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15 Dec, 9 tweets, 3 min read
My latest: An open letter to @bchesky, the CEO of @Airbnb who’s worth $11.2 billion after last week’s IPO, on how he could use some of that money to help suffering San Francisco. On my list? Small businesses, public schools and food banks. What’s on yours? sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heathe…
Wow, lots of people sticking up for billionaires this morning!
This!
Exactly. To be clear, I’m not asking anyone to “bail out City Hall.” But wealthy people can make a real difference for struggling San Franciscans right now. Why is that a controversial idea?
For everybody commenting without reading the column, I’m not suggesting money go to City Hall. Give what you can to @SFMFoodBank this holiday for starters.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Read Brian Chesky’s tweets here. He’s not nearly as down on San Francisco and California as a lot of people on this platform today.
TIL that suggesting a billionaire donate to food banks, public school kids and small business relief during a pandemic and economic disaster is an incredibly controversial idea in “progressive” San Francisco. Haven’t felt this down on our city in a while.
Thank you for doing that! We all need to dig deeper this holiday to help people who are really struggling.
Here’s some good news! Story via @ctuan. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

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17 Dec
BREAKING: Anybody visiting San Francisco from outside the Bay Area or returning to the city after travel must quarantine for 10 days under new health order. Non-essential travel of any kind and of any distance is strongly discouraged per Mayor Breed and Dr. Colfax.
Dr. Colfax will hold a press conference with more info momentarily.
Colfax: #coronavirus cases in San Francisco have doubled since Thanksgiving. The Bay Area has 13.1% of ICU beds available. Throughout California, 3% are available.
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17 Dec
And a compromise with the school board to name every public school in SF after a drag queen. Honey Mahogany High would be the new it school. 💄💋💃
I’ve never roasted anybody, and I’ve definitely never roasted anybody via Zoom. But that was fun! (If my public schools named after drag queens idea takes off — and it SHOULD — @SisterRoma Elementary would be 🔥🔥🔥.) Image
I had to look this up. Sister Boom Boom was a Sister of Perpetual Indulgence and ran for supervisor in 1982, listing her occupation as “Nun of the Above.” Then the city passed an ordinance called the “Sister Boom Boom Law” requiring candidates’ real names on ballots! #TotalSF
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12 Dec
My latest: Why does San Francisco have a profession called “permit expeditor”? Why has the Department of Building Inspection been caught up in City Hall’s corruption scandal? Why does it take so freaking long to get a building permit? Read on for answers! sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heathe…
After diving into the incredibly complex, tangled, confusing San Francisco Department of Building Inspection, I told my editor I needed a column expeditor to help me write this. 🤪
Remember my column on Jason Yu who wants to open an ice cream shop in the Mission but has been thwarted by the city again and again? I checked back in. Does he have his permit from DBI now? Nope. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heathe…
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4 Dec
BREAKING: Bay Area counties to adhere to Gov. Gavin Newsom's phased statewide shutdown starting at 10 pm Sunday. Dr. Grant Colfax says we have one week to slow the #coronavirus in San Francisco before hospitals reach capacity.
San Francisco will run out of ICU beds on December 26 at the current rate of hospitalization. Santa Clara will run out of beds by next week. "We will not have enough nurses and doctors to adequately care for people," Colfax says.
San Francisco will receive 12,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine in the next couple of weeks. Will go to healthcare workers and those at nursing homes.
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29 Aug
My latest: Jeffrey Choate was trained in prison to fight fires, but now that he’s been released, he’s not allowed to become a firefighter because of his criminal record. Even as wildfires rage in his home state. It’s a ridiculous Catch-22 that must end. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heathe…
Readers may remember Jeffrey Choate from a column last year tracing his sad journey from a Tenderloin sidewalk to a San Quentin prison cell. Today’s column continues to follow Jeffrey’s story through a Fort Bragg fire camp and home to his mom. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heathe…
This column recounts the first time I met Jeffrey Choate. He was passed out on a Larkin Street sidewalk with needles strewn around him. He was on the losing end of San Francisco’s refusal to do anything about its dangerous open-air drug market. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heathe…
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11 Jul
My latest: San Francisco’s 55,000 public school kids will learn mostly from home on the computer this year. Distance learning didn’t go well in the spring, but the district has given teachers no additional guidance on how to make it successful since March. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heathe…
The San Francisco school district and teachers’ union haven’t even begun talking about major issues like how many hours teachers will work per day and how much teaching they’ll need to do in real-time versus videos and links. And this is with 5 weeks to go before school starts.
And the city has no details on how much childcare it can offer to kids whose parents must go to work or when they can sign up. Meanwhile, scores of parents told the district in an online town hall their top concern is kids being left home alone all day.
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