SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: School Board Throws $6M More at Payroll Problem The SF school board just authorized another $6M to pay contractors who are trying to fix the broken payroll system, a mask mandate may return in LA, and forecasters say this La Nina will fade by April.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Airbnb Is Trying to Thwart New Year's Eve Party Rentals Airbnb is once again trying to keep people from renting homes for New Year's parties in SF and elsewhere, a prominent activist in San Jose was killed in a pedestrian crash, and downtown architecture firm Gensler has just signed a big new lease.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Northern Italian Spot Ciccino, From Former Rich Table/Italian Homemade Co. Chef, Now Open for Dinner On Nob Hill A new Northern Italian restaurant that was initially only open for lunch this fall has debuted its full dinner menu, and early reviews are coming in.
SF News Ex-Warden of Dublin Women's Prison Convicted of Sexually Abusing Inmates The jury returned swiftly with a verdict in the trial of former FCI Dublin warden Ray Garcia, and he's been found guilty on all eight counts he was charged with, seven of which stemmed from sexually abusive conduct toward three female inmates.
SF News Rainy Day Will Give Way to Cold and Dry Friday, With Atmospheric River Hitting Saturday A cold front is bringing some moderate rain to San Francisco and all of the Bay Area today, but it will pass, there will be a chilly lull, and then comes the bigger storm.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Brittney Griner Is Free WNBA star Brittney Griner is on a plane back home after a prisoner swap with Russia, Santa Clara County has a new sheriff starting his job early, and the Bold Italic has been handed over to political group GrowSF.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan Faces $19K Ethics Fine Oakland Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan is facing a fine for not disclosing her ownership of some property, an Oakland high school student was stabbed by another student at school, and a motorcyclist died in a Mission District collision.
Arts & Entertainment NYT Mini Crossword Erroneously Refers to BART as SF's 'Metro,' and People Flip Out It's de rigeur in these parts to get very haughty about mistakes that East Coasters make when they write about our fair city. And the NYT Crossword editors have some explaining to do.
Business & Tech Sunny Balwani Sentenced to 13 Years In Theranos Fraud — 2 More Years Than Holmes A federal judge has deemed the actions of former Theranos President and COO Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani to be a little bit more egregious than his partner in fraud Elizabeth Holmes — two years' worse, to be exact.
Arts & Entertainment Solano County Home Featured on 'Great Christmas Light Fight' The Bay Area can already claim a couple of wins from previous seasons of ABC's suburban Christmas light fever-dream of a competition show The Great Christmas Light Fight, and now we have another contender up in Suisun City.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Gets Fully In Bed With Conservative Media, Lashes Back About Twitter 'Bedroom' Investigation With Tweet About Fentanyl-Exposed Baby It's another day of maturity and gravitas at Musk Twitter, as Elon Musk defends "providing beds for Twitter employees" by turning this back on San Francisco and its other problems, via tweet. Also, ICYMI, this "Twitter Files" thing...
SF News Humpday Headlines: California Is Closing Down Two Prisons California's Correctional Department just announced the closure of two prisons and the shrinking of six others, state Sen. Scott Wiener issued a statement about his latest bomb threat, and former Theranos COO Sunny Balwani faces sentencing today.
SF News San Francisco Couple Accused of Trafficking Nanny From Philippines and Enforcing Slave Labor With Little Pay The San Francisco District Attorney's Office on Tuesday announced charges against married SF residents Jose Aguila and Lorraine Lim following a year-long investigation into the alleged labor trafficking of a childcare worker.
SF News Preston Calls for Hearing Into Supportive Housing Evictions Involving Formerly Homeless People SF Supervisor Dean Preston, who worked as an eviction defense attorney before he was elected to the Board of Supervisors, is putting that hat back on and calling for a hearing into the numbers and process of evictions involving formerly homeless people in city-funded supportive housing.
Business & Tech Meta Threatens to Pull Journalism Content From Facebook Over Congressional Bill That May Cost Them Meta is putting up a stink in the face of a bill that's working its way through Congress, and is currently folded in to a defense-spending authorization package, which would give journalistic content creators the ability to seek payments from Meta for using their content.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Awards New Stars to Four SF Restaurants Including Osito and Nisei; SPQR and Mourad Lose Theirs The Michelin inspectors giveth and they taketh away in the latest California guide release, which is arriving later in the year than usual. The biggest winners in SF are a handful of new one-star honorees, but the big headline is that SoCal has its first three-star restaurant.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Scott Wiener Once Again Faces Bomb Threat State Senator Scott Wiener once again had bomb-sniffing dogs at his home today, Meta's Oversight Board is urging changes to Facebook's "XCheck" system for celebrities, and Apple is being sued over AirTag stalking.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Santa Clara DA Leaves Twitter, Urges Other DAs to Do So Santa Clara County DA Jeff Rosen is leaving Twitter over hate speech, there was a 3.7M earthquake near San Jose today, and Newsom is proposing a penalty for oil companies' price gouging.
SF News Wastewater Shows COVID Cases Spiking In SF as Hospitalizations Continue Ticking Up The triple-demic that experts were warning of months ago is taking shape in hospitals across California as it is elsewhere, with a COVID surge and new variants coinciding with a spike in influenza and RSV.
SF News Highway 1 In Big Sur Once Again Closes Due to Rockslide Following Weekend Rain A frequently closed section of Highway 1 is once again closed to traffic due to debris slides caused by this past weekend's stormy weather.
SF Politics Paul Pelosi Makes First Public Appearance Since Attack at Kennedy Center Honors Wearing a hat presumably to cover a still-healing wound, and making his first public appearance since being attacked in his home by an unhinged, politically motivated intruder, Paul Pelosi joined wife Nancy at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington on Sunday, and was met with cheers.
SF News Sideshows Burn Some Rubber, Block Traffic on Embarcadero and Bay Bridge Friday Night Friday night saw a sideshow that seems to have moved from the Embarcadero near the Ferry Building onto the Bay Bridge.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Tenderloin Center Shuts Down After 11 Months A fallen tree disrupted BART service Monday between SF and SFO, the temporary Tenderloin Center at UN Plaza officially closed down on Sunday, and that viral video of Steph Curry sinking five full-court shots is a fake.
SF News Sunday Links: CHP Arrests Man Wandering On Oakland Freeway, Seize Load of Fentanyl CHP in Oakland arrested a clearly high man wandering on I-580 who had a huge cache of fentanyl in his car, an acclaimed local jazz musician was killed in a train collision in Burlingame, and 'CBS Sunday Morning' looks in on Elon Musk's Twitter takeover.
SF News Saturday Links: Hit-and-Run Leads to Death of Big Rig Driver In Oakland A big rig flipped over in a crash and caught fire on I-880 in Oakland Friday, killing the driver; a commercial building in SoMa went up in flames early Saturday; and two people remain hospitalized from the SamTrans crash in Daly City.
