A chilling loss: Berkeley’s warm-water pool closes [Chronicle]
Crackdown coming to Occupy Berkeley [Oakland Tribune]
Berkeley’s unemployment rate lowest in two years [Daily Cal]
Pacific Steel fires 200 after immigration audit [Coco Times]
Cal Perfs adds Seth Meyers to new year line-up [Cal Perfs]

Photo: Sunset from the Berkeley hills 12.15.11, by seaangel/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.

Tracey Taylor is co-founder of Berkeleyside and co-founder and editorial director of Cityside, the nonprofit parent to Berkeleyside and The Oaklandside. Before launching Berkeleyside, Tracey wrote for...