SF News Why Is This Prop A Ballot Measure Asking for Another $400 Million for Muni? An Explainer The SFMTA and Mayor Breed are asking SF voters to approve a $400 million Muni upgrade bond measure to lift it out of the floppy disk era, and oddly, tech companies are writing huge checks to get this thing passed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Looser Rules for To-Go Cocktails Pass State Senate, Food Requirement Might Be Nixed That pesky “bona fide” meal requirement for to-go cocktails could be 86’ed under proposed revisions to California’s carry-out cocktail rules, as the state senate just unanimously approved an expansion of legal to-go booze sales.
SF Politics Pelosi’s Husband Now Trying to Refute DUI Reports as ‘Incorrect Information’ A spokesperson for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband says a report of his arrest for an alleged DUI has “incorrect information,” while the Speaker’s office says she “will not be commenting on this private matter.”
Arts & Entertainment Upcoming ‘Toy Story’ Prequel Has Disney’s First Ever Same-Sex Kiss — Because Bay Area Pixar Employees Fought For It Disney removed a same-sex kissing scene from the upcoming ‘Toy Story’ installment ‘Lightyear,’ but an uproar from artists at Emeryville-based Pixar got that gay kiss right back into the animated feature film.
SF News One-Year Anniversary of San Jose VTA Mass Shooting Marked With Vigils, Remembrances — and a New Lawsuit Today marks exactly one year since a disgruntled Valley Transit Authority worker opened fire and took the lives of nine colleagues in San Jose, and remembrances ranged from somber to combative to the serving of a wrongful death lawsuit.
SF News SF Trash Bin Saga Gets Even More Complicated, Three New Models Now in the Running The already-laughingstock San Francisco trash can replacement drama is getting less resolution instead of more, as more new proposed bin models are now littering the landscape.
Business & Tech Twitter Shareholder Hits Elon Musk with Class Action Suit for Market Manipulation, False Statements With Twitter having lost more than $8 billion in value since the Elon Musk escapade started, one shareholder is hauling Musk to court alleging that he’s driving down the company’s value on purpose.
Bay Area Sports Colin Kaepernick Comeback? He Just Had a Workout Today With the Raiders Controversial quarterback Colin Kaepernick is now 34 years old, and has not played NFL football in five seasons, but he had an audition workout Wednesday with the Las Vegas Raiders.
SF News Oakland Man Arrested for Assaulting Three SF Women in a 10-Hour Period Three San Francisco women, including a 75-year-old, were allegedly all assaulted by the same man in a 10-hour spree that covered Visitacion Valley and the Tenderloin.
SF News National Park Police Union Says Stay Away from SF’s Parks Because They’re Unsafe, Park Service Disputes This The police union for the National Park Service warns tourists are “not safe” in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, but reading between the lines, this seems like a plea for more funding.
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 2022 Features Vinsantos, Two Margaret Cho Flicks, and Disney’s First Same-Sex Kiss in ‘Lightyear' Disney-Pixar’s ‘Lightyear’ will make Frameline history as the first Disney feature with a same-sex kiss, plus a Vinsantos documentary and two Margaret Cho features round out the just-announced LGBTQ+ film festival schedule.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Another Day, Another Mass Shooting in America The death toll is up to 19 victims in the Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting, Warriors coach Steve Kerr gave a passionate sermon against the epidemic of U.S. gun violence, and closer to home, a Bayview woman was found shot in her home.
SF News LGBTQQ+ Youth Non-Profit LYRIC Targeted by Multiple Bomb and Death Threats, Apparently From Bible-Thumpers Multiple bomb threats and death threats have forced numerous evacuations at LGBTQQ youth nonprofit LYRIC, the most recent being Monday, and SFPD is considering these as possible hate crimes.
SF News Tenderloin Linkage Center Gets Approved for Six More Months, But Don’t Call It a ‘Linkage Center’ The controversial Tenderloin Linkage Center has been quietly renamed to simply the Tenderloin Center, and the SF Board of Supervisors just approved it staying at UN Plaza another six months, for the rest of 2022.
SF News $2 Billion Potrero Power Station Redevelopment Project Finally Gets Underway Hoping to transform “an industrial wasteland” into the “next hot neighborhood of San Francisco,” there’s a $2 billion redevelopment underway at the Potrero Power Plant by Pier 70, with housing, hotels, hotels and office space.
SF News SF Still the Most Childless City in U.S., New Map Breaks Down Childlessness by Neighborhood San Francisco’s “More dogs than kids” stereotype just bought a few more years of relevance, as Census numbers show a still-declining family population, and only Bayview, Presidio, and Seacliff have more than 20% of the population under 18.
SF News Newsom Threatens Mandatory Water Restrictions Across California If We Don’t Lay Off the Water Usage Gavin Newsom says that if local water agencies don’t crack down harder on water usage, he’s going to start levying mandatory water restrictions all over the state.
SF News State AG Now Investigating Last Week's Police Shooting That Left Two Dead in Mission Bay State Attorney General Rob Bonta is investigating an alleged police shooting of two men last Thursday in Mariposa Park, and new reporting indicates that SFPD may have shot both the assailant and the victim in the incident.
SF Politics Report: SFPD Refused to Participate in Quickly Burglary Ring Bust, Boudin Had to Rent His Own U-Haul New reporting on the DA's Office raid on a Tenderloin Quickly shop earlier this month alleges that police said “they were too busy” to assist in the bust, and that DA Boudin had to rent his own U-Haul to carry out the operation.
SF Politics [Update] Breed Joins Police, Fire Department in Boycotting Pride Parade Over Ban on Police Marching in Uniform Mayor Breed, the SF Police Officers Association, and the fire department all say they’ll refuse to appear in the SF Pride Parade, in response to a 2020 decision that barred police from marching in uniform at the event.
SF News They’re Back — Indoor Mask Mandates Return to Berkeley Schools, In What May Be the Shape of Things to Come Hoping to just make it through the rest of the school year without further COVID catastrophes, Berkeley Unified School District puts the indoor mask mandate back on.
SF News 30-Acre Brush Fire Raged in Contra Costa County for Two Hours Friday, Now Fully Contained A grassy hill brush fire between Concord and Bay Point forced several evacuations early Friday afternoon and eventually grew to 30 acres, but Cal Fire had it fully contained by 2 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment H.R. Pufnstuf Cosplay Convention ‘Kroftt Kon’ Lands In Orinda This Weekend Sid and Marty Kroftt themselves will be on hand, with cosplayers competing for cash prizes, in a celebration of retro TV shows like ‘H.R. Pufnstuf’ and ‘Land of the Lost’ that will be anything but a routine expedition.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Sexual Misconduct Charges Arrive; Allegedly Exposed Himself and Propositioned Flight Attendant “Elongate” dropped early Thursday night, with a report that his SpaceX company paid a flight attendant $250,000 to buy her silence over an incident where Musk allegedly exposed himself and offered her a horse if she would “do more.”
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Firefighter Accused of Assaulting Another SF Firefighter Elon Musk got hit with sexual misconduct allegations, a report says the Bay Area is the only place in the nation whose rents are still lower than pre-pandemic, and the SF Fire Department is facing some questions about their handling of an alleged firefighter-on-firefghter violence incident.