Measure T, the street light tax, was the only tax measure which didn’t pass Nov. 7. Although it got 63.3 percent of the vote, the measure needed at least 66.66 percent of the votes. But Berkeley won’t ...

Donald Trump started his second presidential term on January 20 th. Trump has made a lot of news, but what has he accomplished? Let us consider his campaign promises. The Economy: Trump defeated ...

In the early hours of June 18, Michael Hastings was found dead in the flaming wreckage of his car. The 33-year-old journalist was, perhaps, best known for the 2010 Rolling Stone cover story that ended ...

A recently-revealed account of the founding of People’s Park, the south-of-campus former political battleground which celebrates its 35th birthday today as the archetype of ‘60s radicalism, alleges ...

Protesters Injured. Train Protests Greatest Since 1916. Peace Action: GIs Cheer; Trainmen Jeer Bob Randolph / The Berkeley Barb (Vol. 1, No. 1) (August 13, 1965) -- The recent events at the Santa Fe ...

If you haven’t been following the Hopkins Corridor Project, the redesign to replace parking with bike lanes along the section of Hopkins with the Monterey Market and locally owned shops has created an ...

What should progressives do when confronted with the fact that they live in a city that honors a figure who has advocated beliefs or committed acts that progressives would normally condemn? Berkeley ...

WOODBURN — An old woman in peasant clothes and a kerchief around her head stands in front of a Russian church that’s topped by gilded cupolas. The scene could be out of a century in the distant past — ...

Some parallels can be drawn between forcing women to carry pregnancies against their will, and forcing people deemed mentally ill to receive medication and other treatment against their will. There ...

When novelist and educator Cecil Brown—longtime Berkeley resident and teacher at Bay Area colleges—was introduced for a reading and talk he gave a few weeks ago at Washington University in St. Louis, ...

Berkeley Harris 52,902 89.8% Trump 3,032 5.1% Stein 1,593 2.7% Others 1,399 2.4% Among U.S. cities with populations of 100,000 or more, Berkeley has the lowest vote percentage for Trump, with Trump ...