SF News Day Around the Bay: Bars and Hair Salons In Some Counties Might See June Reopenings A missing Rohnert Park girl may have run off with her secret adult boyfriend, a fatal shooting in Antioch reportedly stemmed from an argument between roommates, and Apple may have reached a settlement to compensate iPhone owners for slowdowns.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Buh-Bye, Office Cookies: Specialty's Is Closing All 50 Locations Due to coronavirus lockdown and the disappearance of its staple catering business, Specialty's Cafe & Bakery is shutting down permanently as of Tuesday. So get your cookie fix now or never.
SF News Trump Just Claimed He's Been Taking Hydroxychloroquine For Over a Week In a misguided and possibly fictional effort to guard against symptoms "in case" he contracts COVID-19, President Trump just told reporters on Monday that he's been taking the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for about ten days now.
SF News SoCal Flat-Earther Becomes Internet's Enemy After Filming Mask-Wearing Argument at Grocery Store A Southern California woman with a penchant for believing conspiracy theories ill-advisedly video-recorded an argument she had with a grocery store manager about her inalienable right to shop without a face mask.
Business & Tech Uber Lays Off Another 3,000 Workers, Bringing This Round to 6,700 Twelve days after announcing the slashing of 3,700 jobs, Uber says it is laying off another 3,000 workers and closing one of its San Francisco offices entirely.
Business & Tech Fast-Tracked Vaccine From Moderna Shows Promise In Initial Trial The news of a confirmed effective vaccine, while still many months away, has from the start of this pandemic been the awaited panacea for economic recovery. And some very preliminary but promising news about one such vaccine has just arrived, and caused the stock market to bounce.
SF News Bay Area Records Its First Day Without a New COVID Death Since March With seven Bay Area counties besides Solano and Napa reporting COVID-19 data over the weekend, Sunday marked the first day since late March that there were no new deaths confirmed from the virus in the region.
SF News Monday Morning Links: Retail Begins a New Phase In SF, San Mateo, and Marin A shooting in Antioch leaves one dead, the Tesla plant is resuming full production today, and retail businesses in three Bay Area counties are reopening for curbside sales today.
SF News Illegal Church Service In Butte County Exposes 180 People to Coronavirus A resident of Butte County tested positive for COVID-19 on the Monday after they attended a Mother's Day church service with around 180 others, causing alarm bells for rural California counties that are reopening ahead of more urban ones.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Carmel Restaurant Owner Defies Health Orders, Calls Them 'Politics' Two suspects have been arrested for an Outer Mission shootout last month, a Chinese study suggests that outdoor transmissions of the coronavirus are very rare, and a Carmel restaurant owner refuses to keep his business closed and now faces criminal charges.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mikkeller Bar Closes Permanently in the Tenderloin; Inventory for Sale There's another addition to what will likely, sadly be an extensive list of bar and restaurant casualties from the pandemic: seven-year-old Mikkeller Bar.
SF News South Lake Tahoe Prepares to Fine Tourists If They Show Up for Memorial Day Weekend While second homeowners may be allowed to stop through if not entirely welcome in the Tahoe area, tourists are not, and anyone trying to quietly Airbnb their house might face fines as well.
SF Politics Trump Is Already Trying to Lie About the COVID-19 Death Count; Kamala Harris Hopes to Stop Him We've watched as Trump has treated a global pandemic with the same casual dishonesty as he would his own poll numbers, so it should shock no one that the White House is already maneuvering to deflate the American death toll from the coronavirus in order to protect the president's reelection chances.
SF News Muni To Increase Bus Frequency On Eight Lines Starting This Weekend The SFMTA just announced that it will be boosting the frequency of buses on eight of the "core" transit lines currently in operation, in order to increase the ability of passengers to socially distance themselves from each other.
Business & Tech Jack Dorsey Donates $10 Million to Give Laptops to Oakland Schoolkids As part of his ongoing philanthropic effort to distribute $1.5 billion of his own money during the pandemic crisis, Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey announced Friday that he's giving $10 million to the Oakland Unified School District to provide laptops and internet access to schoolchildren.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Nevada Earthquake Felt In Bay Area Oakland is banning weekend parking around Lake Merritt, Sonoma County is reopening more businesses today, and locals in Fort Bragg are divided about wanting tourists wandering through.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Calls Testing 'Overrated' PG&E is appealing some strict probation conditions from a judge, the Stern Grove Festival has been canceled, and Trump has INFURIATINGLY just said in a speech that COVID-19 testing is "overrated" because it makes the U.S.'s numbers go up.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Plastic Partitions, Rubber Gloves and the Hyper-Clinical Near Future of Bars and Restaurant You know how eating in a hospital cafeteria is almost universally an unappetizing and unsettling experience? Well, get ready for the hopefully temporary future of bars and restaurants in California.
Business & Tech Former Google Engineer Fired Over Sexist Memo Drops Lawsuit James Damore, the widely reviled former Google engineer whose 2017 firing became a cause célèbre for conservatives and far-right pundits who hate diversity quotas, has abruptly dropped his lawsuit against the company, possibly because of some quiet settlement.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Coach Steve Kerr Almost Unrecognizable With Beard Golden State Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr has emerged from his isolation to give a shoutout to essential workers in the Bay Area — and he's sporting a daddy beard that might shock you.
SF Politics In Three Short Months, California Goes From $6 Billion Surplus To Asking State Workers to Take 10% Pay Cut Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday laid out some grim financial realities for the state as it faces far less revenue and far higher expenses in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
SF News Berkeley Florist Remains Bitter That It Can't Do Curbside Sales While Whole Foods Sells Flowers Next Door The sense of unfairness among small retail business owners around the Bay Area has been growing as the initial virus panic fades, and after eight weeks in which big-box retail stores and grocers like Walmart and Whole Foods have been allowed to remain open, often selling "non-essential" goods.
SF Politics Lefty O'Doul's Owner Named In City Hall Corruption Probe Enters Plea Deal With Feds Nick Bovis, the local restaurateur who was arrested alongside the former director of Public Works in a federal corruption investigation in January, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges and is cooperating with investigators.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: High-Speed Crash Kills Four In San Jose SF bar owners remain in limbo waiting for "Phase 3," CVS is getting ready to open 1,000 coronavirus testing sites this month, and Marin County will be joining SF and San Mateo County in reopening most retail for curbside sales on Monday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Goats Run Amok Through San Jose Neighborhood The FBI says Chinese hackers are trying to steal coronavirus research from the U.S., Uber is requiring face masks for everyone starting Monday, and a herd of 200 goats got loose last night and ran around a San Jose subdivision.
