SF News Day Around the Bay: The Supervisors Have Ended Single-Family Zoning Local favorites Fort Point Beer Company and Hortica face closures, the party’s over as Airbnb bans parties at their rentals, and the board of supervisors just shot down single-family zoning in San Francisco.
Business & Tech Facebook and Instagram are Deleting Posts About Abortion Pills, Sometimes ‘Within Seconds’ Big Brother is declaring it’s a thoughtcrime to mention the availability of abortion pills on Meta’s Facebook or Instagram platforms. But the exact same posts are staying up if they substitute the words “guns” or “weed” for “abortion pills.”
SF News The Stud’s Former Home Got Thoroughly Tagged On Pride Weekend, and Then Countertagged On Top of That In what may became an annual Pride Weekend tradition, the SoMa building that formerly housed The Stud got slathered in graffiti over the weekend, but then took more graffiti from someone apparently not pleased with the “queer revolt” messaging.
Arts & Entertainment Great America’s Land Sold to New Owners, It Will Close in Six Years or ‘Up to 11 Years' Santa Clara’s beloved amusement park Great America has been sold, and the new owners will allow it to remain the Great America you know for only another six years, or maybe as many as 11 years.
SF News SFPD Officer Arrested, Charged With Grand Theft, Fraud, and Forgery Over a Wrecked Ford Mustang Chesa Boudin gets to charge one more SFPD officer on his way out! One SF cop who once had a GoFundMe so he could stay unvaccinated now faces multiple fraud charges involving a pricey Ford Mustang, which ended up getting totaled.
SF News Tamalpais School District Hit With Title IX Violations Over Harassment of Trans Student A five-year-old case of bullying at an unnamed high school in the Tamalpais Union High School District brings a federal penalty, and the district is forced to take steps to remediate a pattern of alleged inaction.
SF Politics More Newsom Bucks Could Be Coming Your Way, State Has ‘Framework’ for Inflation Rebate Checks Checks of anywhere from $200 to $1,050 appear likely to be coming, as Governor Newsom and the state legislature have agreed to a “framework” for a budget that includes inflation rebate checks for every California taxpayer.
Business & Tech Chevron Selling Off Headquarters In San Ramon, But Richmond Refinery Staying Put Oil and gas giant Chevron is downsizing its Bay Area footprint and moving a bunch of employees from San Ramon to Houston, but sorry Richmond residents, that often-flaring refinery is not going anywhere.
Arts & Entertainment Liz Phair Cancels Sunday’s Stern Grove Show ‘Due to COVID,’ Ani DiFranco to Headline Instead Liz Phair has a “COVID related cancellation” just two days before her Stern Grove show Sunday, but Ani DiFranco is stepping in, and apparently everyone has COVID because lots of tickets are now suddenly available.
SF Politics Bay Area Revs Up to Rally for Abortion Rights, Here’s Where Friday‘s Protests Are Planned Pride Weekend just became protest weekend after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and we’ve collected all of Friday’s planned Bay Area actions and protests scheduled to go down as their announcements come in.
SF News SFPD Arrests Suspect In Wednesday’s Muni Shooting Near Castro Police arrested 26-year-old Javon Green of Pittsburgh Thursday night for the Wednesday morning fatal shooting on Muni near the Castro Station, and we now know the victim was 27-year-old Nesta Bowen.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pride Weekend About to Bloom Again in Its Full In-Person Glory Paul Pelosi got charged with driving under the influence today, a wildfire on the Pleasanton ridge is causing evacuations, and we’re on the eve of the in-person return of a full three-day Pride Weekend.
SF News Supreme Court Overturns Concealed-Carry Gun Laws, California Officials Vow to Keep Limiting Guns in Public Hours after the Trump-packed Supreme Court struck down states’ rights to limit the carrying of firearms in public, Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta insisted California’s concealed-carry law will remain in effect, and could even expand.
SF News Post-Recall School Board Reinstates Lowell High’s Merit-Based Admissions You can call it “selective admissions” or you can call it “segregation,” but the school board voted 4-3 to reinstate merit-based admissions at Lowell, with all four Yes votes being London Breed appointees.
Business & Tech Dreamforce Coming Back With ’Tens of Thousands’ Attending In September, Because What Could Go Wrong Apparently Salesforce is confident enough that COVID-19 will be a non-factor three months from now that they’re bringing back a large-scale Dreamforce, but they’re being a little vague on whether they’ll allow 170,000 people again.
Business & Tech Feds Order Juul to Pull All Products Off the U.S. Market The formerly SF-based Juul has been ordered by the FDA to pull all of its products off U.S. shelves, as regulatory scrutiny of the vaping industry starts to kick in.
SF Politics Despite $108 Million Surplus, Budget Wrangling Underway Between Mayor and Supervisors City Hall is enjoying an unprecedented $108 million budget surplus, which rather than making budgeting easier, is setting off all-out-wars between various special interests who think that the “fiscal cliff reserve” money really ought to be set aside for them.
SF News That Long-Planned ‘Sobering Center’ Will Finally Open Monday Near Howard and Seventh Streets A city-sponsored drug sobering center has been in the works in SF for more than two years, and it’s unclear whether drug use will be allowed on-site, or whether people will even access it. But it opens Monday as an 18-month pilot program.
SF Politics Sierra Foothills Town Nevada City Cancels Pride Over Safety Concerns, Mistrust of Police An inaugural Pride celebration in a small town roughly 150 miles northeast of SF would have been this past Saturday, but didn’t happen after Nevada City’s negative response to the Pride flags set off some red flags.
SF News Two Shot, One Killed on Muni Train Between Forest Hill and Castro Stations, Suspect at Large There’s a very heavy police presence at Castro and Market Streets, as two people were reportedly shot on a Muni train between Forest Hill and Castro Stations, but Muni service has now been restored in that tunnel.
SF News Longest Day of the Year Around the Bay: SF Temperatures Hit 92 Degrees on Summer Solstice A Mission District man was killed in a 4:30 a.m. hit-and-run at 16th and South Van Ness, and Bay Area grass fires are causing trouble, as today's summer solstice brought the hottest day in nearly two years.
SF News Same East Bay Suspect Allegedly Steals Two BMWs From Different Dealerships In a Week, Crashes One of Them An alleged identity fraud scammer managed to get two different East Bay dealerships to sell him BMWs with fake ID, but promptly crashed one of the two.
SF News 24th and Mission Vending Laws Kick In, Smattering of Enforcement Observed Thus Far The rollout of the street vending “crackdown” hit the 24th and Mission Street corner bazaar last week, and while there’s been a bit of enforcement, the portal for vendor permit applications is reportedly not even working yet anyway.
SF News Congress Steps In to Save Sequoia Trees, As Nearly 20% Have Been Killed By Wildfires California’s giant sequoia trees were once considered practically immune to wildfires. But after several thousand were killed by wildfires in recent years, a new bill in Washington hopes to protect and preserve the mighty sequoias.
SF News GLIDE’s ‘Lunch With Warren Buffett’ Auction Fetches Record $19 Million The annual Glide auction of a lunch with legendary investor Warren Buffett just finished its last-ever bidding, and it goes out on a high note of raising $19 million for poverty and hunger programs.