Bay Area CoRoasters café to open in West Berkeley
At CoRo, members can learn with and use CoRo’s various pieces of roasting and packaging equipment to run their own roasting businesses.
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Author Archives: Mani Sandhu
QARC, bridges Multicultural Resource Center space renovation in early stages of planning
On May 4, the bridges Multicultural Resource Center and the Queer Alliance Resource Center, or QARC, signed three memorandums of understanding, or MOUs, with campus and student body officials to solidify the next step in obtaining visible and accessible spaces for the organizations.
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Berkeley Humane Society awarded $10K PEDIGREE Foundation grant
Jeffrey Zerwekh, Berkeley Humane’s executive director, said the entire grant will go toward purchasing medical equipment necessary for the surgical procedures that Berkeley Humane provides in its hospital.
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UC Berkeley study finds pretrial program increased number of arrestees released before trial
The study, conducted by recently graduated public policy student Alena Yarmosky, found that during the first five months of the program, approximately 4,689 jail bed days were saved, which amounts to 940 jail bed days per month and 11,253 jail bed days per year.
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More than half of BART police use-of-force incidents in 2017 involved Black men, report finds
While Black people constitute 12 percent of BART customers according to the most recent data, which is from 2015, the report presented to the BART Police Citizen Review Board at its June 11 meeting found that among all the use-of-force incidents in 2017, 50.9 percent involved Black males and 14.7 percent involved Black females.
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Berkeley’s Pathways navigation center set to open June 23, to house 50 homeless people
Located on Second and Cedar streets, the center, which is the first phase of the Pathways Project, will provide 50 beds for Berkeley’s homeless population in shared trailer housing, as well as supportive services such as counseling, transitional housing and job assistance.
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District 4 Berkeley City Councilmember Kate Harrison to run for re-election
Since she was sworn in in March 2017, Harrison has worked on multiple issues, including affordable housing, homelessness, police reform and environmental work, she said. She added that she is running for re-election to continue to work on these issues.
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