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.
SF News 25-Story '5M' Office Tower Tops Out in SoMa, Still Has No Tenant The market for office space in SoMa was white hot when the massive 5M project got its approvals six years ago. But now that the 640,000-sf office building at 415 Natoma is nearing completion, it may have a hard time getting filled.
SF News Missing Man Found Dead Inside Guerrero Street Apartment Building A 50-year-old San Francisco man who had been reported missing in early January has been found dead inside his Guerrero Street apartment building, less than a week after family members pressed the SFPD to prioritize the case.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Happy Mardi Gras, Everybody The mass-vaccination site at the Oakland Coliseum opens today for Tiers 1a and 1b, the SF school board has delayed a meeting to discuss the reopening of schools, and it's a chilly and totally abnormal Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
SF Politics Pelosi Announces 9/11-Style Commission to Investigate Capitol Riot; Graham Suggests Harris Could Be Impeached House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday announced the creation of an independent commission to investigate and report on what led to the events of January 6, and what happened when rioters stormed the Capitol that day.
SF News SF Firefighter Talks COVID Fears, and About a Crazy Weekend of Ocean Beach Rescues in August 2020 San Francisco firefighter and paramedic Sam Gebler was featured on the public radio program "This American Life" over the weekend recalling a particularly crazy workday last August — and how COVID has come to color so much of what he and his colleagues have faced on the job over the last year.
SF News Mission Resident Disappears After Paranoid Episode Relating to January 6 Riot in DC, SFPD Investigating There is a strange missing-persons case taking shape in San Francisco, and it remains unclear how 50-year-old Christopher Woitel left his Guerrero Street apartment without being seen on a surveillance camera.
SF News SF Mass-Vaccination Sites at City College and Moscone Center Closed This Week Due to Lack of Vaccine Supply Much like other counties in California over the past two weeks, San Francisco has had to pause its mass-vaccination effort due to supply issues.
