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Berkeley School Board Weighs Options to Fit 250 New Students Next Year
Well-Known Berkeley Developer Trying to Buy Historic Berkeley Post Office
How Did Berkeley Pass Soda Tax When Other Cities Failed?
Why Are Acorn Woodpeckers Appearing in Berkeley's Lowlands?
Berkeley's Soda Tax Takes Center Stage This Election Season
Berkeley Residents Love Their Little Free Libraries
Petition Targets Planned UC Berkeley Speech by Bill Maher
Berkeley Going to Court to Block Rumored Post Office Sale
Michael Bloomberg Gives $83,000 to Support Berkeley’s Proposed Soda Tax
Beverage Industry Spends Big to Beat Berkeley Soda Tax
After Long Negotiations, Berkeley School District and Union Reach Agreement
News Pix: S.J. Mayoral Debate, Free Speech Anniversary, Another Black and Orange October
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"content": "\u003cp>With an extra 250 students projected to crowd into Berkeley schools in the coming three years, the school board considered a long list of options for creating space at its Nov. 5 meeting. The board will narrow down the choices at its Dec. 10 meeting, and decide on a plan of action in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There’s no solution that has no downside.'\u003ccite>Josh Daniels, BUSD board president\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After hearing a report on the options to add up to 12 classrooms, board members asked staff to more fully explore three possibilities:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003c/ul>\u003col>--Moving transitional kindergartens out of the elementary schools to a pre-school site;\u003c/ol>\n\u003col>--Converting some, but not all, of the 12 “enrichment classrooms” around the district to regular classrooms. Enrichment classrooms are those used for art, dance, theater, science or other purposes.\u003c/ol>\n\u003col>--Moving Berkeley Technology Academy and Independent Study to the Adult Education School on San Pablo Avenue, and using the BTA site on Martin Luther King Jr. Way near Derby as an elementary school.\u003c/ol>\n\n\u003cp>“There’s no solution that has no downside,” said board president Josh Daniels after the presentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Beatriz Leyva-Cutler expressed concern that under the three potential solutions being studied, the populations being asked to move (pre-schoolers and students at BTA) were more often low-income than the district average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes after an \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/09/05/added-kindergartens-a-result-of-squeeze-from-tk-classes/\" target=\"_blank\">increase in students this fall\u003c/a> that led the district to convert several enrichment classrooms into regular classrooms at Malcolm X and Cragmont elementary schools. The decision frustrated many parents at those schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 10 parents spoke up at the November meeting, urging the board not to convert any more enrichment classrooms and not to increase class sizes. (Many others were not able to speak due to time constraints.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10348589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/03_11_14building_m-8-720x480.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10348589 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/03_11_14building_m-8-720x480.jpg\" alt=\"BUSD forecasts that as many as 12 new classrooms will be needed across the district in three years. It’s a worst-case scenario, said Pasquale Scuderi, assistant superintendent. Pete Rosos/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/03_11_14building_m-8-720x480.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/03_11_14building_m-8-720x480-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BUSD forecasts that as many as 12 new classrooms will be needed across the district in three years. It’s a worst-case scenario, said Pasquale Scuderi, assistant superintendent. Pete Rosos/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several parents called for the district to reduce the student population by cutting back on fraudulent enrollment (out-of-town students enrolled using false addresses). Superintendent Donald Evans said that, although that topic was not part of the agenda that night, he would be making recommendations to the board “soon” about the address verification process. Evans said that superintendents from local districts met recently to discuss this problem. He called it a “lively conversation” and the first of many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district forecasts that up to six new classrooms will be needed next fall, up to four more in 2016 and another two in 2017 — as many as 12 new classrooms in three years. It’s a worst-case scenario, said Pasquale Scuderi, assistant superintendent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The various options, outlined in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyschools.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Enrollment-and-Capacity-Meeting-2-V7.pdf?864d7e\" target=\"_blank\">board packet\u003c/a>, include:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Using the enrichment classrooms.\u003c/strong> Costs would be minor. There are a dozen at elementary schools in the district. Two are used for special education and medically fragile students, others are for arts, cooking, science, language lab, a learning center and after-school classes. One is in a basement and several are smaller than average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before you make a decision to re-purpose room 9 [for special education and medically fragile students at Oxford], spend a day there,” said parent and doctor Amy Garland. “Don’t take it away from the most vulnerable kids in the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hearing the parents’ concerns about taking away these classrooms, Daniels asked district administrators to make a list of the five classrooms that could be repurposed with the least impact on schools. Leyva-Cutler called for protecting the special-education classrooms. Karen Hemphill said she would like each school to keep at least one enrichment classroom. Another board member added that the district should avoid taking rooms from schools that already lost enrichment rooms this school year. If all of those stipulations were met, only two extra classrooms would be found, as most schools have only one (or zero) flex spaces now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Increasing kindergarten classes to 24 students, up from 20.\u003c/strong> This would add five classrooms, and no costs would be involved, according to the report.But the district’s report points out that smaller class sizes improve student outcomes, especially amongst disadvantaged students. Daniels said he was open to some increase in class sizes, but noted how unpopular the idea was with parents, and asked administrators not to pursue this any further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Moving the transitional kindergarten (TK) classes.\u003c/strong> Costs would be small. TK is a new class serving 4-year-olds with fall birthdays, who are no longer eligible for kindergarten, under new state rules. The TK classes are currently in six of the elementary schools. If some of the TKs moved to one of the three pre-school sites, the preschool classes would be consolidated on the other two pre-school campuses. Hopkins is the most likely pre-school site for the move, Daniels said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This move was suggested last spring, when the space crunch first hit, but the idea was discarded when some teachers and parents complained that the TK students would be better served on the elementary campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Installing portables at LeConte, Muir and Thousand Oaks schools.\u003c/strong> The soonest that could happen is 2016. At least one parent protested the use of portables. Cost ranges from $4 million to $8 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Moving BTA and Independent Study\u003c/strong> from the relatively new school at MLK Jr Way and Derby Street to the Adult Education School (the former Franklin School, which has been renovated) on San Pablo Avenue near at Virginia Street. The BTA site could become an elementary school. This would cost under $1 million. Several board members expressed interest, saying that combining BTA with Adult Education could be beneficial to the students. Hemphill expressed concern that BTA was not built as an elementary school, and so could be substandard and would be serving a lower income population in south Berkeley – not an equitable solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Having the Adult School and an elementary school share the Adult School campus.\u003c/strong> While this would keep the district from taking enrichment rooms and keep TK classes at grade schools, it would create “an unusual combination of student groups in one facility,” according to the report, and would reduce the adult education program. Due to renovations needed to accommodate children (about $2 million), it would not be possible until 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Eliminating the adult education site and opening an elementary school there.\u003c/strong> This would radically change the adult education program and can’t happen immediately. It would cost about $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Building permanent additions to schools.\u003c/strong> LeConte, John Muir, Thousand Oaks, Berkeley Arts Magnet and Washington would be possible sites. This would improve school-size equity across the district, but projects would take four years and cost $5 million to $9 million per site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building a new school at the Oregon Street maintenance facility site, for $20 million, or building a new school on land to be bought, for $30 million. Board members are not considering either of these options at this time. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 10 parents spoke up at the November meeting, urging the board not to convert any more enrichment classrooms and not to increase class sizes. (Many others were not able to speak due to time constraints.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10348589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/03_11_14building_m-8-720x480.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10348589 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/03_11_14building_m-8-720x480.jpg\" alt=\"BUSD forecasts that as many as 12 new classrooms will be needed across the district in three years. It’s a worst-case scenario, said Pasquale Scuderi, assistant superintendent. 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Evans said that superintendents from local districts met recently to discuss this problem. He called it a “lively conversation” and the first of many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district forecasts that up to six new classrooms will be needed next fall, up to four more in 2016 and another two in 2017 — as many as 12 new classrooms in three years. It’s a worst-case scenario, said Pasquale Scuderi, assistant superintendent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The various options, outlined in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyschools.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Enrollment-and-Capacity-Meeting-2-V7.pdf?864d7e\" target=\"_blank\">board packet\u003c/a>, include:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Using the enrichment classrooms.\u003c/strong> Costs would be minor. There are a dozen at elementary schools in the district. Two are used for special education and medically fragile students, others are for arts, cooking, science, language lab, a learning center and after-school classes. One is in a basement and several are smaller than average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before you make a decision to re-purpose room 9 [for special education and medically fragile students at Oxford], spend a day there,” said parent and doctor Amy Garland. “Don’t take it away from the most vulnerable kids in the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hearing the parents’ concerns about taking away these classrooms, Daniels asked district administrators to make a list of the five classrooms that could be repurposed with the least impact on schools. Leyva-Cutler called for protecting the special-education classrooms. Karen Hemphill said she would like each school to keep at least one enrichment classroom. Another board member added that the district should avoid taking rooms from schools that already lost enrichment rooms this school year. If all of those stipulations were met, only two extra classrooms would be found, as most schools have only one (or zero) flex spaces now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Increasing kindergarten classes to 24 students, up from 20.\u003c/strong> This would add five classrooms, and no costs would be involved, according to the report.But the district’s report points out that smaller class sizes improve student outcomes, especially amongst disadvantaged students. Daniels said he was open to some increase in class sizes, but noted how unpopular the idea was with parents, and asked administrators not to pursue this any further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Moving the transitional kindergarten (TK) classes.\u003c/strong> Costs would be small. TK is a new class serving 4-year-olds with fall birthdays, who are no longer eligible for kindergarten, under new state rules. The TK classes are currently in six of the elementary schools. If some of the TKs moved to one of the three pre-school sites, the preschool classes would be consolidated on the other two pre-school campuses. Hopkins is the most likely pre-school site for the move, Daniels said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This move was suggested last spring, when the space crunch first hit, but the idea was discarded when some teachers and parents complained that the TK students would be better served on the elementary campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Installing portables at LeConte, Muir and Thousand Oaks schools.\u003c/strong> The soonest that could happen is 2016. At least one parent protested the use of portables. Cost ranges from $4 million to $8 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Moving BTA and Independent Study\u003c/strong> from the relatively new school at MLK Jr Way and Derby Street to the Adult Education School (the former Franklin School, which has been renovated) on San Pablo Avenue near at Virginia Street. The BTA site could become an elementary school. This would cost under $1 million. Several board members expressed interest, saying that combining BTA with Adult Education could be beneficial to the students. Hemphill expressed concern that BTA was not built as an elementary school, and so could be substandard and would be serving a lower income population in south Berkeley – not an equitable solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Having the Adult School and an elementary school share the Adult School campus.