Jul 13
Taxpayers spent $3,740 for Peralta Community College Chancellor (and former Oakland mayor) Elihu Harris and his wife to attend Barack Obama’s inauguration. They also covered over $4,000 in personal expenses that Trustee Marcie Hodge racked up on a district credit card before she was asked to repay the money. Through public records requests, my colleagues Matt Krupnick and Thomas Peele uncovered these spending practices at the four-college district — the destination for many Oakland public high
