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- An East Bay (Brentwood) man flies a Confederate flag, angering neighbors, and then appears on camera seeming like a guy who’d fly a Confederate flag. [KRON4]
- San Francisco is planning for a first-of-its-kind law for ‘jitney’ private bus system Chariot. [Ex]
- Architecture writer John King weighs in on the "hub" plan at 1500 Mission, where Goodwill currently resides, and it's an opportunity to meditate on density: "As the city revises plans for this small district and other parts of San Francisco, it isn’t enough to say that density is good as long as we get measurable benefits in return," King writes. [Chron]
- Google's internal startup incubator — for employees who want to spend discretionary free time on their own coding projects — launches Uptime, a “goofy video sharing app.” [The Verge]
- California joins a legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, with State Attorney General Attorney General Xavier Becerra declaring the state would be a plaintiff along with Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, New York, Maryland and Hawaii. [CBS5/AP]
- An East Bay dispatcher talked a couple through delivering a baby. [CBS5]
- Responding to pressure exerted by the American Civil Liberties Union, Color of Change, and the Center for Media Justice, Facebook announced it will clarify its developer policy to prohibit the use of Facebook or Instagram data in surveillance tools like Geofeedia. [TechCrunch]
- The CA sanctuary state measure, revised slightly, is headed to the state senate. [CBS5]
- An 82-year-old, at-risk man who disappeared on Sunday afternoon in Berkeley is still missing. [ABC7]
- Due to the big 'ol Nor'easter winter storm hitting Chicago, New York, and Boston, a ton of flights to and from the East Coast are being canceled today and tomorrow. [CBS5]
