Berkeley

Doctors, nurses and therapists employed by LifeLong Medical Care have gone on strike across the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. Workers at the community health network walked off the job, though details on their specific demands have not yet been widely reported. The action affects clinics serving low-income patients in Oakland, Berkeley and surrounding communities.

Berkeley Haas is highlighting Tash, a startup building the infrastructure that lets people invest in trading cards as an asset class. The company is positioning collectible cards alongside stocks and other alternative investments, and the business school coverage frames it as part of a wider wave of startups turning hobbies into investable markets.

Former California Governor Gray Davis, now regarded as an elder statesman, is reviewing his decades in public life as part of a major oral history project at the University of California, Berkeley. The undertaking documents his career, including his time as governor and the 2003 recall that ended it, preserving his account for researchers and the public.