The problem facing California's wine industry: too many grapes and not enough buyers. Exports have also dropped as Canadians have boycotted American wine in response to Trump's tariffs, @iriskwok.bsky.social reports: www.latimes.com/business/sto...

🚨 ATTN: College journalism professors. I'm looking to find out what you're doing to support your state's local media ecosystem *beyond* student reporting. Fill out this survey if that's you. I'm researching it for UVM's Center for Community News: uvm.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?... #academicsky

My last story for Berkeleyside (for now): www.berkeleyside.org/2025/06/03/b...

Starts today, ICYMI: www.berkeleyside.org/2025/05/19/c...

Facing a $27 million budget deficit, Berkeley cut its waterfront security program and laid off five employees.

Facing a $27 million budget deficit, Berkeley cut its four-person waterfront monitor program. It also laid off a fifth person whose job a city spokesperson did not disclose. My latest for @berkeleyside.org: www.berkeleyside.org/2025/05/13/b...

After 40 days and some layoffs, workers at Urban Ore, the West Berkeley salvage yard and reuse store, have ended their strike. www.berkeleyside.org/2025/05/02/u...

Hired in January to help restore Bay Area wetlands, Berkeley resident Dan Fahey was promptly fired. A judge’s ruling won him back his EPA job, but he’s on administrative leave, his future uncertain, and he’s worried about “dirtier air, dirtier water, toxic land.” www.berkeleyside.org/2025/04/30/f...

ICYMI: A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order preventing ICE from arresting/incarcerating UC Berkeley grad student Zhuoer Chen and three other Chinese international students for 14 days www.berkeleyside.org/2025/04/18/u...

Long-lost lanterns may soon return to a pair of unassuming stone pillars near the Berkeley Library’s North Branch. I loved writing this story about local history, public art and a community effort to (quite literally) brighten up the Northbrae neighborhood!💡 www.berkeleyside.org/2025/03/14/l...

I got to spend last Friday in one of my favorite places in Berkeley: the Lawrence Hall of Science. Go check out their fun new exhibit on the future of food! 🥓🌽 www.berkeleyside.org/2025/03/12/l...

Thousands of UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory workers went on strike yesterday amid fraught contract negotiations with the UC. My story: www.berkeleyside.org/2025/02/26/u...

For my latest Berkeleyside story, I wandered through Dreamland for Kids, a run-down wooden playground in Aquatic Park that’s older than me. Berkeley wants to redesign it and is soliciting input. More: www.berkeleyside.org/2025/01/31/a...

I toured UC Berkeley’s newest graduate student dorm (and the school’s first building to have an Indigenous name): www.berkeleyside.org/2025/01/17/u...

wrote about the community land trust model and how it might alleviate berkeley’s housing crisis 🏠 www.berkeleyside.org/2025/01/13/b...

If you/someone you know in Berkeley is putting together a drive for LA wildfire relief, I’d love to highlight in Berkeleyside’s weekly events roundup or The Scene, our arts/culture/events newsletter, which goes out every Thursday. Pls reach out here or at [email protected] w/ event details 💕

Radiation levels at Cesar Chavez Park are safe for its casual visitors, according to UC Berkeley’s drone tests. But tests of liquids deep below the landfill-turned-park found elevated radiation levels. Safety precautions are now being urged for workers. New: www.berkeleyside.org/2025/01/02/r...

for the second year in a row…here’s what berkeley residents checked out from the library in 2024! 📚🪚 www.berkeleyside.org/2024/12/30/p...

no thoughts, head empty, only this

Berkeley’s shoreline could get a new 20-acre park! Ideas being considered include a hostel, a promenade, sand volleyball courts, a swimming area, a creek daylighting project that could help reduce flooding risk in West Berkeley and much more. My latest: www.berkeleyside.org/2024/12/20/b...

maybe the *real* tsunami was the surge in web traffic that came immediately after the phone alerts went out www.berkeleyside.org/2024/12/05/t...

Oakland's budget and bond-issuing decisions continue to affect infrastructure projects ready to be implemented. The latest one is the postponement of the cycle track on Lakeshore Avenue, which was fast-tracked after a 4-year-old's death. New: oaklandside.org/2024/12/03/o...

UC Berkeley could break ground on its tallest dorm yet — a 23-story high-rise — as soon as next year. Plus: an update on the university’s progress toward meeting the housing goals it set back in 2017. My latest for Berkeleyside: www.berkeleyside.org/2024/12/03/u...

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