On Wednesday, Oakland native Kamala Harris will be sworn in as America’s first female vice president, and her longtime friend from Oakland will be there,.
East Bay woman creates Kamala Harris Inauguration Breakfast Boxes to celebrate VP-elect s Oakland roots
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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 Wednesday, Herpich is selling Inauguration Breakfast Boxes that includes several local East Bay food items with ties to Harris.
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 progressive direction.
Here’s our review of the 2020 politics for both cities.