SF Bay Area

29 Dec 2020

Richmond Incubator Program Pairs Would-Be Chefs With Shuttered Restaurants

The plight of struggling restaurants has been a devastating epidemic within the pandemic, forcing many to close doors for good. But as they say, when one door closes, another opens.  In a valiant effort to forge a silver lining in these dark days, one group in Richmond is transforming the

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29 Dec 2020

Sewage Testing For COVID: Santa Clara County Gets Ahead of Slow National Response

In the fight against COVID-19, wastewater may be one of the best tools we have to predict infection surges. Nearly 10 months into the pandemic, the U.S. is finally launching a program to support sewage testing for the virus. Swab tests are only effective if people voluntarily get tested, but

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28 Dec 2020

Prius Plunges Off Cliff at Fort Funston

A Prius drove off the cliffs at Fort Funston on Christmas morning.  The car plunged 120 feet and landed on the beach bellow, these photos of the wreck were taken on Sunday. SF Firefighters rescued the woman driver, who survived and was taken to the hospital in serious condition. According

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28 Dec 2020

Expect Strict Stay at home Orders to Continue in Bay Area & California

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s regional stay-at-home order for Southern California was scheduled to expire today (Monday), but with regional intensive care unit capacity officially considered to be ‘zero’, he announced the order will almost assuredly be extended. California recently topped 2 million confirmed COVID-19 cases on Christmas Eve, and the worst

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22 Dec 2020

David Misch: The System Failed to Protect Michaela Garecht From a Serial Killer in the Making

Michaela Joy Garecht was 9 years old and just four blocks away from home when she was abducted in broad daylight from outside Hayward’s Rainbow Market on Mission Boulevard.  It was late morning on Nov. 19, 1988 when Michaela and her best friend rode their scooters together down to the

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22 Dec 2020

Can The Warriors Be Champions Again This Year?

By JC Carlston With the Warriors set to open the season tonight against the Kevin Durant led Brooklyn Nets on the TNT opening night slate, the uphill battle of returning to championship form begins for Curry and the boys. As the Bay Area and the basketball world all know by

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21 Dec 2020

Who Won the E-40 vs. Too $hort Verzuz Battle?

By JC Carlston I was minding my own business on a Monday morning, cycling through my typical covid routine of firing up the coffee and eating the rest of whatever food showed up at my door the night before. That’s when I saw it front and center, live on the

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18 Dec 2020

SF COVID Cases Up 50% Since Thanksgiving

That’s a pretty striking headline isn’t it? I saw this info on the new publication Public Comment and had to share it. You should check them out. The moral of the story though is that Americans are stupid and selfish and we keep doing idiotic things and then wonder why

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