Berkeley City Council to consider increasing number of medical cannabis dispensaries
The Berkeley City Council will discuss increasing the limit on medical cannabis dispensaries from four to six at Tuesday’s meeting. Read More…
Tag Archives: Berkeley City Council
Where are the leaders?
The city of Berkeley needs new student trailblazers. The two competing proposals for a new student district both have passionate advocates. At this week’s meeting, the City Council voted to do a staff analysis of the United Student District Amendment, an alternative district map submitted a few months ago. That Read More…
City Council to continue assessing proposal for homeless housing project
Berkeley City Council agreed on Tuesday night to further assess a proposal for a new homeless housing project that has been both hailed as visionary and denounced as dangerous. Read More…
Berkeley City Council considers labeling genetically modified produce
The Berkeley City Council has entered the debate over whether to label genetically-modified produce, voting Tuesday night to investigate the possibility of instituting such a policy at the city level. Read More…
ASUC Senate agenda: Week 2
Although not included in this agenda, ASUC senators will likely vote on a bill that asks the senate to support the United Student District Amendment in the Berkeley City Council. The amendment pertains to the city’s ongoing redistricting negotiations and supports the creation of a largely student district. Unlike an alternative map that would also be composed mostly of students, the USDA map would include co-ops and other student housing on Northside. Read More…
Berkeley City Council postpones decision on new student district
After extensive discussion Tuesday night, the Berkeley City Council decided to postpone a historic vote on the ASUC-backed redistricting map that would create a student-majority district for the first time in Berkeley. Read More…
Fixing the student district
CITY AFFAIRS: The Berkeley Student District Campaign’s student district plan is ambitious, but it needs to include Northside student voices.
Even though the USDA map does split up those neighborhoods, there’s no indication that those areas contain concrete interest groups the same way the Northside concentration of co-ops and residence halls represent hundreds of students in the space of a couple city blocks. Read More…
Parents’ attitude at the root of student alcohol abuse
This year’s Welcome Week resulted in eight students being sent to the hospital within one night. Such serious consequences of student’s irresponsible behavior showcase the unfortunate state of drinking culture in America today. Although there have been various proposals recently for how to curb the rise in alcohol-related accidents, few Read More…
Berkeley City Council to consider two student-majority district maps on Tuesday
After two years, the Berkeley City Council is on the brink of making a historic decision Tuesday night regarding the creation of a student-majority district.
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City Council to consider funding for enforcement of underage drinking law
The Berkeley City Council will consider approving a grant that would fund increased enforcement of underage drinking laws at its meeting next Tuesday. Read More…