\u003c/strong> While this would keep the district from taking enrichment rooms and keep TK classes at grade schools, it would create “an unusual combination of student groups in one facility,” according to the report, and would reduce the adult education program. 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"content": "\u003cp>After weeks of silence, Berkeley developer \u003ca href=\"http://www.hudsonmcdonald.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Hudson McDonald\u003c/a> has acknowledged that it is the company that is negotiating with the USPS to buy the main Berkeley post office at 2000 Allston Way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If successful, Hudson McDonald, which is best known for the construction of the Trader Joe’s building on University and MLK Jr. Way, said it plans to restore the 1914 building and develop the back for retail operations while offering the post office the opportunity of continuing to use the front lobby for postal services.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We want to preserve and restore the building, including retrofitting it, and we are having a conversation with the post office about them being tenant in the front part.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“There is a lot to be determined,” Chris Hudson, co-principal with Evan McDonald of the developer, said Tuesday. “But we want to preserve and restore the building, including retrofitting it, and we are having a conversation with the post office about them being tenant in the front part.” Currently about 80 percent of the building is empty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hudson said the post office had received several offers for the building but that Hudson McDonald was the only bidder in negotiation with USPS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stressing that the discussions were in early stages, and that buying a historic public property was a complicated process, Hudson said: “Our goal is to generate revenue for the city, repurpose the building, and have it continue to function as a post office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He confirmed Hudson McDonald had no plans to create residences in the building or put it in private use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As Berkeley residents, we would like to see this building not become a private use building,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hudson said he understood at least one of the other interested parties was a nonprofit that would not need to pay property taxes to the city if it purchased the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates said today he understood that Hudson McDonald was talking to Ace Hardware about the possibility of them moving into the post office building. Bates said that could be a win-win for downtown Berkeley, but that the City Council was not supporting the developer’s proposal because it’s not supporting taking the building in that direction. Ace Hardware needs to move out of its 2145 University Avenue location because it is going to be developed as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/acheson-commons/\" target=\"_blank\">205-unit Acheson Commons apartment complex\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hudson would not disclose the price the developer has offered to pay for the post office, and said it could change, depending on disclosures such as the cost of retrofitting the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main Berkeley post office has been at the center of a drawn-out and fiercely argued debate within the Berkeley community and government ranks ever since USPS announced it would sell the Renaissance Revival-style building in June 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Berkeley City Attorney Zach Cowan was made aware that someone was in contract to buy the post office and he told the City Council that it was necessary for the city to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service to stop the sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Berkeley filed for a temporary restraining order to stop the sale in federal court. There will be a hearing on the matter on Monday, Nov. 10, according to Antonio Rossmann, the private attorney retained by Berkeley to fight the post office sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire City Council unanimously opposes the sale and has tried a number of maneuvers to stop it, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/09/30/with-berkeley-set-to-change-civic-center-zoning-us-postal-service-ponders-lawsuit/\" target=\"_blank\">including the recent rezoning\u003c/a> of the Civic Center core. The new law says the historic buildings in the core, including the old City Hall and the Veterans Building, cannot be used for commercial purposes, although community purposes are allowed. Height limits are capped at 50 feet, or the height of old City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been numerous demonstrations and campouts on the steps of the post office by \u003ca href=\"http://www.savethebpo.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Save the Berkeley Post Office \u003c/a>and other groups that protest the building’s sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cowan said last month he had directed outside counsel to initiate litigation against the USPS to prevent the sale of the Allston Way building. “We are working closely with the National Trust and have asked them to participate in the litigation as well,” he told Berkeleyside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the potential lawsuit, Hudson said he hoped it could be avoided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once people see what’s going on, perhaps there will be no need to file a lawsuit,” he said. “That was a reaction to something that doesn’t have to come to pass. We think we are the best potential buyer for the post office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that both Hudson McDonald and the post office want to reach an agreement that works for Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know Berkeley,” he said. “It’s a complicated issue and there are a lot of emotions around it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates said he thought there could be a long legal battle ahead, however. “Nothing is going to be decided quickly,” he said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hudson said he didn’t know how long the negotiations would last. He said the post office had many hoops to jump through, not least as the building is on the Historic Register.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once those processes have been completed, we can create a plan and get on a timetable,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hudson McDonald, which is based in Berkeley, says it specializes in developing complex infill projects on underutilized properties. Along with the Trader Joe’s building, its projects include the recently completed \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleymet.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Metropolitan student housing building \u003c/a>next to the Berkeley City Club on Durant, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.delapartments.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Delaware apartment complex\u003c/a> in West Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/lh_3b\" target=\"_blank\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside's Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After weeks of silence, Berkeley developer \u003ca href=\"http://www.hudsonmcdonald.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Hudson McDonald\u003c/a> has acknowledged that it is the company that is negotiating with the USPS to buy the main Berkeley post office at 2000 Allston Way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If successful, Hudson McDonald, which is best known for the construction of the Trader Joe’s building on University and MLK Jr. Way, said it plans to restore the 1914 building and develop the back for retail operations while offering the post office the opportunity of continuing to use the front lobby for postal services.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We want to preserve and restore the building, including retrofitting it, and we are having a conversation with the post office about them being tenant in the front part.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“There is a lot to be determined,” Chris Hudson, co-principal with Evan McDonald of the developer, said Tuesday. “But we want to preserve and restore the building, including retrofitting it, and we are having a conversation with the post office about them being tenant in the front part.” Currently about 80 percent of the building is empty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hudson said the post office had received several offers for the building but that Hudson McDonald was the only bidder in negotiation with USPS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stressing that the discussions were in early stages, and that buying a historic public property was a complicated process, Hudson said: “Our goal is to generate revenue for the city, repurpose the building, and have it continue to function as a post office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He confirmed Hudson McDonald had no plans to create residences in the building or put it in private use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As Berkeley residents, we would like to see this building not become a private use building,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hudson said he understood at least one of the other interested parties was a nonprofit that would not need to pay property taxes to the city if it purchased the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates said today he understood that Hudson McDonald was talking to Ace Hardware about the possibility of them moving into the post office building. Bates said that could be a win-win for downtown Berkeley, but that the City Council was not supporting the developer’s proposal because it’s not supporting taking the building in that direction. Ace Hardware needs to move out of its 2145 University Avenue location because it is going to be developed as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/acheson-commons/\" target=\"_blank\">205-unit Acheson Commons apartment complex\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hudson would not disclose the price the developer has offered to pay for the post office, and said it could change, depending on disclosures such as the cost of retrofitting the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main Berkeley post office has been at the center of a drawn-out and fiercely argued debate within the Berkeley community and government ranks ever since USPS announced it would sell the Renaissance Revival-style building in June 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Berkeley City Attorney Zach Cowan was made aware that someone was in contract to buy the post office and he told the City Council that it was necessary for the city to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service to stop the sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Berkeley filed for a temporary restraining order to stop the sale in federal court. There will be a hearing on the matter on Monday, Nov. 10, according to Antonio Rossmann, the private attorney retained by Berkeley to fight the post office sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire City Council unanimously opposes the sale and has tried a number of maneuvers to stop it, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/09/30/with-berkeley-set-to-change-civic-center-zoning-us-postal-service-ponders-lawsuit/\" target=\"_blank\">including the recent rezoning\u003c/a> of the Civic Center core. The new law says the historic buildings in the core, including the old City Hall and the Veterans Building, cannot be used for commercial purposes, although community purposes are allowed. Height limits are capped at 50 feet, or the height of old City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been numerous demonstrations and campouts on the steps of the post office by \u003ca href=\"http://www.savethebpo.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Save the Berkeley Post Office \u003c/a>and other groups that protest the building’s sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cowan said last month he had directed outside counsel to initiate litigation against the USPS to prevent the sale of the Allston Way building. “We are working closely with the National Trust and have asked them to participate in the litigation as well,” he told Berkeleyside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the potential lawsuit, Hudson said he hoped it could be avoided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once people see what’s going on, perhaps there will be no need to file a lawsuit,” he said. “That was a reaction to something that doesn’t have to come to pass. 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"content": "\u003cp>The city of Berkeley was basking in glory Wednesday over its passage of the nation’s first soda tax, an accomplishment that the beverage industry dismissed as just a whacky – and inconsequential – victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the soda industry was quick to release a press statement Tuesday night after San Francisco’s defeat of a two-cent an ounce tax on soda, it took them hours to respond to the win in Berkeley, where voters \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/11/04/berkeley-2014-elections-tune-in-here-for-live-coverage/\" target=\"_blank\">passed Measure D with 75% of the vote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The outcome of Measure D is unfortunate but not surprising , given some of the dubious measures that have come out of Berkeley,” Roger Salazar, a spokesman for the No on Measure D campaign said in a prepared statement that was sent out around 9 a.m. Wednesday. “Soda tax activists have been venue shopping for more than five years. Over that time more than 30 cities and states have rejected similar taxes. Berkeley was low-hanging fruit, and doesn’t look like mainstream America. If politicians want to stake their reputations on what Berkeley did, they do so at their own risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley was the first city in the country to adopt many measures that have gone on to become mainstream, including voluntary integration of its public schools, benefits for domestic partners, a ban on Styrofoam cups, a ban on smoking in restaurants, a ballot measure drawing attention to global warming, and commercial rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10347222\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Berkeley-vs-Big-soda-rally-outside-City-Hall-in-July-720x477.