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Monday Morning Headlines: Red Flag Warnings and Possible Power Shut-Offs Loom This Week

Joe Kukura — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 17:06:15 GMT

Gusty winds are expected to kick up starting Tuesday, and the National Weather Service is putting most of the Bay Area under a Red Flag Warning this week. PG&E has started notifying customers of possible power shut-offs on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and customers could lose power in parts of Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa, Santa Clara, and Sonoma counties. [NBC Bay Area]
After a 54-year-old woman was stabbed on a BART train Saturday morning as the train was rolling in to 24th Street Mission station, BART Police arrested a suspect Sunday afternoon. Surveillance video caught an image of the 34-year-old suspect Jovany Portades, who was spotted by a station agent and arrested Sunday afternoon at the Fruitvale Station. [Mission Local]
The Chronicle has a very interesting data dive that breaks down SF voters not by whether they’re progressive or moderate, but by semi-geographic “voting clusters” that tend to vote a certain way. The Chron identifies five “blocks” with certain voting patterns: the Progressive Crescent of the Haight, Mission, and Bernal Heights, Working-Class Areas of the Tenderloin and Bayview, Asian clusters in the southern and western parts of town, the Upper Crust identified as the Marina, Pac Heights, and around West Portal, and the Urbanist Middle in the Castro, Noe Valley and Mission Bay. [Chronicle]
Two separate SF Walgreens were hit by smash-and-grab burglaries within an hour and 15 minutes of each other Saturday afternoon; one at Mission and First streets, the other at Market and Ninth streets. [KGO]
The New York Times’ Heather Knight weighs in with a good analysis of Tuesday's SF Prop K car-free Great Highway vote, which seems the biggest issue of the election to west side residents, has people breaking down in tears, and has even prompted a few malcontents to try to recall the measure’s supporter Supervisor Joel Engardio. [NY Times]
Legendary music producer Quincy Jones, who produced records for everyone from Michael Jackson to Dizzy Gillespie to Frank Sinatra to Snoop Dogg, died Sunday night at his home in Bel Air. He was 91. [SFGate]

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Friday Morning Constitutional: Postal Truck Caught Pulling a Hit-and-Run in San Ramon

Joe Kukura — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 15:37:16 GMT

This is the first SF mayoral election that will be held during a presidential election year, and it’s expected to increase turnout by about 200,000 votes compared to the last competitive mayoral election. “Lower turnout races can sometimes be more predictable, because you know that the same sets of voters are coming out election year to election year,” political data expert Paul Mitchell told the Chronicle. But with this election, he says, “There’s a lot of unknowns. It’s such a different election.” [Chronicle]
A San Ramon man came home to find that his car parked on the street had been smashed into by another vehicle, and surveillance video shows the offending vehicle was a US Postal Service truck where the driver pulled a hit-and-run. The mail carrier had left the truck, which started rolling, and was unable to wrest control of the vehicle when it smashed into the man’s Volkswagen Jetta. [KGO]
Once again this year, John's Grill will be hosting its free Election Day luncheon, with many local politicos in attendance. [BrokeAss Stuart]
Despite a streamlined approval process intended to spur more housing production in SF, developers aren’t really building, largely because of ballooning construction costs. [KGO]
Meanwhile, the SF Planning Department is in the process of upzoning various neighborhoods to meet housing goals, but some residents are pushing back, and there are concerts of tenant displacement if current housing is destroyed to build taller buildings. [SF Business Times]
San Francisco celebrated Halloween Thursday night with trick-or-treating, the roving dance party Dance-O-Ween, and the boozy ‘entertainment zone’ party Nightmare on Front Street. [NBC Bay Area]

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Thursday Morning What's Up: 85 Striking Hotel Workers Arrested in Union Square

Joe Kukura — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 15:00:48 GMT

The Chronicle has a Halloween data dive they call the “trick-or-treat index,” wherein they calculate SF’s best under-the-radar trick-or-treating neighborhoods based on percentage of the kid population and homes that are not apartments. While the block parties at Fair Oaks and Cole Valley get all the hype, the Chron’s data suggests there are prime, unsung trick-or-treating pockets in West of Twin Peaks, Outer Mission, and Bayview-Hunters Point. [Chronicle]
In legitimately scary Halloween news, a man’s car was hit by either a falling cable or a piece of rope on the Bay Bridge Monday afternoon. The car suffered damage but the man was unharmed, and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission believes the cable or rope was from workers who were using it to secure themselves to the bridge while doing a lead paint removal project. [NBC Bay Area]
About 85 striking hotel workers were arrested in Union Square Wednesday afternoon, as they intentionally blocked cable car traffic. Police gave orders to disperse just after 5:30 pm, and the striking workers refused. Overall an estimated 2,000 workers from the San Francisco Marriott Union Square, the Grand Hyatt San Francisco Union Square, and the Hilton San Francisco Union Square are striking. [KTVU]
SF Police Officers Association union president Tracy McCray was seen giving two middle fingers to activist and Instagram provocateur DoggTown Dro while he was haranguing Mayor Breed, and there’s a pretty amusing photo of this. [Mission Local]
That TechCrunch Disrupt conference just wrapped up, and Amazon’s self-driving car company Zoox announced at a panel that they’ll start offering robotaxi rides in SF’s South of Market, as well as on the Las Vegas Strip. [TechCrunch]
The goddamn Dodgers are your 2024 World Series champions, after being down by five runs in the fifth inning and coming back to beat the Yankees 7-6, and taking the Series 4-1. [ESPN]

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Monday Morning Headlines: Harris Campaign Rakes in Nearly $50 Million on First Day

