SF Politics Former SF Supervisor David Campos Takes Job as DA's Chief of Staff The former SF supervisor who preceded Hillary Ronen in representing the Mission and Bernal Heights, David Campos, has just landed a new gig working for District Attorney Chesa Boudin.
SF News Looking For an Apartment In San Francisco? Ask For a Lot Because Landlords Are Desperate Three months free rent? No problem. Free Peloton bike? Totally on the table. Prospective tenants are getting all kinds of concessions as SF rents fall 20-percent year over year.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Romney's No Hero A vegetation fire prompted evacuations in Belmont yesterday, Trump is still saying the coronavirus "affects virtually nobody," and Facebook is ready to lock down communication amid post-election violence and unrest.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hot Weather This Weekend Could Bring More Scary Winds The CDC was once again dicking around regarding COVID transmission guidance, there's a vigil tonight for a 16-year-old Oakland girl killed last week, and a WWII bomber crash-landed in Stockton on Saturday on its way back from Hawaii.
Arts & Entertainment Insanely, Cruise Companies Are Looking at Sailing Again as Soon as November San Francisco isn't likely to see cruise ships in the Bay anytime before next spring at the very earliest, but cruise companies are already talking about October 31 being a possible restart date for an industry that just five months ago was synonymous with contagion.
SF News Two Days After the City Pledged a Crackdown, Sideshow With 100 Cars Goes Down In Bayview Another illegal sideshow happened around 1 a.m. Sunday in the Bayview District, during which some shots were fired — possibly just into the air. The SFPD apparently didn't make it there fast enough to shut it down right away, even though they established a new unit for this last week.
SF News Video: Mountain Lion Seen Stalking Little Kids In Broad Daylight In Pacifica Over the weekend, a Pacifica resident captured video of a mountain lion — possibly a juvenile — crouched in his yard apparently watching children playing on their bikes outside.
SF News Rash of Home Burglaries Rattles North Beach, Other SF Neighborhoods San Francisco residents in multiple neighborhoods report signs and stories of multiple burglaries, as thieves may be trying to take advantage of a large percentage of residents who have temporarily fled the city.
SF News SF, North Bay Air Quality to Improve By Monday Afternoon as Marine Air Kicks Up Cool air will prevail for most of this week, as the marine layer off the San Francisco coast gathers some strength after remaining pretty weak for two days. But then more hot weather may be on its way.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SF Catholics Protest Ban on Indoor Worship Pelosi says "we would win it all" if the election were tomorrow, damages are being assessed in the North Complex fire, and hospitals in the Bay Area say they are starting to see their first flu cases of the season.
SF Politics Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is Dead. We're All Doomed. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday at the age of 87 of complications from the recurrence of metastatic pancreatic cancer that she first revealed in July.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Some Dude Tried to Carjack an Ambulance in the Tenderloin Don't expect all small restaurants (like Frances) to rush open if they're allowed to at 25% capacity, a suspect is in custody after a mid-day stabbing on BART, and a male suspect tried to carjack an ambulance in the Tenderloin early Friday morning.
SF News A Company Called 'Snowflake' Projected Its Name On City Hall, and the City is Now Mad A San Mateo-based "cloud-based data-warehousing startup" found a vendor that claimed they could project the company's name on the SF City Hall dome on Wednesday night in celebration of their IPO, and city officials don't understand how this happened.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission District LGBTQ Bar El Rio Wins Grant to Stay Afloat From HRC and Showtime Some good news for the world of SF queer bars for a change! El Rio has just won a grant from the Human Rights Commission and Showtime's "Queer to Stay: An LGBTQ+ Business Preservation Initiative," which will hopefully help the bar stay afloat as it continues to remain closed.
SF Politics Following Op-Ed Pushing to Reopen Churches, Pelosi Tells SF Archbishop to Settle Down and Listen to Science San Francisco's Catholic Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone continues doing his level best to prove his conservative credentials and alienate the majority of people in the city he represents.
SF News Air Quality Will Not Hold As Temperatures Rise With High-Pressure System This Weekend Air quality in San Francisco and the Bay Area is predicted to slide into potentially unhealthy territory by Sunday, as an area of high pressure puts an end to the nice marine breeze we've been having for a couple of days that's pushed wildfire smoke away to the north and east.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Mayor and Health Director Say Indoor Dining May Be Allowed Within Two Weeks Restaurant owners have been waiting on pins and needles — and a pile of debt — to be told when San Francisco would allow indoor dining spaces to reopen to the public again. And it sounds like end of September/early October is it.
SF Politics Pair of Businessmen Who Sought Contract For Asphalt Recycling Plant Charged In SF City Hall Corruption Probe The number of individuals facing federal charges in the ongoing San Francisco City Hall corruption scandal rose to eight this week, as two local businessmen were charged with bribing former Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SF Census Counting Cut Short TikTok is leaving the Apple and Google app stores under Trump's orders, the North Complex fire is now the fifth largest in state history as well as the fifth deadliest, and Census enumerators in SF say they were told there was no more work in August.
Business & Tech Day Around the Bay: Uber Self-Driving Car Operator Charged In Arizona Killing A federally funded Berkeley lab has stopped its diversity training due to Trump's order, Tom Steyer is selling his Pac Heights mansion for $11 million, and Oregon is being threatened with dry lightning.
SF News City Looks to Buy 232-Unit Lower Nob Hill SRO and Turn It Into Supportive Housing With the help of a state grant, San Francisco may purchase a large single-room-occupancy hotel building that for years has been a senior-housing complex.
SF News Muni Bus Drivers Complain That Buses Are Getting Too Crowded Even with ridership down by two-thirds, on popular bus routes and bus shuttles that replace the shutdown light-rail lines, some drivers say things are too close for comfort with passengers.
SF Politics There Is an Election Scenario In Which the House Will Choose the President, and One In Which Pelosi Becomes President A LOT has been written in recent weeks about nightmare scenarios with this sitting president as we approach this nightmare election in a year rife with nightmares. But there are a few positive details enshrined in the Constitution for crises like this that might provide some comfort.
SF News Harrowing Details Emerge From Surviving Crew In Last Year's Channel Islands Boat Fire It's been almost exactly a year since 34 people perished in a fire aboard a scuba tour boat off the Santa Barbara coast, many of them Bay Area and Santa Cruz residents, and now details have emerged from the NTSB investigation.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SF Officials Pledge New Crackdown On Sideshows Some Santa Clara County business owners are lobbying for faster "red" tier reopening, almost everyone in the CZU Lightning Complex fire zone has returned home, and all Yoga Tree studios are remaining closed indefinitely.
