SF Politics Bay Area Officials and Lawmakers React to Stunning Supreme Court Decision on LGBTQ Rights In many ways, the decision announced today by a Supreme Court with a 5-4 conservative majority marks the most significant legal milestone yet for LGTBQ people. Not everyone wants or needs to get married, but virtually everyone needs to find employment.
SF News Oakland Residents Divided On Saving/Euthanizing Aggressive Wild Turkey In Rose Garden The park has been closed by the city out of concerns for peoples' safety, and the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife has approved a "depredation" permit that would allow the city to humanely euthanize the bird if its behavior does not change.
SF News LA Public Health Officials Failed to Inform Airline Passengers of COVID-Positive Case On JFK-LAX Flight in March In a pair of cases of systemic failure in the California public health system, passengers on two flights into LAX in March — and the airlines themselves — were not alerted to the fact that someone on board a long-haul flight had tested positive for COVID-19 after landing.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Supreme Court Suprises With LGBT Protections A suspect stole a construction vehicle and drove it across the Bay Bridge, Oakland police are seeking around 100 suspects in some Friday night vandalism, and SCOTUS has ruled that LGBTQ people deserve job protections under Title VII.
SF News Update: Car Caravan Blocks All Westbound Lanes of Bay Bridge As Protesters Spraypaint Lanes Protesters, reportedly in a car caravan, shut down the upper deck of the Bay Bridge early Sunday evening, creating a backup that extended past Treasure Island and into the East Bay.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 'Black Lives Matter' Painted Down Fulton Street In SF 24-Hour Fitness is permanently closing 11 Bay Area locations including four in SF, the city is allowing offices to reopen with strict guidelines starting Monday, and volunteers are painting Black Lives Matter down Fulton Street near SF City Hall.
SF News Three Dozen Workers Test COVID-Positive at One East Bay Hospital At least 37 healthcare workers at one hospital in Hayward tested positive for COVID-19 in late May, and a majority of them worked together in the same medical/surgical/telemetry unit.
Arts & Entertainment Coachella 2020 Officially Canceled; BottleRock and Outside Lands Still Technically on the Books News that there will in fact be no Coachella in October arrived on Thursday, confirming what had been rumored for weeks. And curiously, Outside Lands organizers have gone another week without addressing the obvious.
SF Politics Hotel Relocations for Tenderloin Homeless Part of Lawsuit Settlement Between City and UC Hastings The relocation of at least a dozen people living in tents on sidewalks on Thursday appears to be part of a settlement just announced between UC Hastings — which sued the city last month over the increasing level of squalor in the neighborhood — and the City of San Francisco.
SF News Santa Cruz Shooting Suspect Preached Libertarian Ideals, Was Pushed Over the Edge By Police Actions Against Protesters, Friends Say The Air Force sergeant suspected of killing a Santa Cruz sheriff's deputy last Saturday, had been ranting on social media and making references to an extremist group that espouses anti-government, anti-law-enforcement views.
SF News BART Service to North San Jose Begins Saturday, Several Decades and $2.3 Billion Later True to form, BART has finally cleared miles of red tape and hurdled past legions of complications to extend train service to San Jose for the first time in the middle of a pandemic when South Bay commuters need it least. But they did it, dammit!
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Kamala Looking Likelier As VP Pick A cliff rescue was underway this morning near the Legion of Honor, a pedestrian was killed near the Bay Bridge toll plaza early today, and Kamala Harris has emerged as the likeliest running-mate pick for Joe Biden.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Director Denies That BART Police Murdered Anyone An alleged Chinese spy who infiltrated a lab at UCSF was just arrested, two teens are in critical condition after an Ocean Beach rescue, and rage-inducing BART Director Debora Allen apparently does not know that there were murder charges in the killing of Oscar Grant by BART police.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurants Get Ready for New Al Fresco Era — Here's a Running List Of Who Will Be Open At least two dozen SF restaurants have announced plans to reopen, with a few ready to start taking guests as soon as Friday, June 12. We are keeping a list that will be updated in the coming days.
SF News Homeless Moved Into Hotels In Coordinated City Operation In the Tenderloin SF's Homeless Outreach Team (HOT) and the Department of Public Works were approaching about a dozen homeless people on the streets of the Tenderloin on Thursday, and offering them shuttle bus rides to a nearby hotel.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tiny, Iconic It's Tops Diner Closes on Market Street, Apparently For Good The old-timey Coca-Cola sign was removed and carted away on Wednesday, and it looks like It's Tops on Market Street has served its last 2 a.m. hot cakes.
SF Politics Breed Announces Plan to Remove Police From All Non-Criminal Calls in San Francisco Neighbor disputes, mental health crises, and complaints about the homeless will no longer be part of the purview of the San Francisco Police Department under a new four-point plan unveiled by the mayor on Thursday.
SF News Muni Is Restoring Some More Bus Routes This Weekend and Street Sweeping Resumes Monday Saturday will see the restoration of several bus routes, and increased frequencies on the bus shuttle routes currently replacing Muni Metro service. Also, street cleaning begins again next week, and tickets will start being issued once more.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Zero Bail Ends on June 20 Oakland police tally up the damage from May 29, the SF DA's office is investigating the shoving of a protester by a sheriff's deputy, and Oakland schools are going to remove all cops.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sonoma To Reopen Winery Tasting Rooms This Weekend The suspect in last night's fatal shooting in Vallejo may have targeted the wrong house, PG&E just named a new board of directors, and Sonoma County is letting breweries and wineries reopen this weekend.
SF Politics SF Police Union Now In Twitter War With Muni Over Tweet About Not Transporting Officers to Protests Following some negative social media attention about using Muni buses to help transport cops in riot gear to quell protests, the SFMTA pledged to stop doing that in a tweet. Today, the San Francisco Police Officers Association (POA) told the transit agency to "lose our number."
SF Politics SFMTA Reaches Truce With Supes, Agrees to No Muni Fare Increases for Two Years SF Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Dean Preston held a press conference Wednesday morning to announce that they have reached an agreement with SFMTA leadership to halt all Muni fare increases for two years.
SF News Alameda County COVID-19 Cases Double in One Month As Other Bay Area County Counts Have Slowed As a result of a surge in cases in Alameda County — 100 percent growth in 30 days — health officials are holding off on allowing any outdoor dining for two to four weeks.
SF News Frontline BART Worker Tests Positive for COVID-19 A third BART employee, this time a frontline worker, has tested positive for COVID-19, and BART says that the worker did not interact "closely" with riders, had been masked on the job, and has been sent home to self-isolate.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Extend Eviction Moratorium Indefinitely The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to extend the pandemic-related eviction moratorium for residential tenants in the city past the July sunset timeframe that was initially approved in March. And an SF lawmaker is introducing a similar statewide measure on Wednesday in Sacramento.
