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It Sure Looks Like Levi Strauss Heir Daniel Lurie Is Running for Mayor Against London Breed

Levi Strauss heir and former anti-poverty group Tipping Point Community CEO Daniel Lurie just submitted preliminary filings to run for SF mayor in 2024, and he’s expected to officially announce on Tuesday.

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A Known Fencing Operation For Stolen Goods In the Tenderloin Isn't Being Shut Down For Some Reason

ABC 7 stumbled on a curious story Friday involving a San Francisco man who had tracked his own stolen camera equipment to a spot on Leavenworth Street that is apparently already known to police.

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Saturday Links: Santa Rosa Teens Arrested With Gun They Were Allegedly Going to Bring to School

One person was killed in a shooting near Oakland's Lake Temescal on Friday evening; two Santa Rosa teens were arrested following a tip they were going to bring a gun to school; and the Embarcadero Center Banana Republic closes today.

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Day Around the Bay: COVID Swell Appears to Have Peaked In California

All signs point to COVID cases declining in the Bay Area and CA; Gov. Newsom announced new sweeping home-insurance regulations; and Justice Elena Kagan is calling for an ethics code for SCOTUS.

SF Politics

Elon Musk Claims He’ll Spend $100,000 to Beat Dean Preston In 2024 Election

Is it a blessing or a curse when perhaps the most widely loathed and cartoonish CEO in tech vows he’ll spend $100,000 to defeat you in an election? Supervisor Dean Preston will find out, as Elon Musk claimed in a tweet that he’ll pledge a hundred grand to beat the District 5 supervisor.

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This Week In Food: A Downtown Italian Stalwart Calls It Quits

Downtown favorite Barbacco is closing next week after 14 years, Collina debuts on Nob Hill, and Bandit finally soft-opens next to Dolores Park.

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Apartment Sadness: 'Founders' Are Moving to SF and Living In Sleeping Pods Again

Something must be shifting with the local economy, and as San Francisco continues to be a hotbed of artificial intelligence innovation, the people moving here for a piece of that gold rush are finding what many of us found coming here in years past: really high rents.

SF Politics

Pro-49ers Santa Clara Councilmembers File Ethics Charges Against Mayor and 49ers Critic Lisa Gillmor

The mud is flying both ways between Jed York’s critics and allies at Santa Clara City Hall, as York’s supporters just lodged a series of ethics complaints at Mayor Lisa Gillmor, whom Jed spent $2.5 million unsuccessfully trying to defeat.

SF Politics

Bohemian Grove Again Links Clarence Thomas to Likely Ethics Violation, This Time With Koch Brothers

ProPublica continues hammering away at investigating Clarence Thomas, and now they've uncovered at least two donor events hosted by the Koch Brothers in recent years that Thomas attended — all while the Kochs and their advocacy group Stand Together have had cases before the Supreme Court.

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72-Year-Old Man Finally Convicted of 2010 Rape, Murder of Younger Woman in Mission District SRO

It took 13 years, but prosecutors at long last won a rape and murder conviction of a 72-year-old man accused of killing and raping a 37-year-old woman in an incident dating back to 2010.

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US Marshals Arrest 4,500 Nationwide in Crackdown, Including 137 in Oakland

A more than year-long crackdown called Operation North Star has yielded its third mass arrest of thousands of suspects across the country, including 137 in Oakland on murder, assault, robbery, and gun charges.

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Stabbing On BART Train In Oakland Leaves One Injured

There was a stabbing overnight on a BART train in Oakland that appears to have been unprovoked, and the incident is sure to add to public perception that the trains are unsafe.

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Friday Morning Constitutional: The Air Out There Is Still Unhealthy, Until Tonight

The AQI in SF and parts of the North Bay was still bad Friday morning, but will improve; a shootout at an Albany car dealership left two dead Thursday; and a former Marriott employee won a $20M settlement over failure to accommodate his disability.

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Day Around the Bay: Brandon Crawford May be Finished as a San Francisco Giant

Smoky skies have extended the Spare the Air declaration through Friday, the pedestrian who was struck by an SUV on Valencia Street Wednesday has died, and Brandon Crawford, the last remaining Giant from their most recent championships, may have played his final game as a Giant.

SF Politics

Supervisor Peskin Proposes Moving the Golden Gate Ferris Wheel to His District, at Fisherman’s Wharf

Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who was not a fan of putting the SkyStar Observation Wheel in Golden Gate Park, is now a fan of putting it in his own district in time for November’s APEC Summit.

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Welp, at Least One Dreamforce Attendee Was Accosted By a Mentally Ill Person

A week after Dreamforce ended, we thought, without a hitch and without any report of an unpleasant street incident, we now get a report of one such incident in which an attendee was assaulted and knocked to the ground by an unhinged suspect.

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SF Sees More Than 20,000 Car Break-Ins a Year, Arrests Made Around 1% of the Time

An SF Board of Supervisors committee broke down the car break-in problem Thursday, hoping to craft legislation to lower the approximate 23,000 auto burglaries SF sees every year — only about 1% of which result in arrests.

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The Season's First Bomb Cyclone Hits the West Coast Next Week — But Won't Likely Impact SF

Today's clear and sunny weather in San Francisco, with — despite some lingering smoke in the air — some balmy afternoon highs close to 70 in some parts of town, will be repeated by mid-week next week, in even warmer fashion. But first, a storm's a-comin'.

Arts & Entertainment

'POTUS' Offers Up a Feverish Feminist White House Farce at Berkeley Rep

A funny seven-woman play that amused New York audiences four about four months on Broadway last spring and summer has just arrived as the season opener at Berkeley Repertory Theater. And it's a fun one, to be sure.

Business & Tech

Cruise CEO Says SF ‘Should Be Rolling Out the Red Carpet’ for Robotaxis in TechCrunch Disrupt Interview

In his first major public interview since the DMV cut their San Francisco fleet in half, Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said “we cannot expect perfection” from the self-driving cars, and acknowledged a possibility they could leave town if regulators curtail them any further.

Arts & Entertainment

Bay Lights Seeking $2M More In Funding, Nonprofit Founder Confident Lights Will Return

The Bay Lights, which went dark on the Bay Bridge in March a few years earlier than was promised due to corrosion and deterioration of the LEDs, will return again according to the founder of Illuminate, the nonprofit behind the original installation.

Arts & Entertainment

Death of 'Euphoria' Actor Angus Cloud Ruled an Accidental Overdose

The sudden death of breakout 'Euphoria' star Angus Cloud in Oakland in July prompted speculation that it was a suicide. But a coroner's report has now ruled the death accidental.

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Oakland Private School Wins Fight for Giant Expansion After Years of Neighborhood Pushback

The Head-Royce School has won permission to expand their Oakland campus from 14 to 22 acres, despite their neighbors’ concern that the expansion could create additional wildfire risk.

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Mayor Proposes New Camera, License Plate Reader For Twin Peaks After Fatal Shooting

The entrance road to the Twin Peaks vista point could be getting a new surveillance camera and a license-plate reader, after a 19-year-old was fatally shot there last weekend.

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Thursday Morning What's Up: Murdoch Steps Down As Fox CEO

Rupert Murdoch, at age 92, is stepping down as CEO of Fox and News Corp.; a person was robbed in Berkeley by a suspect with AR-15; and video shows a gun battle on a residential street in East Oakland.

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