During his spiel at last week’s on-campus conference entitled “What Ails California?”, Berkeley alum and former UC regent Bill Bagley spoke of the golden era in our state assembly, a time when most current undergraduates were probably busy teething or learning to ride a two-wheeler or building a California Mission out of sugar cubes—a time devoid of party lines, term limits, and the special interest groups our state legislators have become so codependent on.

A time, presumably, when the public’s dime sufficed to read more »

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What’s that? You were born ready? Well, good because the university has just started The Berkeley Blog–subtitled “Provocative Thinking from UC Berkeley”–which we have to admit doesn’t look very blog-like just yet. It looks a little more like an “online forum.” But hey, we don’t want to get into semantics or the usefulness of starting a “blog” just to say you have one. (You know what we mean … )

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