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East Bay woman creates Kamala Harris 'Inauguration Breakfast Boxes' to celebrate VP-elect's Oakland roots KGO Share: OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- With just days until Kamala Harris is sworn in as the 49th Vice President of the United States, one East Bay woman has found a creative way to celebrate the Bay Area native. Lauren McCabe Herpich owns Local Food Adventures, an Oakland food tour business that has had to pivot because of the pandemic. Instead of giving tours she's now making gift baskets, and who better to create one for than Vice President-elect Harris? In honor of the inauguration on We...

Big Gains for Housing, Tenant Power This was a year unlike any other for the East Bay. UC Berkeley’s closure turned the once crowded Southside into a proverbial ghost town. Berkeley and Oakland restaurants, bars and other small businesses suffered mightily from the loss of over 30,000 absent residents—on top of COVID restrictions But both cities moved in a positive political direction in 2020. The Berkeley City Council’s longstanding anti-housing agenda—which I have criticized both in a book and in many articles—was completely transformed. And Oakland continued moving in a progressi...