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-

John Yoo is back teaching at the University of California Berkeley Law School this semester and there doesn’t seem to be much anyone can do about it. A few UC faculty members have pronounced that they consider this to be disgraceful, and some of the more colorful citizen protest groups have trained their sights on Yoo’s public appearances and even hounded him at home, but the Law School itself seems to be paralyzed. One would think that being an obviously incompetent or dishonest practitioner of the legal trade would be enough to disqualify him from teaching impressionable students, but law school honchos, including the Dean, seem to prefer raising bogus issues of academic freedom. -more-