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Whole Foods closes San Francisco flagship store after one year, citing crime

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:15:24 GMT

By Jordan Valinsky | CNNAn enormous Whole Foods in downtown San Francisco that opened just last year is temporarily closing. The company said rampant crime in the area forced it to shut down.The nearly 65,000-square foot location at Trinity Place in the city’s Mid-Market neighborhood shut its doors Monday to “ensure the safety” of its employees, a Whole Foods spokesperson said. Although Whole Foods did not share any additional information on the conditions that led to the store closing, the spokesperson added that it was a “difficult decision to close the Trinity store for the time being.” Affected employees will be transferred to nearby stores.The store at 8th and Market streets will not open Tuesday, the spokesperson said. The store’s website has also disappeared.Heralded as a “flagship store” following its March 2022 opening, the Whole Foods was one of the largest supermarkets in downtown San Francisco. The store sold 3,700 local pr...

Warriors-Kings playoff tickets on track to be most expensive first-round seat ever

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:15:24 GMT

Klay Thompson was excited to learn the Warriors would play the Sacramento Kings in the first round of the playoffs — and it’s not just because it’s a favorable travel scenario for both teams.“That’s going to be fun,” Thompson said Sunday afternoon. “First time in NBA history, it’s going to be really special.”But fans are going to have to fork over some serious cash just to get inside the building for the series opener next weekend.Ticket prices for the first postseason meeting between the Warriors and Kings has reportedly skyrocketed to historic highs, with some saying it could be the most expensive ticket for the first round of the NBA playoffs ever.Prices on ticket broker website TickPick for Game 1 at Golden 1 Center on Saturday start at $497 as of Monday afternoon. If that price holds up, Front Office Sports reported that would make Saturday’s opener the most expensive first-round NBA playoff game on record.Related ArticlesGolden State W...

Opinion: California’s salmon season shutdown was avoidable

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:15:24 GMT

Fishery managers announced last week that salmon fishing in California and most of Oregon is completely closed this year. No weekend trips on the river, no local salmon on the barbecue, no opportunity to see your kid reel in a fish.I fish salmon commercially from Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. You can see the Golden Gate Bridge from my boat, where Chinook have passed for millions of years on their journey from the ocean, through the bay and Delta, up the Sacramento River.There is communal anticipation before the first trip of the summer, checking anchor winches and hydraulic hoses, safety equipment, leaders, weather reports. Boats are freshly painted and deck tanks for holding fish are installed.Not this year — this year feels like a funeral.Salmon and Dungeness crab are the backbone of the San Francisco fishing fleet. Other fisheries like black cod, shrimp, halibut, rockfish, anchovies and herring contribute, but salmon and crab pay the bills and keep us working year-round.Wit...

Opinion: Ukraine has given the world a blueprint to fight hunger

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:15:24 GMT

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year triggered tumult across global grain markets. As the cost of corn and wheat surged, panic spread about instability in countries from Yemen to Bangladesh that depend on the warring region for low-cost grains. Would famine worsen? Would civil unrest ensue?While food-insecure countries have suffered keenly from high grain prices over the past year, some of the consequences we feared most have been avoided. Even as the conflict continues to rage, grain markets have calmed down considerably, with prices close to pre-invasion levels — a better outcome than many expected.Astute diplomacy, next-level technologies, a resilient distribution infrastructure and efficient trading strategies were key elements of coping with these disrupted markets. The world acted quickly to leverage those strengths across global networks, moving grain from regions where it’s cheap and plentiful to those where it was scarce and costly.At a time when the global food supply is...

How low are California’s property taxes?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:15:24 GMT

The “Looking Glass” ponders economic and real estate trends through two distinct lenses: the optimist’s “glass half-full” and the pessimist’s “glass half-empty.”Buzz: California property tax bills – as a slice of a home’s value – look low on a national yardstick.Source: My trusty spreadsheet reviewed 2022 property tax payments for single-family homes in 188 counties with 100,000 residences, as compiled by real estate data tracker Attom.Debate: How much can Californians complain about their property taxes when Proposition 13 limits big jumps in valuations used to calculate these government levies?Glass half-fullSix of California’s big counties were among 50 of the 188 with the lowest average “effective” property tax rates last year – that’s tax bills as a share of the property’s value. San Mateo was 32nd highest of the 188 at 0.58%, Santa Clara, No. 34 at 0.59%, Orange, No. 36 at 0.60%, San Diego, No. 40 at 0.62%, Los Angeles, No. 45 at 0.65%, and Alameda, No. 49 at 0.66%.These low r...

