SF News Fire Chief: Civic Center Encampment Is Mostly Out-of-Town Homeless Who Heard They Could Get Free Hotel Rooms SF Fire Chief Jeanine Nicholson, whose paramedic teams often interact with the city's homeless population, says that three-quarters of the homeless people in a tent encampment that recently sprang up along one side of the Asian Art Museum are new arrivals from out of town.
Business & Tech Apple iOS Update To Include Fix For Face ID With Masks, New Contact-Tracing Software for COVID-19 The next iOS update for the iPhone is set to include new software being developed with Google that uses Bluetooth signals to help identify if you've been in close contact with someone who's tested positive for COVID-19.
SF News 22-Year-Old Mission Resident Fatally Shot In Crossfire Near 14th and Guerrero A 22-year-old Twitter employee walking home from Dolores Park on Friday evening was struck by a bullet, possibly in crossfire during a drive-by shooting, and is now hospitalized on life support.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Parks Once Again Crowded Over the Weekend A teenage boy was killed in a motorcycle accident in American Canyon, a stay-at-home order protest happened in Vacaville, and various businesses like garden stores are reopening this week.
SF News SF Queer Nightlife Fund Raises $160K, Starts Distributing Grants to Eligible Applicants COVID-19 has surely hindered San Francisco’s queer nightlife community, leaving bartenders sans pay and prompting entertainers to embrace Twitch. In response, the SF Queer Nightlife Fund has been amassing donations to aid those workers and will begin distributing some $160K to accepted applicants.
SF News Staff and Residents at All 21 San Francisco Nursing Facilities Will Soon Be Tested for Coronavirus The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) and Mayor Breed announced Friday that the City will soon order all 21 of its skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) to have their staff and residents tested for COVID-19, a part of SF's "next phase" to expand coronavirus testing.
SF News Sunday Links: Bolinas Tests Nearly All Residents for COVID-19 Former Oakland A’s pitcher Matt Keough passes away at 64, two-inch-long "murder hornets" from East Asia arrive in Washington state, and the Marin County town of Bolinas has tested virtually all of its residents for coronavirus — with no active infections reported.
Arts & Entertainment Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Welcomes Bay Area Artists To Submit Works for 125th Anniversary Show The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco is welcoming submissions from creatives across all nine Bay Area counties for its upcoming exhibit, “The de Young Open,” with chosen pieces being included as part of the de Young Museum’s 125th-anniversary showcase later this year.
SF News Two Injured in Mission District Shooting Near 14th and Guerrero Streets According to San Francisco police, two men were wounded in a shooting near 14th and Guerrero streets around 8:22 p.m. Friday night, with one of them currently in critical condition and the other recovering from non-life-threatening injuries.
SF Politics 32 Arrested at Sacramento Protest Against Sheltering Order; San Francisco Protest Remains Small New polling shows that 30 percent of Californians oppose stay-at-home orders while 70 percent are comfortable keeping this up — and predictably, Trump supporters are mostly in the former camp.
SF News Saturday Links: PG&E Power Outage Leaves 7,000-Plus San Franciscans in the Dark More than 7,000 PG&E customers sheltering in place in SF lost power last night, Costco stores will now limit the number of meat products customers can purchase, and a 5.5-magnitude earthquake shook Puerto Rico earlier today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Most of SF's Billionaires Aren't Ponying Up for COVID Relief The California EDD is still having trouble processing applications for pandemic assistance, PG&E is purging three-quarters of its board, and rumors are swirling that Uber will move its headquarters to Dallas.
SF News ‘Moms 4 Housing’-Style Demonstration Occupies Vacant Castro House As COVID-19 hammers the unhoused population, two renegade women have occupied a Castro house that’s been sitting on the market for years. A police melee ensued.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Newsom Promises Big Changes to Stay-At-Home Orders, Including Restaurants Governor Newsom is staring down protesters, law enforcement personnel, and sun worshipers in often-conservative Orange County today as he pledges that revised "Phase 2" sheltering orders are on their way early next week.
SF News Fast-Tracked Highway 101 Deck Replacement Project Nears Completion Two Months Early Remember the potential "car-mageddon" we all worried about on Highway 101 near Alemany Circle before the coronavirus pandemic upended our collective existence? Well, Caltrans wisely decided to get a head start on the deck-replacement project, and now it's just about finished!
SF Politics Large 'Reopen California' Protest Forms In Sacramento What appears to be several hundred if not 1,000 or more protesters have gathered outside the State House in Sacramento as part of a series of "Reopen California" protests happening today.
SF News UCSF Team Identifies 10 Existing Drugs and Compounds to Treat COVID-19 A team of researchers at the Quantitative Biosciences Institute at UCSF launched a fast-paced, all-nighter effort in late February to understand how the novel coronavirus functions, and to quickly identify existing drugs that could be used to stop it.
SF News San Francisco Will Test All Residents and Staff at Nursing Homes Under New Order Following outbreaks at two nursing facilities in SF, a health order to be issued next week will mandate the biweekly testing of every resident and staff member at the 21 skilled nursing and care facilities in the city.
SF Politics Protesters Stage 'Die-In' Over Homeless Hotel Issue Outside Mayor's Home A group of faith leaders and protesters from the Do No Harm Coalition staged a "die-in" outside of Mayor London Breed's Lower Haight apartment on Thursday evening, in order to put further pressure on the mayor to house the homeless in empty hotel rooms.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Antioch Planning Chair Stirs Controversy With COVID Comments Essential workers to protest today in recognition of May Day, Juul is having trouble off-loading that 29-story building it bought, and Joe Biden is flatly denying a sexual assault allegation from the 1990s.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man Dumps Masks All Over I-880 A court dismissed Oakland's lawsuit against the Raiders and the NFL, Twitter's stock slumped today after a lackluster 1st quarter earnings report, and an SF sheriff's deputy shot someone's dog on mid-Market.
SF Politics Eager to Point Fingers, Trump Orders Spies to Push China Lab COVID-19 Theory U.S. intelligence officials have been directed to “hunt for evidence” that the coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab, though spies and scientists cite zero evidence for this claim.
SF Politics Anti-Shelter-in-Place Protest Planned Around City Hall in SF on Friday A protest is being organized in San Francisco for Friday to demand the reopening of all of California, bringing the wave of "liberate" protests seen around the country into the heart of the city.
SF News Another Coughing Thief Arrested In Vallejo Much like two women allegedly tried to do in order to brazenly rob a Walgreens in San Francisco earlier this month, a woman is suspected of coughing in security guards' faces in order to evade capture and rob a Target store in Vallejo.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Distributes $1.5 Million in Grants to Artists and Arts Orgs; Another $250K Added to Fund Extending a lifeline to over 500 local artists and 65 arts organizations, the city of San Francisco just announced the distribution of $1.5 million in one-time grants from the SF Arts & Artists Relief Fund.
