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How To Tip During a Pandemic
Here we are heading into a full year of living during a pandemic and there are still so many situations we don’t quite know how to navigate. Things are ever-evolving when it comes to dealing with Covid and each day presents a new challenge. Just when we finally get used
CVS Expands Vaccine Distribution As State Contends With Spread of West Coast Variants
Just about one week after regional stay-at-home orders were lifted in California, all but four counties remain in the state-designated purple tier, indicating pervasive community spread of COVID-19. While most of the state is still weighed down by the pandemic, there has been some optimism over a decline in new
The Oakland Homicide Rate is Not All That Sudden or Unique
Oakland is experiencing an alarming spike in violent crimes. The city recorded 15 homicides in the first month of 2021, a stark contrast from the one murder in all of January 2020. Tuesday, the Oakland Police Department released ShotSpotter for the last week of January, reflecting a 137 percent increase
Secretary Mayor Pete Makes History, But Can He Do the Job?
Like him or hate him, there’s no denying that Pete Buttigieg has shaken the norms in the political sphere. His path from reelection as an openly gay mayor in the midwest to his historic cabinet confirmation has served as a feel-good story we didn’t know we needed. But we’ll need
Is Being Nostalgic for the Emo Era a Coping Mechanism for COVID?
“I’m not okay.” Those three words defined 2020 for nearly everyone on this planet. It’s no surprise that legendary emo punks My Chemical Romance’s “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge” reentered the Billboard charts in 2020. It seems that during a time of unprecedented hysteria, death, denial, violence, delusion, and mayhem,
This Donuts & Chinese Food Shop In The Mission Could Be Yours For $220,000
Chinese food and donuts may seem like a bizarre combination of two things to serve under the same roof, but there are two such places in the Mission District. You may know of Chinese Food & Donuts at 24th Street and Mission, which is definitely still open even though Yelpers
Trump’s New Impeachment Lawyers Aided Jeff Epstein, Bill Cosby Cases
Trump’s second impeachment trial starts next week, and it was an eventful weekend of hilarious Trumpian stupidity on that front. On Saturday night, CNN reported that all of Trump’s lawyers up and quit on him, because they were unwilling to go along with Trump’s insistence on the demonstrably bullsh!t charges
