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WEBADA lawsuit against Berkeley settles with new rules for meeting access. Three disability commissioners, each living with a disability, accused Berkeley — long a flag-bearer for disability rights — of violating landmark federal disability laws. The City Council agreed to add new meeting access policies, ending the lawsuit.
The 2024 Berkeley gunfire map — updated Aug. 25
WEBAug 25, 2024 · The Berkeley and University of California police departments and California Highway Patrol had investigated at least 20 shooting incidents within Berkeley in 2024 as of Aug. 25. Three of the shootings had left people dead; six other incidents left people wounded. Aug. 25: One person was fatally shot at the …
Bites: Camino owners to open Kebabery in Berkeley; Foodieland …
WEBJun 26, 2019 · Hopelain told Eater they would like to open “as soon as possible,” which could be as soon as the end of the year. The Kebabery will be at 2929 Shattuck Ave. (near Ashby), Berkeley. San Jose-based food truck vendor Rice Rice Baby will bring its sticky rice desserts to FoodieLand Night Market in Berkeley in July. Photo: Rice Rice Baby /Instagram.
Kamala Harris’ childhood homes in Berkeley
WEBAug 19, 2024 · 1227 Bancroft Way. People took to the street in front of Harris’ childhood home at 1227 Bancroft Way after she was elected vice president on Nov. 7, 2020. Credit: Wayne Hsieh/Flickr. Harris’ mother then moved the family to a new rental home in West Berkeley, on Bancroft Way, between Browning and Bonar streets.
Watch the UC Berkeley peregrine falcons on live webcam
WEBMar 15, 2021 · Watch Annie and Alden, UC Berkeley’s peregrine falcons, live. This is Annie and Grinnell’s fifth breeding season at the top of the Campanile. They’ve raised 10 chicks so far. by Berkeleyside staff March 15, 2021, 12:32 p.m. Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Your donation makes this and all our other local reporting ...
How Kamala Harris’ childhood in Berkeley influenced her
WEBJul 21, 2024 · Shyamala, who came to UC Berkeley from India in 1958 to get her Ph.D., met and married a fellow graduate student, Donald Harris, an immigrant from Jamaica. They separated when Harris was young. As a child, Kamala Harris lived with her mother and sister in the top unit of this West Berkeley Bancroft Way property. Photo: Steven Finacom.
Berkeley BART stations set to have much less parking when …
WEBMar 11, 2022 · Interest in the project has been high since the start and more than 120 people attended Wednesday’s session. It was the project’s latest community meeting in a lengthy planning process that still has a long way to go: “Construction of mixed-income housing is targeted to begin at Ashby and/or North Berkeley in 2025 on the stations’ parking lots,” according to BART’s project website.
How a little-known Berkeley group sparked the 1960s student …
WEBDec 12, 2018 · How a little-known Berkeley group sparked the 1960s student movement. SLATE pre-dated the Free Speech and anti-Vietnam War movements. Its members protested racial discrimination by holding ‘shop-ins’ at Lucky’s supermarket on Telegraph Avenue. Student members of the Ad Hoc Committee, as well as members of SLATE, carry signs on Bancroft ...
What's next for Berkeley’s famed communal hot tub?
WEBSep 28, 2022 · Hastings maintained a very high temperature for the water in the tub — 113 1/2 degrees to be exact. “Some say the heat is unbearable, but the owner likes the radically high temperature because it is more sanitary and keeps people from lingering,” noted the 2000 Chronicle article. “It was scalding,” said Teller, who could spend only ...