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Oakland Mandates $5/Hr Hazard Pay for Grocery Workers
Brand New, COVID-19 Updates, Groceries / Supermarkets, Support the Bay Thanks to KTVU and KRON4 for sharing the news that Oakland just passed an emergency ordinance that mandates hazard pay for grocery workers. The new ordinance requires large grocery chains that are over 15,000 square feet and more than 500 employees to pay their employees an additional $5 per hour. The pay more...
SF’s Chinese New Year Ox Sculpture Hunt
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, Celebrations, Lunar New Year, Only in San Francisco, Things to Do Gung Hay Fat Choy. Chinese New Year will look a little different this year, but San Francisco is doing something new to spark joy. This year, San Francisco is debuting the Year of the Ox on Parade. A tradition in the making, 11 life-sized Oxen will be publicly displayed across San more...
East Bay’s Free Mini Take-Home Art Gallery
Adorable, Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, Community, Freebies, Uplifting Over in the East Bay, Concord’s aRt Cottage just debuted their brand new Free Mini Art Gallery. Best of all, the art is yours to take home. It’s kind of like the little free libraries you may have seen before, but this time it’s for art. The Concord Art Association members more...
Great America Announces 2021 Reopening Date
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, Fun & Games, What's Closed / What's Open California’s Great America becomes the first theme park in the state to announce their reopening date for 2021, after being closed for all of 2020 due to the ongoing pandemic. Thanks to OC Register for sharing the news. On January 28, the park announced that their 2021 Opening Day will be May more...
Get $100 for Visiting CA’s Central Coast
Brand New, Deals, Travel About now, everyone could use a little break. One small town in California wants to give you a $100 voucher to explore their region for a couple of nights. Thanks to KRON4 for sharing the details of this fun promotion from Santa Maria Valley. The town, which is about 30 minutes south of more...
SF Opens 1st Neighborhood COVID-19 Vaccine Site
Brand New, COVID-19 Updates, Only in San Francisco, Vaccines San Francisco announced today the opening of a new neighborhood COVID-19 vaccine site at 24th Street and Capp Street in the Mission District. The 24th Street site, which will be followed shortly by a neighborhood vaccine access site in the Bayview, is the first of a number of neighborhood sites that more...
Cannabis Superstore & Smoking Lounge Likely Coming to Mission Dist.
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, City Insight Thanks to SFist for sharing the news that San Francisco is getting its first Cannabis Equity Marketplace inside a new mega cannabis dispensary. The Planning Commision just approved a brand new cannabis dispensary, poised to be one of the biggest in the City. The proposed business, 560 Valencia, will take over more...
SF’s Brand New “Navigation Center” Opens for Bayview’s Unhoused
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, Getting Help, Only in San Francisco, Support the Bay, What's Closed / What's Open San Francisco just opened the brand new “Navigation Center” in Bayview, and its first tenants have already moved in. It’s The City’s 7th SAFE Navigation Center which began housing people on January 25, 2021. With the new opening, San Francisco now supports more than 14,000 unhoused people. As with the City’s other more...
Could BART’s Future Include a 2nd Transbay Crossing?
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, Travel Thanks to SFGate for sharing the latest proposal from Bay Area Council Economic Institute which envisions the future of the Bay Area transit. One of the main features of their grand plan is to unlock the transbay bottleneck with a new transbay rail crossing between Oakland and San Francisco. A new transbay more...
SF Considers Starting a City-Run Public Bank
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, City Insight, Only in San Francisco The city of San Francisco is considering starting a municipal public bank; it would be the first city in the nation to have a public bank. Thanks to 48Hills for letting us know about the city’s ambitious initiative. The measure introduced by Supervisor Dean Preston, was recently approved by 6 SF supervisors, more...
The Air On BART is About to Get Better
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, COVID-19 Updates, Travel After a successful pilot, BART will install denser filters throughout its fleet of train cars, part of a multilayered plan for stepped-up system safety as the pandemic plays out. New Filters Air filtration has an important role in preventing transmission of the coronavirus, along with vigilant mask-wearing. Filters on BART are in more...
New Mass Vaccination Site Opens in Mountain View
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, COVID-19 Updates, Vaccines Santa Clara County recently opened a brand new mass vaccination site that can accommodate up to 1,000 people per day, from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., 5 days a week. Thanks to KTVU for sharing the news of the new vaccination center located at the Mountain View Community Center. For now, vaccinations will more...
Southwest Launches New Route: Oakland to Santa Barbara
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, Travel Southwest Airlines just launched a brand new nonstop route from Oakland International Airport to Santa Barbara, California. Daily Boeing 737 flights begin April 12 and seats are now on sale at Southwest.com with low fares from just $39 one-way. Southwest Airlines published the following schedule: Southbound Depart Oakland 11:45 a.m. – Arrive Santa more...
Oakland Airport Now has a COVID-19 Test Kit Vending Machine
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, COVID Testing Oakland International Airport has just rolled out their first vending machine for COVID-19 home test kits. Thanks to ABC7 for announcing the news about Wellness 4 Humanity’s new vending machines. The vending machines will dispense EUA-authorized rapid antigen and RT-PCR saliva tests. Kits are little pricey, starting at $130, but users can more...
California Ends 10pm Curfew, But SF Keeps It
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, COVID-19 Updates, Reopening In big news this morning, Monday, January 25, California has announced that its lifting the regional Stay at Home Order for all regions across the state. Along with this news, California has also ended its 10 pm curfew. UPDATE: According to Eater SF, San Francisco will keep the 10pm curfew for more...
