- The United Food and Commercial Workers is now signing up California budtenders, trimmers, joint-rollers, and growers. [SF Weekly]
- That illicit Irving Street Quickly is now claiming it's not a Quickly after all. [Hoodline]
- Baltimore's mayor fires former Oakland Police Chief (and now former Baltimore Police Commissioner) Anthony Batts as the city's homicide rate spins out of control. [CBS5]
- Fired Reddit administrator speaks. [Valleywag]
- Spike to make The Jinx-like series on local antivirus pioneer John McAfee. [Associated Press]
- [SF Magazine] worries about drive-by paintballings.
- What it's like to be a teen working in Silicon Valley. [Huffington Post]
- The Lower Haight's last pot club has closed. [Hoodline]
- Inside the fight over a Chinatown co-working space. [SF Business Times]
- "Lots and lots of talk about being in a bubble, what's going on?" [ABC7]
- The big opening of the new SF General has been pushed back. [SF Chronicle]
- The cable car bell-ringing contest is at noon today. [CBS5]
- Muni's 28 line is set for an upgrade. [Streetsblog SF]
- Here's the hacker group that's broken into Apple, Twitter, and many many more. [Ars Technica]