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Dave Margulius has launched an ambitious new project, Watch Berkeley, which is curated excerpts from the video record of Berkeley City Council meetings. If you want first-hand information about what's going on in Berkeley, this promises to be an invaluable news source.

Click here to take a look at his introduction.

And here's an excellent example of what you can see, Councilmember Ben Bartlett's proposal that Berkeley try a novel "microbond" financing scheme: