{"id":490206,"date":"2026-10-09T09:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T09:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/490206\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T09:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T09:12:11","slug":"2-contenders-battle-for-berkeleys-district-7-council-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/490206\/","title":{"rendered":"2 contenders battle for Berkeley&#8217;s District 7 council seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Student organizer Syrak Micael and medical case manager Aidan Hill will be the two candidates on the ballot in the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/civic-engagement-hub\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/civic-engagement-hub\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Nov. 3 election<\/a> for Berkeley\u2019s District 7 City Council seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">District 7, which includes the University of California, Berkeley campus and the Southside neighborhood, is currently represented by Cecilia Lunaparra, who was elected in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading for FREE<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">This is NOT a paywall. We just want to make sure you\u2019re a human. Sign in to read this story and receive the weekly regional roundup in your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to manage your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Student organizer Syrak Micael and medical case manager Aidan Hill will be the two candidates on the ballot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,764,7981,21628,20865,35072,1011,148581,143,145,144,149],"class_list":["post-490206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-berkeley","tag-berkeley-city-council","tag-campaigns","tag-candidates","tag-election-2026","tag-housing","tag-november-2026-election","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-uc-berkeley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}