Following last week’s riotous meeting, the Berkeley City Council quietly voted to place a streets and watershed bond measure on the November ballot at their meeting Tuesday night. Read More…
It’s been easy to overlook the youth vote — until recently, we’ve been seen as an immobilized voting bloc, to be recruited as volunteers rather than to be courted as a constituency. However, we challenged that notion in 2008 when we more than tripled our turnout as one of the Read More…
An amendment to the city of Berkeley charter to adjust the redistricting process set in 1986 was approved June 26 by the Berkeley City Council to appear on the November ballot for voter approval. For more than three decades, Berkeley has kept roughly the same boundaries for its eight council Read More…
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a $142.6 billion budget that included a tuition freeze which means there will be no immediate tuition increases for students in the UC and CSU systems for the 2012-2013 school year. Read More…
At its meeting Tuesday night the Berkeley City Council voted to proceed with the third phase of the West Berkeley Project — a controversial long-term plan that aims to expand the area’s retail and multi-use space — that may be placed on the city’s November ballot. Following much debate regarding Read More…
At its meeting Tuesday night, Berkeley City Council discussed results from a second community survey conducted to determine which bond measures voters want on the November election ballot. The survey included specific ballot measures that will generate tax revenue for the city to fix its aging infrastructure, which includes restoration Read More…
