Restaurants thinking outside the box to stay afloat during pandemic
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Shuttered restaurants and booming alcohol sales, heat-and-eat kits and PPE pop-ups. Bay Area restaurants riding the wave of the pandemic are innovating to survive.
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Local chef’s kinship with Kamala Harris inspires his ‘democracy gumbo’
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Piedmont dad and celebrated chef Robert Dorsey's inauguration day dinner is available from his Oakland catering business.Bay Area
Coliseum could become a drive-thru vaccination site
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Oakland Athletics and public health officials are discussing a plan to use the stadium as a mass-vaccination location.Bay Area
Pandemic creates ‘weird boom time’ for some Bay Area remote workers
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Remote workers typically make more, are less likely to be laid off, and don’t have to risk daily exposure like essential workers, about half of whom are low-wage employees.Bay Area
Rife with infighting, Oakland community college district at risk of losing local control
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In the last two years, three chancellors have left the district, home to four East Bay colleges, after conflicts with board leadership.Bay Area
Oakland educators renew campaign to help immigrant families through COVID crisis
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Donors can pledge or donate at a website created by Oakland educators in April and that aims to galvanize community support for underserved families.commentary
Commentary | Orinda state senator and pandemic expert call for strict lockdown
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It's time for a strict lockdown -- a four-week shelter-in-place that allows only truly essential human interaction -- argue State Sen. Steve Glazer (D-Orinda) and pandemic expert Yaneer Bar-Yam.Around Town
Regional garden clubs host symposium on the role of plants in protecting the Bay
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Tune in on Jan 13 for an inspiring look at tidal marshes and how native plants help to mitigate the challenges facing SF Bay.Bay Area
Chevron agrees to settlement for multiple air-quality violations at Richmond refinery
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Violations that included flaring, odor nuisances, an excess of visible emissions, among others, have been corrected.Bay Area
With 2020 hindsight: Recapping the stories that defined California life
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Raging wildfires, an overdue reckoning with racism -- and coronavirus, of course, detonated our every expectation of 2020.Bay Area
