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- The Port of San Francisco is looking at the feasibility of repurposing big sections of pier warehouse space, like Pier 35 for instance, as tech offices or as an "upper upscale" hotel, even though a 1990s proposition prohibits using the piers for hotels. [Socketsite]
- The Chronicle claims that BART elevators don’t actually smell that bad. [Chronicle]
- A one-alarm fire at the Mission Hotel at 520 South Van Ness last night displaced two people. [Mission Local]
- Last week we briefly mentioned the arrest of 28-year-old San Francisco swimming instructor Nicholas Hodges on child porn charges, and the arrest has prompted "hundreds" of phone calls from concerned parents connected to the La Petite Baleen swim school. [CBS 5]
- A routine traffic stop in Castro Valley over a driver on their cellphone led to the discovery of 200 pounds of marijuana and $1 million in cash. [CBS 5]
- An all-girl team from SF, calling themselves The Missfits, is headed to a national robotics competition. [ABC 7]
- Deficiencies in an outdated, cumbersome piece of database software is being blamed for the Oakland Fire Department's inspection lapses. [Chronicle]
- And a new wrinkle in the West Oakland fire: In the weeks before the fire, Alameda County paid thousands of dollars to Urojas Community Services director, Rev. Jasper Lowry, with the agreement that he and the org would vacate the building by April 1, but he was still refusing. [Chronicle]
- A new Interior Department report on a former Yosemite director shows even more horrible incidents of workplace harassment and gender bias. [CBS 5]
- A 26-year-old San Jose man got a 10-year sentence for heroin trafficking after being found in a home last year with 1,745 grams of methamphetamine and over 1,000 grams of heroin. [CBS 5]
- A new bill in the California legislature aims at stopping the practice of shaming students or denying them meals if their parents have failed to pay their school lunch bill. [CBS 5]
