San Francisco Chronicle, Mallory Moench, March 14, 2022 Mayor London Breed is embarking on a 10-day trip to four European destinations to meet with local leaders and airlines to sell San Francisco to tourists and businesses, a bid to help the city rebound economically from the pandemic. The mayor is leaving Monday night with officials…
The New York Times, Emma Goldberg, March 10, 2022 Kristen Egziabher was all jitters just before the pandemic, awaiting news of a possible raise, until her manager came back dejected from his meeting with the higher-ups. “I was presenting the case for you,” he told her. “And people were like, ‘We don’t really know Kristen.…
San Francisco Chronicle, Heather Knight, March 3, 2022 The misery experienced on San Francisco’s sidewalks has long offered a case study in the failure of California’s mental health care system. Now, the dire situation is inspiring a proposal for a sweeping overhaul. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan, to be unveiled Thursday, seeks to tackle two big…
San Francisco Chronicle, February 17, 2022 The crisis phase of the 2-year-old coronavirus pandemic is winding down in California, and the state on Thursday announced its strategy for coexisting with COVID in the long term — relying on generally less restrictive and more fluid public health measures to tackle future surges. The plan unveiled Thursday…
San Francisco Chronicle, February 18, 2022 Mayor London Breed is working with business leaders to push San Francisco employers to start bringing more workers back to downtown offices at some point in March. Breed revealed the plans during a Friday morning appearance with Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf at the Hyatt Regency. Sitting before hundreds of…