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Tag Archives: Berkeley (Calif)
Another Variable in the Winemaking Process: Climate Change
After two years of fires, the California winery Donkey & Goat has learned to pivot, combining appellations and even vintages to turn despair into deliciousness.
Legislators Find Way to Let U.C. Berkeley Increase Its Enrollment
A court ordered the university to cap the number of students after a lawsuit arose from its lack of campus housing. In response comes a proposal to adjust the California Environmental Quality Act.
U.C. Berkeley Battles With Town Over Student Housing
The state’s complex environmental laws are being weaponized in lawsuits against the University of California, Berkeley, which is under pressure to admit more and more students.
How Air Pollution Across America Reflects Racist Policy From the 1930s
A new study shows how redlining, a Depression-era housing policy, contributed to inequalities that persist decades later in U.S. cities.
U.C. Berkeley Must Freeze Enrollment, California Supreme Court Says
A spokesman said the decision meant that the university would have to cut in-person enrollment by at least 2,500 students in the fall of 2022.
U.C. Berkeley Says It May Have to Cut Student Admissions by Thousands
The announcement is the result of an appellate court ruling in favor of a neighborhood group that has sued the university, contending it is causing housing problems in the community.
Victim of Berkeley Balcony Collapse Dies in Ireland
Aoife Beary, who was left with life-changing injuries after the 2015 accident, died on New Year’s Day, her family said.
Alice Waters Helps a Museum Cater to the Tastes of Art Lovers
A new restaurant at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles is the latest effort to try to reach visitors’ hearts through their stomachs.
House Hunting: Is This Price Right?
In parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, sellers deliberately underprice homes to spur bidding wars, leading to sales prices that can be double the list price.
It’s Never Too Late to Record Your First Album
For a celebrated architecture professor at the University of California, Berkeley, an album of 11 original songs, in a variety of genres, was eight decades in the making.
August Vollmer ‘Abolished’ the Police — in 1905
Reshaping American policing is not some shocking new idea from the radical left.
Cal Survived Covid. Now, Back to Its Usual Problems
The school conducted tens of thousands of coronavirus tests, aborted the football season and lost $10 million. Is that light at the end of the tunnel another train?
What $2.4 Million Buys You in California
A Tudor Revival house in Los Angeles, a hillside home in Berkeley and a Mediterranean-style retreat in Chualar.
From Northern California, Farm-Fresh Skin Care
A new group of small-batch beauty companies is continuing the region’s storied tradition of organic growing and local sourcing.
What $3 Million Buys You in California
A Tudor Revival with seven bedrooms in Berkeley, a Craftsman bungalow with five bedrooms in San Diego and an Italianate house with four bedrooms in Napa.
‘A Long Time Coming’: Black Women Celebrate Harris’s Ascension
As Kamala Harris heads toward the highest levels of power, many rejoiced and saw her achievement as a particularly poignant reminder to Black girls that anything is possible.
How Kamala Harris’s Immigrant Parents Found a Home, and Each Other, in a Black Study Group
Donald Harris and Shyamala Gopalan grew up under British colonial rule on different sides of the planet. They were each drawn to Berkeley, and became part of an intellectual circle that shaped the rest of their lives.
Kamala Harris’s Father, Donald Harris, is a Prominent Economist
Donald J. Harris, a Jamaican-born economics professor, has expressed regret that a custody battle brought his close contact with his daughters “to an abrupt halt.”
Making a Connection Between Movement and Social Movements
“People protest in many different ways,” a young activist in the Bay Area says. For her and others in her performance group, one way is dance.
The United States Is Reopening Many of the Wrong Schools
When it is safe enough to return to school, young children would benefit the most. Yet financial pressures are pushing colleges to reopen most rapidly, an economist says.
Ishmael Reed: My Police Misconduct Experiences
Throughout my life, I have had frightening, maddening and absurd encounters with police officers.
The Pandemic and Protests Have Exposed the Truth About California
The Golden State is less exceptional and more like the rest of America than many would prefer to believe.
Following Dorothea Lange’s Notebooks
The Californian photographer known for her images of the Great Depression is a guide to the complexity of the present.