Christine Schiavo
Local News Editor at INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING PROGRAM
UC Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program local news editor/lecturer. Favorites: Charles Dickens, Bruce Springsteen, the Phillies and 'It's a Wonderful Life.'
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1 week ago |
oaklandnorth.net | Christine Schiavo
A day after outgoing Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell delivered a farewell address, the Oakland Unified School District announced Friday that former Chabot Elementary School Principal Denise Saddler will serve as interim superintendent for the next school year. The shift comes less than a year after the School Board extended Johnson-Trammell’s contract and a month after the board abruptly ended it in a 4-3 closed-session vote.
OUSD names building after slain leader: 'Thank you, Dr. Foster, for giving your life for this city.'
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oaklandnorth.net | Christine Schiavo
The Oakland Unified School District named a building Wednesday in honor of Superintendent Dr. Marcus A. Foster, the district’s first Black leader, who was assassinated in 1973. The new administration building at 1011 Union St., which opened in February, now carries the name of the superintendent who was killed by members of the radical Symbionese Liberation Army in November 1973, just months before the group kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst in Berkeley.
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oaklandnorth.net | Christine Schiavo
Former Congresswoman Barbara Lee officially became the 52nd mayor of Oakland during a swearing in ceremony at City Hall on May 20. Lee, 78, was introduced by a pairing of business and labor — Barbara Leslie, CEO of the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, and Keith Brown, executive secretary-treasurer of the Alameda Labor Council.
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Feb 6, 2025 |
richmondconfidential.org | Christine Schiavo |Daniella Jimenez |Renee Bartlett-Webber |Wen Shao
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Wednesday that his office is investigating the fatal shooting Tuesday by Richmond police at a railroad right-of-way off of Carlson Boulevard. It is not clear how many officers were involved in the shooting, which left one person, who was not armed, dead. Police have not released that person’s identity.
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Feb 4, 2025 |
oaklandnorth.net | Jack Hildebrand |Christine Schiavo
Cava Menzies could feel the warm sun pouring into her bedroom as she sat in silence, eyes closed, legs crossed, engaged in meditation. Menzies, a founding faculty member and music teacher at the Oakland School for the Arts, often draws creative inspiration during morning meditation in her downtown Oakland apartment. But this meditation session in February 2022 brought a revelation.
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