Jesse Arreguín at an election watch party in 2024 during his campaign for state Senate. Credit: Kelly Sullivan for Berkeleyside
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More UC Berkeley students are saving money by graduating in three years. (SF Chronicle)
Jesse Arreguín, Berkeley’s state senator and former mayor, will rise to chair of the powerful Senate Housing Committee next month. (Politico)
A woman in her 80s was hospitalized in critical condition after a fire in her apartment at the Redwood Gardens senior living complex on Dec. 28. (Berkeley Scanner)
A 95-year-old woman was knocked unconscious on Dec. 29 when a driver struck her in a Berkeley crosswalk at Walnut and Cedar streets. (Berkeley Scanner)
Alameda County is turning to money from sales tax Measure C to fill gaps as the Trump administration targets funding for child care. (East Bay Times)
What UC Berkeley journalism professors think about the New York Times and Washington Post’s decision to hold coverage of the military operation in Venezuela to avoid endangering troops. (Daily Cal)
The story pulled from “60 Minutes” just hours before airtime by new CBS chief Bari Weiss includes interviews with a team of UC Berkeley students who verified and corroborated that migrants sent to El Salvador’s CECOT megaprison by the Trump administration are facing torture. (Berkeley News)
In the 1980s Janet Delaney, now a Berkeley resident, took pictures of her father at work, and came to a deeper understanding of who he was. (New Yorker)
In a survey of 36 AI policies conducted by the Daily Cal, about 60% of courses allowed some use of AI in the learning process, though the rate was far lower among humanities courses. (Daily Cal)
Berkeley resident Ralph Nagel’s company was the original Chess.com and users of the website are still learning chess with lessons he helped create decades ago. (Chess.com)
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