9 Berkeley stories you won’t want to miss

1. New LED streetlights produce light, but a lot of heat as well
   
2. Animal activists smash windows of family-owned Star Grocery
   
3. It’s a drought: Cal and Berkeley try and curb water use
   
4. Downtown initiative halts plans for new $100m high-rise hotel
   
5. Berkeley installs first permeable pavers downtown
6. Standoff in West Berkeley provokes major police response
   
7. We do the math: how much is being spent on election campaigns?
   
8. Driver charged in vehicular manslaughter of Berkeley man is legally blind
   
9. Five-story apartment building proposed for Grocery Outlet site in West Berkeley

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