Oakland Local's top stories - Week of April 24-30

Published on Monday, May 02, 2011
Last updated on 05:02AM, Monday, May 2, 2011
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Did you miss the local news this week? Some heavy things are happening - tragedy and financial woes merit consideration, but the lighter, brighter activities are a welcome relief. Here are our top stories:

  • How do we frame the shooting deaths that happened in Jack London Square on Monday? Do large media outlets, such as the San Francisco Chronicle, misrepresent Oakland? Does racism play a role in the this portrayal of our city? Commentary by Eric K. Arnold seeks to answer these questions.
  • Reporter Ruth Miller shared information about BART’s Earth Day celebration and ticket giveaways. OL readers paid attention (and hopefully won some free rides).
  • Roller derby seems to be all the rage. Miller informed us of the Oakland Outlaws’ schedule and broke down some of the rules of the sport. Fierce chicks are “in!”
  • Meg Bertoni is giving us regular daily updates about events happening in Oakland, and our readers are appreciating it. Stay tuned for summertime fun!
  • Contributing editor Jennifer Inez Ward is still keeping us abreast of Mayor Jean Quan’s activities - the most recent is the 2011-2013 budget proposal. Are you aware of the details, and how they may affect your life?



About

Tehea Robie is a contributing writer to Oakland Local, a novelist and a spoken word artist. She loves genre bending, gender benders and interactive media tools. She was a finalist for the 2005 Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers; she's been published in Rad Dad, Five Fingers Review, Controlled Burn and various sites online. She composes her poems by heart, without writing them down and has been featured at venues all around the Bay, such as the 2009 Nectarena stage at San Francisco Pride, I Am A Man Fundraiser and ShePeoples. Tehea was raised by an exquisite, fierce, working-poor mother. She received her MFA in Writing and Consciousness.