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“I am stoked that surfing is now California’s official sport,” Muratsuchi, an avid surfer, said in a statement after Brown signed AB1782. “No other sport represents the California dream better than surfing — riding the waves of opportunity and living in harmony with nature.” … [Read more...] about Wave of support gets surfing named California’s official state sport

Livermore Retailer Dom’s Outdoor Outfitters To Close PermanentlyDom’s Outdoor Outfitters announced on Facebook Wednesday they were calling it quits after 51 years of selling sporting goods in Livermore. By sunrise Thursday, people were already in line for the first day of the shop’s liquidation sale. The initial discounts were modest for now, but will get bigger as the store’s final closure nears. Dom’s was offering 20% off rain gear and 50% off Boy Scout uniforms. Levi’s jeans and Yeti coolers were selling at 10% off. Kim Burnett, who grew up in Livermore, was here to buy some ammunition that was marked down 10%. Read More … [Read more...] about Bay Area COVID Roundup: Vaccine Rollout Seeing Mixed Results; Seniors Facing Vaccine ‘Logistical Nightmare’; San Jose State Women’s Basketball Cancels Season

Nothing from the 1970s got worse reviews in the pages of The Chronicle than Pier 39. The waterfront tourist center, upon its arrival in 1978, was framed as the greatest existential crisis in the city’s history — larger than an earthquake and fire that destroyed half of San Francisco in 1906. … [Read more...] about Bay Briefing: Trying to get a vaccination? You’re far from the only one frustrated

Many, many more people would have likely died if their peers or first responders weren’t around to shove Narcan, a lifesaving overdose reversal drug, into their thighs or up their noses. Narcan was administered by people from outreach workers to drug users themselves at least 3,400 times between January and the beginning of December, according to the DOPE Project. That compares to 2,610 times in all of 2019. … [Read more...] about ‘It didn’t have to happen’: 2020 was S.F.’s deadliest year for overdoses, by far

Rivello said she hopes the bill is successful in mandating insurers to provide adequate services — and she isn’t alone. The National Union of Healthcare Workers, which represents more than 4,000 clinicians, therapists, psychologists, social workers and psychiatric nurses at Kaiser Permanente, has thrown its support behind the bill. … [Read more...] about New state bill seeks to reduce wait times for mental health follow-up visits