- The U.S. Mint in San Francisco has starting minting a new batch of half-dollars for a commemorative series in honor of the National Park Service. [Chronicle]
- Someone painted racist slurs on a San Leandro school. A 21-year-old man has been arrested as the main suspect. [CBS 5] [Chronicle]
- There's a $165,000 pilot project designed to test whether temporary flood barriers can help businesses in flood-prone areas of the Mission. [KRON4]
- Goldman Sachs, Hines, and Urban Pacific are going to pay $160 million to buy into the Transbay district. [SF Business Times]
- The BART Powell Street Station ceiling will get a much-needed upgrade, which includes new energy-efficient lighting. [BART]
- A Malaysian official is claiming that Facebook is being used for black magic. Which, sure, why not. [Cnet]
- The World Naked Bike Ride is this Saturday. Do they make see-through rain gear? [Hoodline]
- Sean Parker is pitching a service that offers $50 in-home rentals of movies the same day they are theatrically released. Disruptors gonna disrupt. [Variety]
- Fake iPhone ads are popping up on the streets of SF that feature Mario Woods. [SF Weekly]
- A loop might be added to Muni's T-Third line with the goal of reducing crowding. [Examiner]
- A Glen Park home is covered in garbage, and neighbors are predictably upset. [NBC Bay Area]
- Due to a failure to take the width of Muni buses into account, a new sidewalk near the Glen Park BART Station will have to be ripped up. [SF Weekly]
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Larry Ellison have been named in a $34.5 billion civil lawsuit against companies funding construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. [CBS 5]
- A Los Gatos man adopted at age 9 from Russia says he was his adoptive parents’ sex slave for years. [Chronicle]
- California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez of San Diego announced a bill to allow 1099 workers (think Uber) to unionize and negotiate. [Chronicle]
