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How to plan a safe and successful ski trip to Tahoe during the pandemic FacebookTwitterEmail For more stories like this, check out The Chronicle’s weekly Travel newsletter!Sign up here. As regions across California grapple with restrictions on commerce and travel during the coronavirus pandemic, one destination has remained open all winter: Lake Tahoe’s ski areas. The Tahoe region was allowed to reopen outdoor dining and hotels earlier this week, just in time for Martin Luther King Jr. holi...

For sale: Rowboat that carried sailor from S.F. to Hawaii for 86 days FacebookTwitterEmail For more stories like this, check out The Chronicle’s weekly Travel newsletter!Sign up here. Ocean rower Lia Ditton, who rowed alone for 86 days from San Francisco to Hawaii last year, is selling her beloved boat. Would-be buyers should know it is a bit more than gently used. The 21-foot craft is a decade old, made mainly of plywood and Kevlar and designed to carry a single intrepid rower. It has accumu...

Company Notebook Princeton Review Recognizes UMass Amherst for Graduate Entrepreneurship Studies AMHERST — For the first time, UMass Amherst has earned recognition in Princeton Review’s annual selection of Best Graduate Entrepreneurship Programs. In the publication’s 2021 list, the university ranks 40th among 50 colleges and universities. Based on survey data from more than 300 schools, the rankings encompass a broad range of entrepreneurial activities inside and outside the classroom. Th...

POLITICO Get the California Playbook Newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. 01/06/2021 09:23 AM EST THE BUZZ: Gov. Gavin Newsom’s pandemic management has fed a backlash from Californians who want to reopen their ...

Bay Briefing: Here comes the second vaccine FacebookTwitterEmail OLIVE BRANCH, MISSISSIPPI - DECEMBER 20: Boxes containing the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the McKesson distribution center on December 20, 2020 in Olive Branch, Mississippi. The federal government plans to distribute over the coming week a total of 7.9 million doses of vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer Inc. (Photo by Paul Sancya - Pool/Getty Images)Pool/Getty Images Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Monday, ...

Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship Ranks No. 40 Nationally December 18, 2020 AMHERST, Mass. – For the first time, UMass Amherst has earned recognition in Princeton Review’s annual selection of Best Graduate Entrepreneurship Programs. In the publication’s 2021 list, the university ranks 40th among 50 colleges and universities. Based on survey data from more than 300 schools, the rankings encompass a broad brush of entrepreneurial activities inside and outside the classroom. ...

Skip to main content Airbnb is defying Tahoes lockdown. Now, hosts and guests are left scrambling to make awkward calls FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 An Airbnb rental home in the Agate Bay community near Lake Tahoe. Tahoe has been shut down through the end of December and lodging operators are painfully canceling reservations for the month, yet Airbnb and VRBO haven’t changed a thing.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of5 Vacation travel to South Lake Tahoe is banned for at leas...

Fire-damaged Big Basin receives $543,000 in donations for recovery [San Francisco Chronicle] Dec. 16—For more stories like this, check out The Chronicle’s weekly Travel newsletter! Sign up here. Donors concerned about the recent brutal fire damage to California’s oldest state park, Big Basin Redwoods, have donated more than half a million dollars towards its recovery. According to a Wednesday press release, two Bay Area nonprofits — Save the Redwoods League and Sempervirens Fund — hav...

Crossroads of a plague The worst pandemic in a century has ravaged Newark and its Black community. It was a tragedy decades in the making. Updated on Dec 11, 2020; Published on Dec 10, 2020 Newark has suffered the most COVID-19 deaths and cases in New Jersey. Photo by Andre Malok | NJ Advance Media The haunting stare was frozen on his daughter’s face. Walter Andrews found her in the middle of the night, dazed and unseeing as she rocked back and forth on his living room floor. “Tasha! Ta...

William porter is african american, but hes a police officer. three of the jury of black men. five are african american women. two are white men, and two are white women. if you talk to attorneys who deal with these kinds of highly charged trials where race becomes an issue, having more african american jurors can change the balance in terms of the deliberation in whether or not you get an acquittal because of peoples predisposition about trusting police officers. >> gregory, youre in law enforc...