While hundreds of students danced in celebration of President Barack Obama’s re-election to Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the USA” on Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley, members of the Berkeley College Republicans were huddled around a television in an apartment south of campus. The site where various campus groups spent weeks Read More…
The hotly debated Measure S failed Tuesday night, as final results showed that local voters had ultimately rejected the measure by 51.58 percent to 48.44 percent. Read More…
Mayor Tom Bates was re-elected with about 55 percent of the vote, all local election polling results reported in a little past midnight Tuesday. This will be the fourth term for Bates, who first took office in 2002. Along with Bates’ victory, the council also saw a unanimous re-election of Read More…
Prop. 34: Fail Proposition 34, which aims to end the death penalty in California, failed with just over 47 percent of votes in favor of its passage. Also known as the Savings Accountability and Full Enforcement for California Act, the proposition would have replaced the death penalty with a sentence Read More…
Update as of Wednesday 2:51 p.m.: Although tentative predictions are being made based on the votes that have been processed, the election is not over until every single ballot is counted, according to Alameda County Registrar of Voters Dave Mcdonald. Accordingly, the fate of some local measures including Measure T Read More…
Judy Appel and incumbent Beatriz Leyva-Cutler won the two director positions on the Berkeley Unified School District School Board of Education Tuesday night, winning over two other candidates. Read More…
Four contested seats on the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board are likely to go mostly to candidates from the Progressive Affordable Housing Slate, data shows as of press time. As of Wednesday afternoon, with all voting precincts reported, the lead candidates are Judy Shelton, Asa Dodsworth and Alejandro Soto-Vigil from the Read More…
Local results have started to come in. We bring you the latest on Proposition 30, local ballot measures and the race for Mayor and City Council in the city of Berkeley.
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Polls around Berkeley opened at 7 a.m. this morning. City residents and UC Berkeley students are going out to the polls and casting their ballots throughout the day. Polls are set to close at 8 p.m. Read More…
Candidate for Berkeley Rent Board Alejandro Soto-Vigil has alleged that City Councilmember Laurie Capitelli’s campaign manager Pamela Gray went through his recycling bin Monday afternoon. Read More…
