The Latest Breaking News from Berkeley

California’s Bay Area rallies behind the vice-president and envisions ‘how great’ it would be for the diverse community

Marshawn Lynch wants Cal students to pull an all-nighter ahead of an early College GameDay in Berkeley.

Plus: Gainesville shrinks minimum lot sizes, a Colorado church can keep providing shelter to the homeless, and Berkeley considers allowing small apartments everywhere.

Residents of Berkeley, California, acknowledge Harris has ‘a lot stacked against her’ but are hopeful for her victory

Two teenagers injured by fireworks in Berkeley on Independence Day, one losing fingers. Prompt emergency response followed.

A California Supreme Court ruling will allow student housing at University of California to be built at Berkeley’s historic People’s Park

Four years after the pandemic shined a spotlight on public health, it remains an in-demand field.

Congressional hearing to address antisemitism in K-12 schools, focusing on incidents in liberal cities. US Department of Education investigating Berkeley U...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us9WM72Fh6c Berkeley Dean Erwin Chemerinsky—who is also a noted scholar of constitutional law and academic freedom—joins Jane Bambauer and me to discuss student speech controversies (including the one that was literally in Erwin's back yard), as well as faculty academic freedom in scholarship, public commentary, and teaching.

A newly-obtained intelligence memo shows that the feds took a keen interest in Trump-era campus speech controversies.

From NBC, what strikes me as a misleading characterization of Professor Catherine Fisk's confronting a student who pulled out a microphone to orate at a dinner organized at the professor's (and Dean Erwin Chemerinsky's) house.