Business & Tech Trump's Twitter-for-Bigots, Truth Social, Launches Without a Working App Remember how Trump's new media company was launching its own social network, dubbed Truth Social, and Devin Nunes left his job in Congress to help lead this company and this new thing they imagine will go toe to toe with Twitter?
SF News January 6th Lawsuit Brought Against Trump By Eric Swalwell Moves Forward A judge on Friday ruled that a lawsuit against Donald Trump filed a year ago by East Bay Congressman Eric Swalwell could move forward, acknowledging that it is an unprecedented civil prosecution of a U.S. president.
SF News Sir Francis Drake Hotel to Reopen With New Name: The Beacon Grand The Sir Francis Drake Hotel in SF's Union Square, closed since the start of the pandemic, will reopen next month fully rebranded and renovated, under a new name and with new owners.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Bomb Scare at San Jose's SAP Center A 36-year-old man was found shot dead in a car in the Mission District, a bomb scare disrupted the exit from a San Jose Sharks game Sunday night, and protests are continuing in Oakland over planned school closures.
SF News Next Small Chance for a Whisper of Rain Comes Tuesday After a very dry January and a crazily dry February, chances of rain coming to the Bay Area remain slim going into the last week of the month.
SF News Some Last-Minute Courtroom Drama Delays Wrongful Death Settlement for Hillsborough Heiress Apparently the lawyer who negotiated a settlement in a wrongful death suit brought by the mother of Keith Green might not have been officially representing Chinese real estate heiress Tiffany Li, and now that settlement is being delayed and possibly renegotiated.
SF Politics Pence Spoke at Stanford, Got F-U'd a Bit, and Of Course He Talked About SF's School Board Recall Mike Pence's appearance on the Stanford University campus on Thursday evening was not as raucously protested as, say, Ann Coulter's late 2019 appearance at UC Berkeley. But it was protested!
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland City Council Gives Another OK to A's Stadium Plan Pleasanton police fatally shot a domestic violence suspect holding a kitchen knife on Thursday, the search continues for a missing Oakley woman, and Oakland's city council just signed off on the EIR for the A's Howard Terminal stadium development.
Arts & Entertainment The Fight Over 'Managed Retreat' From Sea-Level Rise In CA Coastal Towns Makes It to 'This American Life' If you don't live in a low-lying beach town in California or know anyone who does, you'd be forgiven for never having heard the term "managed retreat." 'This American Life' tackles the term in a new episode about "apocalypse creep."
SF News Shooting In Castro Safeway Parking Lot Injured 85-Year-Old Woman Sitting In Nearby Restaurant A Tuesday afternoon fight, reportedly among a group of juveniles, in the parking lot of the Castro Safeway, led to shots fired and two minor injuries — including one bullet that went through the glass of a restaurant window across the street.
SF Politics Mike Pence Is In the Bay Area, Invited By Stanford Republican Club; Student Protest Planned Former Vice President Mike Pence, who would have gone down in history as one of the most complicit patsies ever to hold high office were it not for a very last-minute act of defiance, is visiting the Bay Area today.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: One Recalled School Board Member Just Resigned Ousted school board member Faauuga Moliga has just abruptly resigned, Marin County has lifted its water-use restrictions, and Assemblymember Phil Ting has introduced legislation to decriminalize jaywalking.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Off the Grid Fort Mason Returns In April SF DA Chesa Boudin is dismissing charges against a woman who was ID'd using DNA from an old rape kit, London Breed says she'll start interviewing school board candidates soon, and Off the Grid Fort Mason returns in April.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soleil Ho Asks 'Who Is Michael Mina and Why Is His Name Treated Like Gold In This Town'? It's got to be hard when you move to a new town and get tasked with critiquing its sacred cows. And this week finds Chronicle food critic Soleil Ho getting back to that business with a review of Michael Mina's whole local empire.
SF News Arrest Made In Marina Dog Theft Rosie the French bulldog puppy was returned to her humans not long after a violent robbery on New Year's Day, and six weeks later police say they have arrested a suspect.
SF Politics Haney Has Slight Edge, But Assembly Seat Will Go to April Runoff Election SF Supervisor Matt Haney and former Supervisor David Campos are heading for a runoff election in April, after neither received more than 50% of the vote on Tuesday in the race for David Chiu's former Assembly seat.
SF Politics All Three School Board Members Recalled In Landslide This election, with eyes on it from around the country, proved to be a clear referendum on the school board, despite relatively low voter turnout.
SF News Morning Links: The Masks Come Off, Again The masks come off (mostly) in SF today yet again, that mystery tattooed patient in Oakland has been ID'd, and there was a shooting in the parking lot of the Castro Safeway that injured one person.
SF News State Attorney General Steps In to Help Mediate Battle Between SFPD and Chesa Boudin On Monday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a joint statement with SF Mayor London Breed and City Attorney David Chiu about helping SF's embattled district attorney and the city's police department work out their differences.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Diego-Based Modern Times Brewery Closes Oakland Taproom After Two Years Citing the pandemic and "global declines in the craft beer industry," popular San Diego-based beer brand Modern Times announced Tuesday that it's shuttering four of its West Coast taprooms, including one that it opened in Oakland in December 2019.
SF Politics SF Neighbors Who Wanted Amazon Hub Site to Remain Industrial Now Not Happy That It's Remaining Industrial Recology wanted to build housing on a site that was formerly home to 300 garbage trucks, but neighbors pushed back. Now Amazon wants to keep things industrial, and still, pushback.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: It's the First of Many SF Election Days In 2022 It's school board recall/Assembly seat election day in SF, a teen skier died during a competition at Palisades Tahoe on Sunday, and John Madden's widow threw shade on the Raiders' move to Las Vegas during his memorial.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Schoolkids May Get to Drop Masks In March, Not Before CA officials leave mask mandate in place for schoolchildren for at least two more weeks, an Alameda sheriff's deputy suddenly died on duty of an aneurysm on Saturday, and West Contra County teachers might strike.
SF News DA's Office: SFPD Used Rape Victim's DNA to Link Her to a Property Crime The latest salvo in the public-relations war between the San Francisco Police Department and the office of District Attorney Chesa Boudin is also a highly troubling potential breach of a sexual assault victim's privacy.
Arts & Entertainment The 'San Francisco Dungeon' at Fisherman's Wharf Has Spooked Its Last Tourist It's either another pandemic casualty or just a tourist attraction that's run its course at Fisherman's Wharf. But the San Francisco Dungeon has closed its doors for good.
