San Francisco (Calif)
What Remote Work Debate? They’ve Been Back at the Office for a While.
Gabe Tucker, 26, is a lawyer with Fortif Law Partners in Birmingham, Ala., where the share of job listings that permit remote work is roughly half that of New York’s. Each morning, Mr. Tucker puts on a button-down shirt, drives for 15 minutes and arrives at the office around 8. His routine, in other words, […]
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Restaurant Review: Korean Barbecue at San Ho Won in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO — Twenty years into running his restaurant in Los Angeles’s Chinatown, Yening Liang had a sudden moment of revelation. It wasn’t enough, he realized, for the menus at Hop Woo to translate dishes like barbecue pork and roast duck from Cantonese into English. If he wanted the city’s Mexican, Central American and other […]
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How Wish Built (and Fumbled) a Dollar Store for the Internet
Consumers have complained to the Better Business Bureau about Wish products that never arrived or were unrecognizable when they did. France, which was one of Wish’s largest markets, ordered search engines and mobile app stores last fall to remove the company from their online listings, citing the presence of dangerous appliances and other products. Merchants […]
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Following Recall, San Francisco School Board Reverses Course
San Francisco voters in February ousted three school board members in a landslide election that proponents hoped would reshape the city’s education policy and politics. Just four months later, the impacts of that vote are emerging in a big way. The recall effort was driven in part by disagreement over how to handle admissions at […]
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DUI Arrest of Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Illuminates the Speaker’s California Life
Speaker Nancy Pelosi had just urged Brown University graduates to stay resilient and summon their “better angels” on Memorial Day weekend when she was forced to turn her attention to a less uplifting situation: her husband’s arrest in California. The details emerging from the incident were not especially flattering. The night before, May 28, Paul […]
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Chesa Boudin Ousted in San Francisco District Attorney Recall
SAN FRANCISCO — Voters in San Francisco on Tuesday put an end to one of the country’s most pioneering experiments in criminal justice reform, ousting a district attorney who eliminated cash bail, vowed to hold police accountable and worked to reduce the number of people sent to prison. Chesa Boudin, the progressive district attorney, was […]
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Google’s I/O Conference Offers Modest Vision of the Future
SAN FRANCISCO — There was a time when Google offered a wondrous vision of the future, with driverless cars, augmented-reality eyewear, unlimited storage of emails and photos, and predictive texts to complete sentences in progress. A more modest Google was on display on Wednesday as the company kicked off its annual developer’s conference. The Google […]
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LinkedIn Agrees to Pay $1.8 Million to Women Over Discrimination Claims
LinkedIn, the professional networking platform, has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor to pay $1.8 million to female employees who the agency said received far less compensation than their male colleagues from 2015 to 2017, the department said on Tuesday. According to a statement released by the agency, LinkedIn denied 686 women […]
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At Anchor Oyster Bar, Cioppino This Good Can’t Be a Cliché
Dungeness crab season is shorter and more delicate than it used to be — this past year, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife delayed its start in an effort to protect whales moving through the area. The previous year, a toxic algal bloom, likely caused by warming and acidifying waters, shut down crab fisheries […]
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