The East Bay city chose a department veteran to become its first female chief after a series of unexpected revelations delayed earlier confirmation votes.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit blocked the City of Berkeley from enacting a natural gas piping ban in the case California Restaurant Association, or CRA, v. City of Berkeley.
The Professor of the Practice in Sound, within the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, will teach graduate and undergraduate courses and conduct research in the areas of sound art and installation. Areas of focus may include history, theory, and practice of sound in modern and contemporary art; the politics of sound, broadly defined, in society; sound and its relation to the social sphere; sound in non-Western conceptions and contexts; and custom-built sound hardware/software tools. Will work collaboratively with faculty in the department, and other areas of the school to develop cross-media studio courses and seminars.
In a special meeting of Berkeley’s City Council Monday, the council passed a motion to extend the covered period of the COVID-19 Emergency Response Ordinance for 60 days past the expiration of the Local Emergency declaration.