SF News Human Impulses, Pandemic Fatigue Driving People to Ignore Health Warnings and Gather for Holidays "For every cold statistic there is an equally human justification [for traveling]," the LA Times writes.
SF News Convicted Killer Charged In 32-Year-Old Cold-Case Kidnapping and Murder of 9-Year-Old in the East Bay The disappearance of nine-year-old Michaela Garecht, who was grabbed in a supermarket parking lot in Hayward a few days before Thanksgiving in 1988, made national headlines. And only now have investigators charged a man who was already in prison for another murder.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Fatal Freeway Shooting on 101 Near Cesar Chavez One man was fatally shot and another was wounded on 101 near Cesar Chavez Monday night, the SF Board of Supervisors is holding a special hearing today on reopening schools, and San Mateo County may file criminal charges against a gym owner for refusing to stop indoor workouts.
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 Bay Area Music Venues and Theaters Can Apply For Lifesaving Grants Under New Stimulus Bill Owners and operators of cultural venues, from Broadway theaters on down to dive bars that host rock shows, will be able to fight over a new pool of grant money from the federal government as part of the new $900 billion stimulus package that Congress was finalizing Monday.
SF News Newsom Suggests Regional Stay-at-Home Orders May Get Extended Into January The three-week stay-at-home orders issued at the state level for the vast majority of Californians since early December are not likely to expire as planned, and are mostly likely getting extended — but how this will work for the Bay Area remains to be seen.
Business & Tech Airbnb Removes 65 Listings for Scofflaw 'Party Houses' In SF, Oakland, and San Jose Airbnb is again cracking down on "party houses" that seem to have incurred violations around the Bay Area, but why is this coming up now when technically no vacation rentals are even permitted here?
SF News Covidiot Files: Trump-y Pacifica Yoga Studio Owner Continues Flouting Health Orders, Hosting Mask-Free Classes A yoga studio in Pacifica that has apparently been holding in-person classes without masks since the spring or summer — and whose owner fills social media pages with pro-Trump and anti-Biden memes — continues to do so, and serves as an example of how poorly enforcement efforts are working.
Bay Area Sports Niners Suffer 41-33 Loss To Dallas Cowboys, Get Mathematically Eliminated From Playoffs In true Christmas spirit, the San Francisco 49ers gifted Dallas 24 points off of four turnovers for the Cowboys' first consecutive wins of the season.
SF News Dude Dressed as Santa in Powered Parachute Contraption Crashes Into Power Lines Near Sacramento A guy dressed as Santa Claus made a wrong turn in his flying "sled" north of Sacramento on Sunday morning and ended up snagged in some power lines and in need of rescue.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SFO Saw Double Its Usual Pandemic Traffic Over the Weekend The newly passed stimulus bill leaves out direct aid for state and local governments, Governor Gavin Newsom is quarantining again after a possible COVID exposure, and tens of thousands passed through SFO over the weekend despite public health warnings about travel.
SF News The Oakland Coliseum Is Now Officially 'RingCentral Coliseum' After a contract was approved Friday that finally put a cap on the stadium-naming mess involving former Coliseum Authority Executive Director Scott McKibben, the Oakland Coliseum is now formally "RingCentral Coliseum."
SF News All Apple Stores in California Will Temporarily Close Amid COVID-19 Surges The company responsible for selling over 36 million computerized rectangles annually in the United States announced it will temporarily shutter all of its California stores; some Apple stores, however, will honor existing order pickups and Genius Bar appointments up until December 22.
SF News Sunday Links: Robbery Suspect Captured After Avoiding Arrest... by Diving into the Bay Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine has started shipping out, San Francisco's "Tree Twins” continue to spread holiday cheer across the city this year, and an Oakland man believed to be related to a series of armed robberies dove into San Francisco Bay while trying to elude authorities.
SF News Woman Found Dead Inside North Beach Apartment in Possible Homicide San Francisco police came across the scene of an apparent homicide inside a North Beach apartment building Friday afternoon, leading to the arrest of a yet-named male suspect.
SF News Saturday Links: SFO Begins Informing Travelers of Mandatory Quarantine Some SF City officials are pushing back against the ban on outdoor dining, a small mini-mart will be held at the Mission Bowling Club today, and SFO employees have started making sure incoming travelers are aware of SF’s mandatory 10-day quarantine.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 58 San Franciscans Lost Their Lives to Drug Overdoses in November The FDA has now officially authorized the "emergency use" of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, SF's public school students won't start returning to campuses on January 25 as originally planned, and 58 more people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco last month.
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.
SF News California-Bound Passengers On United Flight Being Informed of Possible COVID Exposure After Man Dies Onboard A man who denied having symptoms of COVID-19 boarded a United Airlines flight in Orlando on Monday bound for Los Angeles. Shortly into the flight he suffered a medical emergency and died onboard, and his wife was heard telling medical personnel that he had COVID symptoms.
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 News Stanford Medical Residents Revolt After Doctors Who Don't Treat COVID Patients Get Priority for Vaccine Before Them Residents working at Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto staged a protest Friday to demand that they be given priority in the line for healthcare workers getting the Pfizer COVID vaccine.
SF News NorCal Woman Has Allegedly Been Collecting Unemployment Benefits In Dianne Feinstein's Name In one of many cases of EDD fraud being investigated, a Sacramento area woman who used to work for the EDD apparently cashed in $21,000 in fraudulent claims using the name and social security number of Senator Dianne Feinstein.
SF News Oakland and San Francisco Police Arrest Pair of Rape Suspects Two men were arrested this week on sexual assault and other charges in unrelated cases, with witnesses on a San Francisco Muni helping to identify one of the suspects.
SF Politics Rest Easy, Everyone: Nancy Pelosi Has Been Vaccinated House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is trucking along and corralling her caucus like a pro at age 80, is in a high-risk category for COVID both because of her age and being an "essential worker." But as of Friday, she has received her first shot of the vaccine.
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.
