Mayor Jesse Arreguin

The City of Berkeley is looking to purchase University Inn and convert it into permanent supportive housing for high-needs and chronically houseless people. 

Tensions rose over debates between councilmembers and attendees at a Berkeley city council meeting Tuesday, held in response to an urgency item proposed by Mayor Jesse Arreguin regarding ongoing university efforts to build on People’s Park. 

The city of Berkeley’s Agenda and Rules Committee discussed a project organized by former Youth Commission Chair Samuel Kaplan-Pettus and Councilmember Kate Harrison to appoint two youth members to the city’s Environment and Climate Commission, or ECC, on Tuesday. 

Protesters gathered outside Berkeley’s old city hall building on Sunday to urge the city to open more emergency warming shelters for unhoused residents as intense winter rains and an atmospheric river continue to sweep the city.

People’s Park has been a point of controversy within the Berkeley community as campus seeks to build housing on the park, while activists work to preserve it. But currently, the park is “chaos,” according to Nicholas Alexander, a resource coordinator who helps run the kitchen in the park.

Martin Luther King Jr. Way will be revamped to be in line with Vision Zero which intends to improve traffic safety.

Jennifer Shanoski, chemistry professor at Merritt College and president of the Peralta Federation of Teachers, is running for the 2022 Berkeley School Board.

Berkeley City Council adopted their first formal land acknowledgement, postponed the plans to repave Hopkins Corridor and discussed a housing development project that was noted as being potentially detrimental during their regular meeting Tuesday. 

A policy brief by UC Berkeley professor Michael Reich found that the Living Wage Act, or LWA, would allow pay increases for millions of California workers.

All eyes turned to New York May 14, when 10 people were killed and three injured at a supermarket in Buffalo, a massacre some alleged to be racially motivated with 11 out of 13 victims being Black.