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10347222\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Berkeley-vs-Big-soda-rally-outside-City-Hall-in-July-720x477-400x265.jpg\" alt=\"Vicky Alexander, co-chair of the Yes on D campaign, speaks at a pro-soda tax demo outside Old City Hall in July. (Courtesy: Berkeley vs Big Soda)\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Berkeley-vs-Big-soda-rally-outside-City-Hall-in-July-720x477-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Berkeley-vs-Big-soda-rally-outside-City-Hall-in-July-720x477.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vicki Alexander, co-chair of the Yes on D campaign, speaks at a pro-soda tax demo outside Old City Hall in July. (Courtesy: Berkeley vs Big Soda)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the returns started to pour in early Tuesday night showing that Measure D had a commanding lead, those that worked on the campaign vowed to take it to other cities around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today is a historic day for our kids’ health,” Dr. Vicki Alexander, the co-chair of the Yes on Measure D campaign, said Tuesday. “Today is the day when the tide turns against Big Soda. Today is the day when the tide turns for the whole country. Big Soda knows this and that’s why it’s freaking out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another commentator said the passage of the soda tax was a watershed moment for health activists and a Waterloo moment for the beverage industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who spent $657,000 to pass the soda tax, (he also spent $10 million to pass a similar tax in Mexico) said he would now look to helping other municipalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/10/29/heres-what-would-be-taxed-or-not-in-sf-berkeley-soda-tax-measures/\">Here’s What Would Be Taxed — or Not — in SF, Berkeley Soda Tax Measures\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/01/Berkeley-soda-tax-measure-d-campaign-spending\">Berkeley’s Soda Tax Takes Center Stage This Election Season\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Last night was a huge defeat for Big Soda and a historic victory for public health and all the advocates who worked so hard in Berkeley,” Bloomberg said in a statement. “The results will surely encourage other municipalities across the nation to pursue similar initiatives to fight obesity and diabetes. We stand ready to assess and assist other local efforts in the coming election cycle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battle is not over. City Councilman Laurie Capitelli, who worked hard to pass Measure D, said the city expects the beverage industry to sue to stop the tax. It is unlikely that a judge will issue a temporary restraining order against a tax, he said. Berkeley will begin collecting the one-cent per ounce tax from distributors on Jan. 1, 2015, but won’t spend the proceeds until the legal issues are resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why the Tax Won in Berkeley\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soon as the poll results starting trickling in, those who worked to pass Measure D start to speculate on why Berkeley was successful where so many other cities were not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, the bar was lower for Berkeley, where the tax only needed a majority vote to pass. In San Francisco, Measure E needed two-thirds of a vote to pass since the tax revenues were going into a special fund. (Revenues from the Berkeley tax will go into the city’s general fund.) As it turns out, Measure D passed with much more than a two-thirds majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But only requiring a 50 percent vote also forced the beverage industry to reach more voters – which cost more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capitelli told the crowd assembled at the headquarters on Shattuck Avenue Tuesday night that Berkeley had learned a lot from the 2010 Richmond fight to pass a tax. Almost a year and a half ago, he and City Councilwoman Linda Maio sat down with Dr. Jeff Reiterman, a former Richmond City Councilman who spearheaded Richmond’s unsuccessful attempt to adopt a soda tax. They started a string of discussions about what succeeded and failed in Richmond. The soda industry spent about $2.3 million there to defeat the measure. (It spent about $2.4 million in Berkeley)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10347225\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Dog-and-Big-Soda-720x720.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10347225\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Dog-and-Big-Soda-720x720-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"One of the many Yes on D lawn signs that were seen all over Berkeley in the run-up to the Nov. 4 election. (Courtesy: Berkeley vs Big Soda)\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Dog-and-Big-Soda-720x720-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Dog-and-Big-Soda-720x720-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Dog-and-Big-Soda-720x720-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Dog-and-Big-Soda-720x720-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Dog-and-Big-Soda-720x720-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Dog-and-Big-Soda-720x720-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Dog-and-Big-Soda-720x720.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the many Yes on D lawn signs that were seen all over Berkeley in the run-up to the Nov. 4 election. (Courtesy: Berkeley vs Big Soda)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the primary takeaways was that the soda industry adopted a divide-and-conquer strategy in Richmond, offering money to churches and other groups to come out against the tax and paying people to boycott businesses that supported the tax. This strategy also worked in Philadelphia, where the beverage industry donated $10 million to the children’s hospital there in exchange for the City Council’s agreement not to impose a tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without the wisdom we gained from Richmond, there is no way we would have been successful here,” said Meleah Hall, who worked with Alexander in bringing together focus groups of African-American women.. \"We knew the tactics of Big Soda ahead of time. We went to the people and warned them, 'They are trying to buy you out. They are trying to buy your vote.' This is Berkeley. We don’t do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley started to build a diverse coalition early, and that was key to its success, according to many members of the campaign. There were more than 250 volunteers who handed out 2,000 lawn signs and got 10,000 people to commit to a yes vote before election day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition not only included every member of the Berkeley City Council, but historically black churches, Latino health groups, doctors, medical clinics, teachers, environmental groups, students, political groups and many more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yes on D campaign also had the benefit of services from Larry Tramutola, an experienced and successful political strategist. Tramutola had a number of his employees work on the campaign –- for free, he said, adding he might get a bonus payment now that the measure has won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beverage industry undermined itself when it flooded Berkeley with so much money, said Tramutola. It used those funds for a blitz of advertising, focus groups, phone calls and on-the-street campaign workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had an unlimited checkbook,” said Tramutola. “There was nothing that couldn’t be bought. The combination of all that turned Berkeley voters off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The No on D campaign also tried to suggest that the soda tax effort was coming from the political fringe. Tramutola countered that by placing the long list of endorsers in a prominent spot on all the Yes on D mailers. The campaign also focused on the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, a message that resonated with Berkeley voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This shows that “communities do have the power to fight for their kids’ health and win against obscene amounts of outside money spent in its own interest,” said Martin Bourque, the executive director of the Berkeley's Ecology Center.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The city of Berkeley was basking in glory Wednesday over its passage of the nation’s first soda tax, an accomplishment that the beverage industry dismissed as just a whacky – and inconsequential – victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the soda industry was quick to release a press statement Tuesday night after San Francisco’s defeat of a two-cent an ounce tax on soda, it took them hours to respond to the win in Berkeley, where voters \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/11/04/berkeley-2014-elections-tune-in-here-for-live-coverage/\" target=\"_blank\">passed Measure D with 75% of the vote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The outcome of Measure D is unfortunate but not surprising , given some of the dubious measures that have come out of Berkeley,” Roger Salazar, a spokesman for the No on Measure D campaign said in a prepared statement that was sent out around 9 a.m. Wednesday. “Soda tax activists have been venue shopping for more than five years. Over that time more than 30 cities and states have rejected similar taxes. Berkeley was low-hanging fruit, and doesn’t look like mainstream America. If politicians want to stake their reputations on what Berkeley did, they do so at their own risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley was the first city in the country to adopt many measures that have gone on to become mainstream, including voluntary integration of its public schools, benefits for domestic partners, a ban on Styrofoam cups, a ban on smoking in restaurants, a ballot measure drawing attention to global warming, and commercial rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10347222\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Berkeley-vs-Big-soda-rally-outside-City-Hall-in-July-720x477.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10347222\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Berkeley-vs-Big-soda-rally-outside-City-Hall-in-July-720x477-400x265.jpg\" alt=\"Vicky Alexander, co-chair of the Yes on D campaign, speaks at a pro-soda tax demo outside Old City Hall in July. (Courtesy: Berkeley vs Big Soda)\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Berkeley-vs-Big-soda-rally-outside-City-Hall-in-July-720x477-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Berkeley-vs-Big-soda-rally-outside-City-Hall-in-July-720x477.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vicki Alexander, co-chair of the Yes on D campaign, speaks at a pro-soda tax demo outside Old City Hall in July. (Courtesy: Berkeley vs Big Soda)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the returns started to pour in early Tuesday night showing that Measure D had a commanding lead, those that worked on the campaign vowed to take it to other cities around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today is a historic day for our kids’ health,” Dr. Vicki Alexander, the co-chair of the Yes on Measure D campaign, said Tuesday. “Today is the day when the tide turns against Big Soda. Today is the day when the tide turns for the whole country. Big Soda knows this and that’s why it’s freaking out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another commentator said the passage of the soda tax was a watershed moment for health activists and a Waterloo moment for the beverage industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who spent $657,000 to pass the soda tax, (he also spent $10 million to pass a similar tax in Mexico) said he would now look to helping other municipalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/10/29/heres-what-would-be-taxed-or-not-in-sf-berkeley-soda-tax-measures/\">Here’s What Would Be Taxed — or Not — in SF, Berkeley Soda Tax Measures\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/01/Berkeley-soda-tax-measure-d-campaign-spending\">Berkeley’s Soda Tax Takes Center Stage This Election Season\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Last night was a huge defeat for Big Soda and a historic victory for public health and all the advocates who worked so hard in Berkeley,” Bloomberg said in a statement. “The results will surely encourage other municipalities across the nation to pursue similar initiatives to fight obesity and diabetes. We stand ready to assess and assist other local efforts in the coming election cycle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battle is not over. City Councilman Laurie Capitelli, who worked hard to pass Measure D, said the city expects the beverage industry to sue to stop the tax. It is unlikely that a judge will issue a temporary restraining order against a tax, he said. Berkeley will begin collecting the one-cent per ounce tax from distributors on Jan. 1, 2015, but won’t spend the proceeds until the legal issues are resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why the Tax Won in Berkeley\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soon as the poll results starting trickling in, those who worked to pass Measure D start to speculate on why Berkeley was successful where so many other cities were not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, the bar was lower for Berkeley, where the tax only needed a majority vote to pass. In San Francisco, Measure E needed two-thirds of a vote to pass since the tax revenues were going into a special fund. (Revenues from the Berkeley tax will go into the city’s general fund.) As it turns out, Measure D passed with much more than a two-thirds majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But only requiring a 50 percent vote also forced the beverage industry to reach more voters – which cost more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capitelli told the crowd assembled at the headquarters on Shattuck Avenue Tuesday night that Berkeley had learned a lot from the 2010 Richmond fight to pass a tax. Almost a year and a half ago, he and City Councilwoman Linda Maio sat down with Dr. Jeff Reiterman, a former Richmond City Councilman who spearheaded Richmond’s unsuccessful attempt to adopt a soda tax. They started a string of discussions about what succeeded and failed in Richmond. The soda industry spent about $2.3 million there to defeat the measure. (It spent about $2.4 million in Berkeley)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10347225\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Dog-and-Big-Soda-720x720.