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Sep 30, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
🧵California's COVID sick pay policy is now extended through Dec 31.
It *was* set to expire Sept 30, but was just signed into law by Gov. Newsom.
This means that many folks can still claim up to 80 hours of COVID-related paid leave for another 3 months.kqed.org/news/11904834/…
Q. Who can claim this extended #COVID sick pay?
A. People who work in California for an employer of 26 or more people.
(As @CalMatters reported earlier in 2022, this excludes roughly 1 in 4 California workers. It also leaves out independent contractors.)kqed.org/news/11904834/…
Sep 28, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A federal judge in San Francisco planned this morning to sentence a Napa man, who pleaded guilty to charges he plotted to blow up the California Democratic Party headquarters after the 2020 election.
Some Bay Area-based human rights advocates say they are horrified by a recent revelation that dozens of Alameda County Sheriff's deputies were hired after they failed psychological exams, dating back to 2016.
@MsHossaini and @emmaruthless reported on the story ⬇️
Alameda County Sheriff Gregory Ahern said the 47 deputies will be retested. Meanwhile, they'll continue to work w/o weapons or contact with inmates.
Jose Bernal, Organizing Director at the @ellabakercenter, has followed conditions at the county's main lockup, Santa Rita jail.
Dec 13, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
MASK UPDATE: Starting Wed. Dec. 15 through Jan. 15, California will again employ a statewide mask mandate.
➡ This means that all Californians — regardless of vaccination status — will be required to wear a mask indoors.
➡ Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly cited a 47% increase in COVID case rates across California since the Thanksgiving holiday — particularly in places with low vaccination rates.
🛣🚞The Bay Area is set to get $4.5 billion for infrastructure, including highways and transit from Biden's infrastructure bill, which has been touted as needed by BART, Muni, VTA, & Caltrain.
But one entity says the funding could lead to transformative transit in the Bay.
The Transbay Joint Powers Authority runs the Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco.
The $2.2 billion transit center is host to transbay buses, but its leaders are looking toward a future when it can finally play host to another form of transit:
Trains.
Sep 9, 2020 • 6 tweets • 6 min read
EXPLAINER: Why is the sky orange this AM in the Bay Area? 🔶
You'll have guessed it was #wildfire smoke. The bulk of it, says @ggweather, is coming from the north, via light NW winds aloft. Some of that smoke is coming from way up in #Oregon.
But why so ORANGE?
(📸@RadioBWatt)
The sky is 🔶orange🔶 this morning, says @ggweather, because of the upper level density of all that #wildfire smoke.
The smoke filters out different levels of light from sun — and it's filtering out everything BUT those oranges and yellows.
THREAD: A patient at Napa State Hospital was having trouble with his medication in March 2017 and had an angry outburst in the courtyard.
Hospital Police Officer Michael Hauscarriague, the police chief’s son, “tackled” the patient into a concrete wall, breaking his eye socket and several teeth. The officer also banged his head, likely had a concussion.
Jan 29, 2019 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
THREAD: @PGE4Me on Tuesday filed for Chapter 11 #bankruptcy protection, a move the company insists is necessary to contend with at least $30 billion in potential liabilities growing out of the calamitous #wildfire seasons of 2017 and 2018.
@PGE4Me In a simple voluntary petition filed just after midnight Tuesday morning with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, @PGE4Me estimated its liabilities at about $51 billion and its assets at more than $71 billion.
