SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: World Food Program Wins Nobel Peace Prize Nine residents have died and 46 have been infected in a recent COVID outbreak at a Santa Cruz County nursing home, Alameda County has reopened gyms and malls, and the UN World Food Program has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Concord Man Leaps Off Overpass While Fleeing Police, Dies Sales tax data from the spring shows evidence of SF exodus, Sausalito license-plate cameras detected a stolen car used in an SF burglary this morning, and more public-safety power shutoffs may be in store on Sunday.
SF Politics Two City Contractors In Nuru Scandal Probe Take Plea Deals The ongoing federal prosecution of City Hall corruption schemes that, thus far, have all had alleged ties back to former Department of Public Works chief Mohammed Nuru has netted two more guilty pleas this week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink State Bird Spinoff The Anchovy Bar Opens In the Fillmore A much-anticipated restaurant opening for 2020 has made it open, sit-down dining and all.
Arts & Entertainment Movie Theaters In San Francisco Refuse to Reopen Under City Rules Banning All Concessions A coalition that includes the city's biggest and most popular cinemas says the theater owners are keeping their doors closed until the city allows them to sell food and drinks, which are their money-makers.
SF Politics Proud Boys Rally Possibly Planned For Dolores Park (But Don't Assume These Jokers Are That Organized) A flyer went up on Twitter last week about a "free speech rally" for Proud Boys in San Francisco's Dolores Park on October 17 — but this event has all the hallmarks of the weird, sometimes fictional, antifa-antagonizing rallies that were planned around the Bay in 2017.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Coachella Pushed to October 2021 There was an "officer-involved fatal incident" in Concord last night, Dr. Anthony Fauci is participating in a UC Berkeley public policy talk today, and a leaked FEMA memo suggests 34 White House staffers have been infected with COVID-19.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Ninth Circuit Says Census Count Should Continue Facebook is banning all political ads indefinitely after Election Day, a staff member in Gov. Newsom's office has tested positive for COVID, and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass has donated $3 million to out-of-work musicians and shuttered venues during the pandemic.
SF Politics Oakland's Own Kamala Harris Takes National Stage Against Our Bizarre and Bigoted Vice President It's Kamala's time to shine tonight in Salt Lake City at the only vice-presidential debate, and it's not hard to guess that Mike Pence is going to be very uncomfortable.
Business & Tech New Attack Ad By Democrat-Led Group Calls Out Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook for Ruining Everything Just a day after the House released a scathing report on antitrust issues, a nonprofit group that reportedly includes former Facebook employees and Clinton campaign staffers has launched an attack ad that focuses on Mark Zuckerberg himself.
SF News San Francisco Firefighter Dies During Routine Training In Mission District An SF firefighter died Wednesday after falling from a fire escape at the SF Fire Department's training facility at 19th and Folsom streets in the Mission.
Business & Tech Celebrated UC Berkeley Biochemist and CRISPR Pioneer Jennifer Doudna Wins Nobel Prize UC Berkeley professor Jennifer Doudna, along with French colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry today for the pair's pioneering work in the genome-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9.
SF News Glass Fire 58% Contained; Toll of Destroyed Homes Hits 616 The Glass Fire is largely under control in Napa and Sonoma counties as of Wednesday morning, though several thousand residents remain under evacuation orders. Cal Fire reported reaching 58-percent containment, as damage assessments continue.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Probably No Rain This Week After All According to a new report there were 63 verbal altercations and nine assaults on Muni drivers over mask-wearing rules between April and August, and pulmonology experts say Trump is clearly struggling to breathe.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Falls Short of State Equity Goals For COVID Spread Five Bay Area residents were arrested in a major retail theft scheme, video shows the the Glass Fire arriving on a property in Calistoga, and the House of Prime Rib may be reopening as soon as next week.
Business & Tech Facebook Actually Removes Trump Post Containing False COVID Claim; Twitter Temporarily Freezes Trump's Account Facebook manned up and actually took down a post that Trump put up on Tuesday in which he, egregiously and falsely, claimed that COVID is less lethal than the flu.
SF News Cal Fire Investigates Vigilante Backfire Activity In First Days of Glass Fire Last week in either Napa or Sonoma County, some private citizens not assigned to the firefight apparently took it upon themselves to start lighting backfires to prevent the spread of the Glass Fire — an activity the Cal Fire takes seriously for its potential danger.
SF News Insane Brawl Breaks Out in the Middle of Upper Haight; Neighbor Group Blames Encampments A brawl broke out Saturday afternoon near the intersection of Clayton and Haight streets, and a neighborhood group that lobbied against the city establishing a sanctioned tent encampment nearby posted video to Twitter and implies homeless campers are to blame.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Glass Fire Being Called Worst In Napa History, With Hundreds of Homes and at Least 20 Wineries Damaged or Destroyed While fire activity in the Glass Fire continues to be calmer than it was just days ago, the fallout from the fire is still being assessed — and the economic impacts to both the wine industry and Napa and Sonoma counties at large may be far greater than the size of the fire may suggest.
SF News John McAfee Back in the News After Arrest In Spain Onetime Bay Area kook turned global kook/accused murderer and tax evader John McAfee has been arrested in Spain and will apparently be extradited to the U.S. soon to face tax evasion charges.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Judge Reverses EPA Reversal On Redwood City Salt Ponds Containment on the Glass Fire has reached 50 percent, a UCSF infectious disease specialist balks at Trump's behavior after leaving Walter Reed, and a judge rules against the EPA regarding the Cargill salt ponds in the Bay.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Alameda County to Reopen Oscar Grant Shooting Investigation The Wednesday debate between Sen. Kamala Harris and Mike Pence will feature a plexiglass shield, the remains of a missing 75-year-old Berkeley woman may have been found in Humboldt County, and the Alameda County DA's office is reopening the Oscar Grant case.
SF News Petaluma Man Believed To Have Killed Girlfriend Allegedly Kills Himself By Speeding the Wrong Way Onto 101 A Petaluma man who's believed to have killed his girlfriend on Friday died in a fiery motorcycle crash with another vehicle after he sped northbound onto the southbound lanes of Highway 101.
SF Politics Of Course Trump Is Using His COVID Infection to Tell the Country 'Don't Be Afraid of COVID.' You Can Bet He's Afraid. True to form, President Trump used Twitter and his recent, clearly very serious case of COVID-19 to once again politicize the pandemic and tell his followers "Don't be afraid of COVID."
Arts & Entertainment Karla the Fog Steps In as Unofficial Twitter Replacement After Karl Goes Quiet In a year of constant talk in the media about increasing the visibility and amplifying the voices of women and people of color, SF's famed weather mascot has been — at least for now — replaced by a woman.
