15 seat. One major donor, Govern for Ca, has donated $85K. The powerful PAC is a proponent for charter schools
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Opinion: The Elmwood Café brouhaha makes clear that empathy is the antidote
Much of the reaction to the recent Elmwood Café-Kamau Bell situation was a case study in victim blaming, and it begins with a lack of empathy.
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Opinion: Now introducing ‘Watch Berkeley Gov’
Many people say they're interested in what happens at Berkeley City Council meetings, but don't have time to go. So one man decided to try making the meetings more accessible.
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Opinion: To the ‘good’ white liberals of Berkeley
W. Kamau Bell was not trying to shut down the Elmwood Cafe. He was highlighting how subtle microaggressions remind people of color that they are only conditionally welcomed.
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Opinion: W. Kamau Bell makes a mockery of real racism and prejudice
The slight W. Kamau Bell experienced at the Elmwood Café does not rise to the level of racism. He just experienced several seconds of emotional agitation.
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Opinion: Whatever the reason it closed, the Elmwood Café missed a real opportunity to be a force for change in Berkeley
Racism isn’t just a coffee shop problem. It is an America problem. And, as much as many people don’t want to admit it, Berkeley is in America.
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Opinion: Real progressives would embrace Scott Wiener’s SB 827 housing bill
There's plenty of talk about “greedy developers” being the cause of our housing crisis but the people making out in this crazy market aren’t builders, but existing homeowners.
