SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Dense Fog Covers Inland Bay Area A dense fog advisory is in effect for North and East Bay valleys, Santa Rosa police issued dozens of sideshow citations over the weekend, and SF's Union Square was packed on Sunday like in olden times.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Likely Stepping Down As Head Twit at Twitter, As He Likely Always Intended Elon Musk posted another one of his Twitter polls on Sunday, this time asking whether he ought to step down from being acting CEO of Twitter — which is something he's probably been intending to do all along.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Recognized Sonoma Spot Valley Expanding With Second Location Next Year A charming natural wine bar and restaurant on Sonoma's town square is in expansion mode and will be taking over the space occupied by Delicious Dish about two and a half miles away.
Business & Tech Now the Feds Are Looking Into Why All Those Cruise Robotaxis Went Rogue and Swarmed on Gough Street GM's self-driving taxi arm Cruise will have to answer to federal safety regulators who are now rightfully concerned about several incidents in which the robot cars decided to stop in the middle of streets and block human drivers from getting past, or randomly brake quickly and cause collisions.
Arts & Entertainment 60-Foot Christmas Tree at Pier 39 Taken Down Early Due to Dryness, Safety Concerns Christmas is canceled! The big Christmas tree at Fisherman's Wharf has been taken down a week and a half before Christmas, and the nightly light shows at Pier 39 are canceled, because the big tree dried out too fast.
SF News San Francisco Resident Dies In House Fire In Parkside Neighborhood One person died following a house fire in San Francisco's Inner Parkside neighborhood Friday morning, after being rescued by firefighters.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Silicon Valley Economy Grew Wildly During Pandemic The economy of Santa Clara County grew more than any other large county in the country during the pandemic, Tenderloin businesses want their tax money back, and John's Grill in Union Square won a rare pandemic insurance settlement.
Arts & Entertainment 'Beetlejuice' the Musical Can't Help But Kill Audiences With Laughs If ever there was a musical theater adaptation from a movie that I didn't see coming, it's 'Beetlejuice.' But the darkly comic Tim Burton classic from 1988 translates remarkably well to the stage, with plenty of tweaks and updates, and a terrific score by Australian singer-songwriter Eddie Perfect.
SF News SFPD Seeking Suspect Who Kicked Elderly Woman As He Exited Muni Bus The SFPD on Wednesday released Muni surveillance video of an incident in which a male suspect kicked an elderly woman in the stomach on his way off of a Muni bus.
SF News Former Twitter Employee Sentenced to Three and a Half Years In Saudi Espionage Case A former Twitter media partnerships manager who took bribes from a representative for the Saudi royal family in exchange for sensitive data about dissidents has been sentenced to three and a half years in federal prison.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Macy's Union Square Employees May Strike Before Christmas A 21-year-old suspect has been charged in the killing of a father and son at a Hayward party, two people were shot in an ambush in Castro Valley Wednesday, and Macy's Union Square employees are threatening to strike next week.
SF News Yes, It Takes Forever To Build Anything In San Francisco, and That Is Part of Why Luxury Housing Is All That Gets Built Anyone with even a passing connection to the real estate world in San Francisco, or anyone who knows anyone who's tried to get a permit for an addition or to build a single-family home or duplex in SF, knows that this is a yearslong process. Does it have to be? Will it ever not be?
SF News Pelosi 911 Call and DePape's Hospital Confession Heard In Court; DePape's Target List Also Included Tom Hanks Some of the overwhelming evidence regarding David DePape's alleged October 28 attack on Paul Pelosi was presented in a preliminary hearing Wednesday in San Francisco attended by a whole lot of media.
SF News Arrests Made In Crazy San Bruno Ambush Shooting Over Thanksgiving Weekend Three men who are suspected of belonging to an Oakland-based gang have been arrested following a multi-agency investigation into a violent shooting caught on camera in San Bruno that injured one man.
Business & Tech The Twitter Account That Was Tracking Elon Musk's Private Jet Has Been Shut Down Shockingly, it took just over six weeks for "free speech absolutist" Elon Musk to suspend the automated Twitter account that has been tracking the movements of his private jet for the last year.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Pelosi Attack Suspect Faces Preliminary Hearing Pelosi attack suspect David DePape is appearing in court today for a preliminary hearing, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says he takes responsibility for controversial moderation decisions, and Mayor London Breed doesn't want to end traffic stops for minor infractions.
SF Politics Progressive Supes Defy Mayor and Health Department Over Safe-Consumption 'Wellness Hubs,' Say They Will Open Plans to create a dozen "wellness hubs" around the city to replace the Tenderloin Center and permit safer consumption of dangerous drugs like fentanyl are stalled due to legal concerns.
Business & Tech United Airlines Planning to Hire Thousands More SFO Employees Next Year The contraction of the air travel industry in 2020 has been followed by a steady rebuilding, and now United Airlines says it's planning for a major expansion at San Francisco International Airport and other hubs.
SF Politics SF Elections Commission Reverses Itself, Backpedals After Uproar Over Proposed Director Search A perceived misstep by the SF Elections Commission last month, saying they were not planning to renew the contract of 20-year veteran director of the Department of Elections John Arntz in favor of conducting an executive search to seek a diverse array of candidates, has now been reversed.
SF News Dozens of Shots Fired Into SoMa Building, Two Men Injured A shooting Monday evening in SoMa was heard by many in the area, as dozens of shots rang out in the vicinity of Bryant and Ninth, near Dore Alley, and two men were reportedly injured, one of them seriously.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Twitter Dissolves Trust & Safety Council Elon Musk's Twitter abruptly dissolved the company's Trust & Safety Council last night, Joe Biden will sign same-sex marriage rights into law today, and parts of the Bay Area saw freezing temps this a.m.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Investigation Clears VTA of Negligence In Mass Shooting An outside investigation has cleared the VTA and its managers of negligence in missing warning signs of last year's mass shooting; Elon Musk is sending the mob after Yoel Roth now; and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas.
Business & Tech Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Lab Prepare Big Announcement About Advance In Nuclear Fusion Nuclear physicists from the Bay Area will be center stage Tuesday at a Department of Energy announcement about a breakthrough in fusion technology that could ultimately lead to clean energy plants without hazardous nuclear waste.
SF News Alameda Co. Deputy Pleads Not Guilty In Dublin Double-Murder The 24-year-old former Alameda County sheriff's deputy who turned himself in shortly after the September 7 double murder of a Dublin couple in their home has entered a plea in the case, and it's not guilty.
SF News Suspect In Violent Ambulance Hijacking In Best Buy Parking Lot Arrested and Charged The suspect in a bizarre late August incident in which two SFFD paramedics had to flee from their ambulance as a crazed man allegedly hijacked it and tried to run them down, has finally been arrested and charged.
