KGO-TV, September 3, 2009 by Cecilia Vega
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6998171
Zimring says keeping tabs on the highest-risk offenders should be the focus for law enforcement agencies, but as budget cuts take effect, that’s not always being done. “If you had 4,000 or 5,000 high-risk offenders you could do a much better job than if you have 50,000 or a 100,000 sex offenders and it’s one size fits all,” said Zimring.
Berkeleyan, September 3, 2009 by Kathleen Maclay
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/09/03_cyberlawblog.shtml
“No other blog does this,” said Cyberlaw Cases blogger Jason M. Schultz, an assistant clinical professor of law and director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic. “There are blogs that talk about Internet-related cases, but none that rank them to help readers focus on where the significant decisions will emerge.”
USA Today, September 3, 2009 by Tamara Lush
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/employment/2009-09-03-unemployment-benefits-running-out_N.htm
Unemployment benefits play an important part in stabilizing the economy because recipients tend to spend their weekly checks, rather than saving the money or paying down debt. “It’s definitely a valuable component of economic stimulus,” said Alan Auerbach, a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
-National Public Radio, September 2, 2009 by Laura Sydell
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112484311
“[The Authors Guild doesn’t] share the academic values that I think would lead people like me to prefer and want to maximize public access rather than maximize revenues,” she says. Though Google says authors can opt out of making people pay to see their work, Samuelson remains skeptical because some of the fine print in the agreement could be construed differently.
-KQED FM, September 8, 2009 Host Michael Krasny
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R909080900
“The problem is not that Google Books doesn’t offer us some very valuable access to public domain books right now and to books whose right’s holders have agreed to it. My letter doesn’t ask the judge to deny or reject the settlement altogether, but to say, ‘there are still some things that need to be dealt with.’ And so I’m asking him to condition his approval of the settlement.”
-Library Journal, September 10, 2009 by Norman Oder and Josh Hadro
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6695942.html
“Academic authors would, we believe, have insisted on much different terms than the Authors Guild did, especially in respect of pricing of institutional subscriptions, open access, annotation sharing, privacy, and library user rights to print out pages from out-of-print books,” Samuelson wrote.
-Berkeleyan, September 10, 2009 by Carol Ness
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2009/09/10_google-books.shtml
Samuelson has written that the settlement would amount to “a privately negotiated compulsory license designed to monetize millions of orphan works” for the benefit of Google, plus some—but not all—authors and publishers.
Wired, September 2, 2009 by Patrick Thibodeau
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/09/tech-influence-spending-unaffected-by-recession/
“The spending goes up whenever there is a risk of legislation,” said Chris Hoofnagle, director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology…. Over the next year, Hoofnagle expects that Congress will take up bills on security breach notification and behavioral targeting—the display of advertising based on browsing history.
CBS Early Show, September 2, 2009 by Hattie Kauffman
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/02/earlyshow/main5281676.shtml
“They may not have violated their own rules but I think it’s pretty clear that they violated what could be considered good parole practice.”
Nature, September 2009 by Erika Check Hayden
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090831/full/461022a.html
“If you have a company that persists with a lower standard, you can drag the industry down to a lower level,” says lawyer Stephen Maurer of the University of California, Berkeley, who is studying how the industry is developing responsible practices. “Now we have a standards war that is a race to the bottom.”
The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 31, 2009 by Marc Goulden, Angelica Stacy, and Mary Ann Mason
http://chronicle.com/article/Assessment-Denied-the/48233/?sid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en
It is moving in the right direction by including nursing, public health, communications, and emerging, cutting-edge fields such as biotechnology, nanoscience, and race, ethnicity, and postcolonial studies. But the exclusion of other fields that produce large numbers of research doctorates seems insular and retrograde. We urge the NRC and others to consider those issues and to design future assessments that are truly comprehensive and reflective of the diversity of academe.
San Francisco Chronicle, August 30, 2009 by Jared Huffman and Ethan Elkind
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/30/IN7Q19E409.DTL
The real estate collapse has masked the existence of a severe housing shortage in California. While developers have oversupplied single-family detached homes with backyards, buyers looking for a home within walking distance of jobs, services, good schools, parks and public transit have few options in this state…. The primary roadblock to this development is local land-use policies.
The New York Times, August 30, 2009 by Michael Powell
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/nyregion/31judge.html?_r=3&emc=eta1
Judges and lawyers have wondered aloud why more judges do not hold banks to tougher standards. To the extent that judges examine these papers, they find exactly the same errors that Judge Schack does,” said Katherine M. Porter, a visiting professor at the School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and a national expert in consumer credit law. “His rulings are hardly revolutionary; it’s unusual only because we so rarely hold large corporations to the rules.”