SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tiny, Iconic It's Tops Diner Closes on Market Street, Apparently For Good The old-timey Coca-Cola sign was removed and carted away on Wednesday, and it looks like It's Tops on Market Street has served its last 2 a.m. hot cakes.
SF Politics Breed Announces Plan to Remove Police From All Non-Criminal Calls in San Francisco Neighbor disputes, mental health crises, and complaints about the homeless will no longer be part of the purview of the San Francisco Police Department under a new four-point plan unveiled by the mayor on Thursday.
SF News Muni Is Restoring Some More Bus Routes This Weekend and Street Sweeping Resumes Monday Saturday will see the restoration of several bus routes, and increased frequencies on the bus shuttle routes currently replacing Muni Metro service. Also, street cleaning begins again next week, and tickets will start being issued once more.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Zero Bail Ends on June 20 Oakland police tally up the damage from May 29, the SF DA's office is investigating the shoving of a protester by a sheriff's deputy, and Oakland schools are going to remove all cops.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sonoma To Reopen Winery Tasting Rooms This Weekend The suspect in last night's fatal shooting in Vallejo may have targeted the wrong house, PG&E just named a new board of directors, and Sonoma County is letting breweries and wineries reopen this weekend.
SF Politics SF Police Union Now In Twitter War With Muni Over Tweet About Not Transporting Officers to Protests Following some negative social media attention about using Muni buses to help transport cops in riot gear to quell protests, the SFMTA pledged to stop doing that in a tweet. Today, the San Francisco Police Officers Association (POA) told the transit agency to "lose our number."
SF Politics SFMTA Reaches Truce With Supes, Agrees to No Muni Fare Increases for Two Years SF Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Dean Preston held a press conference Wednesday morning to announce that they have reached an agreement with SFMTA leadership to halt all Muni fare increases for two years.
SF News Alameda County COVID-19 Cases Double in One Month As Other Bay Area County Counts Have Slowed As a result of a surge in cases in Alameda County — 100 percent growth in 30 days — health officials are holding off on allowing any outdoor dining for two to four weeks.
SF News Frontline BART Worker Tests Positive for COVID-19 A third BART employee, this time a frontline worker, has tested positive for COVID-19, and BART says that the worker did not interact "closely" with riders, had been masked on the job, and has been sent home to self-isolate.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Extend Eviction Moratorium Indefinitely The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to extend the pandemic-related eviction moratorium for residential tenants in the city past the July sunset timeframe that was initially approved in March. And an SF lawmaker is introducing a similar statewide measure on Wednesday in Sacramento.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Two Women Killed, Three Others Injured In Vallejo Birthday Party Shooting San Jose's police chief has pledged to stop the use of rubber bullets to disperse crowds, Newsom meets with Oakland residents about the police, and a shooting at a child's birthday party in Vallejo left two women in their 60s dead.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bernal Rock's 'Black Lives Matter' Message Painted Over By Public Works A South Bay man has been charged with COVID-related stock manipulation, SF officials just announced a financial relief package for fishermen impacted by the Pier 45 fire, and artists are repainting 'Black Lives Matter' on Bernal Hill Rock for the sixth time after DPW effed up.
Arts & Entertainment Good News: Falcon Mom Atop PG&E Headquarters Is Expecting Hatchlings Any Day Now Nature! It's still happening around us despite the mess that humans have made of their world. And once again I'd like to point you to the meditative live peregrine falcon cam atop PG&E's Beale Street building, where exciting things may be about to happen.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Tenderloin Dive Aunt Charlie's Saved By Crowdfunding A crowdfunding campaign that set out to raise $100,000 last week to save Aunt Charlie's Lounge succeeded in reaching its goal within just a week, and on Monday there was a socially distant drag show on the sidewalk outside to celebrate.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink As Outdoor Dining Resumes In SF Friday, Bars Ask City to OK July Reopenings Mayor London Breed gave the green light Tuesday for San Francisco restaurants to begin outdoor, sit-down dining on Friday, three days ahead of the previously announced date of June 15. And a petition by local bar owners is seeking an accelerated schedule for their reopening as well.
SF News Pandemic Updates: 10 New Bay Area Deaths, Study Finds Multiple Virus Entries In CA, and WHO Downplays Asymptomatic Spread In pandemic news Tuesday there is a mix of good and bad, and an interesting new study looking at the genetics of multiple SARS-CoV-2 strains that entered California at the beginning of the year. And new cases aren't exactly slowing down locally.
SF Politics Feds Charge Three More People Linked to Mohammed Nuru and City Hall Corruption Probe It's been four months and a pandemic later, but we are still talking about the rampant, some say "low level," corruption that has apparently existed at San Francisco City Hall for decades
SF News PG&E To Sell Its SF Headquarters, Move to Oakland The company that began as San Francisco Gas Company in 1852, incorporating at PG&E in 1905, is in the process of both trying to emerge from bankruptcy and reinventing itself as a more responsible corporation whose equipment doesn't spark deadly wildfires every fall.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF Police Chief 'Open' to Defunding Department BART and Muni are pausing today to honor George Floyd as he's buried in Houston, two small earthquakes struck this morning in Berkeley, and California is reopening movie theaters at 25% capacity.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Santa Cruz Sheriff Describes Dramatic Struggle With Shooting Suspect Firefighters are battling a three-alarm blaze in Oakland's Glenview neighborhood, BART has begun adding back some rush hour trains, and Santa Cruz Sheriff Jim Hart described the heroic act of a resident in detaining Saturday's shooting suspect.
SF News Healdsburg Mayor Apologizes for 'Blind Spots' About Racism As Petition Calls For Her Resignation Even the small, affluent, northern Sonoma County town of Healdsburg is not immune to the civil unrest and tough conversations about systemic racism happening around the country.
Arts & Entertainment Black Bird-Watcher Who Spoke Out About SF Racism a Decade Ago Celebrates Black Birders Week You may have missed it in the crush of news about protests across the country and the globe last week, but it was also #BlackBirdersWeek, in which black birders and naturalists took to social media to share the photographs of their hobby.
SF News Berkeley Study Suggests Social-Distancing Measures Prevented 530 Million COVID-19 Infections By April A new peer-reviewed study has found that public health orders to enforce social distancing have saved an untold number of lives and likely prevented around 530 million COVID-19 transmissions across six countries.
SF News Video: SF Couple Gets Engaged During Black Lives Matter Protest On Golden Gate Bridge A San Francisco couple took a dramatic — and windy — moment on the Golden Gate Bridge, during which protesters had halted traffic in both directions on Saturday afternoon, to get engaged in front of the assembled crowd.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Artists Follow D.C. In Painting 'Black Lives Matter' on City Street Three blocks of 15th Street in downtown Oakland are now painted in big, bold yellow letters "#BlackLivesMatter," much like a street near the White House in Washington, D.C. as of last week.