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10347225\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Dog-and-Big-Soda-720x720-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"One of the many Yes on D lawn signs that were seen all over Berkeley in the run-up to the Nov. 4 election. (Courtesy: Berkeley vs Big Soda)\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Dog-and-Big-Soda-720x720-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Dog-and-Big-Soda-720x720-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Dog-and-Big-Soda-720x720-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Dog-and-Big-Soda-720x720-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Dog-and-Big-Soda-720x720-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Dog-and-Big-Soda-720x720-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Dog-and-Big-Soda-720x720.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the many Yes on D lawn signs that were seen all over Berkeley in the run-up to the Nov. 4 election. (Courtesy: Berkeley vs Big Soda)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the primary takeaways was that the soda industry adopted a divide-and-conquer strategy in Richmond, offering money to churches and other groups to come out against the tax and paying people to boycott businesses that supported the tax. This strategy also worked in Philadelphia, where the beverage industry donated $10 million to the children’s hospital there in exchange for the City Council’s agreement not to impose a tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without the wisdom we gained from Richmond, there is no way we would have been successful here,” said Meleah Hall, who worked with Alexander in bringing together focus groups of African-American women.. \"We knew the tactics of Big Soda ahead of time. We went to the people and warned them, 'They are trying to buy you out. They are trying to buy your vote.' This is Berkeley. We don’t do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley started to build a diverse coalition early, and that was key to its success, according to many members of the campaign. There were more than 250 volunteers who handed out 2,000 lawn signs and got 10,000 people to commit to a yes vote before election day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition not only included every member of the Berkeley City Council, but historically black churches, Latino health groups, doctors, medical clinics, teachers, environmental groups, students, political groups and many more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yes on D campaign also had the benefit of services from Larry Tramutola, an experienced and successful political strategist. Tramutola had a number of his employees work on the campaign –- for free, he said, adding he might get a bonus payment now that the measure has won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beverage industry undermined itself when it flooded Berkeley with so much money, said Tramutola. It used those funds for a blitz of advertising, focus groups, phone calls and on-the-street campaign workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had an unlimited checkbook,” said Tramutola. “There was nothing that couldn’t be bought. The combination of all that turned Berkeley voters off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The No on D campaign also tried to suggest that the soda tax effort was coming from the political fringe. Tramutola countered that by placing the long list of endorsers in a prominent spot on all the Yes on D mailers. The campaign also focused on the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, a message that resonated with Berkeley voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>They are the clowns of the oak savannah — Acorn Woodpeckers — with their harlequin faces, gregarious habits, and off-kilter laughing calls that inspired Woody Woodpecker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in the Bay Area, Acorn Woodpecker colonies are fairly common in the East Bay hills and the western slopes of Mount Diablo, particularly where there are concentrations of valley oaks. South of Livermore, they can be locally abundant in the Diablo range. They are rare in Tilden and Redwood Regional Parks, however, and practically unheard of west of the Hayward Fault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s up with the recent spate of Acorn Woodpecker sightings in urban San Francisco and the East Bay lowlands?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346845\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/acornwood-larryhollowood2-720x599.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/acornwood-larryhollowood2-720x599.jpg\" alt=\"Acorn Woodpeckers storing acorns. (Larry and Dena Hollowood/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"599\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10346845\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/acornwood-larryhollowood2-720x599.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/acornwood-larryhollowood2-720x599-400x332.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Acorn Woodpeckers storing acorns. (Larry and Dena Hollowood/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beginning around Sept. 1, Acorn Woodpecker reports started rolling in from multiple East Bay sites from Oakland to Richmond. In Berkeley, they have been reported near McKinley and Bancroft streets, at the UC Botanical Gardens, in Claremont Canyon, and behind the Seabreeze restaurant near the Berkeley Waterfront. They’ve also been sighted across the Bay in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This irruption – the term for a sudden upsurge in a bird population — is particularly noteworthy because Acorn Woodpeckers are not migratory. What’s driving it? The most likely answer is acorn crop failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>True to their name, Acorn Woodpeckers are acorn specialists. They develop communal granaries that may consist of tens of thousands of holes drilled in tree trunks and limbs, each stuffed with an acorn. Only about half their diet actually consists of acorns — the other half is made up of fruit, insects, and other vegetable matter — but the acorn granaries are the staple food source that gets them through lean times. According to \u003ca href=\"http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/194/articles/introduction\" target=\"_blank\">Birds of North America\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>[i]n areas where there are large seasonal fluctuations in insects and other foods, year-round residency is dependent on the birds’ ability to store sufficient acorn mast to provide food throughout the winter. Groups that exhaust their stores often abandon their territories and wander off in search of alternative food.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>This year appears to be one of those years. According to the Oct. 2014 edition of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/wkoenig/CAR_2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">California Acorn Report\u003c/a>, this is a medium-to-poor acorn year. Results are particularly poor for live oaks: it is either the worst or next-to-worst year ever for coast live oaks, canyon live oaks, and interior live oaks. Blue oaks are generally fair to poor and it’s a fairly poor year for tanoaks. The valley oak crop is reasonably good but, overall, acorn production is the worst it has been since 2003, and less than half the crop production of 2012 and 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/acornwood-larryhollowood3-720x583.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/acornwood-larryhollowood3-720x583.jpg\" alt=\"Acorn Woodpecker carrying an acorn . (Larry and Dena Hollowood/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"583\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10346846\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/acornwood-larryhollowood3-720x583.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/acornwood-larryhollowood3-720x583-400x323.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Acorn Woodpecker carrying an acorn . (Larry and Dena Hollowood/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what does the future hold for our clown-faced friends? Is crop failure due to drought or just cyclical variation in acorn production? University of California’s \u003ca href=\"http://ucanr.edu/sites/oak_range/Oak_Articles_On_Line/Oak_Woodland_Ecology_and_Monitoring/Acorn_Production_by_California_Oaks/\" target=\"_blank\">Oak Woodland Conservation Work Group\u003c/a> sheds some light on the drivers of crop size:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For valley and blue oaks, the most important single factor is weather in April, the peak month for pollination, with crops being heavier in years when mean April temperatures are warmer. … For coast and canyon live oaks, mean acorn production is positively correlated with rainfall occurring one and (for canyon live oak) two years earlier. … Interestingly, winter rainfall in the same year as acorn production-the factor most commonly thought to determine crop size-does not correlate positively with mean annual crop size of any of the species we studied.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So it’s quite possible this year’s poor crop is attributable to the rain we didn’t get a couple years ago. In that case, it may be a while before acorn crops return to their 2012-2013 levels. In the meantime, here’s hoping our feathered friends find some good food sources in their new urban digs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/acornwood-larryhollowood4-720x480.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/acornwood-larryhollowood4-720x480.jpg\" alt=\"An Acorn Woodpecker. (Larry and Dena Hollowood/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10346848\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/acornwood-larryhollowood4-720x480.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/acornwood-larryhollowood4-720x480-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Acorn Woodpecker. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>They are the clowns of the oak savannah — Acorn Woodpeckers — with their harlequin faces, gregarious habits, and off-kilter laughing calls that inspired Woody Woodpecker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in the Bay Area, Acorn Woodpecker colonies are fairly common in the East Bay hills and the western slopes of Mount Diablo, particularly where there are concentrations of valley oaks. South of Livermore, they can be locally abundant in the Diablo range. They are rare in Tilden and Redwood Regional Parks, however, and practically unheard of west of the Hayward Fault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s up with the recent spate of Acorn Woodpecker sightings in urban San Francisco and the East Bay lowlands?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346845\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/acornwood-larryhollowood2-720x599.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/acornwood-larryhollowood2-720x599.jpg\" alt=\"Acorn Woodpeckers storing acorns. (Larry and Dena Hollowood/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"599\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10346845\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/acornwood-larryhollowood2-720x599.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/acornwood-larryhollowood2-720x599-400x332.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Acorn Woodpeckers storing acorns. (Larry and Dena Hollowood/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beginning around Sept. 1, Acorn Woodpecker reports started rolling in from multiple East Bay sites from Oakland to Richmond. In Berkeley, they have been reported near McKinley and Bancroft streets, at the UC Botanical Gardens, in Claremont Canyon, and behind the Seabreeze restaurant near the Berkeley Waterfront. They’ve also been sighted across the Bay in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This irruption – the term for a sudden upsurge in a bird population — is particularly noteworthy because Acorn Woodpeckers are not migratory. What’s driving it? The most likely answer is acorn crop failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>True to their name, Acorn Woodpeckers are acorn specialists. They develop communal granaries that may consist of tens of thousands of holes drilled in tree trunks and limbs, each stuffed with an acorn. Only about half their diet actually consists of acorns — the other half is made up of fruit, insects, and other vegetable matter — but the acorn granaries are the staple food source that gets them through lean times. According to \u003ca href=\"http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/194/articles/introduction\" target=\"_blank\">Birds of North America\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>[i]n areas where there are large seasonal fluctuations in insects and other foods, year-round residency is dependent on the birds’ ability to store sufficient acorn mast to provide food throughout the winter. Groups that exhaust their stores often abandon their territories and wander off in search of alternative food.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>This year appears to be one of those years. According to the Oct. 2014 edition of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/wkoenig/CAR_2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">California Acorn Report\u003c/a>, this is a medium-to-poor acorn year. Results are particularly poor for live oaks: it is either the worst or next-to-worst year ever for coast live oaks, canyon live oaks, and interior live oaks. Blue oaks are generally fair to poor and it’s a fairly poor year for tanoaks. The valley oak crop is reasonably good but, overall, acorn production is the worst it has been since 2003, and less than half the crop production of 2012 and 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/acornwood-larryhollowood3-720x583.