Despite incumbent victories, challengers still upbeat
In the aftermath of the Berkeley City Council election, candidate Denisha Delane did not wake up feeling angry or upset over her loss. Read More…
In the aftermath of the Berkeley City Council election, candidate Denisha Delane did not wake up feeling angry or upset over her loss. 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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Campus democrats made one final push for Proposition 30 in a rally on Sproul Plaza on the eve of election day Monday. Read More…
While more prominent national and state campaigns will take their battle to the television and airwaves, local elections are often reduced to a hard fought battle of yard signs and fliers. Read More…
While UC Berkeley has a reputation for student activism, political involvement in local campaigns for the upcoming elections has been been limited in comparison to state and national races. Read More…
The Berkeley City Council revoked a policy requiring the Berkeley Police Department to hold undocumented immigrants in the local jail by request of the federal government at its Tuesday meeting. Read More…
On the surface, Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, and opponent Marilyn Singleton are awfully similar. Both are black women born in a now antiquated United States where casual racism and segregation were pervasive. Singleton still remembers marching down to Woolworth’s, a now defunct retail firm that featured segregated lunch counters. Segregation Read More…
Civilians and civil rights groups raised concerns at press conference on Thursday about the potential purchase by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office of aerial surveillance drones. Read More…
With the local election less than a month away, Berkeley mayoral candidates have been diligently amassing donations for their respective campaigns.
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Though Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates created a Twitter account in April 2009, the feed remained tweet-free over the three years that followed. As of Wednesday, however, that has changed. At 12:45 p.m., Bates tweeted about disability activist Hale Zukas, ending his three-year stint of cyber-silence. “I thought was was time Read More…