SF News Day Around the Bay: Do Curfews Work to Stop the Spread? Injured SF firefighter Matt Vann left the hospital today, nine protesters were arrested Tuesday night for disrupting a city council meeting in Fairfield over a particular cop, and pandemic PPE is now washing into Bay Area waterways as pollution.
SF Politics Recology Exec Ensnared In Nuru Scandal, Accused By Feds Of Long-Term Bribery Scheme It looks like federal investigators have snagged a slightly bigger fish in the unfolding SF City Hall corruption scandal that began with the January arrest of former Department of Public Works head Mohammed Nuru, and it's an executive at longtime San Francisco waste management vendor Recology.
SF Politics If London Breed Joins the Biden Administration, the SF Political Machine Will Kick Into High Gear to Choose New Mayor A whole lot of California politicians might be moving to Washington under a Biden-Harris Administration in the coming months, and SF Mayor London Breed could well be among them.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New 'Trash Pizza' Spot Headed for North Beach Focuses On Using Food Waste A new restaurant focused on the sustainable practice of cooking with foods that would otherwise be discarded is planning an opening in San Francisco's North Beach.
SF News In Yuba City, Where Businesses Defied Lockdown Orders In May, People Are Still Dining Indoors Much like the patchwork landscape of COVID restrictions and varying compliance seen across the U.S., California cities and counties aren't all uniformly cooperating with Governor Gavin Newsom's latest orders even as virus cases rise.
SF News SFPD Officers Shoot Man Wielding Large Knife Outside Westfield Mall A man who was reportedly acting erratically and refusing to comply with police commands while waving around a large knife on Tuesday evening was shot and wounded by police.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Toilet Paper Hoarding Begins Again A wildfire is threatening 500 homes in Reno, the owners of two of the bars that were temporarily shut down for COVID rule violations speak out, and USPS change-of-address forms suggest 90,000 households have fled San Francisco.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Will Joe Biden Cancel Student Loan Debt? Sen. Chuck Grassley has COVID, the SF Board of Supervisors approved the purchase of a Union Square hotel for homeless housing, and BottleRock has been moved again to next Labor Day Weekend.
SF News Stanford Study Tracks COVID Spread In Crowded Indoor Businesses, Confirms Use of Capacity Limits Stanford researchers used cellphone data to track behavior in 10 U.S. metropolitan areas between March and May, and provides convincing evidence that a large percentage of COVID-19 transmission was occurring in crowded indoor spaces including restaurants, bars, gyms, and grocery stores.
SF News In the First of Likely Many Lawsuits, Eight Sonoma County Agencies Sue PG&E For Negligence in Kincade Fire Before a final report on the fire has even been finalized by the state, eight agencies in Sonoma County including four city governments have sued PG&E in an effort to recoup damages for impacts on infrastructure and public property.
SF News San Francisco Woman Jailed and Fined for Not Properly Quarantining In Hawaii A San Francisco woman is currently in custody on the island of Maui after allegedly violating the state's mandatory quarantine requirement for visitors — and she's denying all wrongdoing and requesting a jury trial.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Musicals Ends Six-Year Run, Files For Bankruptcy Arts organizations of all sizes, all over the country are suffering due to pandemic lockdowns and eight straight months without live audiences. And the latest casualty in San Francisco is the scrappy theater company known as Bay Area Musicals.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg and Dorsey Return to Testify Before Congress About Misinformation, Liberal Bias Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey were once again taking part in the political theater of a congressional hearing on Tuesday, this time testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where Ted Cruz got a chance to yell and Dianne Feinstein got to frown at them both.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF Supervisors To Vote On City's Eighth Whole Foods Rain showers will be passing through most of the day, Twitter is rolling out disappearing messages called "Fleets" today, and two local residents and a grocery workers' union are trying to block a Whole Foods from coming to Geary and Masonic.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Rain and Wind Return By Morning Airbnb announced plans for its long-anticipated IPO today, a fatal crash caused westbound traffic on the Bay Bridge, and the Bay Area will be waking up to more wind and rain on Tuesday morning.
SF News New Research Suggests COVID-19 Was Circulating in Italy in September 2019 Adding further evidence to theories that China kept the coronavirus and a spreading epidemic of flu-like symptoms hidden from the world for several months before disclosing what was happening, Italian researchers found COVID antibodies in study participants dating back to September of last year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca Cafe Reopens for Outdoor Dining (For Real) in North Beach, Under New Owners The saga of North Beach's landmark Tosca Cafe — which eight years ago appeared in danger of closing forever, only to be saved once, close again, and be saved yet again by a well known trio of new owners last year — is turning another page this week.
SF News 'We Must Triple-Down': San Francisco Officials Announce Closure of Offices, Reduction of Gym Capacity "We are going to proceed with caution to do everything we can to avoid a [more total] shutdown," Mayor London Breed said.
SF News San Francisco Reverts To 'Red' Tier; Five Bay Area Counties Slide Back to 'Purple' As COVID Cases Proliferate A day ahead of the usual Tuesday update, Gov. Newsom announced an "emergency brake" on reopenings as 40 California counties slide backwards in their COVID metrics.
SF News Grab-and-Run Thieves Wearing Ankle-Monitors Swipe $54K Worth of YSL Purses in Union Square Grab-and-run thievery is nothing new at the high-end shops around Union Square, but despite the best efforts of security guards and a network of cameras, the thieves keep coming back during the pandemic.
SF Politics Over 56,000 People in San Francisco Voted for Trump Liberal bubble though it may be, there are more Trump voters in our midst than we may think here in SF. And not everyone in this town is immune to the attraction to an authoritarian strongman who spends his days doing his own PR on Twitter.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Family Rescued After Boat Capsizes Near Alcatraz Moderna's vaccine may be even more effective than Pfizer's, Solano County is reportedly reverting back to the "Purple" tier this week, and a frat party at UC Davis may have been a super-spreading event.
SF News Elon Musk Likely Has COVID-19 as SpaceX Launch Gets Delayed Elon Musk, who has spent a good part of this year questioning the rationale behind lockdowns and the severity of COVID-19 on Twitter, may be about to find out for himself what the disease does to a person.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'We Should Have Modeled Better Behavior': Newsom Called Out for Attending French Laundry Dinner Governor Gavin Newsom is facing criticism that he and his wife attended a 12-person dinner at the French Laundry for the birthday of a political advisor last week at which members of at least three households were present.
SF News SFPD Makes Arrest In Violent Tenderloin Kidnapping and Robbery; Suspect Freed Pending Charges An arrest has been made in a case that made headlines from Halloween weekend, in which a 26-year-old man was kidnapped, beaten, shot, robbed, and dumped naked and bleeding by a roadside in San Francisco.