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/acornwood-larryhollowood3-720x583.jpg\" alt=\"Acorn Woodpecker carrying an acorn . (Larry and Dena Hollowood/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"583\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10346846\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/acornwood-larryhollowood3-720x583.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/acornwood-larryhollowood3-720x583-400x323.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Acorn Woodpecker carrying an acorn . (Larry and Dena Hollowood/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what does the future hold for our clown-faced friends? Is crop failure due to drought or just cyclical variation in acorn production? University of California’s \u003ca href=\"http://ucanr.edu/sites/oak_range/Oak_Articles_On_Line/Oak_Woodland_Ecology_and_Monitoring/Acorn_Production_by_California_Oaks/\" target=\"_blank\">Oak Woodland Conservation Work Group\u003c/a> sheds some light on the drivers of crop size:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For valley and blue oaks, the most important single factor is weather in April, the peak month for pollination, with crops being heavier in years when mean April temperatures are warmer. … For coast and canyon live oaks, mean acorn production is positively correlated with rainfall occurring one and (for canyon live oak) two years earlier. … Interestingly, winter rainfall in the same year as acorn production-the factor most commonly thought to determine crop size-does not correlate positively with mean annual crop size of any of the species we studied.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So it’s quite possible this year’s poor crop is attributable to the rain we didn’t get a couple years ago. In that case, it may be a while before acorn crops return to their 2012-2013 levels. In the meantime, here’s hoping our feathered friends find some good food sources in their new urban digs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/acornwood-larryhollowood4-720x480.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/acornwood-larryhollowood4-720x480.jpg\" alt=\"An Acorn Woodpecker. (Larry and Dena Hollowood/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10346848\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/acornwood-larryhollowood4-720x480.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/acornwood-larryhollowood4-720x480-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Acorn Woodpecker. (Larry and Dena Hollowood/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bruce Mast writes the monthly \u003ca href=\"http://goldengateaudubon.org/birding-resources/observations/\" target=\"_blank\">Observations column \u003c/a>on rare and unusual bird sightings that appears on Golden Gate Audubon Society’s website. You can email him at observe@goldengateaudubon.org. This post originally appeared in \u003ca href=\"http://goldengateaudubon.org/blog/\" target=\"_blank\">Golden Gate Birder\u003c/a>, the Golden Gate Audubon blog.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Nov. 4, Berkeley voters will show where they stand on Measure D, the so-called soda tax. The proposed tax on sugary beverages has been one of the most hotly debated Berkeley issues in the city’s history, and certainly one that has brought in record levels of campaign expenditures. The No on Measure D lobby has spent $2.3 million in an attempt to defeat the tax, according to campaign finance reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has contributed $532,071 in support of the soda tax. (That includes $265,235 for network advertising for commercials during the World Series, $96,836 for cable ads, and a cash donation of $170,000 to the Yes on Measure D effort.) UC Berkeley’s Robert Reich has been vocal in his views — writing a blog post about the issue titled “In its battle with Big Soda, Berkeley may once again make history,” and shooting a video on the same subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gael McKeon\u003c/strong> has spent several weeks documenting both sides of the campaign with his camera to create this photo essay of a pivotal moment in Berkeley’s political history, one that may set the stage for change nationwide. (The No on D campaign declined to participate in this story.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346260\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda2.jpg\" alt=\"soda2\" width=\"720\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda2.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda2-400x285.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kad Smith, administrative assistant to the Education and Engagement Program at the Ecology Center, and volunteer for Berkeley vs. Big Soda, talks to a Berkeley resident and registered voter about Measure D: “I was raised in District 2 by my grandmother, who is diabetic. I’ve seen the impact the disease has had on her quality of life, and it’s a part of the reason I got involved in Food Justice work and The Measure D campaign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346263\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda3.jpg\" alt=\"soda3\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda3.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda3-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lolis Ramirez, Ali Archer, Michael Guadamuz and Maria Tellez (left to right) spend a Saturday morning preparing materials for volunteers who will be canvassing for the Berkeley vs. Big Soda campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda4.jpg\" alt=\"soda4\" width=\"720\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda4.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda4-400x320.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An opponent of the soda tax, Roy Mowrouzi, stands inside Café Rio, his restaurant at 2148 Center St. in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco.jpg\" alt=\"6-Big-Tabaco\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346697\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Pertschuk is director of Grassroots Change, and former President and Executive Director of Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights in Berkeley, California (1986–2007), during which time he ran a grassroots campaign to ban smoking on all commercial airline flights in the United States. At a public event in UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall, Pertschuk demonstrates the symmetries between big Tobacco and Big Soda’s political strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346265\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5.jpg\" alt=\"soda5\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Implementing a strategy of saturated advertising (with unprecedented political campaign contributions from the American Beverage Association) and blanketing the city with its message, No on D has bought all of the available ad space in the Ashby BART Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda6.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346266\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda6.jpg\" alt=\"soda6\" width=\"720\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda6.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda6-400x320.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employed by the No on D campaign, and funded by the American Beverage Association California PAC, a team of canvassers approaches BART riders with pamphlets and fliers. Though the canvassers would not engage in conversation, one of them communicated that they had been instructed not to speak with members of the press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda7.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346268\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda7.jpg\" alt=\"soda7\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda7.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda7-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Skidmore, sales manager at J&J Vending Inc., among the company’s warehoused inventory of beverages. “I just don’t think the tax is going to solve childhood diabetes…,” she said. “If I believed the tax was going to go to help the children, I’d be all about it. The truth of the matter is that it’ll just go to the consumer anyway, just like any other tax does. They don’t have a plan for the tax. It’s a tax without education.” Skidmore, whose grandfather and father started the business in 1978 out of their garage, is also a board member of the California Automatic Vending Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda8.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346270\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda8.jpg\" alt=\"soda8\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda8.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda8-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teamsters Local 70’s Recording Secretary Ruben Bustillos (left), and Business Agent Lou Marchetti (right), have aligned themselves with the soda companies on this issue. They stress that the tax is a regressive one, and that government continues to hand out tax breaks to the rich, while taxing the average working person. Under the Teamsters Local 70 contract, entry-level positions at the beverage companies pay between $15 and $20/hour — some reaching $25 within the first year. These jobs provide pensions and health and welfare plans. Marchetti is concerned that the public doesn’t realize that good jobs are provided by the industry for young adults who can’t afford college, with some companies even offering tuition reimbursement programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/soda-truck.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/soda-truck.jpg\" alt=\"soda truck\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346699\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/soda-truck.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/soda-truck-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Maze, 29, is a delivery driver employed by 7Up, and under Teamsters Local No.70 contract. He worries everyday about the toll the tax will take on his work hours. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/11-Darryl-Moore.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/11-Darryl-Moore.jpg\" alt=\"11-Darryl-Moore\" width=\"556\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346717\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/11-Darryl-Moore.jpg 556w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/11-Darryl-Moore-400x517.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Darryl Moore, who represents City Council District 2 in the City of Berkeley. “I suffer from type two diabetes, as have my uncles and cousins. I’ve had aunts who’ve lost limbs and an uncle who went blind because of diabetes. So, this soda tax is very important to me… We know the taxes we have on tobacco have led to a decrease in tobacco smoking. I’m hoping, and think, that it will lead to a reduction in the consumption of sugar sweetened beverages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/13-Dr.-Lynch.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/13-Dr.-Lynch.jpg\" alt=\"13-Dr.-Lynch\" width=\"720\" height=\"580\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346719\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/13-Dr.-Lynch.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/13-Dr.-Lynch-400x322.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Marty Lynch, Director of Lifelong Medical Center, has been with the center since 1980. Since then, he’s seen a tremendous increase in the amount of children’s diabetes in the population. “We’re a healthcare provider, especially for low-income people. We’re all in favor [of the tax] because we see the kids with diabetes. We see the elder people with health problems. Getting people to eat healthier is a good thing, and soda is not high on my list of healthy foods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda9.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346269\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda9.jpg\" alt=\"soda9\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda9.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda9-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Executive director of the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California, and Berkeley vs. Big Soda volunteer, Xavier Morales stands outside his Berkeley home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/14-Sokas-office.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/14-Sokas-office.jpg\" alt=\"14-Sokas-office\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346722\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/14-Sokas-office.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/14-Sokas-office-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sara Soka, campaign manager for Berkeley vs. Big Soda, works late at the Yes campaign’s headquarters in downtown Berkeley, with a small team of telephone canvassers volunteering below her makeshift second-story office. Soka, who holds a master’s degree in population health sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said: “Unless we take action, 40 percent of all kids in the U.S. will get Type II diabetes in their lifetime. The rate is even higher for African-American and Latino kids, at one in two. Science shows soda and other sugary drinks are clearly tied to an increased risk of diabetes, while the beverage industry spends billions marketing to kids, especially in communities of color. I want fewer families to have to watch a loved one suffer from this disease, or lose someone early due to its complications. As a nation, we have to stand up. We’ll do it one city at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleyside.com\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/lh_3b\" target=\"_blank\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside's Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Nov. 4, Berkeley voters will show where they stand on Measure D, the so-called soda tax. The proposed tax on sugary beverages has been one of the most hotly debated Berkeley issues in the city’s history, and certainly one that has brought in record levels of campaign expenditures. The No on Measure D lobby has spent $2.3 million in an attempt to defeat the tax, according to campaign finance reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has contributed $532,071 in support of the soda tax. (That includes $265,235 for network advertising for commercials during the World Series, $96,836 for cable ads, and a cash donation of $170,000 to the Yes on Measure D effort.) UC Berkeley’s Robert Reich has been vocal in his views — writing a blog post about the issue titled “In its battle with Big Soda, Berkeley may once again make history,” and shooting a video on the same subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gael McKeon\u003c/strong> has spent several weeks documenting both sides of the campaign with his camera to create this photo essay of a pivotal moment in Berkeley’s political history, one that may set the stage for change nationwide. (The No on D campaign declined to participate in this story.