• Speaking of which: Are the Bay Area’s high rental prices cooling overall economic growth? [CBS Local]
  • SF Opera names a new head: Matthew Shilvock. [Chronicle]
  • Some new details on that development to replace Market Street (pornographic) Cinema. [Socketsite]
  • Twitter loses its "Senior Director of Engineering Growth and International Team" to Uber, a company conveniently headquartered mere blocks away. [TechCrunch]
  • San Francisco officials are expected to lift a drone ban to start using them for police and fire purposes. [Examiner]
  • Hmmm, SF didn’t send any fire engines up to the Valley Fire. [Chron]
  • One solar company urges the San Francisco Giants to cut ties with PG&E over that utility company’s many misdeeds. [Chronicle]
  • Here's another significant loss for Uber in court in San Francisco: A judge rules that their forced arbitration is unenforceable. [Bloomberg]
  • Opposition is growing to a proposed coal train in Oakland. [CBS Local]
  • Snoop Dogg, the weed tech entrepreneur, unveils his pot-focused website at TechCrunch Disrupt (it's called Merry Jane) and none of this is supposed to be a joke. [CBS SF]
  • Why Mark Zuckerberg’s massive donation to New Jersey schools isn’t working five years later. [Chron]
  • Bernal Heights woman face 130% rent increase. [Bernalwood]
  • That monkey selfie case, which is about a monkey who took a selfie and whether the monkey therefore owns the copyright to the photo, is back in SF court. [Chron] [CBS Local]
  • San Francisco Bay is contaminated with widespread pollution from billions of tiny pieces of plastic and it's our fault for using those "microbead" soaps, toothpastes, et al. [Marin Independent Journal]