SF Politics Unable to Actually Change the Hospital's Name, SF Supervisors to Pass Resolution 'Condemning' the 'Zuckerberg' Part of SF General "There’s been growing public outrage that this important public health institution was named and the naming rights were sold to the highest bidder and to somebody as controversial as Mr. Zuckerberg and Facebook," says Sup. Gordon Mar.
SF Politics Biden Taps Buttigieg For Transportation Secretary Everybody figured 38-year-old former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg would get a job in a theoretical Biden administration, and of course he has.
SF News Doctor at SF General Who Has Treated Scores of Critically Ill COVID Patients Is First in City to Receive Vaccine After receiving 2,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on Monday, SF General became the first hospital in the city to begin administering it Tuesday morning, with one critical-care doctor who has treated the most severely ill COVID patients being the first to receive a dose.
SF News Attorney for SFPD Officer Charged In Beating Says DA 'Can't Get His Facts Straight' The attorney representing a San Francisco Police officer whom District Attorney Chesa Boudin charged with assault and battery on Monday has shot back with a statement saying her client acted "lawfully" in the 2019 incident in question.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: South Bay Jostled By Pair of Morning Earthquakes A Santa Rita Jail inmate stole a golf cart on his way out of jail to drive to BART, one SF supervisor thinks the Board's holiday recess is "inappropriate" this year, and the Morgan Hill area was shaken by a pair of small earthquakes around 7:15 a.m.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF DA Charges Officer In Fisherman's Wharf Beating DA Chesa Boudin has charged the SFPD officer who allegedly beat a Black man near Fisherman's Wharf last fall, the legal battle between Virgin Hotels and the owner of the hotel rages on, and a man on a scooter was shot while riding through SoMa.
SF Politics Recall Campaign Gains Steam as Gov. Gavin Newsom Finishes Second Year In Office Under Cloud of Criticism By spring 2021, with no signs that daily life will have returned to normal yet amid an ongoing pandemic, Governor Gavin Newsom could be among multiple governors facing recall efforts around the country.
SF News Covidiot Files: Anti-Masker Delivers Megaphone Diatribe About Mask Rule at California Costco, Gets Fist-Bumps "It’s a beautiful day outside and what are we doing, covering up with our masks," he shouts. "We've got to stand up for ourselves!"
SF News San Francisco Adds Over 3,100 New COVID Cases In Two Weeks; Bay Area Total Rises By 39,000 The monotonous parade of numbers can be numbing, but the Bay Area and SF have seen some staggering COVID case metrics in the first two weeks of December that foretell a grim hospital picture before Christmas. And the curve is not flattening yet.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Longtime Cliff House Operators Say Restaurant Is Closing, Park Service Contract Negotiation to Blame The longtime operators of the iconic Cliff House have made a dramatic announcement to the press that the restaurant is closing "permanently" — however it seems more likely that there will be a changing of the guard with the restaurant's management once it manages to be revived, post-pandemic.
SF News Monday Morning Here We Are: The Vaccine Arrives in the Bay Bay Area hospitals are prepping to receive vaccine doses today, protesters gathered outside London Breed's apartment Sunday chanting "People need to eat!", and those new BART stations in the South Bay are basically sitting empty and costing a lot to operate.
SF News San Mateo, Napa, and Solano Counties Likely to Get Stay-at-Home Orders From State Next Week While five Bay Area counties got a head start with shutting down businesses and outdoor dining earlier this week, and Sonoma issued its order effective Saturday, the three remaining holdout counties in the Bay Area are likely get new shutdown orders from the governor next week.
Business & Tech Twitter Acquires Group Video-Chat App Squad, Will Shut It Down This Weekend Squad, an app that allows users to video-chat and screen-share with groups of friends in a more "fun" way than Zoom, has been acquired by Twitter, and the Squad app will have its sunset on Saturday, December 12.
Arts & Entertainment SF Fire Stations Revive 70-Year-Old Tradition: Competing Holiday Decorations The San Francisco Fire Department is doing something this year that it hasn't done since the late 1940s in having firehouses compete to see who creates the best holiday decoration display.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurant Workers to Rally at City Hall In Protest of Stay-At-Home Order In an about-face from April and May, when San Franciscans seemed largely in agreement that lockdown orders were necessary — if economically painful — SF restaurant workers are planning an afternoon rally at City Hall over the latest shutdown.
Business & Tech Uber Wants Its Non-Employee Drivers to Get Early Vaccines Industry trade organizations are lining up to lobby the CDC and states to get their workers high up in the queue of Americans waiting to receive the coronavirus vaccine, and Uber is lining up too.
SF News Suspect Arrested In February Homicide Following Muni Bus Altercation A 38-year-old Piedmont man has been arrested and charged in the homicide of a San Francisco man, following a fight between the two men that began on a Muni bus.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Sonoma County Joins In Stay-At-Home Order Sonoma County is locking back down and closing wineries and outdoor dining after tonight, rain is coming to the Bay Area Saturday and Sunday, and state officials say that the rich and famous won't be cutting the line for the COVID vaccine.
SF News California's New COVID Contact-Alert App Will Only Work If Pretty Much Everyone Downloads and Uses It A contact-tracing "beacon" app that's been in development since the spring is now rolling out for all Californians, but what does it really do and will it really help anyone find out if they've been exposed to the coronavirus?
Arts & Entertainment SantaCon Founder Urging Everyone to Get Drunk at Home Even though it's been "canceled," it's always been kind of an unofficial event, and unofficially there may be drunken, masked Santas out there whether we like it or not — but a founder of the event says it's pointless when the bars are closed and we're in a pandemic so stay home!
SF News San Francisco Hits Record High In COVID Hospitalizations; Bay Area Adds 72 Seriously Ill Patients Overnight The Bay Area saw a single-day jump of COVID hospitalizations of 6.1% on Tuesday, and San Francisco is seeing more seriously ill COVID patients in hospitals at one time than at any other time during this pandemic.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: BART Shares Balboa Park Redesign Plan BART is hosting the final meeting of the year on Balboa Park Station redesign plans, UCSF is prepping to receive the first COVID-19 vaccine doses, and the man swept out to sea in Pacifica on Tuesday is presumed dead.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lake Tahoe Shuts Down to Tourists, Again Newsom says the state will get 642,000 more vaccine doses from Moderna in a few weeks, three South Bay hospitals are now out of ICU beds, and Napa and Sonoma wineries remain open for tastings.
Business & Tech FTC and States Join Forces In Antitrust Lawsuits Against Facebook, Calling It an Illegal Monopoly In a clear escalation in the war Facebook faces over its dominance in the social media landscape, the Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of 48 states' attorneys general are suing to break the company up.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Playgrounds Will Reopen As State Backtracks on Order Governor Gavin Newsom must have heard from a lot of people about the decision to include playgrounds among the things being closed under state stay-at-home orders. Because on Wednesday the state reversed itself.