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346260\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda2.jpg\" alt=\"soda2\" width=\"720\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda2.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda2-400x285.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kad Smith, administrative assistant to the Education and Engagement Program at the Ecology Center, and volunteer for Berkeley vs. Big Soda, talks to a Berkeley resident and registered voter about Measure D: “I was raised in District 2 by my grandmother, who is diabetic. I’ve seen the impact the disease has had on her quality of life, and it’s a part of the reason I got involved in Food Justice work and The Measure D campaign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346263\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda3.jpg\" alt=\"soda3\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda3.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda3-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lolis Ramirez, Ali Archer, Michael Guadamuz and Maria Tellez (left to right) spend a Saturday morning preparing materials for volunteers who will be canvassing for the Berkeley vs. Big Soda campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda4.jpg\" alt=\"soda4\" width=\"720\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda4.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda4-400x320.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An opponent of the soda tax, Roy Mowrouzi, stands inside Café Rio, his restaurant at 2148 Center St. in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco.jpg\" alt=\"6-Big-Tabaco\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346697\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Pertschuk is director of Grassroots Change, and former President and Executive Director of Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights in Berkeley, California (1986–2007), during which time he ran a grassroots campaign to ban smoking on all commercial airline flights in the United States. At a public event in UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall, Pertschuk demonstrates the symmetries between big Tobacco and Big Soda’s political strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346265\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5.jpg\" alt=\"soda5\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Implementing a strategy of saturated advertising (with unprecedented political campaign contributions from the American Beverage Association) and blanketing the city with its message, No on D has bought all of the available ad space in the Ashby BART Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda6.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346266\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda6.jpg\" alt=\"soda6\" width=\"720\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda6.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda6-400x320.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employed by the No on D campaign, and funded by the American Beverage Association California PAC, a team of canvassers approaches BART riders with pamphlets and fliers. Though the canvassers would not engage in conversation, one of them communicated that they had been instructed not to speak with members of the press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda7.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346268\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda7.jpg\" alt=\"soda7\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda7.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda7-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Skidmore, sales manager at J&J Vending Inc., among the company’s warehoused inventory of beverages. “I just don’t think the tax is going to solve childhood diabetes…,” she said. “If I believed the tax was going to go to help the children, I’d be all about it. The truth of the matter is that it’ll just go to the consumer anyway, just like any other tax does. They don’t have a plan for the tax. It’s a tax without education.” Skidmore, whose grandfather and father started the business in 1978 out of their garage, is also a board member of the California Automatic Vending Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda8.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346270\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda8.jpg\" alt=\"soda8\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda8.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda8-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teamsters Local 70’s Recording Secretary Ruben Bustillos (left), and Business Agent Lou Marchetti (right), have aligned themselves with the soda companies on this issue. They stress that the tax is a regressive one, and that government continues to hand out tax breaks to the rich, while taxing the average working person. Under the Teamsters Local 70 contract, entry-level positions at the beverage companies pay between $15 and $20/hour — some reaching $25 within the first year. These jobs provide pensions and health and welfare plans. Marchetti is concerned that the public doesn’t realize that good jobs are provided by the industry for young adults who can’t afford college, with some companies even offering tuition reimbursement programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/soda-truck.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/soda-truck.jpg\" alt=\"soda truck\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346699\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/soda-truck.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/soda-truck-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Maze, 29, is a delivery driver employed by 7Up, and under Teamsters Local No.70 contract. He worries everyday about the toll the tax will take on his work hours. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/11-Darryl-Moore.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/11-Darryl-Moore.jpg\" alt=\"11-Darryl-Moore\" width=\"556\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346717\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/11-Darryl-Moore.jpg 556w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/11-Darryl-Moore-400x517.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Darryl Moore, who represents City Council District 2 in the City of Berkeley. “I suffer from type two diabetes, as have my uncles and cousins. I’ve had aunts who’ve lost limbs and an uncle who went blind because of diabetes. So, this soda tax is very important to me… We know the taxes we have on tobacco have led to a decrease in tobacco smoking. I’m hoping, and think, that it will lead to a reduction in the consumption of sugar sweetened beverages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/13-Dr.-Lynch.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/13-Dr.-Lynch.jpg\" alt=\"13-Dr.-Lynch\" width=\"720\" height=\"580\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346719\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/13-Dr.-Lynch.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/13-Dr.-Lynch-400x322.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Marty Lynch, Director of Lifelong Medical Center, has been with the center since 1980. Since then, he’s seen a tremendous increase in the amount of children’s diabetes in the population. “We’re a healthcare provider, especially for low-income people. We’re all in favor [of the tax] because we see the kids with diabetes. We see the elder people with health problems. Getting people to eat healthier is a good thing, and soda is not high on my list of healthy foods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda9.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346269\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda9.jpg\" alt=\"soda9\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda9.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda9-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Executive director of the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California, and Berkeley vs. Big Soda volunteer, Xavier Morales stands outside his Berkeley home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/14-Sokas-office.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/14-Sokas-office.jpg\" alt=\"14-Sokas-office\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346722\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/14-Sokas-office.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/14-Sokas-office-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sara Soka, campaign manager for Berkeley vs. Big Soda, works late at the Yes campaign’s headquarters in downtown Berkeley, with a small team of telephone canvassers volunteering below her makeshift second-story office. Soka, who holds a master’s degree in population health sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said: “Unless we take action, 40 percent of all kids in the U.S. will get Type II diabetes in their lifetime. The rate is even higher for African-American and Latino kids, at one in two. Science shows soda and other sugary drinks are clearly tied to an increased risk of diabetes, while the beverage industry spends billions marketing to kids, especially in communities of color. I want fewer families to have to watch a loved one suffer from this disease, or lose someone early due to its complications. As a nation, we have to stand up. We’ll do it one city at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>What are these structures popping up along the sidewalks of Berkeley? Big birdhouses? Doll houses? Or are they homes small enough to actually be affordable in this crazy real estate market? Nope. None of the above. They are actually part of a worldwide phenomenon called Little Free Libraries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley now has over 20 of these charming mini-libraries that have become neighborhood meeting spots for book lovers of all ages. The idea is simple: Take a book, return a book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345736\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345736\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1.jpeg\" alt=\"A Little Free Library in Berkeley, on Yolo Avenue near Milvia, one of at least 22 in the city. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1.jpeg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1-400x400.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1-128x128.jpeg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1-75x75.jpeg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Little Free Library in Berkeley, on Yolo Avenue near Milvia, one of at least 22 in the city. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It all started in 2009 in Wisconsin when Todd Bol built a small replica of a one-room schoolhouse to honor his mother, who had been a teacher. It was set on a post outside his home and filled with books that were free to passers-by, who then returned them or brought other books to share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea grew, and Bol partnered with Rick Brooks soon after to launch the \u003ca href=\"http://littlefreelibrary.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Little Free Library nonprofit\u003c/a>. An early goal was to build more little libraries than Andrew Carnegie’s 2,509 real libraries constructed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. That number was easily surpassed. There are more than 18,000 Little Libraries officially registered on a world map on \u003ca href=\"http://littlefreelibrary.org/\" target=\"_blank\">the group’s website\u003c/a>, where you can zoom in on your neighborhood to see where the closest one to you might be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The website also has an assortment of different makes and models of libraries you can order but, this being Berkeley, we are lucky to have lots of interesting and unusual designs to house books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345737\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library3.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345737\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library3.jpeg\" alt=\"This library is made from an old wine box and is on Sonoma Avenue near Neilson. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library3.jpeg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library3-400x225.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This library is made from an old wine box and is on Sonoma Avenue near Neilson Street. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Who can resist the library with a living roof that is near several community gardens on Santa Fe Avenue? Or the tall, thin, three-shelved box lit up with a solar panel on The Arlington? Or the earliest Little Library in town up on Santa Barbara near Marin (registered #1449), with the small notebook to sign out your books? Or the one on Sonoma near Neilson that is made from a wooden wine crate? Each library has its charms — and its steward, as the owners and caretakers of Little Libraries are called.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the sweetest in town is in the front yard of Linda Davis on Parker Street. Complete with a miniature banner on top that announces a new poem of the day inside and a homemade curtain that decorates the front window, this library has been “a real neighborhood project”, says Davis. The dedication ceremony in November 2013 included tea, cookies and lots of folks from the block who pitched in with the construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Children’s books are the hardest to keep stocked in the library,” said Davis. “They just fly out the door!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345739\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library4.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345739\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library4.jpeg\" alt=\"This library is on Francisco Street, about a block up from San Pablo Avenue. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library4.jpeg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library4-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This library is on Francisco Street, about a block up from San Pablo Avenue. