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- Exciting and rare new plants, at least one of which hasn’t appeared in San Francisco for a century, are showing up in the Presidio. [Chron]
- At the San Francisco Fire Academy, troubling allegations of hazing, even racist abuse have emerged — and meanwhile, the city is shelling out a $100,000 a day in overtime to account for a significant shortage of firefighters. [NBC Bay Area]
- Some Methodists were displeased after a lesbian from SF was elected a bishop. [KRON4]
- An Examiner columnist wants to open up about the privilege of working in the tech sector, citing incredible, access and free time. Is she bragging, or is she starting an important conversation? [Ex]
- A proposal that would hold millions of dollars of funding for the San Francisco Police Department in limbo unless the department gives quarterly reports to the city is drawing the ire of police. [Ex]
- The chief executive of UCSF Medical Center, Mark Lare, sits on the boards of two companies that together do millions of dollars of business with his hospital and have paid him more than $5 million in stock awards and cash fees since 2007. [Chron]
- With 173 collisions in June, Muni bus crashes are trending upward. [SFBay]
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18 small quakes or more hit Central California, but no damage has been reported. [CBS 5]
- A 21-year-old Healdsburg man died early Saturday morning after an SUV being driven by an allegedly drunk police officer struck him on a New York City street. [KRON4]
- It looks as if a furniture store will open in the Haight's famed Red Victorian. [Hoodline]
