SF News Initial Storm Damage Minimal Across Bay Area as More Rains Arrive Tuesday night brought roaring, howling winds and pelting rains to many parts of the Bay Area, but so far the reports of damage and power outages have been minimal.
SF news Humpday Headlines: Tahoe Resorts Brace for Skiing Crowds Carmen Chu is San Francisco's new City Administrator, wind blew a big rig into a jackknife on the Bay Bridge, and restaurant workers will be prioritized for vaccines under the state's new plans.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Stormy Weather Halts Mass Vaccinations at City College The extreme weather this week is forcing SF's newly set-up mass-vaccination site to close til Friday, a gay Black firefighter is suing the SFFD for discrimination, and Marin conservatives rally in support of the MyPillow guy.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famed SF Leather Bar Powerhouse Temporarily Became a Food Pantry For LGBTQ People and Others In Need For the past six weeks, a SoMa queer bar that's better known for raunchy theme nights and its storied past in the leather community temporarily turned into a food pantry serving LGBTQ seniors and a group of unemployed nightlife workers around the city who found themselves running out of money.
Business & Tech Uber Lays Off 15% of Postmates Staff, Just Two Months After Buying the Company Nearly 200 Postmates employees got pink slips Monday in the wake of being acquired by Uber, but top Postmates executives will get “multimillion dollar exit packages.”
SF Politics Bay Area Man Arrested After He Allegedly Went Nuts Threatening Democratic Congressman and His Family on Jan. 6 In yet another story of a conspiracy-addled right-wing Trump fanboy unraveling in the waning days before the inauguration and allegedly turning to criminal threats and other craziness, we bring you the case of 35-year-old Bay Point resident Robert Lemke.
Arts & Entertainment Eureka Valley Gallery With Lofty Aims Opens Virtually, Selling Limited-Edition Prints Upper Market Gallery has opened virtually, with a real grand opening still in the works, and with a view toward tearing down barriers in the local art world creating new spaces that invite conversation and community.
SF News Atmospheric Rivers, Explained It doesn't seem as though the term "atmospheric river" has been in common use for more than a decade or so by TV weather people. But lately it comes up nearly every winter in California.
SF News California EDD Confirmed to Be a Bloody Mess In New Auditor's Report A state auditor's report released Monday suggests that not only did the California Employment Development Department (EDD) mishandle hundreds of thousands of claims and leave legitimate unemployed claimants going hungry last year, but that possibly $30 billion was paid out to fraudsters.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Hurricane Hunters Fly Into Our Coming Storm Twitter has permanently banned MyPillow founder Mike Lindell for "repeated violations," the I-5 is shut down at the Grapevine due to heavy snow, and Rep. Barbara Lee is the new chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Twitter Launches Crowdsourced Fact-Checking Program Twitter is going the Wikipedia route with a new fact-checking program, California's new My Turn vaccine app was developed by Salesforce, and outdoor dining resumed without hesitation at some Bay Area restaurants today.
SF News SF Archbishop Flouts COVID-19 Restrictions Again, Hosts Hundreds for Indoor Mass The nutty archbishop rises again in opposition to COVID-19 precautions, this time holding mass indoors for hundreds of congregants, and saying some combination of Proud Boys and Antifa forced him to do so.
SF Politics Fox News Apoplectic That FEMA Will Fund SF Homeless Hotels, Unaware This Started Under Trump The right-wing news network’s outrage that “Biden may force American taxpayers to foot bill” for shelter-in-place hotel rooms fails to acknowledge that Trump forced taxpayers to foot the same bill.
Business & Tech UCSF Team Finds Cancer Drug That Is 30 Times More Effective At Fighting COVID Than Remdesivir A research team at UCSF has landed on a potential game-changing treatment for COVID-19, though it is a cancer drug made by a Spanish firm that is not yet approved for any uses in the United States.
SF News Coming Deluge of Rain Prompts Evacuations, Landslide, Flood, and Wind Warnings Around the Bay The next round of rain heading toward the Bay this week will be the heaviest we've seen in a while. And in addition to warnings of high winds coming with the next band of storms, areas that saw significant burning during last year's wildfires are facing the threat of landslides.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Outdoor Dining, Personal Services To Resume In San Francisco Outdoor dining can resume in San Francisco starting Thursday, now that COVID case numbers are decreasing the state has lifted the regional stay-at-home orders that began over a month ago.
SF News Stubborn Scofflaw Yoga Studio Owner In Pacifica Makes Apparent Threats Against County Supervisor's Family As the Trumpists continue their wails of false fury about an election that they lost, a local battle that epitomizes the idiocy of politicizing the pandemic and denying basic science rages on just south of San Francisco.
SF News Newsom Lifts Regional Stay-at-Home Orders as Bed Capacities Rise Governor Gavin Newsom has lifted the remaining regional stay-at-home orders across California, returning to the county-by-county, color-coded system for reopening, and San Francisco will be allowing outdoor dining to resume in short order.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Placer County Man's Post-Vaccine Death Being Investigated Bay Area teachers remain in a vaccine limbo, three people were wounded in a shooting outside a Burlingame hotel, and Sacramento is getting more aggressive with building housing than San Francisco.
Bay Area Sports Stephen Curry Passes Hall Of Famer Reggie Miller For #2 On NBA's All-Time 3-Pointers List Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry made history Saturday night, splashing in his 2,561st career 3-pointer early in the second half of a 127-108 loss to the Utah Jazz.
SF News Second Street Crisis Response Team Will Start Responding to Non-Violent Emergency Calls in SF Next Month Following the launch of San Francisco's first non-police crisis response team in November, another unit of health care clinicians and medical professionals are expected to start addressing mental health and addiction emergency calls in the city come February 1.
SF News Bay Area ICU Capacity Swings to 23.4% — Could Lockdown End Soon? With the Bay Area's ICU capacity now over 23% — a massive improvement from the last reported ICU availability rate of just 6.5% — the region now falls under the state's criteria for leaving its current stay-at-home order.
SF News Sunday Links: Anti-Abortion Rally Held in Downtown SF; Many Demonstrators Seen Mask-Less A UCSF study proved essential workers in the food and transportation industries are among the "riskiest jobs" in the pandemic, the body of an unnamed woman washed ashore at Tunitas Creek Beach Saturday morning, and a largely mask-less anti-abortion rally was held in downtown SF yesterday.
SF News California Is Now the Worst State in the Country When it Comes to Giving Out COVID-19 Vaccines We’ve all been bemoaning how sluggish SF and the state have been at administering vaccines. Though usage rates are rising, those upticks aren't enough to stop Alabama from leapfrogging over CA — making us now dead last in the country for the percentage of supplied shots being used.
SF News Saturday Links: Latest COVID-19 Surge Claims Six Lives at SF's Laguna Honda Hospital SF restaurants continue to be targeted by vandals, SFMTA is considering reopening Twin Peaks to personal cars, and six residents at Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco have lost their lives as a result of the most recent state-wide COVID-19 surge.
