OAKLAND – The Metropolitan Transportation Commission is calling all those who spend their time waiting at bus stops, or idling in traffic, dreaming up ways to fix the transportation system. The primary agency for regional transportation planning, MTC is holding a series of meetings to receive public input on the development of the Regional Transportation Plan. The plan is revised every three years and guides funding priorities for Bay Area transportation projects. That includes highways, roads and public transit as well as bike and pedestrian roadways. -more-

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Thursday, March 1

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One can be both citizen and scientist -more-

Talk about your good timing. -more-

Health officials gave the City Council a progress report Tuesday on the community outreach and education program designed to close the city’s health disparity gap through empowering the communities most effected. -more-

It wasn’t supposed to be the same old story, but it was. -more-

The City Council adopted a resolution to change the terms expressing the relationship between Berkeley residents and their pets in hopes of using language as a tool to reduce animal abuse. -more-

Anyone who wants to understand the heroic efforts it takes to keep the 3,200-student Berkeley High School running need only visit the school’s temporary administrative office – a collection of trailers plopped down in the middle of the campus, presumably by the swinging arm of a construction crane. -more-

LOS ANGELES — Federal agents arrested seven people who used a charity scam to solicit money from travelers arriving in Los Angeles to support a terrorist Iranian opposition group believed to have used the funds to buy arms, the FBI said Wednesday. -more-

WASHINGTON — People who fail to answer a drug conviction question on their federal college financial aid applications may be denied the money. -more-