SF News Doctor at SF General Who Has Treated Scores of Critically Ill COVID Patients Is First in City to Receive Vaccine After receiving 2,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on Monday, SF General became the first hospital in the city to begin administering it Tuesday morning, with one critical-care doctor who has treated the most severely ill COVID patients being the first to receive a dose.
SF News Attorney for SFPD Officer Charged In Beating Says DA 'Can't Get His Facts Straight' The attorney representing a San Francisco Police officer whom District Attorney Chesa Boudin charged with assault and battery on Monday has shot back with a statement saying her client acted "lawfully" in the 2019 incident in question.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: South Bay Jostled By Pair of Morning Earthquakes A Santa Rita Jail inmate stole a golf cart on his way out of jail to drive to BART, one SF supervisor thinks the Board's holiday recess is "inappropriate" this year, and the Morgan Hill area was shaken by a pair of small earthquakes around 7:15 a.m.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Fall To 5-8, Praying For Playoff Miracle An inspiring defensive outing was not enough to outweigh costly turnovers and average quarterback play, as the Niners lose more key players to injury in a 23-15 loss to the Washington Football Team.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF DA Charges Officer In Fisherman's Wharf Beating DA Chesa Boudin has charged the SFPD officer who allegedly beat a Black man near Fisherman's Wharf last fall, the legal battle between Virgin Hotels and the owner of the hotel rages on, and a man on a scooter was shot while riding through SoMa.
SF Politics Recall Campaign Gains Steam as Gov. Gavin Newsom Finishes Second Year In Office Under Cloud of Criticism By spring 2021, with no signs that daily life will have returned to normal yet amid an ongoing pandemic, Governor Gavin Newsom could be among multiple governors facing recall efforts around the country.
SF News Sutter Health Price-Gouging Exposé Lands Hillary Ronen on ‘60 Minutes’ Sup. Hillary Ronen popped up on “60 Minutes” Sunday night to proclaim “We are getting screwed” over Sutter Health’s alleged monopoly and price-gouging practices.
SF News Covidiot Files: Anti-Masker Delivers Megaphone Diatribe About Mask Rule at California Costco, Gets Fist-Bumps "It’s a beautiful day outside and what are we doing, covering up with our masks," he shouts. "We've got to stand up for ourselves!"
SF News San Francisco Adds Over 3,100 New COVID Cases In Two Weeks; Bay Area Total Rises By 39,000 The monotonous parade of numbers can be numbing, but the Bay Area and SF have seen some staggering COVID case metrics in the first two weeks of December that foretell a grim hospital picture before Christmas. And the curve is not flattening yet.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Longtime Cliff House Operators Say Restaurant Is Closing, Park Service Contract Negotiation to Blame The longtime operators of the iconic Cliff House have made a dramatic announcement to the press that the restaurant is closing "permanently" — however it seems more likely that there will be a changing of the guard with the restaurant's management once it manages to be revived, post-pandemic.
SF News Monday Morning Here We Are: The Vaccine Arrives in the Bay Bay Area hospitals are prepping to receive vaccine doses today, protesters gathered outside London Breed's apartment Sunday chanting "People need to eat!", and those new BART stations in the South Bay are basically sitting empty and costing a lot to operate.
SF News SF Updates Stay-at-Home Order to Allow People to 'Meet With One Other Person' Outside Their Household San Francisco's original stay-at-home order was lambasted by residents and some local government officials for being over-restrictive. Before the weekend, it was loosened slightly to allow for meeting one person outside of your immediate household — but only for outdoor activities.
SF News 100-Year-Old Dam Removed From San Geronimo Creek in Marin for Salmon Migration The endangered coho salmon have been on a steady decline as urbanization wreaks havoc on their remaining natural habitat. But the recent demolition of an old dam and fish ladder on the former San Geronimo Valley golf course has freed up one of their important breeding passages.
SF News Gun Buyback Event in SoMa Held to Help Mitigate Future Gun Violence An anonymous gun buyback event Saturday that was hosted by United Playaz — in partnership with SFPD and the Mayor’s Office of Violence Prevention Services — had received over 200 surrendered firearms by noon.
SF News Sunday Links: Four People Injured in Muni Crash at Mission and 24th Streets The Pfizer vaccine began shipping to distribution centers across the country Sunday morning, San Francisco's only Olive Garden location has permanently closed, and four people were injured Saturday afternoon in a Muni-involved accident.
SF News Commercial Dungeness Crab Season Will Start December 23 — After Whales Have Migrated to Breeding Grounds All but one commercial Dungeness crab season has been postponed since 2015, with this year’s season stalled after whales were seen near the Farallon Islands — a popular crabbing area. Now that they're migrating elsewhere, the 2020 commercial Dungeness crab season is slated to start on December 23.
SF News Bay Area Frontline Workers Could Receive Initial Pfizer Vaccine Doses on Monday Friday night, the FDA greenlit the "emergency use" of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine — the first in the country to get this kind of authorization for battling the pandemic — and, simultaneously, setting up California to receive 327,600 units of it.
SF News San Mateo, Napa, and Solano Counties Likely to Get Stay-at-Home Orders From State Next Week While five Bay Area counties got a head start with shutting down businesses and outdoor dining earlier this week, and Sonoma issued its order effective Saturday, the three remaining holdout counties in the Bay Area are likely get new shutdown orders from the governor next week.
SF News Saturday Links: Zodiac Killer's '340 Cipher' Solved by Code Experts Another free-testing drive finds that COVID-19 disproportionately affects SF’s Latinx communities, Credit Karma is moving its operations from SF to Oakland, and the Zodiac Killer's "340 Cipher" has been cracked by a team of code experts — 51 years after it was sent in a letter to the Chronicle.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oracle Will Move Headquarters to Austin It looks like Oracle is the next company to flee California amid the current mass tech exodus, rain is expected to drench much of the Bay Area this weekend, and the high-end Indian eatery August 1 Five is shuttering before the end of the month.
SF News Third Suspect Arrested in Killing of Two Teens at Union City Elementary School Both an 11-year-old and a 14-year-old were shot and killed at Searles Elementary School a year ago, but Alameda County authorities now think they’ve apprehended all the suspects.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg Says Facebook Employees Won’t Need Vaccine to Return to Work It’s a prickly topic for any workplace, but Facebook staff will not be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine before returning to their pampered workplace.
Business & Tech Twitter Acquires Group Video-Chat App Squad, Will Shut It Down This Weekend Squad, an app that allows users to video-chat and screen-share with groups of friends in a more "fun" way than Zoom, has been acquired by Twitter, and the Squad app will have its sunset on Saturday, December 12.
Arts & Entertainment SF Fire Stations Revive 70-Year-Old Tradition: Competing Holiday Decorations The San Francisco Fire Department is doing something this year that it hasn't done since the late 1940s in having firehouses compete to see who creates the best holiday decoration display.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurant Workers to Rally at City Hall In Protest of Stay-At-Home Order In an about-face from April and May, when San Franciscans seemed largely in agreement that lockdown orders were necessary — if economically painful — SF restaurant workers are planning an afternoon rally at City Hall over the latest shutdown.
