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23 August 2016 / SF News / Jay Barmann

Day Around The Bay: Golf Club-Wielding Man Allegedly Smashes Up BART Train, Causes Big Delays


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  • The last remaining resident of a shrimping village established by Chinese immigrants on the northern shore of San Francisco Bay, China Camp Village near San Rafael, has died at age 91. [AP]
  • A clearly disturbed man who apparently went smashing a series of BART train and station windows at West Oakland this afternoon caused some major delays in the East Bay direction for an hour or so. The man was arrested on "suspicion of vandalism." [Chron]
  • The judge in the Brock Turner case recused himself from a sex crime case, acknowledging adverse publicity. [Mercury News]
  • Stanley Roberts takes on people driving in taxi-only zones. [KRON 4]
  • Pokémon Go madness is, praise Jesus, starting to die out already. [Bloomberg]
  • One Montgomery Street, i.e. that really nice Wells Fargo Branch, might be getting a 35-story residential tower built on top of it. [Curbed] [Socketsite]
  • Because of Prop C, which may end up requiring developers to build 25 percent affordable units, an 89-unit condo project on Fifth Street is pivoting to become a 197-unit hotel instead. [Business Times]
  • Lyft blames Uber’s “unsavory” tactics for those rumors this week about Lyft's attempts to sell itself. [Business Times]
  • The first hearing in SF’s suit against the Academy of Art happened today. [Examiner]
  • The Chronicle has just hired a new full-time East Bay columnist, Otis R. Taylor Jr., who only recently relocated from South Carolina. [SF Chronicle]
  • The Wall Street Journal says SF has “too much tech.” [WSJ]
  • Famed local rapper E-40 was at a Vallejo school giving away school supplies to needy kids all day today. [KRON 4]
  • Tesla stock rose 2 percent due to one Elon Musk’s tweet promising a noon product announcement, the model P100D, which will be the "world's fastest current production car." [Chron]
  • Palo Alto Mayor Patrick Burt gives interview to [Curbed], strikes back at housing critics.

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Jay Barmann

Jay C. Barmann is a fiction writer and web editor who's lived in San Francisco for 20+ years.

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