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.)
Measure GG: A new tax on natural gas use in big Berkeley buildings
Oct 4, 2024 · Signatures to place Measure GG on the ballot were gathered by a group of local environmental and labor activists after Berkeley lost an expensive legal battle to save its first-in-the-nation ban on gas hookups in new development.. The measure, an effort to slash climate-change causing emissions, would take aim not just at new construction but impose a special tax on all buildings 15,000 square ...
Berkeley Half Marathon road closures announced for Sunday
Nov 15, 2024 · A complete list of the closures is available on the city’s website, and a PDF map (above) shows details of detours around the race courses. Riders can monitor changes to bus routes using AC Transit’s ACT RealTime system and service notices. The city listed several “significant” closures lasting large portions of Sunday morning:
Cast your vote for the 2024 Nosh Awards - berkeleyside.org
Nov 26, 2024 · Voters of the East Bay, your civic duty for 2024 is not yet done. ‘Tis the season for Nosh’s annual awards celebrating the best in East Bay food and drink, and the establishments that left us too soon.
Latest news — Berkeleyside
The top 10 Berkeley stories in 2024. There was no shortage of major news stories, including the state Supreme Court siding with UC Berkeley to build student housing in the historic and often contested People’s Park, the shakeup in City Council, the closing of Golden Gate Fields after 90 years and much more.
Berkeley City Council District 5: Who's running, where they stand
Oct 10, 2024 · District 5 encompasses the area bounded by Spruce Street to the east, Cedar Street to the south, Sacramento Street to the west and the city limits to the north.. The district includes much of Hopkins Street, which was the focus of one of Berkeley’s most bitter political battles in recent years, as city officials planned — then shelved — a project to install protected bike lanes along the ...
Kamala Harris’ childhood homes in Berkeley
Aug 19, 2024 · At about age 5 she came back to Berkeley with her mother and sister. When she was 12, her mother moved the family to Canada. While her father lived in Palo Alto and her mother in Oakland during her undergraduate years, there is no readily available record of Harris living in the Bay Area again until she returned after college to attend law school in San Francisco.
East Bay Nosh | Berkeleyside — Restaurant news and more
East Bay Nosh is the only Bay Area food publication solely focused on the East Bay, with content published across Berkeleyside and The Oaklandside.
The East Bay’s best new restaurant is the rebirth of a pizza darling
Dec 31, 2024 · “The idea is if you keep painting and adding things, eventually a painting will just turn gray. And we put so much emphasis on our dough, from the flour we use to where we stretch it out, the way we cook it inside a wood-fired oven,” Murli told Nosh earlier this year.. “From there, all it takes is some beautiful ingredients and put them on that dough and just not disappoint.”
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.