California
Berkeley Mayor Loni Hancock was among 12 demonstrators arrested in a San Francisco protest of the Reagan Administration’s AIDS policies.
March 2, 1988
By the narrowest of margins, Mayor Loni Hancock appeared to retain her job as head of one of the nation’s most liberal cities after a court ruling Thursday that limits the number of absentee ballots that can be counted.
Dec. 14, 1990
Politi-Cal
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March 24, 2010
Exhausted election officials announced the outcome of the nine-day recount of the hotly contested Berkeley mayor’s race: Loni Hancock is still the victor.
Feb. 5, 1991
Politics
A state bill that would have prohibited the confinement of calves and pregnant sows in cramped crates was withdrawn Thursday before facing the Assembly’s Agriculture Committee.
May 2, 2003
Our car’s headlights reflect a blinding white off the falling snow.
Jan. 26, 1993
In a fund-raising spree one campaign official called “obscene,” Mayor Loni Hancock and challenger Fred Weekes spent a combined total of nearly $350,000 in a close battle for Berkeley’s top electoral post.
Feb. 12, 1991
Mayor Loni Hancock was sworn in to the rousing cheers of a standing-room-only crowd before the new City Council quickly turned to affairs of state and the world.
Jan. 11, 1991
Long known as one of America’s most liberal cities, Berkeley is feeling the winds of change, with voters signaling a shift in concerns from filling progressive political agendas to filling potholes and other basic city needs.
Dec. 5, 1990
Berkeley officials are considering deploying drug-sniffing dogs in public parks and imposing curfews for youngsters as old as 18 as part of a new campaign against crack cocaine dealing--a trade that police say has virtually destroyed some neighborhoods.
Sept. 18, 1988