SF News Biden Taps UCSF Prof. David Kessler to Lead Vaccine Distribution Effort UCSF professor of pedriatics, epidemiology, and biostatistics, and former FDA head Dr. David Kessler will be President-elect Joe Biden's chief science officer of COVID response in charge of vaccine science.
SF Politics Willie Brown's Chronicle Column Is Ending After 12 Years Former SF mayor Willie Brown will no longer be lending his gossip and opinions to the Chronicle as of next month. The controversial — and many would say highly problematic — "Willie's World" column is coming to an end after 12 years, and it sounds like it was not Willie's choice.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Most of America Wants Trump Convicted BART Police are hiring more unarmed crisis intervention officers, a hacker scraped Parler of all its posts and data before it was taken down, and 70 percent of Americans believe Trump played a role in last week's Capitol siege.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Twitter CEO Hedges on Banning Trump - 'Was This Correct?' Ever-indecisive Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweets some lame crap about not taking pleasure in banning Trump, Newsom mobilizes National Guard troops in Sacramento, and Sutter Health's website crashes as seniors clamor for vaccine appointments.
SF News Pioneering SF Gay Activist Ken Jones Dies at 70 One of San Francisco's longest-serving LGBTQ activists, Ken Jones, lost his battle with bladder cancer this week. He died Wednesday at the age of 70, and his local community of friends is mourning the loss.
SF News Warm, Spring-Like Weekend Ahead as Bay Area Weatherman Warns of Potential January Red Flag Warnings Rain over the first week of the new year has given way to a dry spell with unseasonably warm temps — a false early spring akin to something we saw in the Bay Area in the depths of the drought in 2014.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Thomas Keller Flees Twitter After Series of PR Gaffes, Criticism Over Huge PPP Loans and Trump Ties It's been a rough year, PR-wise, for French Laundry chef and restaurant empire-builder Thomas Keller, and it looks like he's finally decided to abandon Twitter on account of the fact that he can't stop saying things there that piss off large swaths of the American public.
SF News 40-Year-Old Father and 9-Year-Old Son Found Dead in Marina District in Possible Murder-Suicide The San Francisco Police Department is investigating a possible murder-suicide that occurred Wednesday afternoon in the Marina District.
SF News 3.8M Earthquake Rumbles Under East Bay A small but not tiny earthquake centered around Concord rattled much of the East Bay on Thursday just after 11:15 a.m.
SF News Oakland Police Face New Possible Scandal Involving Social Media Accounts, Racist and Sexist Memes The Oakland Police Department has reportedly seized as many as 100 city-owned cellphones from officers in a new potential scandal that shows officers allegedly following and liking social media posts promoting racist and sexist jokes, and pro-Trump conspiracy theories.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Sacramento and Tahoe Partially Reopen Rep. Eric Swalwell will star as prosecutor in Trump's second Senate trial, the CA EDD is now making people prove their identities, and the Sacramento and Tahoe regions are lifting lockdowns and reopening outdoor dining.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Ghost Ship Defendant Derick Almena Gets Plea Deal A Giants owner donated to QAnon congresswoman Lauren Boebert, the Friday Warriors-Suns game has been postponed due to COVID concerns, and more dangerous surf is expected Friday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Launches a Bizarre 'Top 25' That Will Be Updated Quarterly, Kind of Like the Eater 38 It's seemingly been a struggle for the Chronicle food department and restaurant critic Soleil Ho in assuming the albatross of Michael Bauer's Top 100 list ever since Bauer retired and Ho took his place.
SF Politics Trump Is Now the Only President Ever Impeached Twice; Senate Trial Not Likely Before Biden's Inauguration Day As New York Democrat Hakeem Jeffries said, "Donald Trump is a living, breathing impeachable offense. It is what it is."
Arts & Entertainment SF Supervisors Move to Make Diego Rivera Mural a Landmark; SFAI Says 'Please Not Yet' The SF Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to initiate a process to designate the famed Diego Rivera mural at the San Francisco Art Institute's Chestnut Street campus a city landmark, in order to prevent it from being sold and removed.
Business & Tech Airbnb Cancels All D.C. Reservations Ahead of Inauguration Guarding against taking any blame for providing shelter to domestic terrorists, Airbnb announced Wednesday that it would be canceling all reservations at properties owned by Washington D.C. hosts during inauguration week — as well as all reservations through Airbnb-owned HotelTonight.
Business & Tech Facebook Tells Employees to Stop Wearing Company-Branded Apparel, For Their Safety Following the bans on President Trump and "Stop the Steal" content, Facebook is telling its employees not to wear company-branded swag out in public, lest they incur the wrath of Trumpers.
SF News Humpday Headlines: It's Trump Impeachment Day, The Sequel The House is readying a swift second impeachment of President Trump today, the US hit yet another grim record for daily COVID deaths, and calls are growing for mass vaccinations in California without the phased rollout.
SF News Day Around the Bay: City Administrator Steps Down Amid Corruption Probe Naomi Kelly is now the fifth city department head in SF City Hall to resign amid a federal probe, a new lawsuit has been filed challenging Prop 22, and Joe Biden is returning a donation from Barbara Boxer because she's lobbying for the Chinese.
SF Politics Sacramento Braces for Pro-Trump, Anti-Government Mobs At the State Capitol Building in Sacramento, security is being beefed up this week as it is at capitols around the nation as governors and law enforcement brace for a possible replay of what happened last week in Washington.
SF Politics As Possible Outbreak Grows, Bay Area House Reps Call Out Republicans Who Refused to Wear Masks During Capitol Siege The gathering in close quarters of members of Congress on January 6 — in an undisclosed safe room while a pro-Trump mob invaded the Capitol Building — could potentially have been a super-spreader event.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Oakland Standoff Ends Peacefully A 30-year-old SF man was found fatally shot in a car in Contra Costa County, someone projected #TrumpPenceOutNow on the Twitter building last night, and Facebook is finally (!) cracking down on all 'Stop the Steal' content.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Local ICU Capacity Dips to 0.7% Members of Congress may have been exposed to COVID-19 while in tight quarters last week, South Lake Tahoe is dealing with a surge, and Dungeness crab is finally coming to local stores.
SF News Alameda County DA Won't Be Charging BART Cop in Oscar Grant Shooting Three months after Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announced that her office was reopening an investigation into former BART police officer Anthony Pirone and his role in the shooting of Oscar Grant, O'Malley announced there would be no new charges.
Arts & Entertainment Fort Mason Drive-In to Become Satellite Screening Venue for Sundance Film Festival Later This Month In-person screenings, including world premieres, are coming to San Francisco starting January 28 thanks to a partnership between Sundance and the Roxie — and the city's good graces allowing the drive-in to be used.
