October 28th, 2009 10:13pm

More from packed school board meeting

by Extra.Credit

  More than 200 people jammed into Santa Rosa City Council chambers Wednesday night for what Santa Rosa School board members Donna Jeye and Bill Carle called the largest crowd they had ever seen. The tone was civil, there was very little finger pointing and many in the crowd and at the dais took pains to point that out.   In addition to the story that is running on the front page Thursday, here … Read More »
September 23rd, 2009 09:42pm

School Board salutes Eugene Mijares

by Extra.Credit

I did an item on the death of Eugene Mijares last week (click here to read it http://extracredit.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/10779/eugene-mijares-remembered/), but a number of acknowledgements were made at tonight’s meeting for the man who spent a quarter of a decade working with students in Santa Rosa. Board President Donna Jeye offered her condolences to the Mijares family and led the public in a moment of silence. “There is a man who obviously had an … Read More »