Bay Briefing: A California exodus? Not so much, data shows
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Erica and Blake Johnston pack their San Francisco apartment in September in preparation for their move to Austin, Texas, with their child, Ellis.Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle 2020
Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Monday, March 1, and work starts today to repair Highway 1 near Big Sur where a chunk of the road fell into the ocean during a rainstorm. Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
Migration staying mostly local, USPS data shows
Despite all the talk of people leaving the Bay Area during the pandemic, only a small fraction of residents have left the state, suggesting that reports of an exodus have been exaggerated, according to a Chronicle analysis of U.S. Postal Service data.
Bay Briefing: We can t stay silent anymore
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Members of a volunteer patrol walk through Chinatown in San Francisco.Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle
Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Thursday, Feb. 25, and three counties are cutting off vaccine supply to a concierge medical service accused of letting people skip the line. Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
‘This is a level I haven’t seen in my lifetime’
Wylie Wong, a writer in San Jose, encountered a man repeatedly singing racist comments in front of him while he was shopping. Filipino nurse Kyle Navarro said a man spat in his direction and yelled a racial slur when he was locking up his bike outside a San Francisco post office. Judy Lee, who works for the city of San Francisco, was called a racist slur as she left a grocery store.
Bay Briefing: A San Francisco legend passes
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, painter, owner of City Lights bookstore, dead at 101.John O Hara
Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Wednesday, Feb. 24, and San Francisco has a history of not keeping its buildings in one place and we’re not talking about earthquakes. Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
Soul of the S.F. scene
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, publisher, painter and pivotal figure to the Beats and about every other counterculture literary movement in San Francisco, has died at 101.
“We’ve lost a great poet and visionary,” Nancy Peters, co-owner and retired executive director of City Lights Bookstore and Publishers, told The Chronicle on Tuesday. “Lawrence was a legend in his time and a great San Franciscan.”
Bay Briefing: A tricky time as CA variant could threaten pandemic progress
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Romelia Navarro, right, is comforted by nurse Michele Younkin, left, as she weeps while sitting at the bedside of her dying husband, Antonio Navarro, in St. Jude Medical Center s COVID-19 unit in Fullerton, Calif., July 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Jae C. Hong / Associated Press
Fast-moving variant threatens progress
The United States surpassed coronavirus 500,000 deaths on Monday, the same day that two teams of San Francisco scientists reported troubling findings that a California-bred variant is now dominant in many parts of the state, and it is more infectious than earlier versions of the virus.
Bay Briefing: Controversial S.F. school renamings on hold
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Abraham Lincoln High School was one of the institutions the San Francisco Board of Education voted to rename.Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle
Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Monday, Feb. 22, and help is in the works for COVID “long-haulers.” Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
Under fire, S.F. board pauses school renamings
Facing intense pressure on several fronts, including school reopenings and a recent decision to halt merit-based admissions at Lowell High School, San Francisco’s school board president signaled Sunday that the board is pausing controversial efforts to rename 44 district schools.