SF Politics Ted Cruz's Tweets About Democrats Causing California's Blackouts Come Back to Haunt Him Republicans' memories are painfully short when it comes to anything anyone said longer than a few days ago. But if there's one terrific thing about Twitter, it's that it keeps a record of their nonsense that we can at least throw back in their virtual faces when need be.
SF News Bay Area Epidemiologist Suggests the Last Year of the Pandemic Was Just One Big 'First Wave' Marin County-based epidemiologist Dr. Larry Brilliant, who offered some prescient warnings last April about not letting up the Bay Area's strict lockdowns for fear of subsequent COVID surges, is back with some dour predictions and words of caution.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Pedestrian Killed On I-80 Near Bay Bridge In SF A person who was reportedly walking in the roadway was struck and killed on I-80 eastbound in SF, Berkeley's school district reached a deal to reopen schools in March, and today's the day for that contentious hearing over the Golden Gate Park Ferris wheel.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Police Investigate Visitacion Valley Shooting A new two-day-a-week vaccine site opens at SFO, the Presidio Trust has just inked a deal with a third-party caterer to manage its popular event venues, and Stanford's commencement will be virtual again this year.
SF News 4,500 People Were No-Shows For Vaccines In Santa Clara County During First Week of Levi's Stadium Site Over 4,500 Santa Clara County residents didn't show up for vaccine appointments they made last week, during the first week of Levi's Stadium being operational, prompting calls for the county to set up waitlists and make sure that no vaccine doses go to waste.
SF News Boat Explodes and Sinks In Waters Off Sausalito, Occupant Injured A man put out a distress call Sunday evening when the boat he was on in Richardson Bay, near Sausalito, suffered an explosion.
SF News SF Opens Third Mass-Vaccination Site at Bayview Produce Market, In Partnership With Sutter Health San Francisco is set to be able to vaccinate 10,000 people per day as soon as vaccine supplies catch up, with the city's third mass-vaccination site now open at the SF Market (the wholesale produce market at 901 Rankin Street) in the Bayview.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Plans To Give Restaurant Workers Vaccine Priority; East Bay Grocery Workers Start Getting Vaccinated There has been some confusion over what groups of workers are prioritized under in vaccination Phase 1b, and it turns out that San Francisco is going to move restaurant workers up in the phasing ahead of what the CDC officially recommends.
SF News 25-Story '5M' Office Tower Tops Out in SoMa, Still Has No Tenant The market for office space in SoMa was white hot when the massive 5M project got its approvals six years ago. But now that the 640,000-sf office building at 415 Natoma is nearing completion, it may have a hard time getting filled.
SF News Missing Man Found Dead Inside Guerrero Street Apartment Building A 50-year-old San Francisco man who had been reported missing in early January has been found dead inside his Guerrero Street apartment building, less than a week after family members pressed the SFPD to prioritize the case.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Happy Mardi Gras, Everybody The mass-vaccination site at the Oakland Coliseum opens today for Tiers 1a and 1b, the SF school board has delayed a meeting to discuss the reopening of schools, and it's a chilly and totally abnormal Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
SF Politics Pelosi Announces 9/11-Style Commission to Investigate Capitol Riot; Graham Suggests Harris Could Be Impeached House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday announced the creation of an independent commission to investigate and report on what led to the events of January 6, and what happened when rioters stormed the Capitol that day.
SF News SF Firefighter Talks COVID Fears, and About a Crazy Weekend of Ocean Beach Rescues in August 2020 San Francisco firefighter and paramedic Sam Gebler was featured on the public radio program "This American Life" over the weekend recalling a particularly crazy workday last August — and how COVID has come to color so much of what he and his colleagues have faced on the job over the last year.
SF News Mission Resident Disappears After Paranoid Episode Relating to January 6 Riot in DC, SFPD Investigating There is a strange missing-persons case taking shape in San Francisco, and it remains unclear how 50-year-old Christopher Woitel left his Guerrero Street apartment without being seen on a surveillance camera.
SF News SF Mass-Vaccination Sites at City College and Moscone Center Closed This Week Due to Lack of Vaccine Supply Much like other counties in California over the past two weeks, San Francisco has had to pause its mass-vaccination effort due to supply issues.
SF News Presidents' Day Headlines: Arrest Made In Shooting Near Embarcadero Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick's department has not issued a COVID-related public health citation in seven months, California's test-positivity rate just hit its lowest level since November, and SF's Historic Preservation Commission will consider extending the stay of that Ferris Wheel.
SF News Californians With Underlying Health Risks Can Start Getting Vaccines — at Doctors' Discretion — on March 15 California's Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly announced Friday that millions of younger Californians with disabilities and underlying health conditions that put them at risk for severe COVID infections will become eligible for vaccinations starting March 15.
SF News Daughter of Bay Area Woman Who Was the First Confirmed U.S. COVID Death Wants to Thank Biden For Mention President Biden gave a January speech in which he mentioned Patricia Dowd, the 57-year-old woman from San Jose who was found to be the first confirmed U.S. death from COVID-19 last February. Now, a week after the anniversary of her death, her daughter is speaking out.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Craft Beer Week Kicks Off With Virtual Events, Beer Bundles, and More SF Beer Week has, for this pandemic era, transformed into California Craft Beer Week for this year only, and it's a statewide celebration of great beer from all corners and counties with plenty of stuff you can order and/or pick up in person.
SF News Everyone Over 65 In the Mission, Bernal, and Potrero Can Now Get Drop-In Vaccinations at SF General If you are over 65 and live in the Mission, Bernal Heights, Excelsior, Dogpatch, or Potrero Hill and haven't yet received a COVID vaccine, you can now drop in and get one at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital any day between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.
SF News Muni Now Saying N-Judah and Other Metro Lines Won't Return Until May or Later As of mid-January, the SFMTA was suggesting that the N-Judah might finally be returning to service this month or next. But no. Now it's looking like May.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Low-Key Lunar New Year Celebrations Begin A man got stuck in the closing doors of a BART train at Powell Station and was injured, 25-year-old fitness instructors are apparently calling themselves "healthcare workers" to get COVID vaccines in the South Bay, and a hearing date has been set for SF's lawsuit against its school district.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Feds Announce Huge Meth Bust, Seizing Over 800 Pounds The Port of SF is moving forward with a huge redevelopment project at Piers 30-32, the SF school board rejected a white gay man's appointment to a parent advisory council based on his race, and the FBI just made one of its biggest meth busts in Bay Area history.
Arts & Entertainment SF Will Prioritize Struggling and Legacy Venues for Entertainment Relief Fund — But the Fund Needs Private Donations The SF Board of Supervisors voted this week to establish the San Francisco Music and Entertainment Venue Recovery Fund, as a way to funnel money to struggling music venues and arts institutions that have been shuttered by the pandemic.
SF Politics City Contractor Florence Kong Becomes First to Be Sentenced In Federal Corruption Probe Florence Kong, who did business with SF's Public Works Dept under former director Mohammed Nuru, today became the first figure to be sentenced in the ranging federal corruption investigation that became public early last year.
