The Berkely Daily Gazette, the Berkeley Barb, and the Berkeley Tribe are all gone, but that doesn't mean that things have quieted down as far as Berkeley news is concerned. There is a new hard copy weekly newspaper that is being reported to be in the final countdown to a launch edition.
The Public Affairs office hadn't sent an e-mail by the weekend, so we have to fall back on only anecdotal substantiation and web links for this column, but oh well such are the current conditions that prevail in the high pressure world of deadline blogging.
We can toss in some extraneous facts, such as "Berkeley against Torture Week" will soon be on the agenda of the Berkeley City Council. Wouldn't it be a great news story if University of Berkeley law professor <a href = click here;John Yoo</a> showed up to speak in favor of torture?
Michael Parenti will be the guest speaker at Moe's Books on June 23, 2010 and we expect to do a column about that event.
We noticed that the Jalopnik DOTS photographer covering "the island that rust forgot" got married this weekend, so we will send him a congratulations e-mail . . . and maybe send another on to his boss asking if they would want me to hop on an AC 51B bus and take some car pix in Alameda while the fellow is gone on his honeymoon.
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