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caring for her library has not been without its difficulties and heartbreak, however, as the Little Library has had a couple of thefts of the entire contents. Davis’ neighbors, Barbara Shayesteh and Chris Witt, speculate that someone was trying to resell the books to a secondhand store. Hoping to alert stores and potential buyers, each book is now stamped with red ink on the inside cover: “Always a gift; Never for sale, This book is from a Little Free Library.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So grab a book you no longer need and head out for a walk to your nearest Little Free Library to see if there’s something there you might want to borrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I just noticed a brand-new Little Library last week on Walnut Street near Live Oak Park that is registered as #18,153. That’s quite a success story that all started with six simple words: “Take a book, return a book.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345742\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 690px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library-5.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345742\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library-5.jpeg\" alt=\"This library, with a solar collector for the lights inside, is on The Arlington in Berkeley just before you reach Kensington. 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The library owner/steward was the late Vera Bomse (she died in February but loved her library!). The house has since been sold but the library remains. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library7.jpeg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library7-400x298.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This library is on Eunice Street near Arch. The library owner/steward was the late Vera Bomse (she died in February but loved her library!). The house has since been sold but the library remains. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library8.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345745\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library8.jpeg\" alt=\"This library is on Shattuck Avenue where Walnut Street ends, and belongs to the author, Colleen Neff. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>What are these structures popping up along the sidewalks of Berkeley? Big birdhouses? Doll houses? Or are they homes small enough to actually be affordable in this crazy real estate market? Nope. None of the above. They are actually part of a worldwide phenomenon called Little Free Libraries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley now has over 20 of these charming mini-libraries that have become neighborhood meeting spots for book lovers of all ages. The idea is simple: Take a book, return a book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345736\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345736\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1.jpeg\" alt=\"A Little Free Library in Berkeley, on Yolo Avenue near Milvia, one of at least 22 in the city. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1.jpeg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1-400x400.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1-128x128.jpeg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1-75x75.jpeg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Little Free Library in Berkeley, on Yolo Avenue near Milvia, one of at least 22 in the city. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It all started in 2009 in Wisconsin when Todd Bol built a small replica of a one-room schoolhouse to honor his mother, who had been a teacher. It was set on a post outside his home and filled with books that were free to passers-by, who then returned them or brought other books to share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea grew, and Bol partnered with Rick Brooks soon after to launch the \u003ca href=\"http://littlefreelibrary.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Little Free Library nonprofit\u003c/a>. An early goal was to build more little libraries than Andrew Carnegie’s 2,509 real libraries constructed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. That number was easily surpassed. There are more than 18,000 Little Libraries officially registered on a world map on \u003ca href=\"http://littlefreelibrary.org/\" target=\"_blank\">the group’s website\u003c/a>, where you can zoom in on your neighborhood to see where the closest one to you might be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The website also has an assortment of different makes and models of libraries you can order but, this being Berkeley, we are lucky to have lots of interesting and unusual designs to house books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345737\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library3.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345737\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library3.jpeg\" alt=\"This library is made from an old wine box and is on Sonoma Avenue near Neilson. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library3.jpeg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library3-400x225.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This library is made from an old wine box and is on Sonoma Avenue near Neilson Street. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Who can resist the library with a living roof that is near several community gardens on Santa Fe Avenue? Or the tall, thin, three-shelved box lit up with a solar panel on The Arlington? Or the earliest Little Library in town up on Santa Barbara near Marin (registered #1449), with the small notebook to sign out your books? Or the one on Sonoma near Neilson that is made from a wooden wine crate? Each library has its charms — and its steward, as the owners and caretakers of Little Libraries are called.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the sweetest in town is in the front yard of Linda Davis on Parker Street. Complete with a miniature banner on top that announces a new poem of the day inside and a homemade curtain that decorates the front window, this library has been “a real neighborhood project”, says Davis. The dedication ceremony in November 2013 included tea, cookies and lots of folks from the block who pitched in with the construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Children’s books are the hardest to keep stocked in the library,” said Davis. “They just fly out the door!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345739\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library4.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345739\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library4.jpeg\" alt=\"This library is on Francisco Street, about a block up from San Pablo Avenue. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library4.jpeg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library4-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This library is on Francisco Street, about a block up from San Pablo Avenue. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caring for her library has not been without its difficulties and heartbreak, however, as the Little Library has had a couple of thefts of the entire contents. Davis’ neighbors, Barbara Shayesteh and Chris Witt, speculate that someone was trying to resell the books to a secondhand store. Hoping to alert stores and potential buyers, each book is now stamped with red ink on the inside cover: “Always a gift; Never for sale, This book is from a Little Free Library.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So grab a book you no longer need and head out for a walk to your nearest Little Free Library to see if there’s something there you might want to borrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I just noticed a brand-new Little Library last week on Walnut Street near Live Oak Park that is registered as #18,153. That’s quite a success story that all started with six simple words: “Take a book, return a book.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345742\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 690px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library-5.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345742\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library-5.jpeg\" alt=\"This library, with a solar collector for the lights inside, is on The Arlington in Berkeley just before you reach Kensington. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"690\" height=\"1028\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library-5.jpeg 690w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library-5-400x595.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This library, with a solar collector for the lights inside, is on The Arlington in Berkeley just before you reach Kensington. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library6.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345743\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library6.jpeg\" alt=\"This library, with its little notepad and pencil, is the first Little Library Neff saw in Berkeley years ago. It is on the corner of Marin and Santa Barbara avenues. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library6.jpeg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library6-400x276.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This library, with its little notepad and pencil, is the first Little Library Neff saw in Berkeley years ago. It is on the corner of Marin and Santa Barbara avenues. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library7.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345744\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library7.jpeg\" alt=\"This library is on Eunice Avenue near Arch. The library owner/steward was the late Vera Bomse (she died in February but loved her library!). The house has since been sold but the library remains. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library7.jpeg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library7-400x298.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This library is on Eunice Street near Arch. The library owner/steward was the late Vera Bomse (she died in February but loved her library!). The house has since been sold but the library remains. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library8.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345745\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library8.jpeg\" alt=\"This library is on Shattuck Avenue where Walnut Street ends, and belongs to the author, Colleen Neff. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library8.jpeg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library8-400x400.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library8-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library8-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library8-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library8-128x128.jpeg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library8-75x75.jpeg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This library is on Shattuck Avenue where Walnut Street ends, and belongs to the author, Colleen Neff. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Berkeley city attorney has informed the City Council he believes someone has purchased the downtown U.S. post office at 2000 Allston Way, and that it is time for Berkeley to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service to stop the sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A letter to that effect was leaked to the Berkeley Daily Planet, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2014-10-17/article/42592?headline=Sale-of-Berkeley-Post-Office-Rumored-to-Be-in-Escrow-City-Initiates-Lawsuit--\" target=\"_blank\">published it\u003c/a> on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zach Cowan, Berkeley’s city attorney, told Berkeleyside he could not share the letter he sent to the council since it was privileged attorney-client communication. 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"content": "\u003cp>Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who fought unsuccessfully to establish a cap on the size of soda portions sold in that city, has donated $83,000 to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/yes-on-measure-d/\" target=\"_blank\">Yes on Measure D\u003c/a> campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His contribution – the largest the soda tax advocates have gotten to date – is one of three significant donations made by national groups in recent days, according to Josh Daniels, the campaign's co-chair. The American Heart Association recently gave $23,000 and the Center for Science in the Public Interest kicked in $15,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The national donations “recognize that this has become a national issue and Berkeley is in the spotlight because of it,” said Daniels. “In the last couple of weeks we have not only seen the press coverage of what the beverage association has been spending, but also the fact that we continue to be very successful. That’s why these advocates, including Bloomberg, see us as this tipping point. We will be the first city in the country to do this and they want to make sure that our victory is solidified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Yes on Measure D campaign\u003c/a> has raised about $257,585, according to campaign filings. