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DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME

 

 

PLANNERS FLOUNDER: MIDCOAST TRAFFIC & HOUSING

Mega-development plan

Roundabouts vs. signals

Confusion reigns

FAINT LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

Risk vs. reward

Commute conundrum

Stanford virus survey

Vitamin D helps

Clean your mask

NO Pumpkin Fest

HMB virus cases

Virus likely airborne

Surfrider: beach access

COVID-19 scams

Feds' PPE stockpile

Death toll math

Coronavirus song

Scientists fear resurge

Graduate in your car

County data

State data

Daily updates

Florey's Books adjusts

Virtually visit nature

Fact-check politicians

Mental health worries

Masks are mandatory

Civility in Pacifica

Evening howling

Mask donors

Manolo Fernandez, El Granada (NextDoor)

The Costco Shuffle

BETTER SIX FEET APART THAN SIX FEET UNDER

Many public activities, programs, and venues are still closed or canceled or postponed, but some are gradually reopening. Click links below for coronavirus pandemic information. Some links are updated daily:

COVID-19 tracker

Wuhan bat caves

Pet cats infected

How to stay safe

Remdesivir hope

Harbor rent relief

Antibody test hope

WebMD: COVID-19

Sew your own mask

Beach virus debate

County virus stats

Low-income relief

Trump lies cost lives

Help save Via Uno

Local virus stats

No dockside fish sales

No small-biz evictions

Isolation & quarantine

NPR: maps & graphs

Don't eat wildlife

Masks are mandatory

Recipes for hard times

Landlord waives rents

China: masks required

Citizen scientists

Pump gas safely

How pandemic ends

Online stress reducer

1st Responders Fund 

Social distance helps

Dr. Brilliant interview

If you have symptoms

Pacifica mayor speaks

Fight COVID-19

Safe shopping

Gun sales surge

Safely clean inside car

COVID-19 simulator

USA Today explainer

Johns Hopkins updates

UCSF expert panel

Go on a media diet

COVID-19 statistics

Via Uno tests clean

Outsmart a plague

Probation shutdown

Libraries online

Consumer protection

PG&E: no cutoffs

Protect yourself

No care-home visits

Shelter in place

Hotline: call 211

COVID-19 info

NE Journal of Medicine

Price-gouging alert

Personal hygiene

COVID-19 facts

Your best defense

UCSF: COVID-19 info

Brews & Views online

Florey's Books online

POLICE REFORM: USE OF FORCE

HMB reviews police

Sheriff nixes oversight

Jay Bird op-ed

HMB Review op-ed 1

Use-of-force policy

Use-of-force study

Sheriff's press release

May 5 incident video

Questions about video

May 5 police shooting

Shotgun-toting woman

HMB Review op-ed 2

CRACKING DOWN ON BEACH VISITORS

law enforcement

 

FOURTH OF JULY POSTMORTEM

HMB mayor's letter

Beach cleanup

Pacifica Police logged four fireworks citations on July 4, plus one fireworks citation and two DUI arrests on July 5. Everyone else got away with it, as usual. See below for Dan Stegink's photos of fireworks-caused fire damage to Frontierland Park and Ortega School in Pacifica.

CUTOUTS TO REPLACE FANS @ ORACLE PARK

Jeers to the Giants

DIRTY WATER: PILLAR POINT HARBOR, LINDA MAR BEACH, FITZGERALD MARINE RESERVE

news story

MOUNTAIN LION KILLED ON HIGHWAY 1 IN PACIFICA

news story

CAMPER EXPLORES COASTSIDE DURING PANDEMIC

travelogue

HOMELESSNESS SURGES IN PACIFICA & SUBURBIA

news story

SUSPECT ARRESTED IN LINDA MAR STABBING

police press release

news story

CURBSIDE PICKUP FOR BOOKS

Public libraries

Florey's Book Co.

PACIFICA POLICE FOIL ATM BURGLARY ATTEMPT

police press release

WHAT IF...

DEFEND BIG CATS

National Geographic

DRUNK DRIVER GETS 22 YEARS FOR KILLING HMB MOTHER AND SON ON HIGHWAY 99

news story

LEFT COAST ANNUAL VIRTUAL EXHIBITION

Sanchez Art Center

UDDER NONSENSE

How does a palindrome-loving cow communicate with its herd in 2020?

 

"Moo! Zoom."

 

Unless, of course, it has achieved herd immunity.

 

Alan Wald

Riptide's Resident Palindromist