SF News SF Supervisors Propose $5 Per Hour Hazard Pay Bonus For Grocery Workers, But Stores Have to Pay It It’s merely a non-binding resolution “urging” grocery stores to give their workers a $5 per hour raise, but the stores are expected to foot the bill.
SF Politics Donor Behind $500,000 Gift to Recall Newsom Campaign Revealed as Religious Dude Mad About Church Restrictions A mysterious half million bucks showed up in the bank account of the Recall Gavin Newsom effort, from an apparent shell company with a biblical name. Now we know the whole amount came from one single Orange County religious conservative.
Arts & Entertainment SF Art Institute Mulls Selling Diego Rivera Mural, Possibly to George Lucas A financial bind has the Art Institute considering selling off its prize mural for $50 million, and George Lucas is reportedly interested in buying.
Business & Tech Google Employees Have Formed a Union, But Only A Tiny Percentage Have Signed Up A smattering of Googlers, YouTubers and Waymo staff have formed the Alphabet Workers Union, in a move that could revolutionize the tech industry — or merely result in about 200 Google employees getting fired for vague “performance” reasons.
datb Day Around the Bay: Tick Tock, 2020, Tick Tock 2020 got its last licks in with a freeway shooting that roiled the 101 in South San Francisco, but the state is handing out half a billion dollars in COVID-19 small business relief, and the Moderna vaccine is confirmed to be everything it’s cracked up to be.
SF News New Report Ranks How Much Bay Area Law Enforcement Agencies Pay For Violent Officer Misconduct You would think that how much a city pays in police misconduct settlements would correlate to the size of its police force. Such is not the case, according to information obtained by KTVU.
Arts & Entertainment SF Gay Men’s Chorus Documentary Arrives On Various Cable TV Streaming Services The SF Gay Men's Chorus needed hired security when they took a tour of the Deep South in the immediate wake of the Charlottesville unrest three years back, but get your Kleenex ready for the feature documentary ‘Gay Chorus Deep South’ that captures their tumultuous trip.
SF News Bonkers East Bay Car Chase Video Emerges of Suspect Smashing Into Cop Cars, Trying to Fight K-9 Dog A new video captures the greatest hits of an epic, two-county car chase where a suspect collides with police cars, jumps a 20-foot ridge and carjacks his way out of it, and then attempts to gouge the eyeballs out of the K-9 dog that eventually nabs him.
Business & Tech Uber and Lyft Both in Rush To Offer ‘Free’ Rides to Get Vaccine (Many of Which Won’t Be Free) The two competing rideshare giants announce two different competing plans to offer free rides for vaccine shots, but the fine print shows plenty of these rides will not actually be free.
SF News Fox News Punked Live, On-Air by Berkeley Animal Rights Activist Posing as Pork-Processing CEO A Berkeley troublemaker hit the jackpot by successfully fooling Fox Business’ ‘Mornings with Maria’ on a live segment that of course went brilliantly awry.
SF News Parklet Nails Snag Valencia Street Bar Into Twitter Dust-Up, Nails Now Removed The social media pitchforks came out when Valencia Room was accused of using sharp nails to deter loitering in their parklet, but the nails are now removed and the bar insists vandals did the nailing.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Season Preview: A Return to Pretty Good-ness The Warriors tip off their new season tonight (actually, 4 p.m. PT this afternoon) in a revenge game against Kevin Durant, with Steph Curry back, and a reasonable expectation that they'll return to their winning ways.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Winter Solstice is Upon Us It’s the longest night of the year, right-wingers on Facebook insist that Nancy Pelosi’s vaccination shot was fake, and a good samaritan EMT may have contracted COVID-19 by committing an act of heroism on a flight.
Arts & Entertainment Holiday Palate Cleanser: ‘Nutcracker’ Ballet On an Alameda Tarmac Drop everything immediately and check out this open-air interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s “Waltz of the Snowflakes” on an airport tarmac by Post:Ballet.
Business & Tech Twitter is Testing ‘Humanization Prompts’ in Hopes That We Won’t Be Such Trolls to One Another Twitter figures that if we are informed that someone also likes dogs or soccer, maybe we will tone down our death threats and online harassment.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Takes to Medium to Swipe at Supervisors, Media Coverage of Homeless Hotel Program The mayor’s Medium post vaguely decries “what some people have been saying” and “a number of inaccurate statements” after the Board of Supervisors' unanimous vote to extend the shelter-in-place hotel program.
SF News SFMTA Mulling a 20-MPH Speed Limit for the Entire Tenderloin Neighborhood The state usually sets speed limits, but the SFMTA has found a loophole by which they can lower the speed limit on many Tenderloin streets.
SF News Amid Spike In COVID Cases Among Homeless, Supervisors Extend Hotel Room Program San Francisco will continue ushering people off the streets and into shelter-in-place hotel rooms for at least two months, after the Board of Supervisors unanimously passed an extension of a program that would have expired in just two more weeks.
Business & Tech Amazon Buys Recology Site in SF for $200 Million, Scuttles Plan to Make it Housing Recology just sold its 900 7th Street waste maintenance facility to Amazon, who plan to make it a six-acre delivery warehouse facility in San Francisco.
SF News Sutter Health Price-Gouging Exposé Lands Hillary Ronen on ‘60 Minutes’ Sup. Hillary Ronen popped up on “60 Minutes” Sunday night to proclaim “We are getting screwed” over Sutter Health’s alleged monopoly and price-gouging practices.
SF News Third Suspect Arrested in Killing of Two Teens at Union City Elementary School Both an 11-year-old and a 14-year-old were shot and killed at Searles Elementary School a year ago, but Alameda County authorities now think they’ve apprehended all the suspects.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg Says Facebook Employees Won’t Need Vaccine to Return to Work It’s a prickly topic for any workplace, but Facebook staff will not be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine before returning to their pampered workplace.
SF Politics New Newsom Scandal: Gavin’s Companies Got $3 Million in PPP Loans Newsom’s PlumpJack Group got a plump $2.9 million in PPP loans for its high-end wineries and restaurants, which is eight times higher than what was originally reported.
SF Politics Dianne Feinstein Faces Fresh Round of ‘Rumors of Her Cognitive Decline’ The 87-year-old senator has visibly lost a step, but a new report features stories from (mostly anonymous) aides saying that her mental deterioration is a lot further along than we realize.
Business & Tech Amazon’s Cartoonish Self-Driving Taxi Prematurely Debuts in Union Square Zoiks! The new Zoox self-driving taxicab from Amazon was spotted in SF this past weekend, more than a week before its scheduled public debut.
