SF News City of Berkeley Approves Deal With BART for New Housing Development at Ashby Station Berkeley's city council this week voted to approve a long-delayed deal to authorize BART to move forward with building hundreds of new housing units on the parking lot property at Ashby Station.
SF Politics Even In Liberal Berkeley, Aggressive Encampment Sweeps Set to Begin A ruling by the Supreme Court allowing cities to crack down on illegal camping without necessarily providing shelter to the unhoused has even brought Berkeley's city council around to approving more unfettered encampment sweeps.
SF News Berkeley Updates Its City Code To Remove The Words 'She', 'He', 'Manhole,' and 'Fireman' At its weekly meeting Tuesday, the Berkeley City Council voted to revise its municipal code to remove all gender-specific pronouns, and to use more inclusive, non-patriarchal language for terms like "manhole" and "manpower."
SF News Berkeley To Get Some Tall(ish) Buildings The Berkeley City Council is set to vote tomorrow night on a revised Downtown Area Plan that has been (*cough*) seven years in the making. Such long-range planning initiatives tend to come with
SF News Berkeley Councilman Challenges City's Nuclear-Free Zone Berkeley City Councilman Gordon Wozniak, who we realized recently after he called his colleagues' welcome mat for Guantanamo detainees just a load of political grandstanding to get on Fox News is kind of
SF News Meanwhile, In Berkeley: They're Opening Their Big Liberal Arms Wide for Guantanamo Detainees Continuing in their quest to become caricatures of themselves (anyone want to write a Portlandia-like spoof?), the Berkeley City Council is voting next week on another vanity resolution to invite any and all
SF News Hang Yoo for War Crimes, Shrieks Berkeley City Council Under the false impression that Melanie Morgan doesn't already have enough ammunition, the fruit-and-nut granola bar that is the Berkeley City Council will vote today on whether to demand the U.S. government
SF News Un Film Du Move America Forward Over at The Snitch, we came across this fury-inducing commercial conceived by heart-warming conservative group Move America Forward. (You know, the one chaired by KSFO 560 AM's Melanie Morgan?) Anyway, in it moms
Arts & Entertainment Kathy Griffin vs. the GayVN Awards According to the fine folks over at The Sword (NSFW), the GayVNs (NSFW) will be held here on Saturday -- you know, those homosexual pornography achievement awards, which led to Mayor Gavin Newsom
SF News It's Got to be the Protest After The decision, however, did not come without much in the way of mayhem. Four protesters were arrested, one of them for allegedly bitch-slapping a pig cop, another for busting out a knife (which
SF News East Bay To Get Even Louder Tonight Anti-war fans, pro-war zealots, '60s fetishists, barely-legal Marines, the unshowered, and young college students trying to impress their boyfriends will be out in full force on the other side of the Bay later
SF News SFist Blotter Phew, let's get to the less life-endangering stuff. Politicians! Matt Gonzalez's 2003 mayoral campaign team was fined $3300 for failing to provide donor information to the Ethics Commission (they said it was a
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