Business & Tech Uber Wants Its Non-Employee Drivers to Get Early Vaccines Industry trade organizations are lining up to lobby the CDC and states to get their workers high up in the queue of Americans waiting to receive the coronavirus vaccine, and Uber is lining up too.
SF News Suspect Arrested In February Homicide Following Muni Bus Altercation A 38-year-old Piedmont man has been arrested and charged in the homicide of a San Francisco man, following a fight between the two men that began on a Muni bus.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Sonoma County Joins In Stay-At-Home Order Sonoma County is locking back down and closing wineries and outdoor dining after tonight, rain is coming to the Bay Area Saturday and Sunday, and state officials say that the rich and famous won't be cutting the line for the COVID vaccine.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 'Ghost Towns' Emerge in SF as Shutdown Continues Healing Cuts in the Castro is moving to a new location, rents across San Francisco continue to plunge, and once-bustling neighborhoods (like Chinatown and SoMa) now sit uncomfortably quiet amid the current stay-at-home order.
SF News DoorDash Founders Become Billionaires After Company Goes Public On Wednesday, the San Francisco-based food delivery app offered its first IPO — which, in just a day's time, has made its three co-founders overnight billionaires.
SF Politics New Newsom Scandal: Gavin’s Companies Got $3 Million in PPP Loans Newsom’s PlumpJack Group got a plump $2.9 million in PPP loans for its high-end wineries and restaurants, which is eight times higher than what was originally reported.
SF Politics Dianne Feinstein Faces Fresh Round of ‘Rumors of Her Cognitive Decline’ The 87-year-old senator has visibly lost a step, but a new report features stories from (mostly anonymous) aides saying that her mental deterioration is a lot further along than we realize.
SF News California's New COVID Contact-Alert App Will Only Work If Pretty Much Everyone Downloads and Uses It A contact-tracing "beacon" app that's been in development since the spring is now rolling out for all Californians, but what does it really do and will it really help anyone find out if they've been exposed to the coronavirus?
Arts & Entertainment SantaCon Founder Urging Everyone to Get Drunk at Home Even though it's been "canceled," it's always been kind of an unofficial event, and unofficially there may be drunken, masked Santas out there whether we like it or not — but a founder of the event says it's pointless when the bars are closed and we're in a pandemic so stay home!
SF News San Francisco Hits Record High In COVID Hospitalizations; Bay Area Adds 72 Seriously Ill Patients Overnight The Bay Area saw a single-day jump of COVID hospitalizations of 6.1% on Tuesday, and San Francisco is seeing more seriously ill COVID patients in hospitals at one time than at any other time during this pandemic.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: BART Shares Balboa Park Redesign Plan BART is hosting the final meeting of the year on Balboa Park Station redesign plans, UCSF is prepping to receive the first COVID-19 vaccine doses, and the man swept out to sea in Pacifica on Tuesday is presumed dead.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lake Tahoe Shuts Down to Tourists, Again Newsom says the state will get 642,000 more vaccine doses from Moderna in a few weeks, three South Bay hospitals are now out of ICU beds, and Napa and Sonoma wineries remain open for tastings.
Business & Tech FTC and States Join Forces In Antitrust Lawsuits Against Facebook, Calling It an Illegal Monopoly In a clear escalation in the war Facebook faces over its dominance in the social media landscape, the Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of 48 states' attorneys general are suing to break the company up.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Playgrounds Will Reopen As State Backtracks on Order Governor Gavin Newsom must have heard from a lot of people about the decision to include playgrounds among the things being closed under state stay-at-home orders. Because on Wednesday the state reversed itself.
Business & Tech Amazon’s Cartoonish Self-Driving Taxi Prematurely Debuts in Union Square Zoiks! The new Zoox self-driving taxicab from Amazon was spotted in SF this past weekend, more than a week before its scheduled public debut.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Backlash Grows Over Bay Area Restaurant and Business Closures, In Spite of COVID Surge Concerns Anger, sadness, and lots of financial pain and resentment are going around in San Francisco and several neighboring counties after new health orders that took effect Sunday night.
SF Politics Willie Brown Doesn't Get the Drama With the City Hall Scandal, Feels Bad For Friends Facing Federal Charges Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who is often credited with wielding influence over city government and development long after his tenure as mayor ended in the early 2000s, has weighed in on the latest corruption scandal at City Hall in a new interview.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SoMa Shooting Leaves One Critically Wounded A person was fatally struck by Caltrain in San Francisco Tuesday night, California set a new record for daily COVID cases with over 35,000, and it's IPO Day for DoorDash.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Beer Week Is Obviously Canceled UC Berkeley is sending mixed message to students about the winter break, the SF Board of Supervisors is not banning smoking in apartment buildings after all, and the death of a man found in a burning home in Richmond is being treated as suspicious.
Arts & Entertainment Tracy Man Famous for Holiday Light Shows Does Xmas Tribute for Wife After She Survived a Stroke Tom BetGeorge, the lighting designer whose holiday light displays on his home in Tracy at Halloween and Christmas time have been the stuff of much local-news fodder the past few years, is back at it, but with new personal meaning to this year's work.
SF Politics Drug Test Ordered By Judge Following Search of City Official's Home and Suspected Cocaine Discovery A new and embarrassing twist came in the City Hall scandal chapter involving former SF Public Utilities chief Harlan Kelly as prosecutors say that cocaine was found in the FBI's search of his home.
SF Politics Suspected ‘Honey Trap’ Chinese Spy Targeted Bay Area Congressmen Swalwell and Khanna The alleged spy was an Eric Swalwell fundraiser and Ro Khanna volunteer, but some Midwestern mayors are likely more nervous because the FBI has footage of her having sex with them.
SF News Search Launched for Man Swept Out to Sea Amid Rough Surf in Pacifica A man was reportedly swept out to sea Tuesday morning near the Pacifica Municipal Pier, and rescuers have been unable to find him.
SF News Maverick San Mateo County Health Officer Tells Residents There Won't Be a New Lockdown Unless State Insists One of the consistently intriguing figures in this pandemic has been Dr. Scott Morrow, the longtime health officer of San Mateo County, who has made a habit of telling it like it is when it comes to public health orders and not reverting to talking points or bureaucratic obfuscation.
Bay Area Sports Niners' End of Season Gets Precarious as Josh Allen and Bills Crush Them 34-24 In Arizona With San Francisco "hosting" Buffalo in Arizona Monday night following new public health guidelines put in place by Santa Clara County, Josh Allen and the Bills dazzled the 49ers as uncertainty swells within the organization.
