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- The latest on how SF is navigating its role as legal weed boom town. [SFist]
- Storm damage shutters Bay Area schools. [KRON 4]
- Instagram might start tossing ads in your Stories. [CNet] [Wired] [Fortune]
- Political operative and former Uber communications heavy David Plouffe leaves the ride hail company for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. [New York Times] [CNet]
- Governor Jerry Brown tries again to speed up construction. [Curbed SF]
- Meal delivery service Bento shuts down. [Eater SF]
- Two top artificial intelligence executives at Apple said they are leaving the Cupertino-based juggernaut to join other Bay Area tech giants, with one landing in a top spot at Tesla and the other headed to startup accelerator Y Combinator. [SF Business Times]
- Alameda County gets millions from feds for Urban Shield trainings. [SF Chronicle]
- The federal judge overseeing reform efforts for the Oakland Police Department plans to retire this year after a storied law career dating back to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. [Bay City News]
- BART has pulled a vote from its agenda Thursday on repairing and replacing escalators across the agency’s system after a bid for the project skyrocketed past projections, and contained at least one “error.” [SF Examiner]
