Berkeley – California Globe

Gas Price Hike, Minimum Wage Increases and Airbnb Changes: New Laws in California July 1st

July 1, 2025 2:35 pmJuly 1, 2025 2:35 pm

A new fiscal year began on Tuesday in California. And, like every year, the first day in the second half of the year brought in a bunch of new laws, taxes, fees, and other changes coming to the average person...

Congress Probing Berkeley Over Anti-Semitism

March 19, 2024 4:17 pmMarch 19, 2024 4:17 pm

You can now add the University of California, Berkeley to the list of high profile, high powered universities that are being investigated by Congress over how they have reacted to the wave of antisemitism that has roiled campuses since the...

UC Berkeley Professor Urges Law Firms Not to Hire His ‘Anti-Semitic’ Students

October 18, 2023 7:34 amOctober 18, 2023 7:34 am

Law Professor Steven Davidoff Solomon at University California, Berkeley wrote an op ed in the Wall Street Journal warning legal employers to not hire his law students, because some of them are antisemitic. Professor Solomon said that some of his...

The Empty Home Tax, Snoops and Snitches

November 3, 2022 3:15 amNovember 2, 2022 8:24 pm

Some city leaders in California are so ravenous for more revenue and the power to redistribute the lucre for subsidized housing boondoggles and homeless camps, that they are pushing to impose double taxation on residents and empowering snoops and snitches...

Planned Berkeley School Shooting Halted By Police and School Authorities

June 2, 2022 4:02 pmJune 2, 2022 4:04 pm

Less than two weeks after mass shooting incidents at a grocery store in Buffalo, NY and a school in Uvalde, TX, another major mass shooting was thwarted in Berkeley earlier this week, preventing an unknown number of injuries and deaths....

Berkeley Unified School District Bring Back Mask Mandate For Rest of Year

May 23, 2022 4:52 pmMay 23, 2022 4:56 pm

The Berkeley Unified School District brought back indoor mask mandates for students, teachers, and staff on Monday with only two weeks left in the school year due to a rising number of COVID-19 cases in the Bay Area. At the...

Gov. Newsom Signs Bill Overriding Supreme Court Decision to Halt Enrollment at UC Berkeley

March 15, 2022 12:44 pm

A California Supreme Court ruling to halt enrollment levels from increasing at the University of California, Berkeley was overridden on Monday by Governor Gavin Newsom’s signing of a bill that significantly changes the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and gives...