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The City of Berkeley started a plan in 1976 aiming for the reuse of recyclable items. They dumped many reusable items in a landfill, and a nonprofit organization unsuccessfully attempted to salvage them. Urban Ore was formed by Dan Knapp and Mary Lou Van Deventer, a married couple, in 1980 to recover and sell reusable items. [3]
City of Berkeley, 454 U.S. 290 (1981), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States invalidated a California law that set limits on contributions to ballot issue campaigns. The ruling relies heavily on the Court's earlier decisions in Buckley v.
And the waste doesn’t end there, as the report said it had also “reviewed a sample of 20 other grants and identified approximately $32.8 billion in improper payments.”
Shirley Ann Dean (née Bryant; born 1935-36), considered moderate in Berkeley politics, [1] is an American politician who served as the Mayor of Berkeley, California (1994-2002). Before serving two terms as Berkeley's Mayor, Dean served on the Berkeley City Council for 15 years (1975–94) [2] and was a leader of the Berkeley Democratic Club.
The City of Berkeley has settled a lawsuit by the California Restaurant Association to repeal that city’s first-in-the-nation ban on gas hookups in new construction, dealing a final blow to more ...
The station site is approximately at the historic location of Berkeley Branch Railroad's Newbury station, which opened after 1876. [6] The BART Board approved the name "Ashby Place" in December 1965. [7] The three stations in Berkeley were originally planned to be elevated, but the City of Berkeley paid extra tax to have them built underground.
The 2.2-acre (0.89-hectare) parking lot is the only undeveloped portion of the shellmound in West Berkeley, where ancestors of today's Ohlone people established the first human settlement on the ...
That evening, Reagan declared a state of emergency in Berkeley and sent in 2,700 California National Guard troops. [5] [23] The Berkeley City Council voted 8–1 against the decision. [26] [34] For two weeks, the streets of Berkeley were patrolled by the troops, who broke up even small demonstrations with tear gas. [25]