SF Politics Scott Wiener Introduces Bill to Legalize Psychedelics Statewide The bill would decriminalize the use and possession of psilocybin (mushrooms), molly, LSD, ketamine, DMT, and mescaline, among other things.
SF News Remains of 37-Year-Old Walnut Creek Woman Missing Since June Found In Desert Near Twentynine Palms San Bernardino County authorities have identified skeletal remains they discovered in the desert outside Twentynine as those of 37-year-old Erika Ashley Lloyd. The remains were found by hikers on January 31, and Lloyd had been missing since June 16, 2020.
SF News Retired SF Police Officer Allegedly Threatened to Kill 11-Year-Old Over Ding-Dong-Ditch Pranks A retired San Francisco cop now living in Marin County is being accused of threatening to "put a bullet" in an 11-year-old boy after the boy and his friends were reportedly ringing doorbells in the neighborhood and running away — i.e. playing ding-dong ditch.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Two Waves of Rain Moving Through SF parents stage "Zoom-in" protests outside closed public schools, Dropbox posted a big loss after seeking to sublease a lot of its office space, and new studies suggest people who've had COVID should get just one vaccine dose.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Police Commission Rejects SFPD Layoff Proposal A Victorian house is getting moved (just like in olden times) from Franklin to Fulton Street this weekend, the SF Zoo is helping save sea turtles from the Texas freeze, and there's still more CA Craft Beer Week stuff happening.
Arts & Entertainment ACT Announces Three Filmed Play Readings to Be Streamed This Spring As San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater prepares to try to reopen for in-person performances this summer (or fall), the company has announced a series of play readings that will continue its streaming programs that began in the fall.
SF News Bay Area COVID Hospitalizations Fall Below 1,000 For the First Time Since November On the same day that California's number of hospitalized COVID patients fell back to late-November levels this week, the Bay Area's number has also fallen to nearly the same number as were hospitalized on November 30.
SF Politics Brace Yourselves For a Rogues' Gallery of Candidates If Newsom Recall Election Happens Anyone who was around California in 2003 will remember the circus sideshow that the whole nation watched when Governor Gray Davis was put up for a recall vote, with 135 candidates qualifying for the ballot including former child star Gary Coleman (RIP) and porn star Mary Carey.
Arts & Entertainment Decision Delayed for Extension of Golden Gate Park Ferris Wheel At the request of several SF supervisors, the Historic Preservation Commission held off on a final decision about whether to grant a four-year extension for the 150-foot-tall observation wheel in Golden Gate Park
SF News Second Suspect Arrested In Carjack-Kidnapping of DoorDash Driver's Kids San Francisco police located and arrested the second suspect in the carjacking and kidnapping of a DoorDash driver's minivan with two small children inside.
SF News Foul Play Not Suspected In Mission District Man's Death; Body Found In Crawl Space The mysterious death of a San Francisco man last month is coming a bit more into focus as we learn a couple of new details from the SFPD.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Moscone Center Resumes Vaccinations Monday COVID has decreased U.S. life expectancy by a full year, the Moscone Center vaccination site resumes operations on Monday with a backlog of appointments, and Airbnb is opening a "technical hub" in Atlanta.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Seach Continues For Richmond Teen Who Disappeared Berkeley is considering doing away with all single-family zoning, Kaiser says it's been slower to vaccinate seniors than other networks because it isn't getting a fair vaccine allocation, and DNA shows an East Bay coyote has been responsible for multiple attacks on people.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Restaurants Remain Impatient to Return to Indoor Dining While 99% of the state remains in the "Purple" tier this week, restaurant owners in the Bay Area are looking for signs that they should be prepping their dining rooms again for low-capacity indoor service.
SF News Liquor Store Owner In Oakland Chinatown Arrested for Vigilante Firearm Action During Street Robbery On Monday evening, one business owner in Oakland's Chinatown who tried to take matters into his own hands — by way of shooting a weapon while intervening in a robbery that was occurring outside his store — was arrested for his actions.
SF News Halleloo: BART and Muni Riders Will Soon Be Able to Pay Fares With Mobile Phones Two years behind New York's transit system — a.k.a. right on schedule — Clipper cards are going mobile, enabling riders to stop fumbling with wallets at BART and Muni stations and pay using Apple Pay or Google Pay on their mobile phones.
SF News Catholic Priest at SF's Saints Peter and Paul Church Dies From COVID-19 The saga of the Catholic Church in San Francisco during this pandemic has led to a high-profile tragedy this week as we learn of the death of one of the priests at Saints Peter and Paul Church in North Beach.
SF Politics Ted Cruz's Tweets About Democrats Causing California's Blackouts Come Back to Haunt Him Republicans' memories are painfully short when it comes to anything anyone said longer than a few days ago. But if there's one terrific thing about Twitter, it's that it keeps a record of their nonsense that we can at least throw back in their virtual faces when need be.
SF News Bay Area Epidemiologist Suggests the Last Year of the Pandemic Was Just One Big 'First Wave' Marin County-based epidemiologist Dr. Larry Brilliant, who offered some prescient warnings last April about not letting up the Bay Area's strict lockdowns for fear of subsequent COVID surges, is back with some dour predictions and words of caution.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Pedestrian Killed On I-80 Near Bay Bridge In SF A person who was reportedly walking in the roadway was struck and killed on I-80 eastbound in SF, Berkeley's school district reached a deal to reopen schools in March, and today's the day for that contentious hearing over the Golden Gate Park Ferris wheel.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Police Investigate Visitacion Valley Shooting A new two-day-a-week vaccine site opens at SFO, the Presidio Trust has just inked a deal with a third-party caterer to manage its popular event venues, and Stanford's commencement will be virtual again this year.
SF News 4,500 People Were No-Shows For Vaccines In Santa Clara County During First Week of Levi's Stadium Site Over 4,500 Santa Clara County residents didn't show up for vaccine appointments they made last week, during the first week of Levi's Stadium being operational, prompting calls for the county to set up waitlists and make sure that no vaccine doses go to waste.
SF News Boat Explodes and Sinks In Waters Off Sausalito, Occupant Injured A man put out a distress call Sunday evening when the boat he was on in Richardson Bay, near Sausalito, suffered an explosion.
SF News SF Opens Third Mass-Vaccination Site at Bayview Produce Market, In Partnership With Sutter Health San Francisco is set to be able to vaccinate 10,000 people per day as soon as vaccine supplies catch up, with the city's third mass-vaccination site now open at the SF Market (the wholesale produce market at 901 Rankin Street) in the Bayview.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Plans To Give Restaurant Workers Vaccine Priority; East Bay Grocery Workers Start Getting Vaccinated There has been some confusion over what groups of workers are prioritized under in vaccination Phase 1b, and it turns out that San Francisco is going to move restaurant workers up in the phasing ahead of what the CDC officially recommends.
