SF News Possible Link Investigated Between Oakland Double Murder and Party Bus Shooting Investigators in Oakland believe there may be a link between a May 16 double homicide in East Oakland that killed two 17-year-old boys, and the shooting up of a party bus that happened about one day later on I-580, killing two more teenagers.
SF Politics Breed Says She'll Veto Free Muni In a rare use of the mayoral veto, Mayor London Breed said late Tuesday that she would not sign off on Supervisor Dean Preston's pilot project to offer free Muni rides for three months.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Support for Newsom Recall Has Not Grown Since March State officials are indeed withholding that $12 million from SF Unified School District for noncompliance with reopening efforts, support for the recall of Newsom remains unchanged at about 40%, and Amazon is buying MGM.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Free Muni Passes Board Vote, Could Still Be Vetoed SF Unified says schools will reopen full time on August 16; one-bedroom rents in SF, Oakland, and San Jose just went up in May for the first time in 14 months; and we may be getting free Muni rides come July, but maybe not.
SF News California Hits New Low In COVID Test Positivity; Five Bay Area Counties Still In 'Orange' Tier As we approach the last few days of May, just three weeks out from the much anticipated June 15 date for widespread lifting of public-health restrictions, California looks poised to see fewer and fewer COVID infections.
Business & Tech Southwest Flight Attendants' Union Lodges Complaint With CEO Following Assault on NorCal Flight Airline passengers are getting angrier and harder to manage, according to a new letter from the union president representing Southwest Airlines flight attendants, which follows on one flight attendant getting two teeth knocked out by a passenger on Sunday.
Arts & Entertainment Summer Events In Downtown SF Hope to Draw Locals and Tourists In Attempt to Repopulate the Ghost Town SF Mayor London Breed announced a $9.5 million plan on Tuesday that marks the city's first effort to boost foot traffic around downtown in the waning days of the pandemic.
SF News Plea Delayed For Suspect In San Jose Hate-Crime Assault As Competency Is Assessed A man accused in an alleged physical and sexual assault at a San Jose train station in March that came with anti-Asian epithets remains in jail without bail, but he has not yet entered a plea in the case.
Arts & Entertainment Sausalito's Famed Labor Day Art Festival Getting Canceled Over Homeless Encampment An impasse over a homeless encampment in a downtown Sausalito park has led organizers of the city's annual art festival over Labor Day Weekend to say the festival is being canceled for the second year in a row.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Lenticular 'UFO Clouds' Delight and Confuse Bay Area The homicide victim in the Oakland Chinatown shooting on Monday has been ID'd, Bay Area cities look back one year after George Floyd's death, and some funny-looking lenticular clouds over the Bay Area on Monday evening were cause for much tweeting.
Arts & Entertainment Day Around the Bay: Oasis Gets a Sylvester Mural PG&E has struck a deal to sell its downtown SF headquarters ahead of a move to Oakland, a person was fatally shot in Oakland's Chinatown, and SoMa nightclub Oasis dedicated a new mural to disco legend Sylvester today.
Arts & Entertainment Guaranteed Income Program for SF Artists Gets Expanded Thanks to $3.5M Gift From Twitter/Square CEO Jack Dorsey Jack Dorsey is continuing to do nice things with his wealth, and on Friday we learned that his charitable group #StartSmall is giving $3.46 million to San Francisco's pilot program to give local artists $1,000 per month in guaranteed income.
Arts & Entertainment New Stonestown Movie Theater Opening Delayed; Will It Debut By Memorial Day Weekend? "Construction delays" and "unforeseen circumstances" are being blamed for a delay in the opening of the splashy, high-tech new Regal Cinema at the Stonestown Galleria.
SF Politics SF Legislators Call Bulls**t on School District's Scheme to Get $12 Million In State Funding for Reopening San Francisco's legislative delegation in Sacramento is calling out the SF School Board for their attempt to reap the benefits of a state funding program without actually complying with the spirit of the legislation that backed the program.
SF Politics Free Muni Might Happen Under a Three-Month Pilot, But Maybe Not As Soon as Supervisors Want There's been an argument in recent months over whether or not to use this limbo moment as the pandemic fades to finally offer Muni rides for free. But can the system handle a sudden surge in ridership (if that actually happens)?
SF News San Francisco Water Use Has Declined Since Last Drought — What Else Can You Do to Conserve? We're once again going to be having conversations this summer about water use, and hearing about ever more strict mandates coming down from counties and the state about what we use water for. But is San Francisco's household water use really the problem?
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: East Bay Sideshows End With 21 Cars Towed A string of sideshows Saturday night in multiple towns in Contra Costa County ended with one arrest, two people had to be rescued from a rip current at Ocean Beach on Sunday, and SF's largest downtown hotels are reopening.
SF News Arrest Made In Fatal Hit-and-Run on Polk Street The SFPD has made an arrest in Tuesday's hit-and-run collision at Polk and Hyde that took the life of a 29-year-old woman, and the suspect is the registered owner of the vehicle whose driver fled the scene.
Business & Tech Facebook's Cryptocurrency Dreams Are Not Dead; Diem Expected to Launch This Year Remember when Facebook started talking about launching its own crypto coin two years ago called Libra and everyone balked and then it kind of went away? Well, it didn't totally go away, it's now called Diem, and the project is still moving forward toward a launch.
SF News San Mateo County Cities to Fly 'Progress Pride Flag' For Pride Month; SF to Fly Traditional Rainbow Flag Across San Mateo County, city and county flagpoles will be flying the Progress Pride Flag in place of the traditional rainbow Pride flag, in recognition of greater inclusivity.
SF News California to Drop All Capacity Limits, Require Vaccinations for 'Mega Events' Starting June 15 The California Department of Public Health released new details Friday about what pandemic-related restrictions will look like statewide come June 15 — and the short answer is there won't be many restrictions on daily life at all.
SF Politics DA Boudin Pushes Back on Police About Evidence Delay In Shooting Case Involving Murder Suspect Robert Newt DA Chesa Boudin tried to make it clear to the Police Commission this week that blame for the release of Robert Newt last month should be focused on the police and lengthy delays in forensic evidence testing.
SF News SF General Has Zero COVID Patients Right Now Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital hit a pandemic milestone on Thursday with zero COVID admissions, and no COVID patients at all in beds at the facility.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Wildfire Breaks Out at Mount Diablo There was a fatal officer-involved shooting in Pittsburg last night, human remains found in an East Bay Park have been identified as a missing San Leandro woman, and a wildfire was quickly contained on Mount Diablo this morning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Signs Housing Density Bill Parts of the Bay Area are now in the "exceptional" drought tier, Napa County is looking for input in how to spend $26 million in federal funds, and Newsom signed a new density-zoning bill into law today.
