Famous for pushing Berkeley to install the country’s first curb cut, the center has also broken ground with its peer counseling program and now helps around 1,000 people per year.
October 2022
Posted inNosh Features
Berkeley is ‘making progress’ on Marina food truck village
Berkeley can’t find a restaurant for the vast Hs Lordships space, so food trucks in its parking lot might be the next best thing.
Posted inOpinion
Opinion: Yes on Measure M
The measure is family-friendly with exemptions for a family’s primary residence and owner-occupied buildings of four units or less.
Posted inCity
Measure M, Berkeley’s vacancy tax, aims to curb real estate speculation
Backers say it will raise up to $6 million a year and disincentivize property owners from leaving units empty. Opponents say the tax applies too broadly and won’t significantly increase housing affordability.
Posted inBusiness
Shop Talk: Pamana Plantas, family-run plant shop, opens on Solano; Myth & Scissors is dispelled
At Dom Morales’ plant shop, mom and pop help with the displays — and almost everything else. Catch up on this and other Berkeley retail and small business news.
Posted inCity
Plan for downtown Berkeley apartment building grows to 26 stories
It’s the third proposal for a housing tower that would rise more than 250 feet over downtown. The revised plan includes a top-floor restaurant.
Posted inCity
Pamela Price, Terry Wiley face off in Alameda County District Attorney race
Price and Wiley are vying to succeed Nancy O’Malley as the county’s top prosecutor.
Posted inArts
Cal professor’s new book recounts cruelties of nation’s First Red Scare
Adam Hochschild’s ‘American Midnight’ tells a story of mass imprisonments, vigilante violence and killings of Black Americans during Woodrow Wilson’s second term.
Posted inCrime & Safety
1 person killed by train in West Berkeley
The person was struck around Carleton Street at about 4 p.m.
Posted inCity
Berkeley City Council to begin all meetings with a land acknowledgment
Intended as a “starting point” for reparative work with local Indigenous people, a land acknowledgment will be displayed at every meeting and read aloud monthly.
Posted inCrime & Safety
Truck driver hits and kills man in wheelchair in downtown Berkeley
William Evans, 72, was hit at the intersection of Shattuck Avenue and Bancroft Way late Thursday morning.
Posted inCity
How ranked-choice voting works in Berkeley elections
You don’t have to settle for one candidate. You can pick up to five in certain Berkeley races through the city’s instant-runoff process.