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In her year of service as chief of staff to Mayor Tom Bates, Judith Iglehart developed a reputation for fostering a business friendly attitude for entrepreneurs in the city. Iglehart has stepped down this week to return to those entrepreneurial roots that made her so valuable to the mayor’s office in the first place.
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The following is a sample of crime in Berkeley from Nov. 25 — Dec. 1, provided by the Berkeley Police Department.
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UCPD has received a report of an arson that took place at the People’s Park men’s bathroom at the beginning of this week.
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BART resumed service around 10:20 a.m. Sunday after a power circuit failure earlier in the morning resulted in a mass shutdown of all trains.
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The Berkeley City Council and members of the public convened to discuss proposals from various organizations aimed at improving the Telegraph Avenue area south of the UC Berkeley campus at a work session Tuesday night.
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With the final poll numbers showing that Measure S, Berkeley’s controversial Sit-Lie ordinance, narrowly failed in this year’s election, dismayed proponents of the ballot measure are in a time of reflection.
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Ken Sarachan and the city of Berkeley have been entangled in conflict for years over the vacant lot on the northeast corner of Telegraph Avenue and Haste Street, which Sarachan purchased in the 1990s.
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Despite the hopes harbored by some candidates that the implementation of ranked-choice would be a game changer in this year’s mayoral race, the new voting system had little impact in last Tuesday’s election.
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With election day now over, the council will convene again this Tuesday at 7 p.m. with all challenged incumbents remaining in their elected position.
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Mayor Tom Bates was re-elected with about 55 percent of the vote, all local election polling results reported in a little past midnight Tuesday. This will be the fourth term for Bates, who first took office in 2002. Along with Bates’ victory, the council also saw a unanimous re-election of
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