Update, 2:30 p.m. An 8-alarm fire in Solano County is covering Berkeley with smoke. See the story. Original post, 1 p.m., Berkeley and Oakland firefighters, already on high alert because of high winds and low humidity, quickly extinguished a small vegetation fire behind Clark Kerr campus on Friday morning. The Berkeley Fire Department received multiple calls […]
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The FBI’s secret war against Berkeley
In his book Subversives, Seth Rosenfeld details how Hoover’s FBI feared Communists were controlling the Free Speech Movement and sought to sabotage it. Photo: UC Berkeley Libraries Seth Rosenfeld’s book on the FBI and UC Berkeley, a culmination of 30 years of work, has been out for just a week, but its revelations are already […]
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A latchkey kid roams Berkeley ghost town full of promise
Aged 11, Greg Fuson wandered the hallways of the old School for the Deaf and Blind “in idle search of who knows what”. Photo: Jason Holmberg By Greg Fuson Nostalgia, like politics and real estate, is local. Which helps explain how a 40-something man returns to the Berkeley California School for the Deaf and Blind […]