• The City of Oakland has become the first in the state to ban criminal background checks for rental housing. It's called the Fair Chance Housing Ordinance, but real estate attorneys believe it will face stiff challenges in court. [ABC 7]
  • The driver who struck and killed a woman who was standing outside her car after a collision on Highway 101 in San Mateo last weekend has been charged with DUI and manslaughter. 32-year-old Ramon Hernandez of Redwood City is believed to have been impaired when he struck and killed 50-year-old Ivania Torres just before 2 a.m. on Sunday. [CBS SF]
  • Former Wells Fargo Chairman and CEO John Stumpf has agreed to pay a fine of $17.5 million and will be banned from life from working in the banking industry. The punishments, part of a settlement with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, were among several announced for former senior executives as the bank related to the 2016 fake-account scandal. [SF Business Times]
  • Even though she was attending a state dinner in Israel today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is closely controlling her impeachment managers from afar. [New York Times]
  • Following Mayor Breed's endorsement of Bloomberg, Assemblyman David Chiu has endorsed Elizabeth Warren. [Chronicle]
  • New bills introduced by a Republican state senator seek to exempt freelance writers and newspaper carriers from the new AB5 gig-worker law. [CBS SF]
  • There are four potential bidders for the TransAmerica Pyramid and several adjacent buildings, which went on the market in August. [SF Business Times]
  • BART is moving forward in its project to install new glass canopies over all its station entrances along Market Street in San Francisco. [KRON4]
  • Researchers at UCSF are at work on a potential diagnostic for the Wuhan coronavirus. [SF Business Times]
  • Ayesha Curry is launching a lifestyle magazine. [Eater]

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