Oakland
While the purpose of the census is to gauge the size of populations such as the Burmese-American community through a number, even more can be learned in the stories of those people behind the statistics.
One of those refugees from Burma is Ashin Kovida. Here, he is just a young man with a warm...
By Lupe Cazares
In the late 60’s and the 70’s Oakland's Chinatown was changing. In fact the U.S. was changing rapidly. In 1965, immigration reform opened the door to new immigration from places like Latin America and Asia. Let’s hear from professor Greg Mark about how that new immigration affected...
The main galleries of the Oakland Museum of California just reopened, and deep in the basement, there's something still very much alive. The California Library of Natural Sounds started with some crickets and a couple of frogs, and has expanded into a sound collection that's hard to contain inside...
If there were ever any doubts that Oakland is a hotbed of activity for the clean energy revolution, they would have been erased at the Clean Power, Healthy Communities conference, which started today and runs until Thursday, February 11. A who's who of local NGOs, municipal, statewide and...
What a difference two days makes- for some local schools.
This past Monday, the California Department of Education released a statewide list of 188 "Persistently Low-Achieving Schools"- a requirement for the State to be eligible for Federal stimulus money meant to revamp the nation's most...
Big political moves are making headlines in today's news. In Sacramento, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is pushing for off-shore oil drilling by saying he doesn't want to rely "on people who hate us" for petroleum. He may get some support from Bay Area drivers, as gas prices have pumped up in the...
After about 1,000 parents, teachers, administrators and politicians gathered to discuss San Francisco Unified School District's projected $113 million deficit, President Barack Obama weighed in on education issues Monday, saying he favors federal rewards for local school districts that fire under-...
Four schools in East Oakland will be offering something new to their student populations - psychological therapy.
The Fruitvale-San Antonio Mental Health Cooperative says it will provide the students with professional help, so the students could avoid a path of drugs, guns, and violence. It's a way...
Connecting the dots: top news stories for Monday, February 22Politicians including California attorney general Jerry Brown are starting to use a new word - bankruptcy - to describe the state of the state's finances...That means more budget cuts are on the way, leading to concern at clinics serving...
People are justifiably concerned about where all the federal stimulus money is going. Much of that money is borrowed, so it's not just our tax dollars at stake -- our children will be paying the interest on these projects for years to come. And the rush to create jobs increases the odds that bad...
Carletta Sue Kay
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