{"id":126044,"date":"2026-01-09T02:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/126044\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T02:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:30:09","slug":"apartment-fire-at-redwood-gardens-arreguin-to-chair-senate-housing-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/126044\/","title":{"rendered":"Apartment fire at Redwood Gardens; Arregu\u00edn to chair Senate Housing Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\/Jesse Arregu\u00edn at an election watch party in 2024 during his campaign for state Senate. Credit: Kelly Sullivan for Berkeleyside<\/p>\n

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More UC Berkeley students are saving money by graduating in three years. (SF Chronicle<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Jesse Arregu\u00edn, Berkeley\u2019s state senator and former mayor, will rise to chair of the powerful Senate Housing Committee next month. (Politico<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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>) <\/p>\n

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<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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<\/a>)<\/p>\n

What UC Berkeley journalism professors think about the New York Times and Washington Post\u2019s decision to hold coverage of the military operation in Venezuela to avoid endangering troops. (Daily Cal<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The story pulled from \u201c60 Minutes\u201d just hours before airtime by new CBS chief\u00a0Bari Weiss\u00a0includes interviews with a team of UC Berkeley students who verified and corroborated that migrants sent to El Salvador\u2019s CECOT megaprison by the Trump administration are facing torture. (Berkeley News<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Berkeley resident Ralph Nagel\u2019s company was the original Chess.com and users of the website are still learning chess with lessons he helped create decades ago. (Chess.com<\/a>) <\/p>\n

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