Chrissa Olson

Berkeley Law students in the Startup Law Initiative, or SLI, learn the law in action by partnering with Bay Area startups pro bono.

The BART Board of Directors voted June 30 to support Senate Bill 532, authored by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-District 11, which temporarily raises Bay Area bridge tolls by $1.50 from January 2024 to December 2028 in order to fund public transit. 

For me, being queer comes with seeing the world in a lot of color.

The budget agreement reverses the Governor’s originally proposed $2 billion cut in state funding to transit capital projects, according to a press release from California Senator Scott Wiener’s office.

Stare into the storefront of any business in Berkeley and you might see the kind of eclectic offerings Berkeley is known for.

BART saw its highest arrest totals since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic this spring after doubling its police presence on trains in March, according to a BART press release.

Jeff MacKie-Mason, the University Librarian, will retire June 2024 according to a campus press release.

24 Black high schoolers from around the Bay Area were individually awarded $8,000 in scholarships Saturday after the completion of a financial and investment literacy program, according to a joint press release from Pacific Gas and Electric, or PG&E, and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Resources for Community Development, or RCD, the developer of the supportive housing at People’s Park, has pulled out of the project, according to an RCD statement.

Yesterday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Claudette Biemeret as BART’s next inspector general, according to a press release from Newsom’s office.