Bay Area Updates
SF Announces New $62 Million Relief Plan for Small Businesses
Bay Area Updates Mayor London Breed Announces New $62 Million Relief Plan for Small Businesses Tuesday, January 12, 2021 Combination of grants and loans will triple San Francisco’s total direct financial support for small business during the pandemic San Francisco, CA — Mayor London N. Breed today announced a new plan to provide immediate financial relief more...
SF Prepared for Pro-Trump Protest at Twitter HQ, But No One Showed Up
Bay Area Updates, Election Although, San Francisco police were prepared for a big protest planned at Twitter’s HQ today, no one showed up. San Francisco police were tipped off that a pro-Trump rally was planned for today, Monday, January 11 outside the Twitter headquarters on Market Street in response to Twitter’s ban of Trump. On more...
$30K Raised for Japantown’s Cherry Blossom Trees After Vandalism
Bay Area Updates, Support the Bay, Uplifting At the start of the year, two of Japantown’s Cherry Blossom trees in front of the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California were destroyed, down to their trunks. “This was not simply a passerby trying to break a branch off for fun. Someone took their time to break off more...
Lemur Theft Suspect Ordered to Stay Away from SF Zoo
Bay Area Updates, Jerk Alert Thanks to SFist for letting us know that the suspect in the Lemur-napping case from the San Francisco Zoo back in October has been ordered to stay away from the Zoo pending his trial. On October 14th, the San Francisco Zoo reported “Maki” a 21-year-old ring-tailed lemur was discovered missing from more...
Californians Asked To Stay Within 120 Miles Of Home
Bay Area Updates, Reopening Thanks to KRON4 for letting us know that the California Dept. of Public Health has issued updated travel restrictions which include advising Californians to avoid traveling more than 120 miles from one’s home for “non-essential” travel. For context, Tahoe is approximately 200 miles from San Francisco. Find cities within 120 miles of more...
SF Art Institute May Sell 1931 Diego Rivera Mural
Artsy Fartsy, Bay Area Updates Thanks to artforum for letting us know that the cash-strapped San Francisco Art Institute is exploring selling its iconic 1931 Diego Rivera mural The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City. The mural was commissioned by SFAI President William Gerstle (1930–1931), and was completed by Rivera in the more...
SF’s Exodus: U-Haul Traffic Out of Bay Area Soared in 2020
Bay Area Updates, Goodbye The COVID-19 pandemic has coincided with more do-it-yourself movers leaving densely populated U.S. areas, specifically New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area, according to a U-Haul special report analyzing migration trends from 2020. U-Haul transaction data also reveals Americans are moving again in growing numbers, and have been since more...
Caltrain Now Has On Demand Bike Parking for 5¢ / Hour
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, Travel The Caltrain Board of Directors voted today, January 7, 2021, to make changes to the agency’s bike parking fees and the price of the 2021 Go Pass that will make the system more accessible and equitable. Caltrain is in the process of installing electronic bicycle lockers throughout the system. The standard more...
“Stay-at-Home” Order Likely Extended, But No Official Word Yet
Bay Area Updates, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open The three-week “Stay at Home” order that was triggered for the Bay Area on December 18 after ICU capacity for the region fell below 15% was originally supposed to be revisited starting January 8th, but there has been no official word from the State of California. A region is supposed to more...
BART Stops Adding New Trains for at Least 3 Months
Bay Area Updates Thanks to the Mercury News for letting us know that BART has paused their delivery of new “Fleet of the Future” trains due to software glitches and reliability issues putting it’s $2.6 billion effort to swap out a decades-old fleet of trains on hold. Thanks to glitches in the on-board automatic more...
Bay Area’s 1,400-acre “Foothills Park” Finally Open to Public After 51 Years
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, New Parks, What's Closed / What's Open A gorgeous 1,400 acre park in Palo Alto that had been off limits for non-city residents finally opened to the general public last week after 51 years. Foothills Park, a park and nature reserve in the eastern foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains opened in 1965 but in 1969 a restriction more...
No Fireworks for New Year’s Eve in SF
Bay Area Updates, New Year's Eve, What's Closed / What's Open Not like we thought it would happen, and the city hasn’t officially said anything, but BART has announced officially that San Francisco has canceled the annual midnight fireworks show that would taken place on New Year’s Eve 2020/2021. BART is not running any extended hours and Caltrain’s last train is 12:02am Say more...
Snow Hit San Jose’s High Peaks This Morning
Bay Area Updates Thanks to SF Gate for letting us know that the Lick Observatory atop Mt. Hamilton in San Jose received a light dusting of snow on Monday morning. Mt. Hamilton, which is the Diablo Range in Santa Clara County as a peak of 4,265 feet and is the site of the Lick more...
Lori Loughlin Released from Bay Area Prison
Bay Area Updates Aunt Becky is finally out of the can. Full House actor Lori Loughlin was released from federal prison in Dublin, California today after serving two month for her role in the college admissions scandal. FCI Dublin is a low-security federal prison with about 865 female inmates According to NBC Bay Area, the more...
How Full Are Hospitals Near You? ICU Capacity for SF Bay Area
Bay Area Updates, COVID-19 Updates, Reopening The New York Times has put together a simple-to-use interactive map if you’re curious to see how full hospital I.C.U.s are near you. Depending on how you draw the map and define the “Bay Area,” I.C.U.s as of December 17th (the most recent update) are reported to be about 84% capacity more...
