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Rent day is coming, a day we all dread. Do I need to skip a meal or work an extra shift instead of studying to make sure I have enough money to pay the rent? Maybe we can squeeze in another roommate in the living room. Despite the rental woes
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As the appointed representative of District 6 in the Berkeley Cannabis Commission and as the commission’s current vice chair, I can confirm that Measure T — a voter-mandated tax bill for marijuana businesses — has indeed worked to fulfill its stated purpose. Not only does this measure ensure that the
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A new public-use, disabled-accessible, portable bathroom was installed in a city parking lot near Alcatraz Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Way on Friday after the city received pressure from a nearby homeless encampment organized by the advocacy group First They Came for the Homeless, along with local neighborhood residents and merchants.
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Earlier this month, California came perilously close to experiencing what could have been one of the worst infrastructure disasters in the country. The failure of both the main and auxiliary spillways at the Oroville Dam prompted the evacuations of almost 200,000 residents in downstream communities, with officials fearing a 30-foot
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Editor’s Note: This article has been edited for space and clarity. Every day of his undergraduate experience spent away from his home in Berkeley, he wished he was back. He considers his neighbors to be the homeless and his voice to be that of every marginalized resident in the city.
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Lee is running as an anti-establishment candidate on the side of UC Berkeley students, whom he sees as neglected by the mayor and City Council.
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Berkeley City Councilmember Kriss Worthington will announce his candidacy for mayor today in a noon press conference at City Hall.
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