SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Further Cuts Back Government's Use of Anthropic’s Claude The state Democratic party is trying to shame its own governor candidates out of the race; there’s a reason for all these teachers’ strikes lately; and the pissing match between Trump and SF’s Anthropic keeps escalating.
SF News SF to Consider New Nanny State Ordinance Requiring That All Dogs Must Be Neutered Yes, there is an overpopulation in dog shelters, but may be a snip too far that the SF Board of Supervisors will soon consider legislation mandating that all dogs in SF be spayed or neutered.
SF Politics California Republican Rep. Kevin Kiley Switches to Independent, Hoping to Save His Job In New Democratic District More fallout from the California Congressional redistricting, as Republican Rep. Kevin Kiley just switched his affiliation to Independent, thinking maybe that will save his job in a gerrymandered Democratic district.
SF News Former San Mateo County Coach Charged With Sex Crimes A 31-year-old Palo Alto man is being held on 12 statutory rape charges as investigators suspect he engaged in sexual relationships with two San Mateo County high school students.
SF News SFUSD Schoolkids Getting Five Extra Days of Class in June to Make Up for Strike Kids missed a few days of instruction in last month's SFUSD teachers’ strike, but they’re going to make it up, because the school district submitted plans to extend the school year to June 10 instead of June 3.
SF News Rep. Eric Swalwell Going to Bat for Deported Hayward Family of Three With Deaf Six-Year-Old Boy ICE deported a six-year-old deaf boy from Hayward along with his mom and brother, but Eric Swalwell is trying to win the return of this family of three, and his staff did at least get the kid his hearing aids.
SF News Feds Charge Big-Time NorCal Wine Distributor Execs In Pay-for-Placement Scheme at Stores Run By Safeway Owner Safeway’s parent company Albertson’s has been taking wine shipments from a distributor whose former executives are accused of making elaborate bribes in exchange for prime placement on the grocery shelves.
SF Politics Mayor Lurie and Supervisor Mandelman Introduce Ballot Measures to (Of Course) Give Lurie More Power Mr. 14-months-on-the-job Daniel Lurie thinks it's high time he be given some more sweeping powers currently held by the SF Board of Supervisors and various City Hall commissions.
Business & Tech Grocery Outlet Bargain Market Shutting Down 36 Stores Nationwide, Unclear If Any Are In the Bay Area After a brutal fourth quarter in which they somehow managed to lose a staggering $218 million, the Emeryville-based Grocery Outlet is shuttering 36 stores, though these may not be Bay Area stores that are closing.
SF News Hayward Family of Three Deported at Routine SF Immigration Check-in, Including Deaf Seven-Year-Old Boy More pointless cruelty in the SF immigration courts under Trump, as a mother and her two kids, one of them deaf, checked in for their SF immigration appointment and were heartlessly shipped to Colombia.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Airbnb Settles $120 Million Lawsuit Against SF For Exactly $0 Sheng Thao’s lawyers had a bad day in court; our military actions against Iran are raising gas prices and pummeling the stock market; and Airbnb is giving up on getting $120 million back from the City of San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland’s Big Alysa Liu Victory Celebration Now Scheduled for Thursday, March 12 Oakland’s Alysa Liu victory celebration will not quite be a parade down Grand Avenue, but instead a rally on the steps of City Hall, and it's scheduled for 12 noon on Thursday, March 12
SF News BART Police Rocked by Racist AI Deepfake Video Being Texted Around Among Ranks What is it with Bay Area law enforcement and their racist text messages? Yet another such scandal just hit the BART Police force, in a video where BART Police officers singled out a Sikh colleague for mockery.
SF News Two Stabbed In Dolores Park Altercation Wednesday, Multiple Teens In Custody SFPD confronted a “group of unknown subjects in a physical altercation” at Mission Dolores Park Wednesday afternoon, and more disturbingly, six of the eight suspects arrested were teens.
Business & Tech Another Big Win for SF Conference Scene, as Microsoft Moves Major Conference From Seattle to SF San Francisco is now officially back to poaching major tech conferences away from other cities, as Microsoft has moved its Build 2026 conference to San Francisco, snubbing the conference’s longtime home of Seattle.
Arts & Entertainment Jesus Christ! There’s a Hunky Jesus Documentary Coming Out, and Here Is the Trailer Fans of the Easter Sunday Hunky Jesus Contest will go cross-eyed to see that there’s a new feature-length documentary ‘Hunky Jesus’ hitting the film festival circuit, and you’ll be absolutely nailed by the trailer.
SF News Iran Threatens to Withdraw From World Cup Over US Invasion Iran’s World Cup soccer team is scheduled to play matches in the US in June, but the Iranian Football Federation is threatening to pull the team out of the tournament in protest of the attacks raining down from host nation USA.
SF News SF Sheriff’s Department Once Again Going Overboard on Overtime, On Track to Go $19 Million Over Budget for Year While other City Hall departments are all forced to cut back in deficit times, the SF Sheriff’s Office is clocking another year of out-of-control overtime, in a familiar story of SF law enforcement's overtime overkill.
SF News Day Around the Bay: State’s Top Democrat Tells Surplus of Governor Candidates to Drop Out of Race The Bay Area got more transit money for the upcoming World Cup; the Giants are bringing back free opera in the ballpark; and the state Democratic Party chair has had it with these way too many Democrats running for governor.
SF News Trump’s Garish Trump Force One Airplane Popped Into SFO Monday for Some Reason President Trump was not on his ridiculously self-named Trump Force One airplane when it blew through SFO on Monday, but maybe one of his idiot sons had crypto business in town or something, as the plane was spotted here.
SF Politics Mayor Lurie Says He’s Laying Off 500 SF City Hall Employees, Which Will Not Endear Him to the Labor Unions Daniel Lurie says that at least 500 City Hall jobs are on the chopping block, a move he avoided last year through accounting tricks, and Lurie may not exactly be Mr. Popular anymore once that axe comes down.
SF Politics Allegations Resurface That Supervisor Sherrill Got Appointed In Backroom Deal to Benefit London Breed Some SF City Hall gossip is rearing its head again alleging that former SF Mayor London Breed appointed Supervisor Stephen Sherrill in order to score a job with big-bucks benefactor Michael Bloomberg.
Arts & Entertainment Check Out the New Giant Alysa Liu Mural That Just Went Up In Oakland’s Temescal Neighborhood The gold medal-biting, thizz-facing visage of Alysa Liu now graces this fabulous mural that was just unveiled in Temescal, the latest Oakland celebration of the medal-winning Olympic skater.
Arts & Entertainment SF Ballet Cancels Its Performance at Recently Trump-ified Kennedy Center, After Weeks of Local Pressure The San Francisco Ballet is the latest performance outfit to declare they will cancel their scheduled shows at the Kennedy Center since Trump bastardized the place, added his name to it, and declared himself its chairman.
Business & Tech Trump Administration Still Used Anthropic's Claude In Iran Strikes, Hours After Trump Banned Anthropic Despite Trump calling SF’s Anthropic a “Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about” and banning government use of their AI tool Claude, the administration still had to use Claude in its Iran attacks.
