Student Journalism
Covenant House is a national network of shelters for homeless youth. Every year, the Oakland branch shelter holds a fundraiser, usually in the form of a silent auction. But when the time came for this year’s fundraiser, the kids at the shelter wanted to do something new, something different; to...
Today, the California Senate unanimously apporoved legislation to ensure that charter schools adhere to state law protecting free speech rights of all students.
In 2006, Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) passed legislation that prohibits censorship of student press by administrators and...
Hana Baba interviewed Director Ben Frymer about this year's "news that didn't make the news."
This week, I’m filing a profile piece about Tania Guevara, a Berkeley resident who fled El Salvador in the late 1970s. Guevara is throwing several events to raise money for impoverished villagers in her home region. The farmers will use the money to buy rice, beans, and corn, and to create...
Yesterday I had the rare opportunity of crawling beneath a public housing project in East Oakland. After months of environmental reviews, bidding, and bureacratic due diligence, the Oakland Housing Authority is beginning to spend its stimulus money on public housing improvement projects. A Housing...
Since my entry on October 1, I’ve managed to dig up a lot more information about the Triangle Court re-roofing project. Three degrees of separation: a classmate put me in touch with a fair housing advocate, who put me in touch with a local newspaper publisher, who put me in touch with two...
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