• California's Employment Development Department just declared another Uber driver an employee, not a contractor. [Reuters]
  • People keep robbing tourists’ cars, and the SFPD seems powerless to stop them, per Nevius. [Chron]
  • Alice Waters got that National Humanities honor today at the White House, and there's a photo. [AP, CBS 5]
  • The Transbay Transit Center might cost an additional $244 million, meaning the total price tag may now top $2.3 billion. [Chron]
  • The ACLU is suing the SFPD over the beating of a young black man waiting in a car, across the street from his mother's house in the Mission, when they apparently had no probably cause even to detain him. [Examiner]
  • There's been a $15,000 settlement in a suit related to a 2014 fender-bender involving former Oakland mayor Jean Quan. [Chron]