UC Berkeley police investigate 3 sexual assaults on campus

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:15:24 GMT

BERKELEY, Calif. (KRON) -- UC Berkeley police believe three assaults in the past week may be connected. The last assault happened just hours ago as a young woman was walking to one of the residence halls on campus, according to UC Berkeley police.UC Berkley police released photos of the man they are looking regarding an assault that happened just after mid-night Tuesday morning. Police said a woman was walking near the Foothill Complex, which is a residence hall, when she said she was grabbed from behind and knocked to the floor. Officials said she fought back by kicking and was able to get away, but that suspect is still on the loose.Police believe Tuesday morning's incident is related to the two sexual battery cases that happened last week.The first happened last Wednesday, April 5, at the Eucalyptus Grove around 1:30 p.m. The second incident happened this past Sunday, April 9, around 9:40 a.m. near Stephens Hall.In both of those cases, the suspect grabbed a female student’s priva...

South Bay Water Agency considers rescinding water shortage emergency condition

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:15:24 GMT

(BCN) -- As the record amounts of rain and snow from more than a dozen atmospheric river storms have pulled most areas of California out of the drought during the last three months -- including most regions of the San Francisco Bay Area -- water officials in the Santa Clara Valley are re-evaluating their drought emergency condition. On Tuesday, the Board of Directors of Valley Water -- which manages water for Santa Clara County's nearly two million residents -- will consider at its afternoon board meeting recommendations to be discussed, one of which is to rescind the agency's water shortage emergency condition. Another recommendation is to ease associated mandatory water use restrictions. Agency officials said Monday that the National Drought Monitor shows Santa Clara County is now designated "free of drought" for the first time in three years. The heavy storms of the last three months have also improved Valley Water's imported water allocations from the State Water Proje...

Moderna says potential flu vaccine needs more study

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:15:24 GMT

Moderna shares slipped Tuesday morning after the COVID-19 vaccine developer said its potential flu vaccine needs more study in a late-stage clinical trial.The company said an independent data and safety monitory board found that the potential vaccine “did not meet the statistical threshold necessary to declare early success” in the study.The board recommended that the trial should continue.Moderna is developing the vaccine, labeled mRNA-1010, to guard against seasonal flu. It is testing the vaccine in two, late-stage studies in the Southern and Northern hemispheres.The vaccine developer said Tuesday it expects to launch six vaccines in the next few years.The company’s COVID-19 vaccine, Spikevax, has been its main revenue generator so far. It brought in more than $18 billion in sales last year.Moderna also is developing potential vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, and the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS.Shares of Moderna Inc., based in Cambridge, Massachu...

A 100 días de la Copa Mundial Femenina: así prepara Telemundo toda su cobertura

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:15:24 GMT

Sólo 100 días es la distancia que separa a millones de aficionados de la patada inicial de la Copa Mundial de Fútbol Femenino que se disputarán 32 selecciones, seis de ellas latinoamericanas. El balón empezará a correr de forma simultánea el 20 de julio en las canchas de Eden Park, en Auckland, y en el estadio Australia, en Sídney, en juegos que serán transmitidos en vivo por Telemundo y Peacock.La Copa sigue estando en la cancha de Telemundo, que verá a las mujeres buscar la gloria y alzar el codiciado trofeo un mes después, el 20 de agosto.El espectáculo está a la vuelta de la esquina, cuando las mejores jugadoras del mundo, como Linda Caicedo, de Colombia; Jennifer Hermoso, de España, y todas las estrellas del Team USA lideradas por Megan Rapinoe y Alex Morgan, salten a la cancha. Todo lo que debes saber sobre la Copa Mundial FIFA 2023 de Fútbol Femenino Una por una: las nuevas camisetas de Nike para 13 selecciones de la Copa Mundial femen...

Crisis de opioides en EEUU: el gobierno sancionará a los traficantes de fentanilo

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:15:24 GMT

Estados Unidos centrará sus esfuerzos y fortalecerá la lucha contra el fentanilo, un potente opioide sintético que es hasta 50 veces más fuerte que la heroína y 100 veces más fuerte que la morfina, como parte de su estrategia para combatir contra la preocupante crisis de los opioides en el país.Entre algunas de las medidas, el gobierno bloqueará las actividades financieras ilícitas de los narcotraficantes involucrados en el tráfico de fentanilo aumentando las sanciones en su contra, según un comunicado de la Casa Blanca difundido este martes.EEUU decomisó en 2022 más fentanilo del que se necesitaría para matar a todos los estadounidenses. “El fentanillo es ahora la amenaza más mortal de drogas que enfrenta este país”, advirtió la DEA a finales del año pasado. Más letal que la heroína: decomisan cargamento de droga “zombie” Narcan: cómo usarlo al momento de una sobredosis de drogas “Se ampliarán los esfuerzos para...