Business
An Oakland pop-up cafe seeks to utilize a recipe-for-success to brighten futures for local girls and young women.
OpenOakland co-founder Steve “Spike” Spiker works to increase civic involvement and local government data transparency through technology.
The first things I had to learn were Jack o’ lantern, trick or treat, and you better get a costume! A week ago, I started seeing people on the bus, in grocery stores and other places, with pumpkins, real or plastic. To me, the pumpkin is a vegetable that can be cooked with Sudanese peanut butter, or with meat, to become pumpkin stew. In some villages the dry pumpkin is cut in the shape of a cup that is used…
As campaigns to raise minimum wages across California—and the country—press on, Oakland’s initiative is proving to be a divisive issue among nonprofits and private business.
The grand opening of the first cat café in the country drew dozens of cat lovers and spectators to Downtown Oakland on Saturday—or rather, Caturday.
Cancer survivors, their families and caregivers were honored recently at “By Your Side,” an event held in a garden near Kaiser Permanente’s Broadway Medical Offices in Oakland.
Thousands of Bay Area residents who were told they were about to lose their state health care coverage will now be able to keep their insurance plans.
After 18 months of negotiations, pediatric resident physicians and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland reached an agreement last week on a new contract that doesn’t include a salary increase, but raises the residents’ educational allowance for such things as books, computers and supplies.
The Authentic Bagel Company was one of 12 Oakland-bred businesses honored last week at a party for a special program that helps entrepreneurs gather zero-interest startup funds through online crowd-funding. Other entrepreneurs at the party have founded businesses that provide art and gallery space, small-batch kombucha, handmade corn chips, vintage clothes and ethically sourced chocolate.