Economy
With a baby boy on her hip, GaQuayla Lagrone arrived in Oakland in 2014 looking for a fresh start. She had served a year and a half in federal prison in San Diego for a nonviolent crime. “I came up here not knowing my left from my right,” she said. Today, Lagrone, 37, is one of four people with similar stories who were chosen as future co-owners of the food truck business Soul On A Roll, which opened Friday with…
More specialty food and beverage companies are starting to cater to a market of consumers with gluten-free dietary restrictions.
California recently passed a law to become the only state in the U.S. legalizing the sale of home-cooked food to the public.
By far the highest rate of growth in hybrid entrepreneurships is among African American/Black women. It is triple that for all businesses over the past five years: 99% compared to 32%, respectively.
Restaurants are set to reopen for indoor dining, but owners are divided between health concerns and business interests
Vegan soul restaurants are thriving and bringing diversity to the Bay Area’s food scene, challenging the misconception that vegan food is boring.
Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 1876 into law on September 10, guaranteeing full-time and part-time employees sick leave in California.
2019 brought a new group of student reporters to Oakland North from across the country and the globe. We covered a city that is always changing, but where tensions about city finances, policing, housing and the fate of the public schools run deep. We also produced three new episodes of our Tales of Two Cities podcast, which covers audio stories from Oakland and Richmond in collaboration with our sister site, Richmond Confidential. Click here to check out all episodes of the Tales of…
The Goodwill’s Greater East Bay headquarters on International Boulevard is a clothing reseller’s dream and a garbage system nightmare. This block-long facility is, despite its size, an inconspicuous treasure trove for resellers sifting for secondhand goods they will leave with by the cartload. The white cinderblock interior has an almost clinical feel: Clothes lie sprawled in plastic carts the size of operating tables, pushed together in a maze that only the regulars know how to navigate. This kind of retail…