The Oakland School Board meeting on Jan. 31, 2022 was attended by over 1,800 community members outraged by an Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) plan to close or merge 18 schools over the next two years. The meeting lasted until 3:00 am as the board members heard...
A recent study published in the Current Issues in Tourism surveyed 339 elite athletes and coaches from 20 countries to establish conditions needed for fair and safe snow sports competitions such as the Winter Olympics. Using those criteria, unfair and unsafe...
The COVID pandemic is causing record levels of forced migration from South America into the United States. Before the COVID pandemic, most migrants arriving at the southern border came from Mexico and Central America. Since the pandemic has started, however, more...
Schools are anchors for a community, bringing together whole families, students, teachers, and staff. Because of this, when they are closed, it is a huge disruption in the students’ educational experience as well as in people’s lives throughout the...
In the wake of the recent surge of Omicron cases in Oakland, schools have been a disorganized mess with large numbers of students and staff sick and absent. Fed up with the lack of real safety protections in the schools, such as regular testing, adequate masks and...
