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4 days ago · Berkeley activists started a marijuana dispensary 25 years ago. Today, there’s none older in the nation. The Berkeley Patients Group, with the mission of bringing cannabis to the sick and dying, spent many years fending off federal crackdowns. Since legalization, the dispensary has struggled financially. by Nathan Dalton October 28, 2024.
Kamala Harris’ childhood homes in Berkeley
Aug 19, 2024 · 1227 Bancroft Way. People took to the street in front of Harris’ childhood home at 1227 Bancroft Way after she was elected vice president on Nov. 7, 2020. Credit: Wayne Hsieh/Flickr. Harris’ mother then moved the family to a new rental home in West Berkeley, on Bancroft Way, between Browning and Bonar streets.
Berkeley and Alameda County voter guide and election news
To count, it must be postmarked on or before Election Day. Drop it off: Here’s a map of all the dropboxes in Alameda County. You can do this on or before Nov. 5. In person: If you prefer to cast your vote in person, you can do so at any of the 100 voting centers in Alameda County. So Berkeley residents who work in Fremont can choose to vote ...
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by Berkeleyside staff November 7, 2024. Berkeley’s natural gas tax for big buildings is headed for defeat. What’s next for the electrification movement? Measure GG, an effort to slash climate change-causing emissions, would have imposed a tax on big Berkeley buildings that use natural gas. by Iris Kwok November 7, 2024.
Here’s who is running for Alameda County Supervisor District 5
Feb 5, 2024 · by Supriya Yelimeli and Eli Wolfe Feb. 5, 2024, 4:34 p.m. Ben Bartlett, Nikki Fortunato Bas, John Bauters, Ken Berrick, Lorrel Plimier, Gerald Pechenuk, Chris Moore and Gregory Hodge (clockwise) are vying for the District 5 Alameda County supervisor seat after Keith Carson announced his retirement last December. Credit: Supriya Yelimeli.
The 2024 Berkeley gunfire map — updated Oct. 28
Oct 28, 2024 · The Berkeley and University of California police departments and California Highway Patrol had investigated at least 23 shooting incidents within Berkeley in 2024 as of Oct. 28. Three of the shootings had left people dead; seven other incidents left people wounded. Oct. 26: Around 12:15 a.m. several callers and UC Berkeley’s ShotSpotter ...
How Kamala Harris’ childhood in Berkeley influenced her
Jul 21, 2024 · Shyamala, who came to UC Berkeley from India in 1958 to get her Ph.D., met and married a fellow graduate student, Donald Harris, an immigrant from Jamaica. They separated when Harris was young. As a child, Kamala Harris lived with her mother and sister in the top unit of this West Berkeley Bancroft Way property. Photo: Steven Finacom.
Berkeley doesn't need to change law to landmark Kamala Harris's …
Mar 8, 2021 · As a child, Kamala Harris lived with her mother and sister in this Bancroft Way home in West Berkeley. Photo: Steven Finacom. Update, March 9, 5 p.m.: City Councilmember Kate Harrison will pull her proposed resolution to “change” Berkeley law to enable the landmarking of Kamala Harris’ childhood home. After more discussion with staff, Harrison said …
Tokyo Central coming to Bay Street Emeryville in 2025 - Berkeleyside
by Tovin Lapan Aug. 19, 2024, 12:00 p.m. Bay Street Emeryville will welcome Japan-based grocery and retailer Tokyo Central as a new anchor tenant in 2025, the commercial center’s owner, CentralCal Properties, announced last week. Tokyo Central will fill a new 40,635-square-foot building and include an “upscale” Japanese restaurant ...
Redlining: The history of Berkeley’s segregated neighborhoods
Sep 20, 2018 · Betty Reid Soskin, a 96-year-old Berkeley community member and the nation’s oldest park ranger, remembers those times.In the 1940s and 1950s, racial housing discrimination was just a fact of life, she said. “We knew that we could not buy property above Grove Street [now known as Martin Luther King Jr. Way, in part because of Soskin’s efforts] …