Joe Kukura — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 16:00:00 GMT

The 38th annual AIDS Walk was in Golden Gate Park Sunday and raised nearly $1 million, but attendance was quite low compared to previous years. There were only about 2,000 people participating in the year’ AIDS Walk, compared to numbers more like 20,000 as recently as seven years ago. [KPIX]
Within less than 24 hours of Joe Biden dropping out of the presidential race, the new Kamala Harris campaign pulled in $49.6 million in online donations Sunday. And the campaign has officially changed its name to “Harris for President” in Federal Election Commission filings. [Axios]
The new minor league baseball team the Oakland Ballers fired their manager Sunday, despite the team having a pretty solid 29-25 record. SF native and former MLB outfielder Micah Franklin was fired without explanation, and Antich native and one-time St. Louis Cardinals Aaron Miles takes over as interim manager. [Bay City News]
Fremont Police Chief Sean Washington put out a statement Sunday addressing a spate of violence in the city, after three homicides occurred in the span of a week. [KRON4]
It could take years for San Francisco Unified School District's planned school closures to generate any savings, in fact, the consultant costs might be greater than the savings in the first year or two. [Mission Local]
Once again, the Silicon Valley town of Atherton clocks in as the nation’s wealthiest zip code. [SF Business Times]
The tech-funded political action group TogetherSF, who are behind the “That’s Fentalife!” ads, endorsed Mark Farrell for San Francisco mayor. [Chronicle]

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Monday Morning Roundup

Andrew Dalton — Mon, 02 May 2011 09:15:58 GMT

After last night's news of Osama bin Laden's death, the world reacted in their various ways:

In immediate local news:

SFPD announced this morning they're on alert for possible protests, demonstrations or public gatherings. It's purely precautionary, but be ever vigilant around transit stations, places of worship and public gather spaces. [BCN/SFAppeal]
The Examiner reports no transit delays are expected and none have been reported yet, but you'll notice an increased police presence on BART and around Bay Area airports. [SFEx]
Various Bay Area reactions to the news. [SFAppeal]

From various media outlets outside the Bay:

The New York Times published bin Laden's obituary[NYTimes]

The Chronicle: US Kills Osama bin Laden decade after 9/11 attacks. [Chronicle]

It took about 20 minutes for Google to pinpoint bin Laden's Abbottabad, Pakistan hideout on a map. And not much longer for someone to figure out he was 4 blocks away from a police station the whole time. [Atlantic]

ABC News got their hands on footage from inside the mansion where the terrorist leader was killed (Bloody footage, possibly NSFW). [Gizmodo]

After news reports preempted scheduled TV shows, American's complained. In some small way the terrorists still won. [WhiteWhine]

In other, relatively unimportant non-bin Laden local news:

The Wiggle gets a new traffic light at the tricky intersection of Fell and Scott streets. [Streetsblog]
Giants tribute mural in the Mission replaced with giant bull testicle mural. [UptownAlmanac]
A bunch of people stood around in the Mission taking photos of a discarded handgun. [MissionMission]

Morning Link Dump

Andrew Dalton — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:00:17 GMT

That one ban we actually like - David Chiu's ban on unsolicited Yellow Pages - was approved in committee, will be headed to the full board for a vote. [BCN/SFAppeal]
Jersey Shore's The Situation partied in San Jose and Pleasanton and we learn that Pleasanton has a club named "Status". [99.7NOW/CBS5]
Remembering the @FakeRosePak twitter account that quickly came and went. Maybe because it's author felt a tinge of remorse for being vaguely racist, or maybe because Rose herself put out on a hit on him. [SFCitizen]
The War on Fun returns: Western SoMa punk club Slim's temporarily loses it's liquor license thanks to a grumpy neighbors. [AllShookDown]
Highly forgettable former Saturday Night Live cast member Victoria Jackson was disgusted by that boy-on-boy kiss on Glee. We're reminded that we never liked her on Saturday Night Live to begin with.
The Supes are throwing a fundraiser for Japan. Now's your chance to get a behind-the-scenes tour of the SF Zoo with Sean Elsbernd. [Chron]

Monday Morning Links

Andrew Dalton — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:55:48 GMT

Barry Bonds perjury trial finally begins today. When this thing is over we'll finally know whether he really knew if he was taking steroids or if he was really dumb enough to think those were some very effective vitamins. [SFAppeal]
Sunday Streets got some sunshine and some whacky bicycles. [UptownAlmanac]
The body that washed up at Fort Mason earlier this month has been identified as a 64-year-old man from Monterey County. [TheSnitch]
SoMa residents aren't too excited about that boozy, ballpark-adjacent bowling alley. [CurbedSF]
In food porn: there's a flickr stream of photos devoted to Ike's Sandwiches. Not many photos yet though, you probably have to wait in line longer. [flickr]
Biggest bomb squad dud ever at 100 Arguello Blvd near the Presido on Saturday. A "suspicious backpack" in a trashcan turned out to contain only personal items. [CBSLocal]

Your Macworld Live-Blog Links

Brock Keeling — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:42:17 GMT

Good Lord, what blog isn't over at Moscone Center today, getting moist over Steve Jobs? (We would be there, too, but it's positively glacial outside today. Burr.) Anyway, for those of you who care, here are some choice live-bloggy links to today to Macworld Expo 2008. Today, in case you're living under a rock (or have a life) is Steve Jobs keynote speech, and he just announced the holy presence of the new MacBook Air, "the world’s thinnest notebook." What, no iUnicorn? We have been hoping to see for quite some time. Maybe next year.

Visit the aforementioned Laughing Squid for more links. Scott is all crazy up in the Macworld today.