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30-year wait to underground utility lines is nearly over | Historic Asian American bookshop closing

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Frances Dinkelspiel

Frances Dinkelspiel, Berkeleyside and CItyside co-founder, is a journalist and author. Her first book, Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California, published in November 2008, was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Her second book, Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California was published in October 2015 and was both a New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Frances is a former staff reporter for the Syracuse Newspapers and the San Jose Mercury News. Her freelance work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, People Magazine, Daily Beast, the San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere.

frances@citysidejournalism.org
14 residents evacuated from mudslides in Berkeley Hills
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14 residents evacuated from mudslides in Berkeley Hills

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Supriya Yelimeli and Frances Dinkelspiel Jan. 16, 2023, 8:51 a.m.January 20, 2023

Eight homes in the area of The Spiral at Middlefield Road have been evacuated and red-tagged. Other mudslides closed roads on the Clark Kerr Campus and in the Claremont Hills.

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5 new books by Berkeley authors to read this summer

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel June 06, 2022, 9:30 a.m.August 4, 2022

Read about Judy Gumbo’s life as a political protester, a novel about a woman creating a happiness app, a plague year journal and more.

A sign for People's Park near fencing that went up
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People’s Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel May 31, 2022, 11:26 a.m.June 6, 2022

Preservationists are hoping the listing might persuade UC Berkeley to build housing elsewhere but Cal says it won’t.

Four of the co-founders of Reparation Generation. From left to right: Ian Conyers, Karen Hughes, Kiko Davis Snoddy, and David Mayer. Credit: Reparation Generation
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A new nonprofit from Berkeley and Detroit aims to tackle reparations

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel May 19, 2022, 11:01 a.m.March 24, 2023

Reparation Generation will make $25,000 “reparative transfers” to help people in Detroit buy homes.

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Why hasn’t UC Berkeley built more student housing?

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel May 08, 2022, 7:00 a.m.August 4, 2022

For much of Cal’s history, providing housing for students was not a priority. Troubled finances in the last few decades have hobbled Cal’s efforts to catch up.

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University of California buys $6.5M Berkeley home for its president

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel April 12, 2022, 2:38 p.m.August 4, 2022

University of California President Michael Drake will live and entertain in the $6.5 million Julia Morgan-designed home in the Claremont neighborhood.

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Man, 19, shot in the leg in front of shoppers near Berkeley Bowl West

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel March 26, 2022, 4:56 p.m.August 4, 2022

Police responded to reports of a man shot in the leg at 2:51 p.m. Saturday. The victim’s wound is not believed to be life-threatening.

Reparations Now! mural painted on Ellis Street in South Berkeley
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Berkeley may explore making reparations to Black residents

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel March 18, 2022, 4:30 p.m.March 24, 2023

If Berkeley proceeds, it will be one of the few municipalities to directly grapple with the country’s legacy of enslavement.

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UC Berkeley won’t have to freeze enrollment under a new state law

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel March 11, 2022, 1:35 p.m.August 4, 2022

Legislators introduced a bill, which may become law as soon as next week, to invalidate a judge’s ruling capping enrollment at 2020-21 levels.

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UC Berkeley finds a workaround to mandated enrollment freeze

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel March 04, 2022, 4:53 p.m.August 4, 2022

By offering remote learning and a delayed enrollment option, Cal won’t need to cut freshmen and transfer admission.

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UC Berkeley must cut new enrollment by 3K students after high court ruling

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel March 03, 2022, 12:27 p.m.August 4, 2022

Since not all admitted students enroll, Cal will now have to tell 5,000 high school seniors there’s no place for them at Berkeley in the fall.

UC Berkeley with Wheeler Hall and the Campanile.
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It once sued Cal over rising enrollment. Now the Berkeley City Council will go to court to defend the university.

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel Feb. 17, 2022, 4:59 p.m.August 4, 2022

The City Council voted Friday morning to file a legal brief opposing a court ruling that would cap UC Berkeley student enrollment.

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