Nico Savidge
Reporter at Berkeleyside
@Berkeleyside City Hall reporter, @CitysideGuild member. Previously: 🚇 @mercnews/@EastBayTimes, 🏫 @EdSource, 🎓/🚔 @WiStateJournal
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1 week ago |
berkeleyside.org | Nico Savidge
Some residents in the Berkeley Hills are mounting a late challenge to a proposed city requirement that they clear plants and other flammable materials from the 5 feet around their homes, calling it a costly new mandate that will strip the area of its lush greenery.
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1 week ago |
berkeleyside.org | Nico Savidge
All three of Berkeley’s BART stations will have a new look by this summer, as the transit system replaces their familiar orange gates with a new swinging metal and plastic design that aims to cut down on fare evasion. BART crews are set to start installing what the agency calls its “Next Generation Fare Gates” at the North Berkeley station on Wednesday. The new barriers have been in place at the Downtown Berkeley stop since late February. And they’ll be installed at the Ashby station in June.
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2 weeks ago |
berkeleyside.org | Nico Savidge
Paying $2,295 each month to rent a dated one-bedroom apartment might not sound like much of a bargain if you haven’t been in the housing hunt lately. But that figure — which was the median monthly rent new tenants paid to lease hundreds of older Berkeley apartments last July, August and September — represents a remarkable shift in the city’s housing market. Two summers earlier, in 2022, that same stock of apartments commanded a median rent of $2,600.
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2 weeks ago |
berkeleyside.org | Nico Savidge
The Berkeley City Council adopted a resolution late Monday night that expresses empathy for people affected by the conflict in Israel and Gaza, and states a hope for peace in the region — but does not directly call for an end to the Israeli military campaign. The vote outraged pro-Palestinian protesters who have been pushing the council for the past year and a half to adopt a resolution supporting a ceasefire in Gaza.
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2 weeks ago |
berkeleyside.org | Nico Savidge
This story was originally published on April 25. Locally, nationally and internationally, much has changed in the year and a half since protesters began showing up to City Council meetings to loudly demand Berkeley pass a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Israel’s bombardment of the Palestinian enclave has continued with little interruption — the U.S.-backed military campaign has killed more than 50,000 Palestinians since the Oct.
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