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The Office of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Monday that it wants to terminate the Point Molate casino project. -more-

UC Berkeley professor Oliver E. Williamson was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics Monday along with Indiana University professor Elinor Ostrom for their work in organizational economics. -more-

With a downtown UC Berkeley biofuel lab on the fast track for development, university officials are busily presenting their plans to the community. -more-

Planning commissioners will tackle ferries and West Berkeley zoning Wednesday night, as well as UC Berkeley’s plans for a biofuel lab. -more-

A group of UC Berkeley law students will launch a torture accountability initiative next week dedicated to holding the authors of the infamous torture memos accountable, reinstating respect for the prohibition against torture and ending executive abuse of power and impunity. -more-

Berkeley City College students, faculty and staff spoke out against state budget cuts to public education during a packed meeting inside the college atrium Thursday. -more-

A charter school proposed by the Berkeley Unified School District hit a road bump last week when an activist group charged it would lead to segregation. -more-

Berkeley health officials said Tuesday, Oct. 6, that the city is expecting its first shipment of H1N1 vaccines as early as this week. -more-

About 200 students gathered in Lower Sproul Plaza Sept. 30 to discuss the upcoming Oct. 24 mobilizing conference at UC Berkeley, potentially the next big event planned in protest of the university’s budget cuts, furloughs and fee hikes. -more-

AC Transit—which recently risked delay or even major overhaul of its long-planned Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project in order to hold off major bu-line and service cuts—is now poised to consider revamping another major district policy directive: its controversial “partnership” with Belgian bus manufacturer Van Hool. -more-

Berkeley public elementary schools are bursting at the seams and there is no quick fix for the problem. -more-

A notorious crossing near South Berkeley’s Malcolm X Elementary School will finally get its due. -more-

UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau will pay a consulting firm $3 million to tell the university how to save money. -more-

UC Berkeley wants bidders for its first major downtown construction project in the city center, the Helios Energy Research Facility, with the contract to be awarded Oct. 15. -more-

The Berkeley City Council returns Tuesday night to its most controversial subject of the year—the Downtown Area Plan—but the planned agenda item itself is unlikely to generate controversy. -more-

The Oakland City Council voted early Wednesday morning to support BART’s plan to build a $522 million rail connector between the Coliseum station and Oakland International Airport, provided that certain conditions are met. -more-

Certain U.S. populations are historically undercounted by the census. The 2000 Census data show that in Los Angeles County alone, African American and Latino populations were undercounted by a margin of 2.85 percent and 2.6 percent, respectively. This may not seem like a lot, but when you consider that a UCLA Center for Regional Policy Studies analysis alleges undercounts cost more than $26,000 per 1,000 people not counted, it adds up. -more-

The California Highway Patrol Wednesday renamed a stretch of Interstate Highway 880 in Oakland after an officer who was killed on an on-ramp in 2006 while investigating a crash. -more-

Brazen banditry -more-