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In a city that refuses to lose heart, San Francisco General Hospital fundraiser is as ardent as ever
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Artist Kaytea Petro works on a mural depicting Native American women outside of Green Arcade in San Francisco. Every year San Francisco General Hospital auctions off one of the classic big painted hearts that dot the city to raise money for its foundation. This year is more important than ever with the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the heart artists, Kaytea Petro, has a lot of new street art up and flourishing during the pandemic.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Doordash Kidnapping Victim Better Served by GoFundMe Than His Actual Employer
Doordash’s CEO is a newly minted billionaire. Its drivers can’t afford child care.
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Folks across San Francisco were jolted awake Saturday night, as their phones blared an Amber Alert message about two children abducted in Pacific Heights. According to a police spokesperson, a food delivery driver’s vehicle was stolen as he dropped off an order, the suspect taking off with the driver’s two kids inside. Immediately, crime discussion platforms like Nextdoor and Citizen were abuzz, with users wondering what the gig worker’s kids were doing in the van in the first place. But according to the delivery driver, he had no choice: His job with San Francisco-based Doordash is his sole source of income, and he doesn’t make enough to afford child care.
Paul Goldner is a jerk.
Paul Goldner is also a teacher, which makes him a dangerous jerk. He’s a high school physics teacher in Newbury, Mass., and a Triton Regional School District Committee member. Paul Goldner wants to keep schools closed. He’s an obedient leftist who thinks in-person learning is genocide, because the teachers’ union, I mean “the science,” says so. As a school district committee member, Goldner has repeatedly voted to prevent school reopenings.
Mind you, Goldner hasn’t exactly been suffering during the pandemic. During last year’s lockdown, he decided to have his kitchen remodeled, no matter the threat posed to him or the strangers he allowed in his home for the job. So Goldner gets a new kitchen, but your kids don’t get to go to school.
From desperation to uncertainty : As pandemic slows, Bay Area residents balance hope and the unknown
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Kathy Nelsen is director of Kabuki Springs and Spa in Japantown in San Francisco. The spa is open for massages but closed for baths the service that Kabuki is known for. Nelsen said that adapting has been challenging but she feels she has an obligation to the city and to her staff to stay open. “I was going to retire this year, but I’ve got to see this through,” Nelsen says.Marlena Sloss / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Jenny Chow, a spa attendant, uses an electrostatic sprayer to disinfect a massage room at Kabuki Springs and Spa in Japantown in San Francisco.Marlena Sloss / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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One of the biggest threats to the health of patients of color during the COVID-19 pandemic is the plague of white supremacy.
We need to come together and focus our power on a response to the pandemic that addresses white supremacy.
Governments and institutions need to listen to Black and Latinx communities and invest resources in solutions.
Ana Delgado, CNM, MS, is the Assistant Director of Inpatient Obstetrics at San Francisco General Hospital and a Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.
This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.