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/no-on-measure-d/\" target=\"_blank\">No on Measure D campaign\u003c/a> has spent $1.675 million to fight a proposed one-cent per ounce soda tax that would be levied on distributors. All of those funds have come from the American Beverage Association California PAC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, Bloomberg proposed a law that would have prevented restaurants, movie theaters, stadiums and arenas in New York City from selling sugary drinks that were larger than 16 ounces. The New York City Board of Health unanimously adopted the law, but the beverage industry immediately challenged the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courts ruled that the law was arbitrary and capricious since it did not ban convenience and other stores from selling large portions of soda and other sugary drinks. In 2014, the New York State Court of Appeals negated the law, saying only legislative bodies, like the New York City Council, and not places like the Health Board, had the power to make laws like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the defeat, Bloomberg has worked on other efforts to curtail soda consumption, including supporting Mexico in its efforts to tax soda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We supported the Mexico Soda Tax and now Measure D because they are good public policies proved to improve children’s health,” Howard Wolfson, an advisor to Michael Bloomberg, said in a prepared statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniels said the Yes on Measure D campaign will use the new national funds to send out mailers, pay staff, and get the word out on the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://noberkeleybeveragetax.com/\" target=\"_blank\">No on Measure D\u003c/a> campaign has used ‘saturation advertising” all over Berkeley to promote its message that the soda tax is unnecessary. They have put ads on the floors, walls, and ticket booths in the North Berkeley and Ashby BART stations, put ads in bus shelters and in local media, including Berkeleyside, The Daily Californian, The Berkeley Times and SF Gate, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the tax have said they think eduction, not government regulation, is the best way to help people reduce their consumption of sugary drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a local, grassroots campaign, but we are grateful for our friends in the larger movement,” said Martin Bourque, executive director of Berkeley’s Ecology Center in a prepared statement. The Ecology Center has given $11,000 in cash and also made many in-kind donations. “We have learned much from our allies who fought Big Soda in Richmond and Mexico. The American Beverage Association is trying to crush all of us who are proactively fighting the diabetes epidemic. But we’re in it for the long haul. Sooner or later, the tide is going to turn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Berkeleyside publishes many articles every day. To see all our stories in chronological order, and read ones you may have missed, check out \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/all-the-news/\" target=\"_blank\">All the News\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Anyone who walked into the Ashby BART station Wednesday night would have been barraged by “No on Measure D” ads. They were plastered on the walls across from the trains, pinned to spaces near the ticket machine, and laid out on the floor of the station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s known as saturation advertising and the No on Measure D campaign is using it across Berkeley to get its message across. There are ads in bus shelters. There are ads on Berkeleyside. There are ads in the Daily Californian and on SFGate. There are campaign signs pinned to posts and stuck in medians around town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Get used to it. Newly filed finance reports show that the No on Measure D campaign has spent $1.675 million so far trying to defeat a 1-cent-per-ounce tax on sugary beverages, which is about $275,000 more than was previously disclosed.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'When one side has more than 10 times as many resources as another, it starts to make a mockery of what our democracy is supposed to be like.'\u003ccite>Daniel Newman\u003cbr>\nPresident, Maplight.org\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The American Beverage Association California PAC, which is funding the campaign, donated $1.4 million but has actually spent more. The campaign is also carrying $947,433 in accrued expenses. The bulk of the money is going to campaign literature, advertising, a website and campaign, and public relations consultants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That comes to $21.43 for each of Berkeley’s 78,144 registered voters. In comparison, the beverage industry is spending $15.50 per registered voter in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Soda-industry-spends-7-7-million-to-defeat-SF-5807057.php\" target=\"_blank\">according to the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>. (The stakes for soda manufacturers are higher in Berkeley, where the measure only needs a simple \"50 percent plus one\" majority to pass; in San Francisco, a two-thirds majority vote is needed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amount of money spent dwarfs previous Berkeley political campaigns, and distorts the electoral process, according to Daniel Newman, the president and co-founder of \u003ca href=\"http://maplight.org/\" target=\"_blank\">MapLight\u003c/a>, a nonpartisan research organization in Berkeley that tracks money in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When one side has more than 10 times as many resources as another, it starts to make a mockery of what our democracy is supposed to be like,” Newman said. “If one side has 10 times more money to send mailers, and pay people to have conversations with voters, it creates distorted conditions for voters to effectively decide on what laws they want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roger Salazar, a spokesman for the No on D campaign, would not directly answer whether the amount of money the beverage industry is spending in Berkeley would turn off voters. He pointed out that the Yes on D campaign is also using seasoned campaign consultants and that all the city officials running for re-election are using their bully pulpit to push the tax. The beverage industry must overcome that, he said. In addition, the Berkeley City Council spent $60,000 to conduct a poll about the proposed 1-cent-tax-per-ounce measure, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve got government sponsorship,” Salazar said. “We are going to be informing voters about the flaws and impacts of this misguided venture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The City Council did spend $60,000 on two polls, but the questions that were posed covered a range of issues, not just the soda tax.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a small portion of the $1.675 million declared recently was actually spent in Berkeley, according to campaign finance documents reviewed by Berkeleyside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dustan Batton, who works for Rodriguez Strategies, the Los Angeles-based consulting firm that is running the Berkeley campaign, paid $622 to stay at the Durant Hotel, according to campaign filings. The campaign has paid Wong Property Management $11,040 for rent and $1,020 to Parking Concepts for parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two print shops were paid for printing campaign literature: Zee Zee Copy and Alliance Graphic got a combined $4,239. The campaign has paid Berkeleyside $9,393 for advertising. It has also taken out ads that cover two full pages in the Daily Californian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the major expenditures, according to campaign filings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10343289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/No-on-D-expenditures.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/No-on-D-expenditures.png\" alt=\"Expenditures by the No on Measure D campaign. 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Many Berkeley residents have been confused by that campaign literature, and have asked Berkeleyside whether the news site has taken a position to oppose Measure D. Berkeleyside does not take editorial positions. The flyer is a production of the No on Measure D campaign. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/10/10/berkeleyside-does-not-endorse-candidates-measures/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more \u003c/a>about Berkeleyside’s position on endorsements.)\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'From our perspective, it’s bad public policy. There are ways you can promote healthy lifestyles. We don’t believe taxing people is the way to do it.'\u003ccite>Roger Salazar,\u003cbr>\nNo on D spokesman\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The proliferation of campaign signs has also been a problem. The city of Berkeley has sent the No on Measure D campaign two letters informing it that its signs are illegally placed in Berkeley. Berkeley’s sign ordinance does not allow campaign signs on wooden utility poles, public sidewalks, median strips, fire hydrants, curbs, or any traffic control fixture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 2 and then again on Oct. 6, Berkeley noted that there were No on Measure D signs on at least six different roundabouts or median strips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The willingness of the beverage industry to pour close to $2 million into the campaign to defeat the proposed soda tax should come as no surprise. The beverage industry has spent $117 million since 2009 to quash or roll back soda taxes, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/us/berkeley-officials-outspent-but-optimistic-in-battle-over-soda-tax.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">according to the New York Times\u003c/a>. The beverage industry has defeated more than 30 initiatives around the United States in those years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, the fight has been funded by political action committees of the American Beverage Association, a trade organization made up of the world’s largest beverage companies and businesses that sell their products. They include the Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, Dr. Pepper-Royal Crown Bottling Co., Canada Dry Bottling Co. of New York, the Can Manufacturers Institute, 7-Eleven Convenience Stores, and Yum! Brands (KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brands include Honest Tea, Snapple, Tropicana, Minute Maid, Aquafina, Mountain Dew, Starbucks coffee drinks, Fuze Tea, Odwalla, Glacéau Vitaminwater, Hawaiian Punch, 7-Up, Coca–Cola and many more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar said the beverage industry wants to help people reduce their sugar consumption, just not through local legislation. 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He pointed out that the Yes on D campaign is also using seasoned campaign consultants and that all the city officials running for re-election are using their bully pulpit to push the tax. The beverage industry must overcome that, he said. In addition, the Berkeley City Council spent $60,000 to conduct a poll about the proposed 1-cent-tax-per-ounce measure, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve got government sponsorship,” Salazar said. “We are going to be informing voters about the flaws and impacts of this misguided venture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The City Council did spend $60,000 on two polls, but the questions that were posed covered a range of issues, not just the soda tax.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a small portion of the $1.675 million declared recently was actually spent in Berkeley, according to campaign finance documents reviewed by Berkeleyside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dustan Batton, who works for Rodriguez Strategies, the Los Angeles-based consulting firm that is running the Berkeley campaign, paid $622 to stay at the Durant Hotel, according to campaign filings. The campaign has paid Wong Property Management $11,040 for rent and $1,020 to Parking Concepts for parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two print shops were paid for printing campaign literature: Zee Zee Copy and Alliance Graphic got a combined $4,239. The campaign has paid Berkeleyside $9,393 for advertising. It has also taken out ads that cover two full pages in the Daily Californian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the major expenditures, according to campaign filings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10343289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/No-on-D-expenditures.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/No-on-D-expenditures.png\" alt=\"Expenditures by the No on Measure D campaign. 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Many Berkeley residents have been confused by that campaign literature, and have asked Berkeleyside whether the news site has taken a position to oppose Measure D. Berkeleyside does not take editorial positions. The flyer is a production of the No on Measure D campaign. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/10/10/berkeleyside-does-not-endorse-candidates-measures/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more \u003c/a>about Berkeleyside’s position on endorsements.)\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'From our perspective, it’s bad public policy. There are ways you can promote healthy lifestyles. We don’t believe taxing people is the way to do it.'\u003ccite>Roger Salazar,\u003cbr>\nNo on D spokesman\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The proliferation of campaign signs has also been a problem. The city of Berkeley has sent the No on Measure D campaign two letters informing it that its signs are illegally placed in Berkeley. Berkeley’s sign ordinance does not allow campaign signs on wooden utility poles, public sidewalks, median strips, fire hydrants, curbs, or any traffic control fixture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 2 and then again on Oct. 6, Berkeley noted that there were No on Measure D signs on at least six different roundabouts or median strips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The willingness of the beverage industry to pour close to $2 million into the campaign to defeat the proposed soda tax should come as no surprise. The beverage industry has spent $117 million since 2009 to quash or roll back soda taxes, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/us/berkeley-officials-outspent-but-optimistic-in-battle-over-soda-tax.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">according to the New York Times\u003c/a>. The beverage industry has defeated more than 30 initiatives around the United States in those years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, the fight has been funded by political action committees of the American Beverage Association, a trade organization made up of the world’s largest beverage companies and businesses that sell their products. They include the Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, Dr. Pepper-Royal Crown Bottling Co., Canada Dry Bottling Co. of New York, the Can Manufacturers Institute, 7-Eleven Convenience Stores, and Yum! Brands (KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brands include Honest Tea, Snapple, Tropicana, Minute Maid, Aquafina, Mountain Dew, Starbucks coffee drinks, Fuze Tea, Odwalla, Glacéau Vitaminwater, Hawaiian Punch, 7-Up, Coca–Cola and many more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar said the beverage industry wants to help people reduce their sugar consumption, just not through local legislation. 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