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…
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Live Blog Election 2012: Reactions and Results from around Berkeley
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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Robert Reich, federal and state politicians make final push for Prop. 30
Campus democrats made one final push for Proposition 30 in a rally on Sproul Plaza on the eve of election day Monday. Read More…
Campaign expenditures differ between candidates in Berkeley mayoral race
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…
Limited student engagement continues to persist in local politics
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…
Berkeley City Council decides to stop local detainment of undocumented immigrants
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…
Singleton seeks to upset Rep. Lee in upcoming election
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…
Alameda County sheriff’s office considers purchasing drones
Civilians, civil rights groups raise concerns about aerial surveillance drones
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…
Campaign filings show incumbent mayor leads in donations
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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Berkeley Mayor sends first tweet
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…