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Berkeley has landed $1.8 million in funding from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to improve downtown's central BART plaza, according to the Berkeley mayor's office. -more-

A high rate of employee absenteeism is continuing to plague AC Transit 10 days after it imposed a new contract on its employees, a bus agency spokesman said. -more-

Berkeley was hit by two more arsons overnight, a week after police arrested a man whom they believe could be responsible for a string of nine recent fires in the South Campus area of the city. -more-

I come from Tierra Blanca, a very poor town in Veracruz. After my children's father abandoned us, I decided to come to the U.S. There's just no money to survive. We couldn't continue to live that way. -more-

About one hundred Berkeley residents gathered at the South Berkeley Senior Center on Sunday afternoon as a Berkeley Tenants Convention to nominate “the next progressive Rent Board slate” for the November 2010 election. -more-

It’s been a month. We slept under the streetlights, marched, and protested the California budget cuts to disability programs in every way we could think of. Along the way, we achieved the distinction of Longest Running Disability Protest in US History. -more-

Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association (BAHA) has taken a formal position opposing demolition of Berkeley Public Library’s (BPL’s) South Branch Library, in a letter sent to the Planning Department earlier this month. -more-

While it is certainly possible to live in Berkeley without experiencing any direct connection to the University, the ebb and flow of campus life does influence life in the town, if only through the number of commuters on city streets or the amount of cheering coming out of Memorial Stadium. -more-

Kenneth Harlan Simmons was born on June 28, 1933, in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and died July 6, 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He received a degree in Biology from Harvard University and a degree in Architecture from the University of California. He became a faculty member at Berkeley’s School of Architecture in 1969. Professor Simmons played a lead role in helping the University to divest from South Africa. After retiring from U.C. Berkeley in 1994, he relocated to Johannesburg where he taught at the University of the Witwatersrand and pioneered numerous community projects. -more-

Ronald Harold Stevenson III, a Berkeley community leader for over 30 years, died suddenly on the afternoon of July 19th as a result of a brain aneurysm. Mr. Stevenson is survived by his wife of 33 years Linda, and their three children Sonia (Waters), Tania Jean (TJ) and Ronald IV. -more-