SF Politics Connie Chan and Myrna Melgar Join SF Board of Supervisors Representing Districts 1 and 7 With a narrow ranked-choice victory declared Sunday for incoming District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has two new faces representing the Westside beginning in the new year.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Stocks Soar On Vaccine News, Biden Victory Lots of the Bay Area saw wind and even hail yesterday, Oakland saw three fatal shootings in less than 12 hours, and Bay Area Republicans admit that Trump's legal challenges to the election are likely empty and just for show.
SF News Election Updates: Twitter Bans Bannon For Beheading Comments; Biden to Make Evening Speech Joe Biden pulled ahead in the Pennsylvania count today, and the final result of that count could potentially put him on the most immediate path to declaring victory. Biden's lead in Nevada also expanded on Friday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California ABC Agents Conduct Sting to Prevent Booze Deliveries to Minors The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) may have relaxed some of its rules around the sale of alcohol to go but that doesn't mean they've gotten relaxed about enforcement of underage drinking laws.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi Intends to Be House Speaker For Another Two Years House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is seeking another two-year term as the head of the Democratic caucus — and she's laid out what her Day One priorities will be for the new Congress.
Arts & Entertainment Remembering Bambi Lake: A Short Film and a Formal Obituary On Wednesday, San Francisco lost another legend when performer and notorious local character Bambi Lake succumbed to cancer at age 70. Here is a formal obituary, as well as a 2015 short film about her life by director Silas Howard.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Hawks $250 Tesla Tequila, Sells Out In a Few Hours Billionaire Elon Musk gets to do what he wants and turn joke tweets into actual businesses — remember the Boring Company? — and the latest is a premium tequila in a lightning-bolt-shaped bottle with Tesla branding.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Myrna Melgar Declares Victory in D7 Supervisor Race GOP senators are beginning to push back on Trump's vote-count lies, a fatal shooting followed a public fight in Richmond's Iron Triangle Thursday night, and Myrna Melgar appears to be the new SF supervisor for District 7.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Glide Severs Ties With Methodists Glide Memorial Church is no longer part of the Methodist Church after 100 years, SF is likely giving a tax break to the cannabis industry, and some Bayview chefs were featured in a Bud Light ad during the 49ers game.
SF News Two Wednesday Shootings In Bernal Heights and Bayview Now Under Investigation There were a pair of shootings in San Francisco on Wednesday, one of them fatal, in two different neighborhoods, about eight hours apart.
Business & Tech Facebook Shuts Down 'Stop the Steal' Group But Not Before It Amassed Over 350,000 Followers In another example of Facebook's ineptitude at stemming misinformation — during an election or otherwise — a group the entire purpose of which was to delegitimize the election and ballot-counting process was able to flourish for a full day and amplify Trump's lies before being taken down.
SF News Light Rain to Dampen Most of the Bay Area This Weekend for the First Time In Six Months Rain! Remember rain? Between the wildfires and the election season it's hard to remember a time when rain fell out of the sky in the Bay Area — but there's some coming!
Arts & Entertainment Noted San Francisco Troublemaker, Fringe Legend and Cabaret Performer Bambi Lake Is Dead at 70 "Bambi blazed trails and burned bridges for many decades but she always remained a dreamer," writes Justin Vivian Bond today, on the death of longtime friend, Bambi Lake. "It feels like the end of an era."
SF News Marauding Groups of Looters Target Multiple Retail Stores Across the East Bay A memo seems to have gone out to would-be looters that this week was going to be a good time to hit some stores in the East Bay, with a CVS, a Big 5, and a sneaker shop all targeted.
SF News Bay Area May Tell Inbound Travelers to Quarantine For 14 Days Health officers in the nine Bay Area counties will be meeting Thursday to discuss possibly instituting a 14-day quarantine rule for all those traveling here from parts of the country that are experiencing surges in COVID-19 cases — similar to one instituted in New York State.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Vote Counts Continue Amid Various Protests Protests erupt across the country demanding to "count every vote" and also to "stop the count," the District 1 supervisor's race in SF is still too close to call, and Biden appears to have an edge with remaining votes being counted in four states.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lori Loughlin Begins Prison Sentence In the East Bay Trump is now suing three states in a bid to stop votes for Biden getting counted, the rise in COVID cases in California isn't a "surge" according to the top health official, and Lori Loughlin began her prison sentence in Dublin under unpleasant circumstances.
SF News Contra Costa Becomes First Bay Area County to Roll Back Reopening Rules As It Faces Backward Slide to 'Red' Tier Contra Costa County public health officials announced Wednesday that the county would be ratcheting back its rules on some higher risk business activities, decreasing capacity for restaurants and movie theaters as it faces a possible move back to "Red" tier status next week.
Arts & Entertainment RIP O'Farrell Theatre, the Mitchell Brothers' Infamous Tenderloin Strip Club What began as one of many seedy adult-movie houses in the Tenderloin in 1969, the O'Farrell Theatre soon grew to prominence as its owners launched a booming porn production business and spruced up the theater into what Hunter S. Thompson famously dubbed "the Carnegie Hall of sex in America."
SF Politics Preston, Peskin, Ronen, & Safai Poised to Keep Supervisor Seats; Wiener Wins Second Term in State Senate The ranked-choice tallying is ongoing on Wednesday for SF's six Board of Supervisors races, but there are several that can probably be called at this point. And former supervisor Scott Wiener handily won reelection to the state Senate with 60% of the vote as of last count.
SF Politics SF Ballot Measure Results: Yeses Lead For Most Local Props, But 16-Year-Olds Not Likely to Get the Vote With results still being tallied for San Francisco's local ballot measures, the writing seems to be on the wall for most of them. SF residents largely voted yes down the ballot — just not for letting 16-year-olds vote.
SF News Oakland Sees Night Of Chaos With Multiple Shootings, Pot Burglaries Rumors and fears of potential unrest gave way to at least two burglaries at marijuana businesses in Oakland, one of which led to an officer-involved shooting. Other shootings elsewhere in Oakland resulted in six people being injured.
SF News Three-Alarm Fire in Noe Valley Damages Three Homes, Displaces Six A fire that broke out overnight in Noe Valley spread to three homes and rose to three alarms before being contained around 3:30 a.m.
SF News Election Limbo Headlines: Uber and Lyft Get Their Wish, Prop 22 Passes The dialysis regulation measure Prop 23 appears to be going down, Mark Kelly beat Martha McSally for the Arizona Senate seat, and as promised Facebook and Twitter flagged Trump's false claims about winning the election and the Democrats trying to "steal" it.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Supes Approve Healthcare Ordinance for SFO Workers Bayfair Mall in San Leandro closed over election night looting fears, Marin County had more polling place volunteers than they knew what to do with, and a QAnon crazy has won a Georgia House seat.
