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.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Man On Trial For Killing Italian Cop Offers Apology to Family Pharma company Eli Lilly announced very promising results for a COVID treatment, a five-alarm fire did heavy damage to a building in Oakland's Chinatown, and 20-year-old Finnegan Elder offered an apology in court to the family of the Italian cop he killed in Rome last July.
Arts & Entertainment Movie Theaters Are Open In Napa, More Opening In Marin On Friday In keeping with the state guidelines for reopening for "red" tier counties, at least two movie theaters in Napa County reopened for business last week at 25-percent capacity. More are now set to open in San Rafael and elsewhere in Marin County after it reached "red" status on Tuesday.
SF News Event Company at Former Market Street Honda Dealership Seen Conducting Unsanctioned Sweep of Homeless Camp A private company allegedly took it upon themselves last week to clear out an encampment that had been established for about six months outside the former Honda dealership on Market Street at South Van Ness.
Business & Tech Celebrities Are Taking a Day Off of Instagram and Facebook to Protest Hate Speech and Yeah That Should Work Kim Kardashian West, Jennifer Lawrence, and Sacha Baron Cohen are among the celebrities leading a charge to boycott Facebook and Instagram for a day. But is a one-day boycott really sending a message that a monthslong boycott by high-paying advertisers hasn't?
SF News [Update] Bizarre Blowtorch Attack at Berkeley Boba Tea Shop Followed By Knife, Axe Threats An apparently homeless man walked into a boba tea shop in downtown Berkeley and lit some WD-40 on fire in an attempt to torch several students who were waiting in line.
SF News Bay Area Air Quality Clears As Smoky Air Blows Into Nevada and Tahoe Exactly a week after San Franciscans woke up to a dystopian, dark-orange sky, the city arose to fresh air and blueish/foggy sky on Wednesday morning. How sweet it is.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Five People Shot Near San Jose State Campus Two people were killed in a shooting near San Jose State Tuesday night, UCSF is seeking study participants for an app-based location-tracing effort for COVID-19, and more than a dozen SF schools may be reopening for in-person teaching soon.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Castro Landlord Demands Back Rent From Retail Tenants Berkeley hills residents are freaked out by illegal fireworks being set off during fire season on Grizzly Peak, a Castro landlord is apparently demanding back rent from retail tenants, and the World Series will be played in a bubble in Arlington, Texas.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Will the SF Restaurant Industry Threaten Legal Action to Reopen Like Gyms Did? It's certainly a dicey subject across the nation, and there's still far too little data to say for certain whether indoor restaurant dining is a recipe for disaster in this pandemic, or a mitigated risk.
SF News Mayor Breed on COVID Rules: 'I’m Tired of Doing All the Things You Are Tired of Doing' Six months into a pandemic, with ongoing restrictions on what businesses can be open and how and when, Mayor London Breed knows that even in mostly compliant, science-trusting San Francisco, people are reaching the end of their ropes in many cases.
