Berkeley and Alameda County election results 2024
Nov 5, 2024 · City Council. Incumbent Terry Taplin won a second term representing West Berkeley while Ben Bartlett kept his seat representing South Berkeley for a third term.Shoshana O’Keefe won the North Berkeley seat Sophie Hahn is vacating, while Brent Blackaby took up Susan Wengraf’s mantle in the Berkeley Hills (). (Read Berkeleyside’s coverage of these races at the links above.)
Protesters against homeless policy occupy Berkeley’s Old City Hall
Oct 4, 2024 · Demonstrators begin an occupation at Old City Hall in Berkeley, Sept. 28, 2024. Credit: Erin Sheridan. Unhoused residents and advocates are pitching tents on the lawn of Old City Hall in protest of a new Berkeley policy giving the …
A tsunami warning spurred evacuations in West Berkeley, but …
Dec 5, 2024 · That quake turned out not to be the sort likeliest to touch off tsunamis. But geologists and the National Weather Service issue tsunami warnings anytime there is an earthquake that reaches 7.0 or higher, since tsunamis travel at roughly the speed of a passenger jet and can push house-high walls of water into coastal areas.. The ensuing evacuation order from the Berkeley Police Department ...
Corn, Vasudeo declare victory in Berkeley school board race
Nov 20, 2024 · Sixteen- and 17-year-old Berkeley residents were able to vote for school board director for the first time this year, with Berkeley and Oakland among the first in California to lower the voting age in school board elections.. But teens’ votes did not appear to be decisive in the outcome of the election. According to Alameda County Registrar of Voters Tim Dupuis, 536 youth voters in Berkeley ...
Berkeley rent and eviction rules, tenant unions go to voters
Oct 18, 2024 · “Voters consistently support rent control as a key housing strategy,” according to an argument for BB from Mayor Jesse Arreguín, rent board Chair Leah Simon-Weisberg, former rent chair and Berkeley Tenants Union representative Paola Laverde, Harriet Tubman Terrace resident Darinxoso Oyamaselo and Iris Rosenblum-Sellers, a representative from a UC Berkeley academic workers’ union.
Berkeley Rep's '24-'25 shows range from classical to cutting edge
Oct 3, 2024 · The 2024-25 season at Berkeley Repertory Theatre has begun with rave reviews on its first production Mexodus — and that’s just the beginning, with six shows to follow. In addition, a new program lets parents attend a matinee while their children play theater games next door.
Election 2024: Half of Berkeley's City Council seats are up for grabs
Nov 5, 2024 · It might take several days or even weeks to know the winner if results are close. City Council elections are done by ranked-choice voting, which could affect the outcome of the District 3 and District 5 races if no candidate garners more than 50% of votes in the first round.Both Bartlett and O’Keefe had well over 50% of first-round votes in early tabulations, though Bartlett’s lead as of ...
Berkeley measures EE, FF: Which street paving vision is best?
Oct 25, 2024 · Measure EE or FF could hold the line on citywide pavement conditions, according to a city study. Credit: Tracey Taylor. Of Berkeley’s even dozen ballot measures going to voters in November, two deal with the city’s generally crummy streets. Organizers for each had hoped to ultimately improve road conditions, but the city’s most …
UC faces over $500M budget shortfall and eyes tuition increase for …
Nov 14, 2024 · UC’s operating revenue is estimated to be about $53 billion in 2024-25.Most of that is from the system’s medical services work, including hospitals. Its core mission of educating students, largely faculty salary and benefits as well as financial aid, makes up about $11 billion of the system’s budget. That amount is almost evenly …
New Mayor Adena Ishii pledges to make Berkeley a beacon
Dec 6, 2024 · “Yesterday, we almost had a tsunami,” Buddenhagen said at Friday’s ceremony, referring to the brief period the prior morning when forecasters feared an offshore earthquake could send destructive waves to the Northern California coast. “Today we have a different kind of a metaphorical, democratic tsunami of an all-new group of …