Opinion

The Berkeley East Bay Humane Society, 2700 Ninth St. in Berkleley, announced its increase in weekend adoption hours. New shelter and adoption hours are: -more-

Q: What is happening with California’s deregulated electricity market? -more-

SAN DIEGO — A civil rights group is contesting San Diego County’s policy of stopping a nonprofit group from distributing informational pamphlets inside and near welfare offices, arguing that the policy is a violation of the First Amendment right. -more-

SAN FRANCISCO — The state’s third-largest health insurer violated patient confidentiality by accidentally e-mailing the names of 12,000 patients to the wrong doctors, company officials acknowledged. -more-

Henry James Vaux, Sr., a professor emeritus of forestry at the University of California, Berkeley, and former chairman of California's Board of Forestry, died on Dec. 22 in Berkeley after a brief illness. He was 88. -more-

Critics say money will just flow through different channels with same effect -more-