Back in San Francisco, he felt more free, but quickly saw the dark sides of the city. In South Korea, he took up running but sometimes felt out of place. Jue lived in South Korea for a decade before returning to San Francisco last fall. In a Chronicle Open Forum column, San Francisco resident Adrian Jue details a major accomplishment during the pandemic: running all 1,834 streets of the city, totaling 1,058 miles. An eye-opening experienceĪ San Franciscan mapped out his trek as he ran all 1,834 streets of the city during the pandemic. 3 overall pick in the NFL draft, stacks up against the 49ers’ top running quarterbacks.

Sizing him up: How Trey Lance, the No.From Heather Knight: The work of parent advocacy group Decreasing the Distance will continue even after schools reopen. A “pandemic hangover”: San Francisco’s schools fully reopen to students Monday, but the city will carry lingering troubles into the new school year.Also: A new Apartment Guide report reveals how common rental scams have become in S.F. Rental rebound: Data from RentCafe shows that San Francisco rental applications more than doubled in the first half of 2021 compared with the same period in 2020.On the fly: Interest in short-range flights and signups for private flying aviation services have surged during the pandemic.Escape From Alcatraz: An Olympian and a former Corcoran inmate are among athletes who competed in the return of grueling S.F.Barbara Lee, who rarely talks about her personal life, opens up for the first time in a new documentary that comes out Friday. Also: A Northern California couple lost their home to a wildfire and moved on. A costly endeavor: The Dixie Fire, the state’s second-largest wildfire in history, has cost more than $217 million and counting to fight it so far.

Shut-off warning: PG&E said power cuts are possible this week in several counties, including Sonoma, Napa and Solano.“There is absolute panic”: Bay Area Afghans react with horror, fear for their families in Afghanistan.Fans are grieving, and police are investigating. Chronicle exclusive: Bay Area rapper Zumbi dies at a Berkeley hospital after reports of an altercation.Miikka Skaffari, Contributor / Getty Images But the enormity of the challenge has some Bay Area leaders saying it should at least be studied.īerkeley police are investigating the death of rapper Stephen Gaines, who used the stage name Baba Zumbi, after a hospital altercation. Researchers in the past have dismissed this seemingly straightforward concept on environmental grounds. Why not build a barrier to keep rising tides outside the Golden Gate? So perhaps it’s no surprise that there’s now talk of looking into an equally enormous response. Noah Berger/Special to The ChronicleĮxperts agree that sea level rise in coming decades could pose an enormous threat to San Francisco Bay’s shoreline. The concept of a barrier to combat sea level rise is gaining traction as the Bay Area seeks to combat climate change. As the sea level rises, should we dam the Golden Gate? From Justin Phillips: To stop another COVID wave, fund the nonprofits that vulnerable Bay Area residents trust.Now the agency is weighing vaccine mandates. The delta variant disrupted BART’s return to the office.San Francisco has a new vaccine mandate.Here is how S.F.’s public school district has prepared. Read more from Erin Allday on variants and the possible scenarios they present for the pandemic. But beyond that, many experts were wary about guessing. The “doomsday scenario,” in which a variant is completely resistant to antibodies and remains highly transmissible, is unlikely, said Arjun Rustagi, an infectious disease fellow at Stanford. The answers were both cautiously reassuring and disconcertingly unsatisfying. At the very end of a recent Stanford panel about coronavirus variants, someone posed the question that seems to haunt everyone now: Just how much worse than the highly infectious delta variant can this virus get?

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