Business
New Restaurants: Does Their Workforce Looks Like Oakland?
Posted in Business, Economic Development, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Labor By Post Staff Like a lot of Oaklanders, Professor Kitty Kelly Epstein, likes to…
Council Goes for Local Trash Pickup, Rejects Waste Management
Posted in Business, Community, Economic Development, Labor, Oakland Talks Trash By Ken A. Epstein It was David versus Goliath, a multinational garbage removal…
Oakland City Council Rejects Challenge to Minimum Wage Ballot Measure
Posted in Business, Labor, Responsive Government By Post Staff The Oakland City Council this week turned down a proposal that would…
West Oakland Development Plan Goes to Council
By Ken Epstein The West Oakland Specific Plan, a federally funded effort to develop guidelines for the…
Merchants Say New International Blvd. Buses Will Damage Businesses
Posted in Business, Community, Economic Development, Gentrification, Responsive Government, Transportation Fruitvale District businessmen want to know if Mayor Quan will help them By Post…
Minimum Wage Increase Seeks to Reduce Wage Gap
By Ashley Chambers Business owners and workers in Oakland are debating Councilmember Larry Reid’s proposal to raise…
Small Businesses Protest Bus AC Transit International Blvd. Project
Posted in Business, Community, Economic Development, Gentrification By Ken Epstein Small business owners on International Boulevard held a rally this week calling…
Planning Commission Approves West Oakland Customs Inspection Site
Posted in Army Base Jobs, Business, Community, Economic Development, Oakland Job Programs, Politics By Ken Epstein The city’s Planning Commission this week rejected a…
Port Businesses Dispute Proposal for A’s Stadium on Oakland Waterfront
Posted in Business, Economic Development, Environment, Politics By Ken EpsteinA plan to build a new A’s stadium on the downtown Oakland waterfront…
Planning Commission to Rule on West Oakland Customs Inspection Station
Posted in Business, Community, Economic Development, Environment, Equal Rights/Equity, Health Hearing to Be Held Wednesday, April 2 Ken A. Epstein Reversing its previous position,…