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Daily Report: Money and Politics

Mortgage relief plan embraced in Berkeley has links to Occupy

August 6, 2012, 12:05 AM
The Berkeley City Council has thrown its support behind a growing group of activists, public officials and entrepreneurs calling upon governments to seize mortgages to provide relief to financially troubled homeowners. The idea of using governments’ powers of eminent domain to... + read more
Daily Report: K–12

Berkeley Unified reveals spending on sexual harassment case

August 3, 2012, 12:05 AM
The Berkeley Unified School District spent $172,697.15 on a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by a high school student against her guidance counselor, according to records provided by district officials more than a year after they were first requested by California Watch. All but $46,281.25 of... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

Visiting professor's death highlights bike crashes in Berkeley

July 31, 2012, 12:05 AM
Shlomo Bentin, a world-renown neuropsychologist, bought a bicycle last summer to commute to UC Berkeley from his home two miles away. An expert on facial recognition, the 65-year-old Israeli was on a one-year research sabbatical at the university. “He took up biking in Berkeley... + read more
Daily Report: K–12

Berkeley Unified's total spending on harassment case unknown

July 25, 2012, 12:05 AM
After a Berkeley High School student complained of sexual harassment by her guidance counselor, the Berkeley Unified School District spent $94,000 on lawyers to fight her claim. Then in February, school officials made a $57,500 insurance payout to settle the girl’s lawsuit,... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

Prominent Berkeley marijuana dispensary to close shop

March 15, 2012, 12:05 AM
One of California’s biggest medical marijuana establishments – embraced by local officials as a model business that donates to the poor and pays millions in taxes – has become the latest target in a statewide crackdown by federal prosecutors.  Berkeley Patients Group,... + read more
Daily Report: K–12

Student lawsuit: Berkeley schools ignored sexual harassment

April 22, 2011, 12:06 AM
A Berkeley High School student says she endured months of sexual harassment from her guidance counselor and the school wouldn’t do anything about it. In a lawsuit filed this week in federal court in San Francisco, the student, a senior identified as Lilah R., contended that the Berkeley... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Berkeley recycling wars: ‘Poacher-proof’ bins and Black Panthers

November 17, 2010, 12:05 AM
The city of Berkeley spent $2.5 million recently to buy 36,000 wheeled plastic recycling carts. Now everybody in town has a new way to put out last week’s newspapers and empty beer cans for curbside pickup. The Berkeley Ecology Center, which has the $2.7 million annual contract to pick... + read more
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