Ruth Alcivar
Ruth Alcivar contributes to Local Profile, focusing on local food stories and community coverage driven by new businesses and services.
She has been writing for the masthead since late 2025.
Restaurant expansions such as Yo! Bowl
Her food coverage includes pieces on local restaurant growth, including the story of Yo! Bowl expanding to Plano after winning over diners in Carrollton.
She concentrates on specific businesses and their decisions to move or expand within nearby cities, framing these changes as part of the evolving local dining landscape.
The focus stays on concrete developments - a restaurant’s success in one community, its expansion into another, and how that shift adds options for people who eat out close to home.
Community facilities like the Frisco recycling center
Alongside food stories, Alcivar has reported on community facilities, such as the opening of a $61 million recycling center in Frisco.
Her coverage highlights the scale of such projects by foregrounding investment figures in the story, underlining how major spending translates into new services available to residents.
By pairing business openings with civic infrastructure pieces, she treats community services as part of the same local ecosystem that includes restaurants and other everyday destinations.
Local business and community focus
Across her work, Alcivar’s through-line is a practical focus on openings, expansions and new facilities that change daily routines for people in the area.
Rather than broad policy or national industry analysis, she keeps to ground-level developments: a restaurant that grows from one city to the next, or a major facility that comes online to handle essential services.
This combination of food and community coverage gives Local Profile readers a clear view of how local businesses and public projects together shape the streets, neighborhoods and services they use every day.
4 more food journalists.
Aaron Guerrero
Aaron Guerrero is head of the digital department at Miami’s Community Newspapers, where he pairs restaurant coverage with community-facing content. He focuses on how Miami-area restaurants evolve, celebrate, and experiment through new concepts, menus, and neighborhood-focused dining experiences. He reports on restaurant openings, such as an Italian food hall at Plaza Coral Gables, new executive lunch menus, and wood-fired Latin steakhouse brunches, explaining what sets each venue apart. He also covers awards, like a Wine Spectator honor for an Italian chophouse, and events that turn dining rooms into social hubs. His bylines extend to features on sports-themed gatherings, civic renamings, local visits to restaurant programs, sponsored community pieces, and official notices. His work is straightforward and descriptive, helping readers and local businesses connect around specific openings, promotions, and dining experiences.
Aarron Fleming
Aarron Fleming reports on how courts, jails and public safety systems work over time. He is a reporter at The Daily Memphian covering public safety, the local court system, suburban news and business developments in North Mississippi. His work follows trials, sentencing, appeals, plea deals and judicial decisions, including major cases tied to Tyre Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also covers jail conditions, inmate deaths, crime data, prosecution units, trafficking, shootings and public-order incidents. His suburban reporting examines cannabis businesses, restaurant openings and how commercial growth affects communities such as Olive Branch. Fleming previously covered education in the same newsroom. He uses clear, unadorned prose to explain legal steps, deadlines, institutional problems and the political, commercial and community effects of public-safety decisions.
Alana Al-Hatlani
Alana Al-Hatlani is a food writer and editor who treats recipes, restaurants, and food features as ways to explore culture, community, and the business of eating. She works on the food team at Southern Living, overseeing and contributing to print recipes and reported features. Her pastry-focused, restaurant-tested perspective comes from time in restaurant and bakery kitchens. She helps plan and write monthly food packages, including “The South’s Most Treasured Desserts,” and wrote “8 Summer Recipes Our Editors Make Every Year.” She also writes recipe tips, ingredient explainers, restaurant guides, and reported stories about workers, owners, and communities. Her subjects include regional specialties, dining scenes, kitchen basics, and food industries. Her work has appeared with OpenTable and Yahoo. She reports on the ground, explains techniques clearly, and connects specific dishes and places to larger stories about food and livelihood.
Alana Edgin
Alana Edgin is a business reporter whose strongest focus is food, restaurants and consumer-facing businesses. She works at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal and has also had work syndicated across AOL and Yahoo News. She covers new openings, closings, expansions and franchise growth, along with retail, health, services, corporate news, data incidents, business support programs and sponsorships. Her reporting includes detailed roundups of new restaurants and businesses, coverage of El Pollo Loco’s opening, and stories on burger trucks, dessert shops, Vietnamese sandwich restaurants and gourmet markets. She also contributes to food and drink reviews, including fall coffee and jerky comparisons. Edgin reports with practical “what, when, where” details, structured comparisons and clear explanations of how offers, partnerships and business changes affect consumers and the local economy.