SF News More Curfews Spread Across East Bay After Another Police Shooting in Hayward Hayward, San Leandro, and Union City have all joined in on instituting curfews as the ongoing unrest spawns another police shooting of a suspect and the ransacking of the Bayfair Center.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Live Music Venues and Sports Bars Slowly Adapt to Operate Under Shelter-In-Place Street performances, patio service, and creative use of masks are bringing a little drip of revenue toward the thirsty taverns that serve up SF music and live sports.
SF Politics SF and Oakland Win Appeal in Global Warming Lawsuit Against Big Oil The multi-billion dollar climate damage lawsuit against BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Shell is back on, as SF, Oakland, and other cities won in a ruling in the 9th Circuit that likely bounces the case back to state court.
SF News COVID-19 Outbreak Hits Fish Packing Plant in Santa Clara County Nearly 40 cases of coronavirus have been traced to the Lusamerica Fish Company in Morgan Hill, and employees’ relatives charge that the company kept it under wraps.
SF Politics Sunshine Ordinance Dump of Mayor Breed’s Texts Shows She Orders Lots of Homeless Sweeps Gobs of Mayor London Breed’s text messages were posted online Monday, and they display some serious micromanaging of SFPD’s homeless sweeps.
SF Politics Report: Half of the #Reopen Crowd on Twitter are Probably Bots A Carnegie Mellon University analysis found that 82 percent of the most influential COVID-19 retweeters are bots, and that bots comprise about half of the Twitter accounts that are crowing “Reopen America.”
SF News Santa Clara Sees Spike in Fentanyl Overdoses Under Shelter-In-Place Fake oxy and percocet sold on Snapchat have contributed to a tripling of fentanyl overdoses in Santa Clara County, and prosecutors are starting to charge dealers with murder.
SF News California Suffers Deadliest COVID-19 Day Yet, But Newsom Lowers Bar for Counties to Reopen Gavin Newsom eased the standards counties must meet for reopening, but then Tuesday the state reported the most coronavirus deaths of any day yet.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Gets an Artists' Pandemic Relief Fund Too, to the Tune of $625,000 East Bay and Oakland artists can get up to $2,000 apiece in unrestricted grant money, in a program from the same nonprofit that gave COVID-19 artists grants in SF.
SF News PG&E Claims Wildfire Victims Have ‘Overwhelming’ Support for Half-Cash, Half-Stock Settlement Deal PG&E stock seems like pretty curious compensation for 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter, but victims do seem in favor of the deal so they can finally get some renumeration.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wine Country Wants Waivers to Reopen, Despite Not Meeting Criteria Napa, Sonoma, and Solano counties are all talking about reopening stores and restaurants to some degree, yet none meet the requirement of no COVID-19 deaths in two weeks.
SF News Tenderloin’s ‘Safe Sleeping Village’ Has Been Opened, Though Allows But 50 Tents The Safe Sleeping Village at Civic Center opened Monday, and we have a few reports on its first three days of operations.
SF Politics Newsom Vows to Holds PG&E’s Feet to the Fire as Wildfires and COVID-19 Collide Gavin has strong words for PG&E (but evasive words for Elon Musk’s defiance) as wildfire season is underway in the age of coronavirus.
SF News LA Likely Extending Shelter Orders Three More Months; Will That Happen Here? A Los Angeles County health official says stay-at-home orders will stick through August 1, while Twitter employees just got a pass to work at home through forever.
Bay Area Sports MLB Owners Unveil Plan to Bring Back Baseball July 4th, But Players Skeptical Under the proposal, the Giants could be playing here at Oracle Park, but of course without fans in the stands.
SF Politics UC Hastings Blasts Breed’s Plan to Clean Up COVID-19 Ravaged Tenderloin Leave it to the law school to sue the city, and even though the mayor specifically crafted a plan to mollify their desire to see the crowded sidewalks more clear, UC Hastings is keeping the heat on.
SF News Plane Travel Slowly Returns, With Masks, Distancing, and Some Virus Profiteering One airline gets publicly dragged for charging a ‘More Room’ fee for social distancing, as the airline industry awkwardly adapts to the logistics of travel under COVID-19.
SF Politics Fired Oakland Police Chief Turns Whistleblower, More OPD Drama On the Way Ousted chief Anne Kirkpatrick has already been replaced (twice!) and now cites “inappropriate and unlawful conduct” by the Oakland Police Commission.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meat Shortage Hits Big Chains Like Costco and Wendy’s; Bay Area Spared So Far Cue up the “Where’s the Beef?” jokes as Wendy’s restaurants nationwide have run out of burgers, but this may be more of a factory-farmed meat shortage than a true meat shortage.
SF News AIDS Quilt Leftovers Being Hand-Sewn Into COVID-19 Masks By ‘The Mother of the Quilt’ “Chief Quilt Coordinator” Gert McMullin is sewing 80 masks per day out of unused AIDS Quilt fabric that dates back to the 1980s.
SF News ‘Moms 4 Housing’-Style Demonstration Occupies Vacant Castro House As COVID-19 hammers the unhoused population, two renegade women have occupied a Castro house that’s been sitting on the market for years. A police melee ensued.
SF Politics Eager to Point Fingers, Trump Orders Spies to Push China Lab COVID-19 Theory U.S. intelligence officials have been directed to “hunt for evidence” that the coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab, though spies and scientists cite zero evidence for this claim.
SF News Bayview’s Pier 94 to Become COVID-19 RV Homeless Shelter More than 100 shelter RVs provided by the city and state will become temporary shelter with counseling for people with underlying health conditions experiencing homelessness.
SF News Beleaguered Pot Publication High Times Buys 13 Dispensaries, Including One in SF It appears High Times will be taking over the dispensary coming to the former John Varvatos space in Union Square, but the company’s recent track record does not inspire high confidence.
Business & Tech Facebook Hastily Launches a Zoom Video Conferencing Copycat Since Mark Zuckerberg cannot stand seeing another tech company enjoy major growth, Facebook is Zoom-bombing the current reigning champion of video conference platforms.
