The long-fueled tension between Berkeley tenants and property owners has taken on greater significance for Rent Stabilization Board candidates in this November’s electoral race. 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…
On Tuesday, Berkeley’s Fair Campaign Practices Commission heard a complaint alleging that Tenants United for Fairness, one of the two slates running for the city’s Rent Stabilization Board, violated city and state election laws. Read More…
On June 25, 2012, the Alameda County Civil Grand Jury issued a report and findings quite critical of the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board’s hiring practices and lack of oversight. “…[T]he Grand Jury found that the (board) is a self-sustaining bureaucracy that operates without effective oversight and accountability.” Berkeley deserves a Read More…
iPhones have won out over Google phones for robbers in Berkeley, according to the Berkeley Police Department. Sarah Burns is the lead crime reporter. Correction(s):A previous edition of this post incorrectly labeled iPhone robberies as thefts.