SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Biden Moves Up Vaccine Eligibility Timeline to April 19 President Biden is saying states should open vaccine eligibility to everyone by April 19, the SFMTA is still adding more Slow Streets, and Sonoma County is expected to move to the "Orange" tier for the first time today.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: 'Indian' COVID Variant Confirmed In Bay Area VP Kamala Harris is making a quick stop in Oakland today, the Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit brought against Trump over his habit of blocking critics on Twitter, and a new COVID variant has been identified in the Bay Area by researchers at Stanford.
SF News Sunday Links: Alas, Another Pandemic Easter Sunday Another pandemic Easter Sunday is here, over half a billion Facebook users might have had their personal information compromised (and posted online), and the body of a 19-year-old Oakland woman was discovered by a hiker in Siskiyou County.
SF News Saturday Links: Bay Area Temperatures Continue To Cool 1,700 homeless people remain in hotel rooms after SF moved them inside during shelter-in-place, tree removal and trimming continues along 24th Street, and cooler weather is finally here (which may bring with it a very small chance of rain next week).
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: CDC Updates Travel Guidance For Vaccinated The Solano County health officer is sounding COVID alarm bells over Easter weekend, dissecting the issues with Alison Collins' school district lawsuit, and the CDC has just announced (in case you were unaware) that vaccinated people can travel without worry.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Giants' Home Opener Cleared to Have 9,200 In Attendance SF is allowing the Giants' home opener to have 22% capacity or 9,200 fans next week, the suspect in the homicide of a Santa Rosa homeless woman has been arrested, and supporters of DA Chesa Boudin have set up a PAC to fight his recall.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Bay Area Is #1 For Vaccine Demand In the U.S. An Oakland community center is seeking help after a Sunday fire damaged its building, Pfizer says its vaccine works well in kids ages 12-15, and there's more demand and less hesitancy about getting a vaccine in the Bay Area than anywhere in the country.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: One Person Killed In Mission District Shooting There was a shooting at 24th and Mission in SF last night that left one person dead, a 19-year-old has turned himself in for a Muni assault in October, and Oakland is welcoming back its littlest students today in Pre-K to second grade.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: High Winds Coming to the Bay Area Hills Tonight A high wind advisory has been issued for Monday night for the Bay Area hills, at least two people were injured during a sideshow in the Mission over the weekend, and that container ship has finally been unstuck in the Suez Canal.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Fox News Faces Second Huge Defamation Suit An 84-year-old Asian man is speaking out about being attacked in the Tenderloin last month, a San Bruno card room is paying a record-setting fine, and Mills College now says 200 UC Berkeley freshman will be moving onto the campus in the fall.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Suspect Dies In Fremont Freeway Shootout The Oakland Coliseum vaccination site may live on past its mid-April expiration date, an Oakland basketball star has been identified as a victim in a Tuesday crash near Lodi, and Chrissy Teigen is quitting Twitter.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Homeless Woman Killed In Santa Rosa Hit-and-Run Two shootings in Oakland left one man dead and another critical, a homeless woman in Santa Rosa was killed in a hit and run that may or may not have been intentional, and San Mateo County authorities are seeking a flasher who exposed himself to a Half Moon Bay teen.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Oakland Announces Basic Income Pilot Treasure Island is getting a vaccination site, three Antioch men have been charged in a Feb. 23 laundromat assault on an Asian man in SF, and bars in three counties are getting ready to open outdoors this week without mandatory food.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SF's Third Baptist Church Opens Vaccine Clinic An SF woman was involved in a wild chase in Santa Rosa on Sunday, a large crowd gathered in the Castro for a march in solidarity with the Asian community, and Mills College's president says that a reversal of its historic decision to stop granting degrees is highly unlikely.
SF News Sunday Links: Hundreds Rally in Oakland and SF Chinatowns to Denounce Hate Crimes Against Asian Americans A disabled Asian man in Redwood City discovered someone had set his car on fire Saturday morning, JFK Drive was alive with demonstrators calling for the street to remain car-free, and hundreds rallied in SF and Oakland's Chinatowns yesterday to support Asian communities.
SF News Saturday Links: 70-Year-Old Suspect in '90s SF Homicide Turns Up in Santa Barbara SF police have identified James Francis Edwards as the suspect of a fatal shooting outside a food bank in the Mission circa 1990, Bay Area artists are set to give out some 20,000 artful masks to underserved communities, and a 7.0 earthquake struck Japan early Saturday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: The EDD Is Totally Eff'd Traffic through SFO is ticking up steadily, an investigation into the inner workings at the Employment Development Department is telling but unsurprising, and the CDC may be changing its rules about distancing for schoolchildren.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SFPD Steps Up Patrols After Attacks on Asians The family of a man killed by a sheriff's deputy in Danville last week is demanding answers, the SFPD says it will step up patrols in the wake of a spike in attacks on Asian residents, and FEMA will be reimbursing COVID funeral expenses.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Bridge Traffic Is Back Commuter traffic around the Bay is back to near pre-pandemic levels, three suspects in a fatal shooting apparently disappeared into Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood last night, and Solano Co. is allowing the 50+ set to get vaccines.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Mateo Moving to 'Orange' Tier San Mateo County is likely to advance to the 'Orange' tier today, San Francisco has lowered the BMI threshold for vaccine eligibility, and fire crews put out a two-alarm blaze at a flooring store in San Leandro Monday night.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: More Rain and Hail On the Way The second suspect in the assault on an Uber driver last week has turned herself in, today is the day of expanded vaccine eligibility across CA, and more wintry weather is on the way.
SF News Sunday Links: Daylight Savings Continues To Rob Us of Sleep Faction Brewing in Alameda released its "no more TIERS'' beer this weekend, San Jose Police Department saw overtime hours among its staff skyrocket over the past decade, and daylight savings has arrived (and left us with an hour less of sleep).
SF News Saturday Links: Hundreds Attend Virtual Protest Condemning CCSF Layoffs, Budget Cuts Tommy’s Joynt will offer indoor dining soon, the City of Minneapolis agreed to pay $27M to George Floyd's family, and some 500 protestors tuned in for an hour-long Zoom-in protest Friday denouncing potential CCSF job and budget cuts.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: City College Site Begins Giving Johnson & Johnson Shots The coyote that attacked multiple people (and children) in the Lamorinda area has been killed, there was a small fire at Tesla's Fremont factory Thursday, and the first Johnson & Johnson shots are being given in SF today at the City College site.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Driver Jumps Off Bay Bridge Following Major Crash A Coast Guard search was underway Wednesday night following a multi-car crash on the Bay Bridge and a driver who reportedly jumped into the water, more CVS stores get the COVID vaccine, and poll finds 1 in 5 Americans lost someone to the pandemic.