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Berkeley to Rename School Dedicated to Slave-owning Sierra Club Co-Founder
Breitbart News The Berkeley, California, school board voted Wednesday to change the name of a local elementary school named for Joseph LeConte, who was a co-founder of the Sierra Club — and a slave owner who backed the Confederacy. The Sierra Club is a left-wing … |
| Daily Californian A study conducted by UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education associate Ian Perry found that California’s progressive public policies over a period of six years have not negatively affected state employment rates or the economy. The report … |
| Daily Californian The Berkeley Unified School District announced in a press release Tuesday that it has joined seven other California school districts and other education agencies in a federal lawsuit that seeks to block the Trump administration’s repeal of Deferred … |
| Patch.com But the criticism did little to deter Brown, who was on message throughout the trip: Climate change is a serious threat, California is doing its part—and, especially, come to San Francisco next year for a climate conference that gets things accomplished. |
| UC Berkeley After 15 years of service, UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor Scott Biddy — who worked as a lead campus fundraiser, public affairs executive and the architect of key administrative programs — will retire at the end of the month. Biddy was, in the words of … |
| CNN The 29 jurisdictions warned Wednesday were: Albany, New York; Berkeley, California; Bernalillo County, New Mexico; Burlington, Vermont; Contra Costa County, California; the city and county of Denver, Colorado; Fremont, California; Jackson, Mississippi; … |
| Patch.com BERKELEY, CA — The Berkeley City Council has approved a resolution that restores the Council’s oversight of transfers of excess U.S. Department of Defense materials, such as weapons and vehicles, to the city’s Police Department. The resolution was … |
| WIRED “There’s no readily compiled, publicly available database of where and when gun shows occur,” says UC Berkeley epidemiologist Ellicott Matthay, who recently found herself in want of such a database. That includes the internet. When Matthay used the … |
| Ganjapreneur The former chair of the Berkeley Medical Cannabis Commission, Daniel Rush, has been sentenced to 37 months in prison for money laundering and fraud that occurred between 2010 and 2015. Rush also served as an organizing coordinator for the United … |
| Palo Alto Online Ray and Associates, based in Iowa, does less work in California, but has conducted searches for districts including Berkeley Unified and Poway Unified, according to the firm’s proposal. “We have often found excellent in-state candidates who would not … |
| Forbes To show me his technological sleight of hand, Friesen invites me to a hillside house in Berkeley, California on a sunny afternoon. There, in a shaded courtyard, we each sample a cup of water that flows from a drinking fountain. The water is cool and … |
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UC Berkeley Study Finds California’s Progressive Policies Don’t Hurt Jobs, Economy
Sierra Sun Times November 15, 2017 – By Jacqueline Sullivan – Research from UC Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education measuring the impacts of numerous progressive California policies enacted over the last six years finds no negative effects on uc berkeley … |
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Berkeley ranks No. 5 in California in hate crime metric
Daily Californian Berkeley has the fifth highest hate crimes rate out of all California cities with populations of more than 50,000, according to the FBI’s 2016 Hate Crime Statistics report. Hate crimes, according to UCPD spokesperson Sabrina Reich, are defined as … |
| Daily Californian Birds in California are nesting more than a week earlier than they did a century ago, according to a recent UC Berkeley study. The study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, compared nesting data … UC Berkeley Study Finds California Birds Nesting a Week Earlier Than They Did a Century AgoSierra Sun Times California birds nesting a week earlier than they did a century agoScience Daily |
| East Bay Express According to data collected by the FBI, several East Bay cities saw large increases in reported hate crimes in 2016. Topping the regional list was San Leandro, where the police reported 22 hate crimes. This gave the East Bay city of 91,000 residents … |
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California birds nesting a week earlier than they did a century ago
Science Daily … species in the mountainous areas of California did not need to shift upward in elevation in response to climate warming over the past century,” said co-author Steven Beissinger, a UC Berkeley professor of environmental sciences, policy and management. |
| UC Berkeley Research from UC Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education measuring the impacts of numerous progressive California policies enacted over the last six years finds no negative effects on employment and economic growth. This is despite … |
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Councilwoman Wants City Oversight Of Military Hardware
Patch.com BERKELEY, CA — Berkeley City Councilwoman Kate Harrison said today that she thinks the council should be given the power to review and approve any surplus military hardware that the city’s Police Department seeks from the U.S. Department of Defense. |
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University of California, Berkeley School of Information Opens Applications for cybersecurity@berkeley
PR Newswire (press release) 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — The UC Berkeley School of Information (I School) is now accepting applications for its new, online Master of Information and Cybersecurity (MICS) program, also known as cybersecurity@berkeley. The program was developed in … |
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1 Robbery, 1 Attempted Robbery In Berkeley
Patch.com BERKELEY, CA — Police are looking for suspects involved in a robbery and an attempted robbery that occurred Sunday in Berkeley, police said. At 7:28 p.m., a male victim was approached by two male suspects in the 2400 block of Le Conte Avenue, about a … |