City

BART offers free rides from Oakland COVID-19 vaccination site

Image of BART station
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According to a BART press release, anyone who is vaccinated at the Oakland Coliseum vaccination site can receive a free BART ticket if they present their vaccination card with the corresponding date. The vaccination site itself is accessible to communities within the Oakland area that have the highest numbers of COVID-19 cases.

BART is offering free rides home to users of Oakland Coliseum’s mass COVID-19 vaccination site, which opened Tuesday and is accessible from the Coliseum BART station.
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Columns, Opinion

And the world went airborne

Something to write home about

Every day is a ping-pong game with my family back in India about whether or not I should decide to hop on a 22-hour direct flight back home because who knows if it is safe to travel?
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Cal in Color

Chasing dreams as a first-generation Pinay

Cal in Color

These spaces — spaces like UC Berkeley — were never created for people like me. Retention rates of Pilipinx students at UC Berkeley always frustrated me, but at times like these, I was numb to the idea of becoming a part of those statistics.
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Local Businesses

Italian bakery PiQ in Downtown Berkeley closes its doors

PiQ closed its metal gates to the dismay of Downtown Berkeley workers and regular customers, barring the entrance to the cafe, as first reported by Berkeleyside. The cafe used to serve authentic Italian food, as its former menu lists traditional Italian cuisines, offering an assortment of pizzas, pastas, sweets and coffees.
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