SF News Report: Central Subway Opening Likely to be Delayed Yet Again, Might Not Happen This Year Stop us if you’ve heard this before! SFMTA says the Central Subway to Chinatown is on track to open September 9, but a federal monitor, and everyone not on the SFMTA payroll, says we’re looking at December or well into next year.
Business & Tech Uber On the Verge of Cutting Deal With Taxi Fleet Flywheel A shocking alliance between Uber and SF taxicabs is on the table, as cab fleet Flywheel is in talks with Uber to put their cabs on the Uber app.
SF News Report: Wildfire Smoke Could Double or Triple in Coming Decades, Causing More Wildfires The dirty air from wildfire smoke could occur two to three times more frequently a generation or two down the line, thanks to a vicious cycle that makes the smoky air itself cause more wildfires.
SF News Friday Happy Hours Are Now Weak Sauce, and That May Be the New Normal for Downtown SF Bars Friday Happy Hours remain on the rocks, but Thursdays are suddenly hopping, as hybrid work produces mixed results for SF bars’ economic recovery.
SF News Notorious COVID Cruise Ship Docked Again in SF with Infected Passengers Sunday, But It’s Gone Now The Ruby Princess cruise ship, once known as the “Plague Ship” for its superspreading role early in the pandemic, arrived at the Port of San Francisco with positive cases Sunday, but left for Hawaii later in the day.
SF Politics YIMBY/Tech PAC Going After Supervisors Mar and Chan, Hopes to Raise $300k to Recall Boudin Hoping to make the school board recall an ongoing wedge issue for progressive supervisors, a new PAC is targeting two supes who opposed it, and announced an ambitious fundraising goal for the Boudin recall.
SF News Van Ness BRT Will Indeed Be Running April 1, After Years as a Running Joke A weary San Francisco has learned to roll its eyes at any announcement of progress on the Van Ness bus lane construction project, but the Van Ness Improvement Project really will have its grand opening in less than a week.
SF News Video: Stolen Pickup Drives Wrong Way on I-880, Rams BART Police Van and Other Vehicles in San Leandro A wrong-way car chase had both Oakland police and BART police in hot pursuit Thursday evening, and news chopper video shows a BART police SUV and three other vehicles taking damage before the suspect was nabbed.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Zoo’s Sumatran Tiger, Leanne, Has Died At Age 18 Tomorrow is the last day to register for next week’s Burning Man ticket sale, that tiny-house fire in Oakland is raising serious safety questions for the company that built them, and the SF Zoo is mourning the loss of 18-year-old Sumatran tiger Leanne.
Bay Area Sports Predictably Insane Chase Center March Madness Ticket Prices Could Double by Saturday Since the Sweet 16 brings blue-chip tournament teams Duke and Gonzaga to town, ticket prices are off the charts for today's games in SF, and could double again by Saturday.
SF News Mill Valley Capital Rioter Who Fled to Belarus Has Been Granted Asylum, Hoping to Avoid FBI Charges Accused of punching and pummeling police during the January 6 Capital insurrection, (former?) Mill Valley resident Evan Neumann has been granted asylum with Russia ally Belarus.
SF News Grisly Details Emerge of 8-Year-Old Hayward Girl’s Extended Abuse and Murder, One Suspect Still At Large The mother of a Hayward girl who was allegedly abused, kept in a shed, and murdered has been charged, but the boyfriend who was also charged is still on the run.
SF News East Oakland Gas Station Shooting Leaves Innocent Bystander Dead, Another Woman Injured A 64-year-old Army veteran from San Joaquin County was caught in the crossfire and killed in a Saturday night double-shooting near San Leandro, and while another woman was shot too, police are detaining her because they say “She is a person who is involved in this crime.”
Business & Tech Supervisors Slap a Moratorium on Parcel Delivery Sites, In an Obvious Shot at Amazon While Amazon is not named in the “interim zoning controls” on “proposed Parcel Delivery Service uses” the supervisors approved Tuesday, it's crystal clear they’re playing hardball with Amazon’s plans for a Mission Bay delivery warehouse.
SF News The Transamerica Pyramid Is Getting a $250 Million Renovation The new owner of the Transamerica Pyramid has no interest in playing second banana to the taller and shinier Salesforce Tower, so they’re renovating the building and adding features to attract people who do not work there.
SF News Day Around the Bay: How Karl the Fog Can Help Solve the Drought California has confirmed its first Latina state Supreme Court judge, there’s a Nancy Pelosi documentary premiering on PBS tonight, and a new SFPUC pilot program is harvesting water from the fog to help alleviate the drought.
SF News Whale Watching Season Has Arrived, as Large Pack of False Killer Whales Delights SoCal Watchers Stunning video shows a large pod of false killer whales swimming together and going right up to a boat in Dana Point, and the humpbacks, gray, and blue whales will likely show up here any day now.
SF News Report: SFPD Use-of-Force Cases Down Sharply, But Enormous Racial Disparities Remain Unchanged The SFPD just released an internal report on their stops and use-of-force incidents, and while the SFPD has cut its use-of-force cases in half, the percentages still show overwhelming enforcement disparities against Black and Brown people.
SF News Big Conferences are Back, as Game Developers Conference Returns to Moscone Center An estimated 10,000 or more video game nerds — including the Wordle guy — have converged upon Moscone Center for the return of the annual Game Developers Conference, though the event is projected to have only about half of its normal attendance.
Business & Tech Detestable L.A. Tesla Owner Performs 50-Foot Jump on Public Street, Damages Multiple Other Cars In a hit-and-run fiasco that a crowd of Tesla fans clearly delighted in, a Tesla owner in L.A. performed a massively dangerous 50-foot leap on city streets, and damaged a few other cars with this stupid stunt.
SF News Breed’s Tenderloin Linkage Center Closed for One Day for Privacy Additions, and It’s Now Back Open The Tenderloin Linkage Center took a one-day break to re-fence the area for privacy, but opened again Saturday, and now looks like it will stay in place for the rest of the year.
Business & Tech Apple Services Go Kablooey in Giant Monday Morning Outage Your Apple Maps, App Store, iCloud Mail and auxiliary Apple services galore may have hit the skids for a few hours Monday morning, and while the temporary outage was international, most everything is back up and running.
Arts & Entertainment 4/20 Is Indeed Happening on Hippie Hill for 2022, With Special Guest… Mike Tyson? It will finally be the first 4/20 with legal cannabis sales in Golden Gate Park, after the last two 4/20 celebrations were canceled by COVID-19, with boxer-turned-bud proprietor Mike Tyson scheduled to appear as a special guest.
SF Politics Campos Draws Groans, