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Appeals court halts construction at Berkeley's People's Park

Construction of student housing at the historic People’s Park in Berkeley, California, is on hold after an appellate court ordered an injunction late Thursday

The Independent UK

Protesters Declare 'Housing Is a Human Right' While Marching Against New Housing Construction

New housing construction for 1,100 UC Berkeley students and 125 homeless people was paused Wednesday in response to protests.

Reason

Protesters stop construction at Berkeley's People's Park

A group of protesters broke through an 8-foot chain fence erected Wednesday around Berkeley’s historic People’s Park and faced off with police officers standing guard as a construction crew began work on a controversial student housing project

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Angry protests erupt as UC Berkeley fences off People’s Park for housing construction

BERKELEY, Calif. — As a team of police officers in riot gear kept watch in the predawn darkness, University of California, Berkeley construction workers fenced off historic People’s Park early Wednesday, the first step of a plan to turn the symbol of 1960s counterculture into housing for students and the…

Los Angeles Times

Body recovered from Denver lake believed to be 11-year-old girl with autism

Police eventually found the body in Rocky Mountain Lake in Berkeley around 7.40am. Foul play is not suspected

The Independent UK

Boeing avoids strike for now as St. Louis workers to vote on new contract offer

BERKELEY, Mo. — Boeing may narrowly avoid a strike at its three St. Louis-area facilities after it made a new contract proposal to the union here.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

US sees union boom despite big companies’ aggressive opposition

Wins for Amazon and Starbucks workers shows labor movement surging after years of decline – but pushback has been fierce

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Trespass Claim Stemming from Activists' Blocking Horse Race Track Not Covered by California Anti-SLAPP Law

From Golden Gate Land Holdings LLC v. Direct Action Everywhere, decided today (correctly, I think) by the California Court of Appeal (Presiding Justice Jim Humes, joined by Justice Sandra Margulies and S.F. Superior Court Judge Mary Wiss): Golden Gate, which operates a horse racing track in Berkeley, filed this suit…

Reason

Unsafe as houses: ‘We lost over £40k in the Richmond House fire but the developers still aren’t paying up’

Just like Grenfell Tower, the Worcester Park development lacked adequate cavity barriers to prevent the spread of fire. It burnt down in 2019.

Evening Standard

Police arrested teen for allegedly planning shooting at Berkeley, California, high school

Authorities received tip that the teenager was recruiting students for mass violence, in one of many recent threats against US schools

The Guardian - US

World-first STEP fusion energy plant decision looms as technical work ends

Severn Edge bid for sites at Oldbury and Berkeley former power stations remains "very positive"

Bristol Post

Why Is Second-Hand Bong Smoke More Toxic Than Tobacco Smoke Now?

This article was originally published on Cannabis.net and appears here with permission.

Benzinga

Housing shortage, soaring rents squeeze US college students

College students squeezed by a massive housing shortage and rising rents are living in motels, commuting long distances or sleeping in their cars

The Independent UK

Summer camps endangered by wildfires, smoke and heat waves

As California parents sign up their offspring for summer camp amid forecasts of another potentially catastrophic wildfire season, an existential question looms over the annual ritual: will camp still be standing come July?

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Los Angeles Times

Biden's approval rating improves slightly in California, but inflation looms large

LOS ANGELES — Roughly 6 in 10 California voters give President Joe Biden poor marks on his handling of inflation, according to a new UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll, even as his overall job approval marginally improved in the last two months.

Los Angeles Times

Mark Z. Barabak: What if everyone is required to vote? Would that help cure America’s political ills?

BERKELEY, Calif. — What if everyone in America had to vote?

Los Angeles Times

The avian soap opera unfolding atop this Berkeley bell tower has humans riveted

The tone of the announcement — breathless, sheepish, exuberant — wasn't the sort of thing one associates with research scientists. But then, it isn't often that scientists are called on to mend our broken hearts.

Los Angeles Times

‘The law that swallowed California’: Why the much-derided CEQA is so hard to change

LOS ANGELES — The landmark 1970 law for preserving California’s beauty has a long history of backfiring.

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Can UC Berkeley plan to house homeless people inspire other campuses to tackle the crisis?

LOS ANGELES — In a partnership unique in American higher education, UC Berkeley and city and nonprofit collaborators unveiled plans Wednesday to provide interim housing at a converted motel, as well as meals and social services, to unsheltered people sleeping in the iconic People's Park.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: California needs a different approach to solving UC crowding

The University of California’s plan to add 20,000 students by 2030 has led to conflicts with some of the communities where campuses are located, with residents complaining that the university system is not doing enough to house students, and are merely shifting the housing burden to them.

Los Angeles Times

UC Berkeley will increase California students, cut out-of-state ones to meet enrollment cap

The University of California, Berkeley will boost the number of Californians and significantly reduce out-of-state and international students this fall as it scrambles to meet a court-ordered enrollment cap for the coming academic year just a few weeks before admission decisions are set for release.

Reason

Berkeley NIMBYs Are Taking Advantage of California's Flawed Environmental Regulations

Liberal Berkeley officials might be coming around to the view held by conservative business leaders, who have long argued that California's Environmental Quality Act needs an overhaul.

Reason

By Forcing U.C. Berkeley To Cut Enrollment, Have California's NIMBYs Finally Gone Too Far?

Lawmakers are proposing to strip neighborhood activists of the legal tools they've used to freeze the university's student population.

Birmingham Post

West Country nuclear fusion plant backers report ‘enthusiastic’ public response as officials visit proposed site

Local authorities and business groups say the £220m project could create more than 30,000 jobs

Los Angeles Times

Gov. Gavin Newsom's approval hobbled by crime fears, poll finds

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Less than five months after Californians overwhelmingly rejected a recall effort against Gov. Gavin Newsom, voters are growing more dissatisfied with the governor, and a solid majority believe the state is headed in the wrong direction, according to a new UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll…

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