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10 of the highest-paying public health jobs right now

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

Fortune

Congressional Hearing To Address Antisemitism In K-12 Schools

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

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Free Speech Unmuted: Campus Speech, with Dean Erwin Chemerinsky (Berkeley Law)

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.

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The FBI Was Monitoring Student Protests Against Ben Shapiro

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

Reason

"Last Week, a … [UC Berkeley] Professor Confronted a Muslim Student During a Dinner for Graduating Law Students"

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.

Reason

Berkeley’s first-in-the-nation natural gas ban is dead. But is the battle over?

The city’s pioneering step fell flat after a long fight in court, but campaigners – and leading chefs – say they’re still going electric

The Guardian - US

Pro-Palestinian Protesters Disrupt Berkeley City Council Meeting

Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt Berkeley City Council meeting, shouting derogatory remarks during Holocaust Remembrance Day vote.

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Berkeley Halts Enforcement Of Natural Gas Ban In New Buildings

Berkeley, CA settles to end natural gas ban in new buildings after legal challenge, sparking broader movement.

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Ohlone People Reclaim Sacred Native Land In Berkeley

Ohlone people celebrate return of sacred land in Berkeley, California for cultural preservation and education.

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UC Berkeley Denounces Protest At Jewish Student Event

UC Berkeley condemns protest disrupting Jewish student event, launches criminal investigation into safety concerns.

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Police clear Berkeley’s historic People’s Park in surprise midnight operation

In latest move by University of California, Berkeley, law enforcement agencies arrested protesters and erected barrier

The Guardian - US

How we met after 60: ‘He is the first person in my life who has really taken care of me’

Sterling, 83, and Berkeley, 76, met at a support group for gay men in 2012. After realising they had a lot in common they fell ‘head over heels’ and now live together in Talent, Oregon

The Guardian - UK

The Californication of the country’s housing market

Record homelessness, sky-high rents, and homes affordable only to millionaires: A case study in how local control and a shifting national economy created today’s perverse housing market.

Fortune

Berkeley boss calls for 'brownfield first' planning reform to boost London house building

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The Independent UK

California governor signs bill to clear hurdles for student housing at Berkeley’s People’s Park

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill aimed at clearing the way for construction of a controversial student housing project in a historic Berkeley park

Los Angeles Times

The 'Un-Becoming': A former gang member finds his resurrection tale at UC Berkeley

BERKELEY, Calif. — Jessi Fernandez joined a street gang at 13. By his 20s, he had been shot at more times than he could count. He got busted for methamphetamine possession and spent time in Los Angeles County jail for carrying a loaded gun. Yet the persistent danger didn't wash…

Chicago Sun-Times

Berkeley man accused of flashing laser pointer at airplanes at O’Hare and Midway

An Illinois State Police air patrol traced a laser pointer flash to a home in Berkeley. Saul Martinez Castanon, 36, was charged with two counts of disorderly conduct. Airline pilots had reported encountering lasers in the area.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Boeing to build new 'Phantom Works' facility in St. Louis for future military aircraft

BERKELEY, Missouri — Boeing is building a secure, 47,500-square-foot "Phantom Works" facility here that will focus on future military aircraft, the company announced today.

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Los Angeles Times

Ready to switch from gas to electric appliances? Here’s how

By rejecting Berkeley, California’s ban on natural gas lines in new buildings, a federal appeals court has thrown into doubt dozens of similar prohibitions. But what does it mean for you?

The Independent UK

Court tosses Berkeley gas ban, but wider impact is unclear

It's unclear what kind of impact a federal appellate court's ruling to overturn a first-in-the-nation natural gas ban from 2019 in Berkeley, California will have

Reason

Ninth Circuit Rules Berkeley Gas Hookup Ban Is Preempted

A local California ordinance prohibiting natural gas hookups in new construction conflicts with federal law according to a federal appellate court.

The Independent UK

Court throws out Berkeley, California's ban on natural gas

A federal appeals court has overturned Berkeley, California’s first-in-the-nation ban on natural gas in new construction, agreeing with restaurant owners who argued the city bypassed federal energy regulations when it approved the ordinance

The Conversation

Creating and implanting synthetic monkey embryos could pave the way to stem-cell babies

In January 2017, I met Jiankui He, the now-infamous Chinese scientist who would go on to create the world’s first genome-edited babies. This was at a meeting in Berkeley, Calif., hosted by Jennifer Doudna who, along with Emmanuelle Charpentier, was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work…

Tribune News Service

Arrests made after 6 wounded in ‘senior skip day’ shooting on South Carolina beach

COLUMBIA, S.C. — As many as six people were wounded in a shooting Friday along the Isle of Palms beach as hundreds of high school students from Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties were enjoying a traditional spring day of cutting class.

Tribune News Service

From protests to punk to pandemic: KALX celebrates 60 years of student-run radio at UC Berkeley

BERKELEY, Calif. — News reports on anti-war protests of the late 1960s. Play-by-play for Oakland A’s games in the ’70s. A 1985 interview with infamous cult killer Charles Manson. An early live-in-studio performance by a teenaged Green Day. Public-safety announcements through the COVID pandemic.

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