SF News SF Suing Walgreens for Creating an Opioid ‘Public Menace,’ and This Sure Changes the Whole Walgreens Discourse Could Walgreens be responsible for the very crime and drug issues they say are driving them out of San Francisco? A lawsuit from the city begs that question, and blames opioid overprescription.
SF News New Report Details Curious ‘Algorithm’ That Decides Who Gets Homeless Housing Based on How Much Trauma They’ve Endured There are some pretty personal questions that go into deciding who gets supportive housing in this town, as a new report details the “algorithm” that sizes up how much trauma applicants have endured.
Business & Tech Yep, Elon Musk Is Officially Trying to Buy Twitter in a Hostile Takeover Bid After the welcome mat for Musk to join Twitter’s board disappeared, the billionaire has made a bombshell offer to buy every share of Twitter for himself and own the company privately.
SF Politics Redistricting Task Force Will Blow Off Its Deadline and Keep Redistricting, Amidst Charges of Mayor Breed Tampering A redistricting process that had gone off the rails rhetorically has now gone off its legal rails too, as its task force votes to defy mandatory deadlines, and allegations swirl that Mayor Breed has been tampering.
SF Politics Lowell High Principal Suddenly Quits, as Post-Recall Drama Continues to Rock SFUSD Who ya gonna blame now, recall people? The principal of SF's prestigious Lowell High suddenly up and quit Wednesday, with carefully chosen words that indicate he’s pissed about the payroll problems.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Update: SF is Indeed Getting Another Shake Shack at Stonestown A job posting for a Restaurant General Manager on the official Shake Shack website says “Stonestown Galleria - NEW SHACK OPENING!,” which leads us to believe there is a new Shake Shack opening at Stonestown Galleria.
SF News California’s First-in-the-Nation Reparations Task Force Meets at Third Baptist Church in the Fillmore You can tune in live to the proceedings of the California Reparations Task Force, underway Wednesday and Thursday, as the state is the first in the country working on formalizing reparations for slavery.
SF News Questions Abound at Healdsburg Bar Where Nine People in Six-Month Span Reported Their Drinks Were Drugged While there were no associated assaults reported, at least nine people have said their drinks were spiked with drugs in the last six months at the same popular bar in downtown Healdsburg.
SF News Man Run Over and Killed While Attempting to Steal Catalytic Converter in Sacramento An attempted theft of a catalytic converter went badly Monday morning in Sacramento, as the would-be thief was run over and killed by the very vehicle he was attempting to sever the part from.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Time to Bust Out the Easter Cable Car We have our first look at a potential Geary Street/19th Avenue subway, comedian Gilbert Gottfried passed away Tuesday, and apparently SFMTA has an “Easter cable car,” which is naturally making the rounds this week.
SF Politics New Mailers From Pro-Haney PAC Attack Campos for Working for Boudin A new batch of attack-ad mailers from the California Association of Realtors — and not the Matt Haney campaign — says “We can’t trust Campos in the Assembly” because he worked on Chesa Boudin’s staff.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Boycott of Organic Food Company Amy’s Kitchen Has Some Grocers Pulling Products From Shelves The darling of the organic-vegetarian frozen food aisle took a hit with some workplace safety allegations at their Santa Rosa plant, creating some grocer boycotts and talk of workers unionizing.
SF News Boudin and Gascón Take Legal Action Against Serial ADA Lawsuit-Filing Firm Going after alleged “Serial Filers” of ADA lawsuits, one of whom has filed 1,700 lawsuits himself, the SF and LA district attorneys have filed a state suit against the law firm churning out lawsuits against Chinese-owned businesses.
SF News PG&E Agrees to $55 Million Settlement to Make Criminal Charges Disappear in Dixie Fire and Kincade Fire Two settlements for two different wildfires that impacted six different counties will halt several separate criminal investigations, as PG&E will pay $55 million to settle criminal allegations in the Dixie and Kincade fires.
SF Politics Redistricting Task Force Submits ‘Draft Final Map’ After High Drama, Twitter Fights, and Half the Task Force Walking Out A bonkers weekend of redistricting fireworks saw profane Twitter fights between supervisors, and four members storming out of a late night meeting in protest, but the map’s final draft is now complete.
Business & Tech Now Elon Musk Won’t Join the Twitter Board, Tech World Wonders What His Deal Is Wait, something about a “background check?” Elon Musk suddenly relinquishes his proffered seat on the Twitter board of directors, which could be a nefarious Elon plot, or a sign of his very short attention span.
SF News Former Castro Sex Club Eros Seeks to Take Over Historic Bathhouse Space In the Tenderloin We now know the proposed new location for Market Street bathhouse Eros, at the Turk and Taylor Street former home of Bulldog Baths, but we don’t know if city regulations will change allowing them to open their doors.
SF News Illegal Marijuana Farmer Found Guilty for Starting the 2020 Dolan Fire The Dolan Fire that killed a firefighter and 12 California condors was started intentionally, and the 31-year-old illegal marijuana grower who started it was found guilty of arson on Thursday.
SF News Bathhouses and ‘Adult Sex Venues’ May Get It On Again, As New Zoning Rules Allow Them Move Forward Bathhouses were ordered closed at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s, but they’re on the way back, as the SF Planning Commission just approved “adult sex venue” zoning legislation.
Bay Area Sports Giants Season Preview: Once Again, No One Gives Us a Chance Except Us Your San Francisco Giants have their Home Opener Friday afternoon, and while the defending NL West champions are given little chance to repeat last year’s stunning success, Kapler and the Captain have other ideas.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Recology Scandals Claim Another City Hall Figure San Francisco had its hottest day in more than six months, there's a naming contest on for the new male Berkeley Campanile falcon, and the city’s Department of the Environment director is out after soliciting a $25,000 Recology donation.
SF News City Hall Is Haggling Over an Ambitious Housing Plan, Hoping the State Doesn’t Yank Billions of Dollars The SF Planning Commission spent Thursday afternoon debating a “housing element” plan on which billions in state aid is contingent, but so far, state authorities have rejected 97% of other cities’ housing plans.
SF News Venezuelan Punk Band Robbed Of Passports in Oakland, Fans Raise Nearly $14,000 on GoFundMe The day after playing at Bottom of the Hill, Venezuelan band Zeta was robbed of their passports and gear in Oakland, but their tour is still trucking thanks to a GoFundMe outpouring.
SF News Harrowing Search For Missing Couple in Nevada Ends With Husband Found Dead, Wife Surviving After a week-long search for a missing couple merely found an empty RV in Nevada, the couple was located, but 72-year-old Ronnie Barker was already dead.
SF Politics SF Redistricting Devolves Into Chaos, Now Three Members of Task Force May Be Removed The SF Redistricting Task Force kept redrawing supervisor districts in another raucous meeting that went ‘til nearly 3:30 Thursday morning, but now three members of the commission might be kicked off, and mind you this three days before their deadline.