Oakland 'new' Main Library marks 60 years on 14th Street

01/09/11 Sixty years ago, on Jan. 7, 1951, the Oakland Main Library opened its doors to great fanfare. The honorable Earl Warren, governor of California (and a former Oakland resident) proclaimed the library open for business.

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Berkeley Law Think Tanks Merge Into Research Powerhouse

04/29/11 Berkeley Law is merging three critically-acclaimed think tanks into one centralized research unit, the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy. The institute's core research areas will include education; health, economic & family security; immigration; and criminal justice.

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Circus Vargas opens Thursday at Ventura County Fairgrounds

06/21/11 Circus Vargas is in town, but anyone driving on Highway 101 past the Ventura County Fairgrounds on Tuesday evening could have told you that. Less than 24 hours after decamping from Santa Barbara's Earl Warren Showgrounds, two dozen workers, many of them Circus Vargas performers, had raised the traveling show's 55-foot blue big top on the blacktop in Ventura.

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