Exclusive: Kaiser proposes major new hospital in S.F., its first in the city in 70 years Kaiser Permanente is proposing a larger, all-electric hospital across from its current Geary Boulevard campus, with 300 beds and expanded services.

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At a community meeting Monday at the Geary campus where Kaiser leaders described the project, some residents who live in the neighborhood expressed concerns about the height of the proposed hospital — 14 stories, compared to the current facility’s nine stories. That would cast a long shadow on Geary Boulevard and make it harder for greenery to grow, and might lead to more wind at the street level, said Mary McFadden, who lives a few blocks away from the current facility. McFadden said she’d like more information about how the new facility would benefit patients and the area, and why Kaiser is proposing to increase the size of the hospital more dramatically than the number of beds. “How does this really serve patients and the neighborhood?” she said.

State of California: all hospitals must be seismically retrofitted!

Kaiser: O.K., we will build a new hospital

Neighbors:

Why are you ignoring his experience as an entrepreneur? He rose to become the CEO of a Facebook app and had his startup successfully acqui-hired!

First best outcome would have been Buffy Wicks running for governor...

Second best outcome is Buffy Wicks and her office becoming just as bold and methodical about transportation as they have been about housing!

All but two of the Democrats in the California gubernatorial race have the same tax platform as both republicans: reduce or repeal the income tax (Porter, Yee, Bianco, Hilton), no new taxes (Mahan, what is wrong with you) or reducing the fossil fuel tax (Villaraigosa). These are the worst democrats.

Apple didn't announce that the next CEO of Apple is an LLM trained on the collected corpus of Steve Jobs's emails, demos, and hagiography

Thank the rain gods of $NVDA!

(and all the hard-working Californian's paying taxes on their incomes)

Best of luck to the long-time owner of Chez TJ

His retirement was effectively stolen by the NIMBYs of "Livable Mountain View"

www.almanacnews.com/ae/2023/10/3...

screenshot of https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FIG/ showing a steadily downward stock price

After seeing that Anthropic blog post, the same thought crossed my mind to look up $FIG... but then I zoomed out

On call with nowhere to go: Stanford nurse chooses ‘van life’ between shifts in pricey Palo Alto When he has to be on call between shifts, a Stanford nurse opts to sleep in his van when staff break beds are scarce. His Pleasanton home is too distant and Palo Alto houses too pricey.

Some of her coworkers find it simpler to just buy the van and sleep in it
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Super Commuters Take Advantage of Vanpool Program What can you do with an extra $10,000/year? Just ask this vanpool group

"After leaving Manteca at 3:35 a.m."...

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I'm still waiting for an "AGENTIC PERSONAL INJURY LAW FIRM YOU CAN RUN FROM THE TERMINAL ON YOUR MAC MINI" billboard

California's Franchise Tax Board testing the size of this season's snowpack

"The Greater Bay Area"

Alternatively: A hockey player in Montreal simply slaps day old bagels with enough force that they fly through the sky... to a designated landing area in SF Bay

"Steyer has promised to reform Proposition 13 to ensure that corporations pay their fair share in California."

^-- Yes, the time has come to touch the "third rail" of California politics!

"California Opinions Survey" poll asking me to rate favorability of Zohran Mamdani and Eric Swalwell

Ha, that was a somewhat entertaining poll to take...

Parking for privately-owned autos is the 2nd "amenity" listed on this map.

Is the commission open to also promoting public transit as an amenity at public coastal access spots?

Pour one out for Hampshire College...

The good news is that there continue to be liberal-arts colleges offering small faculty-led classes. The bad news is that to survive, the privates rely on endowments > $1 billion and the publics rely on supportive state legislatures

Keisei sunken boat and old Fruitvale railroad draw bridge at sunset

Boat & bridge

New York Times headline reading "Swalwell’s Fall Punctuates Woes of Democrats in California, of All Places Democrats have struggled to find a candidate for governor who can capture the imagination of voters in one of their most important strongholds."

Piss off, NYT headline writers

No, it's not ideal, but we'll figure it out

Were you hoping to vote for an under-qualified white male in his early 40s from the Bay Area suburbs?

No need to be sad... Matt Mahan is still running for governor of California!

Swalwell ends governor campaign after Chronicle investigation into sexual assault allegations Rep. Eric Swalwell ended his campaign for governor two days after the Chronicle reported allegations he sexually assaulted a former staffer and CNN reported additional allegations.

Swalwell ended his campaign due to:

1. Brave women sharing their stories
2. Excellent reporting by @sfchronicle.com AND
3. Dozens of organizations, electeds, and staff revoking endorsements/calling on him to drop out

This is what accountability looks like.

Now let’s remove him from Congress.

Artemis II splashing down exactly when predicted, to the minute, after traveling like 700,000 miles is why we need dedicated bus lanes tbqh.

Astronauts also going to be surprised to find that San Diego is now a politically liberal city

(Well, if their mission had kept them away from earth just a bit longer)

"Rob Navias, the commentator on NASA’s live feed, just updated the timeline for the landing. Instead of 8:07 p.m. and 7 seconds Eastern time, it is now happening at 8:07 p.m. and 8 seconds."

Props to the commander for referring to the full name of the "European Service Module"

And I trust the Canadian astronaut will insist on delivering all remarks to the press in both English and French

"good reefing"

^--- finally a phrase on the NASA live broadcast that I (someone who doesn't know physics or avionics but has sailed) can understand

Statement from CADEM Chair Rusty Hicks on Recent Allegations Against Rep. Eric Swalwell.