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In this week's 'Ask Mick LaSalle,' the Chronicle movie critic argues that great actors were not what made 'The Godfather' great.

Acting Governor Eleni Kounalakis signed AB 2179 Thursday, extending eviction protections for Californians in rental assistance programs.

Legislative Black Caucus Celebrates Juneteenth Much like the story of Juneteenth, the California Black miners’ experience is largely excluded from texts and research. But one of those stories of servitude was told by the event’s keynote speaker Jonathan Burgess from the California African American Gold Rush Historical Association. Published 12 hours ago ByAntonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media & Post News Staff CA Secretary of State Dr. Shirley Weber and Senator Steven Bradford (D-LA), chair of the Legislative Black Caucus. The California Legislative Bla...

UC Berkeley tells tenants of 112-year-old rent-controlled building they must leave Cal said it will offer $54,000 or more to the occupants of 1921 Walnut St. to leave so it can build a 760-bed student housing project there. 1921 Walnut St. was built in 1909. UC Berkeley wants to tear it down for a student housing complex and is asking the 12 tenants to leave. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel UC Berkeley officials on Tuesday night informed the dozen or so tenants at 1921 Walnut St. that it has decided to go ahead and tear down a 112-year-old rent-controlled building right across from campus in order...

Tess Mayer has taken over as director of the Berkeley Public Library. Photo: Pete Rosos Tess Mayer could not have taken over leadership of the Berkeley Public Library at a more difficult time. Mayer moved from Seattle to Berkeley in late September to take up the helm of an organization with 116 full-time equivalent employees, a $19 million budget funded by taxpayers, five branch locations, 110,000 library cardholders and more than 1.5 million moving parts. (The amount of material circulating.) Yet the new director of library services has had to work in an almost deserted office (at the centra...