Mission Local

Covid Tracker: 11,143 cases, 101 deaths

Sun, 27 Sep 2020 17:53:00 GMT

Good Morning, Mission! Welcome to Virus Village, your daily Covid-19 data dump. Scroll down for today’s Covid numbers. HiGeorge, a data visualization startup, developed some new visualizations for Mission Local, which we will be using and fine-tuning in the days to come. On Septmember 23, the DPH added 9 more cases bringing the Mission total […]

Covid Tracker: 11,076 cases, 101 deaths

Sat, 26 Sep 2020 19:18:22 GMT

Good Morning, Mission! Welcome to Virus Village, your daily Covid-19 data dump. OMG! Has it really been this long? Scroll down for today’s Covid numbers. HiGeorge, a data visualization startup, developed some new visualizations for Mission Local, which we will be using and fine-tuning in the days to come. On Septmember 23, the DPH added […]

Photo Essay: Day 192 of shelter-in-place, Fridays are for family

Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:24:05 GMT

Families that mask together, stay together

Neighborhood Notes: a comic book gallery, soul food, and a new business grant

Fri, 25 Sep 2020 18:52:52 GMT

What’s going on in the neighborhood? Help put a roof over Atlas Cafe’s patrons’ heads Atlas opened its parklet for outdoor dining thanks to the help of neighbors and friends. While they adore the design, the owners think it’s missing a little something: a lightweight roof for outdoor seating. If you’re so inclined, […]

Covid Tracker: 11,038 cases,99 deaths

Fri, 25 Sep 2020 18:20:48 GMT

Good Morning, Mission! Welcome to Virus Village, your daily Covid-19 data dump. After reports on inaction, calls for hearings with DPH and threatened City Hall protests, Mayor Breed found $28 million to address obvious disparities in the City’s approach to the Covid-19 crisis. How the money will be allocated and whether it represents an effective […]

Mayor Breed finds $28.5 million to focus on persistently high Covid-19 rates in Latinx population

Fri, 25 Sep 2020 02:37:50 GMT

Mayor London Breed said today the city will expand its assistance to the Latinx community – a population that for the last six months has consistently represented roughly half of the city’s Covid-19 cases. “While we have provided support for food access and financial assistance, it hasn’t been enough,” Mayor Breed said in a press […]

‘Friends of’ Mohammed Nuru: Report details alleged pay-to-play scheme

Fri, 25 Sep 2020 02:24:13 GMT

The San Francisco Controller’s Office on Thursday recommended a slew of measures to prevent city departments from engaging in “pay-to-play” schemes through “non-city” entities — schemes that Mohammed Nuru, the embattled former Public Works boss and accused federal criminal, allegedly mastered. In a detailed assessment released Thursday, the Controller homed in on the San Francisco Parks […]

UCSF Grand Rounds: Mayor Breed says the city hasn’t done enough for its Latinx residents, ...

Fri, 25 Sep 2020 02:00:21 GMT

Two days after hitting the “grim milestone” of 200,000 covid-19 deaths in the United States, UCSF Grand Rounds moderator Dr. Bob Wachter brought in the key local decision makers including Mayor London Breed, Dr. Grant Colfax, director of San Francisco Department of Public Health and Dr. Tomás Aragón, health officer of San Francisco. The speakers’ […]

Rodrigo Santos: Engineer charged by US Attorney was working for US Attorney’s wife

Fri, 25 Sep 2020 00:45:58 GMT

When United States Attorney Dave Anderson in May charged Rodrigo Santos with bank fraud relating to some $480,000 in clients’ money purportedly being deposited in Santos’ account, hundreds of the prolific San Francisco engineer’s clients were left to frantically balance their checkbooks and figure out if they’d been ripped off. Including, it turns out, Anderson’s […]

Covid Tracker: 10,946 cases, 99 deaths

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:42:14 GMT

Good Morning, Mission! Welcome to Virus Village, your daily Covid-19 data dump. The decision not to charge Breonna Taylor’s killers in Louisville sparked local protests. Tensions were high as protestors expressed anger at the “institution of policing.” Local residents also marched through the Mission yesterday to the Federal Building to protest the lack of a […]

Mission Marchers mourn Breonna Taylor, killed by the ‘institution of policing’

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 13:58:12 GMT

Protesters gathered at the Mission Police Station Wednesday night after Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced that no police officers would be charged for the killing of Breonna Taylor. The 26-year-old EMT worker was shot dead in her bed on March 13 by three Louisville police officers executing a no-knock warrant. Taylor’s survivors allege the […]

Snap: These sleepy days

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 22:57:46 GMT

Marchers protest the nation’s 200,000th Covid-19 death

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 22:54:50 GMT

Demonstrators marched down Mission Street on Monday, from 24th Street to the Federal Building to mark the 200,000th death by Covid-19, which organizers say is due to the president’s disregard for science. “The March Against Death, Lies, and Fascism, and For Humanity,” was organized by a collection of local activist groups including Resistance SF and […]

First the wall, then the ballot box.

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 21:37:29 GMT

Covid Tracker: 10,901 cases, 99 deaths

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 18:28:39 GMT

Good Morning, Mission! Welcome to Virus Village, your daily Covid-19 data dump. Want to feel good about living in SF before the smoke rolls back in? Check out Amy Graff’s laudatory piece SF’s response to the Covid. She uses extensive quotes from UCSF’s Dr. Bob Wachter, who in a tweet, links the City to Canada, […]

Experts baffled by SF’s dearth of data and Covid testing in Latinx community

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 15:54:18 GMT

Without a public health model that focuses on high-risk populations, ‘we will continue to see Covid transmission throughout the city.’ We all learned in middle-school math that averages can lie. The classic example: Bill Gates walks into a crowded bar, and the average wealth of the patrons goes up by several million dollars. Robert Reich […]

30-day suspension recommended for officer who used excessive force

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 13:00:50 GMT

A San Francisco police officer who used excessive force, performed an improper pat search, and “misrepresented the truth,” may receive no more than a 30-day suspension without pay. The discipline for the officer’s partner, who also used excessive force, remains unknown. Although neither the San Francisco Police Department nor the Department of Police Accountability would […]

Central American immigrants take to the streets to decry TPS court ruling

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 07:35:02 GMT

Immigrants from El Salvador and Honduras poured out onto the corner of 24th Street BART Plaza following a morning rally at the San Francisco Federal Building Tuesday to protest a court ruling that poses a threat to their residency in the United States. The issue at hand, Temporary Protected Status, is a federal humanitarian […]

Supes push to extend Sept. 30 business eviction moratorium

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 06:03:10 GMT

With statewide protections for commercial rentals set to expire on Sept. 30 and businesses becoming vulnerable to potential evictions, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors desperately rushed to introduce legislation at Tuesday’s board meeting that would buy tenants more time. District 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin and other supervisors sponsored an emergency ordinance that would extend […]

Former Mission supe David Campos gets new job with District Attorney

Tue, 22 Sep 2020 19:10:23 GMT

District Attorney Chesa Boudin has a new chief of staff: David Campos. Campos, currently the Deputy County Executive for the County of Santa Clara, will leave that position and begin as Boudin’s right-hand man on Oct. 19. Before working in Santa Clara County, Campos represented District 9, which includes the Mission District, on the Board […]