A leptospirosis outbreak at Berkeley's Harrison Street encampment—a tropical disease spread by rats—festered for over a year while courts blocked cleanup efforts, with the city finally gaining clearance in April 2026 after 16 months of legal obstruction. Meanwhile, Berkeley professor Robert Reich has come under fire for hypocrisy as the public face of California's proposed wealth tax, and newly surfaced archival footage reveals UC Regents knowingly voted against faculty data when they banned the SAT in 2020.
Leptospirosis, common in underdeveloped countries, spread through Berkeley's Harrison encampment—and courts continued to prevent cleanup efforts.
Robert Reich earns $13,000/hour to denounce capitalism while blocking affordable housing in his own backyard. Now he's pushing a tech-killing wealth tax.
Archival footage reveals the 2020 board meeting where Regents admitted they were ignoring faculty data to appease one woman.