SF Politics Supervisor Calls for New SF School Board Member to Step Down Over Racist Comments In an echo of a similar controversy last year, a newly appointed school board member, who is Asian, is being accused of racism toward Black and brown people, and an SF supervisor has called for her resignation.
SF News Still Four Years Behind Schedule, the Central Subway Will Now Open Two Months Later Following a small fire that damaged some electrical equipment in one of its stations, the super-extra-delayed Central Subway project has just tacked on another delay of six to eight weeks, meaning it won't be opening in October.
SF News BART Fences Off Plazas Around 24th St. Mission Station to Curb Illegal Vendor Marketplace Not satisfied with the city's enforcement efforts so far, BART announced Tuesday that it was fencing off the plazas around 24th Street Mission Station in order to evict the street vendors from the area who have been hawking mostly stolen merchandise.
SF News California Man Gets 11 Years In Federal Clink For $27 Million PPP Loan Fraud Scheme A Southern California man who fraudulently claimed to need pandemic assistance for hundreds of fictional employees has just been sentenced to 11 years in prison.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Monkeypox Cases Hit 141; Long Line Greets Reopened Vaccine Clinic SF's confirmed monkeypox cases now number 141, a long line started forming well before 8 a.m. today for the latest batch of vaccines at SF General, and SF school board member Ann Hsu is facing backlash for some racist comments about Black and brown students.
Bay Area Sports Former 49ers Coach Jim Harbaugh Gave Passionate Speech Against Abortion at Charity Event In Michigan "Let the unborn be born," proclaimed the Catholic former NFL coach who's now back to coaching college ball at University of Michigan — and perhaps it's best he saved this proselytizing for after he left the Bay Area.
SF News SF DA's Office Tries to Hand Off Resentencing of Mayor Breed's Brother to State AG Due to Conflict of Interest A resentencing request by Mayor London Breed's older brother, who's been in jail for 22 years for a manslaughter and robbery case, has become something of a political hot potato.
Business & Tech Congress Gets Report On Antitrust Investigation Into Big Tech, Including Infamous Facebook Memo; Crackdown Looms A report has come out by the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law, stemming from an investigation that was launched three years ago, and in particular it calls out a 2018 internal memo to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
SF News Local LGBTQ Groups Protest Outside SF Federal Building Over Monkeypox Response Local leaders and members of several LGTBQ organizations gathered outside the Federal Building in SoMa on Monday to call on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to send more monkeypox vaccine to San Francisco.
SF News [Updated] Man Stabbed Early Tuesday at Terminal 3 Baggage Claim at SFO, Suspect Arrested A man was stabbed just before 5 a.m. in the baggage claim area at San Francisco International Airport's Terminal 3, and police now have a suspect in custody.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: BART Service Being Impacted By Fires Vegetation fires in the East Bay were impacting service again Tuesday morning on BART, Laguna Honda Hospital continues to have to relocate 600 patients temporarily, and Apple has frozen hiring in several departments due to economic worries.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Northbound 101 In Marin City Heavily Impacted By Fire A suspect has been ID'd in fatal bowling alley shooting in Livermore, truck drivers are protesting AB5 at the Port of Oakland, and a small vegetation fire was creating major commute headaches on 101 in Marin for northbound commuters.
Arts & Entertainment Claes Oldenberg, Pop Artist Responsible for 'Cupid's Span' on Embarcadero, Dies at 93 "Cupid's Span," installed in 2002, is one of many everyday objects reimagined at grand scale by the artist Claes Oldenberg and his late wife, and he has just died at the age of 93.
Arts & Entertainment New Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco Announces Opening Date, First Exhibitions, New $1M Gift San Francisco's newest art museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICASF), is readying for an October opening, and this week the non-collecting museum announces its latest philanthropic bequest.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ittoryu Gozu Chef to Open Japanese-Style Hi-Fi Bar In SoMa With Grilled Meats, Cocktails Wagyu steak specialist Marc Zimmerman and his Ittoryu Gozu chef de cuisine are set to open a casual offshoot restaurant called Yokai, in the former Salt House space in SoMa.
SF News Pantless Carjacking Suspect Arrested After Chase In Solano County A woman wearing no pants who was a suspect in a Marin County carjacking was spotted by authorities in the Delta town of Rio Vista on Friday night, and she gave chase, leading to a multi-agency response.
SF News Trial Kicks Off In 26-Year-Old Kristin Smart Murder Case 26 years and two months since she was last seen alive, Kristin Smart's accused murderer finally goes on trial this week along with his alleged accomplice dad, in a Salinas court.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: BART Mask Mandate Expires Today BART's mask mandate expires today, a small plane crash in Napa killed two onboard and caused a vegetation fire Sunday, and Elon Musk is looking to delay his Twitter trial until February.
Arts & Entertainment Presidio Tunnel Tops Park Opens to the Public This Weekend, At Long Last After breaking ground nearly three years ago, the pandemic-delayed Presidio Tunnel Tops park is making its big debut on Saturday and Sunday, with special events — and hopefully pretty decent weather.
SF News CDC Says More Monkeypox Vaccine Coming Next Week to San Francisco, Other Cities With Growing Cases After demand has soared for monkeypox vaccinations in the Bay Area and elsewhere, and as low existing supplies have been used up, the Centers for Disease Control assures us that more vaccine is coming, possibly by next week.
Arts & Entertainment After Deal With USF Falls Through, SF Art Institute Again Looks to Be Shutting Down The insolvent, 151-year-old San Francisco Art Institute once again looks to be out of options, after a merger deal brought by the University of San Francisco has fallen through.
SF News We Are On La Niña Watch For Third Year In a Row, Which Could Be Bad for Drought The last two drought-y winters in California have been La Niña winters, and if a third one is taking shape, that is almost certainly bad news for the state's drought recovery.Climate forecasters
SF News Current COVID Surge Likely As Large or Larger Than Winter Omicron Surge According to wastewater testing in the Bay Area, the amount of COVID virus in circulation in July is up at levels not seen since January — the numbers just aren't being reflected in official case counts because no one is getting PCR-tested.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Muni Bus and Truck Collide In the Haight A Muni bus and a pickup truck were in a crash on Haight Street this morning, a San Francisco firefighter was injured falling down an elevator shaft in Sea Cliff, and the SF school board is holding a special meeting this weekend.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Buzzy SF Restaurants Are Trying Out New Models For Compensating Workers — And Checks Are Going Up In Price There was much talk in the restaurant industry throughout the pandemic about how the restaurant business was broken, how kitchen staff in particular have historically been mistreated and underpaid, and how things would need to change if restaurants wanted to staff up again.
