Business & Tech Lyft Pivots To ‘Essential Deliveries’ Now That No One is Riding Anywhere Lyft is generating a little more revenue for drivers who’ve taken a hit, but the new program will cater to companies and nonprofits instead of individual delivery customers.
SF News Newsom Lays It Down That Stay-At-Home Orders Not Getting Lifted Anytime Soon Whether you like it or not, Governor Gavin Newsom says the statewide stay-at-home orders will likely go well past the current May 3 end date.
SF Politics CDC Gives SF A+ for Social Distancing, But Homeless Shelter Outbreak May Curve That Grade San Francisco gets a lovely acknowledgment for limiting the COVID-19 spread, though critics are calling out foot-dragging on the homeless shelter front.
SF News Complaints About Nonessential Construction in SF Skyrocket Under Shelter-In-Place Homebuilders are not staying at home, and in some cases entering residential properties, as the Department of Building Inspection sees a roughly 500 percent increase in complaints.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vandalism and Thefts Hit Lucky 13, Harvey’s, Countless Other Bars and Restaurants A wave of vandalism and theft is smashing and grabbing what little revenue or peace of mind our favorite restaurants can cobble together while the streets are emptied for shelter-in-place.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wuhan Lifts Its Lockdown Orders Furloughs and pay cuts hit the Tesla plant in Fremont, SF inks deal for nearly 2,000 hotel rooms for the homeless at $197 a pop, and lockdown is over in the Wuhan Province.
SF News Celebrated Sacramento Attorney Visits Antarctica, Comes Back with COVID-19 A shipful of doctors and lawyers hit a medical conference in the remote icy continent, and still came back testing positive.
SF News W. Kamau Bell, Steve Kerr, Others Holding Online Show Tonight to Fundraise for Masks With the goal of raising $1 million to buy masks and hand sanitizer for underserved communities, “Masks for the People” goes live on Instagram at 6 p.m. tonight.
Business & Tech Bay Area-Based Zoom Pledges to Beef Up Security Amidst Potential State Investigations While the popularity and stock price of Zoom are both booming, the San Jose video conferencing software company is struggling with ever-unfolding privacy flaws and fresh regulatory scrutiny.
SF News Navigation Center Resident Tests Positive, Supervisors Clamor To Open More Hotel Rooms for Them As the dread first COVID-19 case at a Navigation Center has arrived, several supervisors are fuming that transition of unhoused people to safe hotels has barely started.
Business & Tech Zoom Video Conferencing Hit With Lawsuit Over Facebook Data Sharing; Other Security Issues Racking Up A class action lawsuit gets Zoom to admit they give your data to Facebook, just as the FBI warns that hackers are having a field day on the video conferencing platform.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shocking Report: Bay Area Getting Drunk as Hell During Shelter-in-Place Wine.com reports spirits orders are up 400 percent during stay-at-home orders, as bottoms up is the top activity in these shut in times.
SF Politics Sonoma County Emergency Manager Takes Heat for Private Trip to Closed Beach The county’s director of Emergency Management took his family on an ill-advised trip to a closed beach this weekend, and worse yet, posted the photos to Facebook to ensure maximum public outrage.
SF News Oakland Man Allegedly Steals $780 of Energy Drinks, Claims He Has Coronavirus to Evade Security In a caper that could only happen at a Walmart, San Leandro police thwart a Monster heist of energy drinks where the accused scared off security by saying he was a coronavirus carrier.
SF News Three Arrested for Al Hamra Shooting on ‘Shelter-In-Place’ Eve A 26-year-old social worker was shot just hours before shelter in place went into effect last week, and SFPD now arrested has three suspects.
SF News Supervisor Preston Secures Private Funds for Hotel to House Homeless Dean Preston puts up $10,000 of his own money into a private fund that will keep at least 30 unsheltered people put up safely to ride out the COVID-19 pandemic at the Oasis Inn.
Business & Tech Airbnb Hosts Furious That People Can Cancel Stays for Free During COVID-19 Outbreak The home-sharing service Airbnb is allowing guests to cancel for free over the “extenuating circumstances” of coronavirus travel restrictions, but house-hoarding hosts are huffy about it.
Arts & Entertainment Breed Unveils $2.5 Million Arts Relief Fund, But Industry Faces $48 Million in Losses Mayor Breed’s Arts Relief Program will dole out $2.5 million, possibly more if outside donors step up, which is still just a drop in the hat amidst months of cancelled events.
Business & Tech Ex-Uber Exec Pleads Guilty to Stealing Google’s Self-Driving Car Trade Secrets Wunderkind engineer Anthony Levandowski pled guilty to stealing Google’s trade secrets on his way out the door, but it’s hard to think justice has been done when he got let off on 32 of 33 counts.
SF News Workers at Still-Open, ‘Essential’ Businesses Face High Risk, Low Financial Reward The unsung heroes of the ongoing coronavirus crisis are the nurses, grocery clerks, and delivery drivers slogging through amidst angry customers and precarious conditions.
SF News Which SF Cannabis Dispensaries are Open, Closed, and Which Ones Deliver The dispensaries are back open! At least, most of them are — here’s a complete list of which marijuana dispensaries are open, closed, and who will deliver to your doorstep.
SF Politics SF Supe Wants to Turn Vacant Building at Center of Scandal Into Homeless Shelter; Newsom Leases Two Oakland Hotels for Shelters Gov. Gavin Newsom is eyeing more than 900 hotels statewide to house the homeless and halt the spread of coronavirus, while Supervisor Dean Preston has a similar plan for the scandal-plagued 555 Fulton development.
SF News Lockdown is Here: Bay Areawide ‘Shelter in Place’ Orders Go Into Effect at Midnight Bay Area residents are officially being urged not to leave their homes, with very few exceptions “for essential outings,” in San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Santa Clara, and San Mateo Counties, starting at midnight tonight.
SF Politics Former SF Building Commission President Sued for $420k in Check Fraud Wille Brown appointee Rodrigo Santos, now in private practice, allegedly took checks made out to the DBI and hand-scrawled them to be made out to ‘RoDBIgo Santos.” A lawsuit claims he got away with it 200 times.
SF News SF Opens New Coronavirus Testing Center, But It’s Referral-Only You can’t get a walk-in test, and they’ll only take people referred by a doctor, but the temporarily shuttered Castro-Mission Health Center on 17th Street has been triaged into a COVID-19 testing center.
