Moscone Center loses business as major convention goes virtual
Medical group cancels scheduled fall SF Moscone Center convention
The American College of Rheumatology has canceled its scheduled in-person convention for fall of 2021 at San Francisco s Moscone Center. The convention would have been the first to be held at the venue since the pandemic.
SAN FRANCISCO - Downtown businesses eager to reopen and recoup some of the pandemic lockdown losses are encouraged by San Francisco s move to the yellow tier and low COVID19 case rates, with signs of better times ahead.
This week, however, brought one big setback.
The Moscone Convention Center got word this week from the American College of Rheumatology that the in-person November 2021 convention would be canceled and instead go entirely virtual.
May 6, 2021 at 9:00 am by Toni Shindler-Ruberg
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Oct. 4, 1957: The Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite into orbit.Â
July 20, 1969: The United Statesâ Apollo 11 landed the first humans on the moon.Â
May 6, 2002: Elon Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX.Â
May 30, 2020: SpaceX made history as the first private company to launch humans into orbit.Â
May 6, 2021: Toni Shindler-Ruberg set out to dismantle the romanticized narrative of âdiscovery,â private spaceflight and interplanetary colonization.Â
When evaluating the advent of private space companies, itâs impossible to ignore the histories of âdiscovery,â innovation and colonization, which are inextricably linked with white privilege, the patriarchy and classism. Exploration has always been political. Spaceflight has always been political.Â
San Francisco s pandemic exodus looks like it s almost over
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Monique Sherman and Adrian Richardson (left) join others in dining at Delarosa on Chestnut Street in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, April 29, 2021. San Francisco is on track to gain entry to the yellow tier of California s pandemic restrictions.Scott Strazzante / The Chronicle
San Francisco households fled the city during the pandemic’s first year, with many residents particularly those living in the densest neighborhoods seeking roomier homes in more affordable areas.
But now that the city is reopening for business, with consistently low numbers of new cases and climbing vaccination rates, the flood of move-outs has slowed to near pre-pandemic levels.
But is this a trend? The symptom of internal decay? Is the Golden State turning to rust?
No one really knows, but it should seriously concern us and be honestly confronted. Sitting back and doing nothing is not the solution, whether it s on housing or the economy or equity, Jeff Bellisario, executive director of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle. It s a signal to policymakers that we re not headed in the right direction.
A little history: In the 1940s, New York â the Empire State â held 45 House seats, the largest bloc in the nation. After losing another seat with last year s decennial census, New York will be down to 26, a substantial weakening of political muscle over the decades.
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