Michael Lewis, the financial journalist and author of Moneyball, The Big Short, The Fifth Risk, and the current bestseller The Premonition, has confirmed that his 19-year-old daughter was killed with her boyfriend in a head-on car crash this week. Dixie Lewis, 19, and Ross Schultz, 20, were both pronounced dead at the scene of the Tuesday afternoon collision near Truckee, California. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Schultz was driving.
The teenage daughter of “Moneyball” author Michael Lewis and photographer Tabitha Soren died this week in a head-on vehicle collision on a highway in Truckee, Calif.
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg was not asked to release a public statement on the flareup of violence between Israel and Hamas. Nevertheless, he felt compelled to do so.
So the mayor issued a release on May 18 expressing his strong connection to the Jewish state, as well as his disgust with some of the recent actions of the Netanyahu administration. The headline read, “I do not recognize the Israel I love.”
The essay won Steinberg praise from some fellow progressives but “mixed reactions,” he said, from the Jewish community.
A former local chair of the Sacramento Jewish Community Relations Council, whose wife is a Reform cantor, Steinberg is a self-described “proud Jew” representing a strongly Democratic city that chose Joe Biden over Donald Trump by more than 50 percentage points in nearly every precinct. As mayor, currently in his fifth year in office, he has supported policies to benefit undocumented immigrants and was a vocal critic of the previous president, p
Last year, Ferndale High School held a drive-thru commencement for graduating seniors, as the COVID-19 pandemic forced a shutdown of schools and traditional graduation ceremonies. While schools will be holding ceremonies this year, Ferndale High School did hold its drive-thru once again in the days before its ceremony.
File photo provided by Ferndale Public Schools
Local high schools plan in-person graduation ceremonies
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FERNDALE/BERKLEY The high school seniors in the Ferndale and Berkley school districts will get to have graduation ceremonies this year.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, students and their families and friends weren’t able to gather for graduation last year. With more people becoming vaccinated, both districts will be holding ceremonies in June.