Remember Tom Bates? Easy to villainize the man who steals free newspapers, but if he and two other councilmembers get their way, drivers will be feeding their precious laundry quarters into parking meters until 10 o’clock at night. [Berkeley Daily Planet]

The Wells Fargo Building in downtown Shattuck has been sold to the heirs of the Hills Brother Coffee fortune. Did you know the building is secretly a venerable Berkeley landmark in disguise? [Berkeley Daily Planet]

This year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards go to Nezar AlSayyad (architecture), Karl Ashoka Britto (French and comparative literature), Stefano DellaVigna (economics) and Kaja Silverman (rhetoric and film studies). In the Awards No One Cares About category, the grand prize winner is … [Berkeley News]

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