Bay Area

What Your Bart Station Says About You (EAST BAY EDITION)
The Bay Area is a big place with a lot of cities, and every city in the Bay can be a little different. But one thing that is synonymous with the Bay Area experience, is BART. The Bay Area Rapid Transit, with its loud trains, lateness, general sketchiness and insanity

SF Considers Tighter COVID-19 Restrictions, California Flirts With Lockdown
Gov. Gavin Newsom Monday announced that the state could be headed toward another shelter-in-place order. The news comes as 99 percent of California’s population is already subject to the state’s most restrictive purple tier in the COVID-19 Blueprint for a Safer Economy. That means that more than 39 million California

100 Best Cheap Eats in the Bay Area
This list of great places to eat in the Bay Area will leave you smiling and probably drooling. All these joints are incredibly well priced, locally owned, delicious, and serving takeout in 2020. Check their links for store hours, menus, and ordering info, because things are always changing these days,

The Entire State of California is Covered in Smoke & Fire
It’s a ‘spare the air’, ‘red flag’ and ‘heat advisory’ day in most of California…again. With dozens of fires blazing, record heat temperatures expected for this time of year, and hot, gusty winds out of the north. Most of California will be much hotter than normal, with unhealthy air today.

Emergency Tips: Recent Fires, Earthquakes Remind Us to Be Prepared
A group of earthquakes hit just above Santa Clara County Tuesday morning, located about 6 miles northeast of Milpitas. The quakes, ranging from magnitudes of 1.3 to 3.3 struck in the course of under one hour with the latest, and largest, at just before 9:30 a.m. A swarm of very

COVID-19 by the Numbers: Is Policy or Ideology Driving Los Angeles County Surge?
It’s no secret that the U.S. has long assumed the leading role in spreading the 2019 novel coronavirus. We’ve lost 121,622 lives nationally to COVID-19 as of Wednesday morning, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. Los Angeles County alone, with a massive population of a little more than

Racists among us: BLM movement shines light on the best and worst of the Bay Area Area
Prosecutors with the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office announced that they’ve filed felony criminal threat charges with a hate crime enhancement against a 55-year-old San Francisco man. Steven Cibotti, the accused, allegedly approached a family who were sitting down to eat together at Flights Restaurant in Burlingame on June

All the Juneteenth Protests, Rallies, & Actions in the Bay Area
On June 19, 1865, Union general Gordon Granger read federal orders that officially ended slavery in the United States. Although the Emancipation Proclamation had occurred two and half years before, and the Civil War had ended in April, these federal orders acted to free the last remaining slaves in this

Why the Virus Spread in Alameda County Should Alarm Us All
Most Bay Area counties are now mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic relatively well with trends in new cases, hospitalizations and deaths either curving or remaining low on the comparative scale. But where many of the area’s residents are latching onto signs of hope, people in Alameda County see cause for concern,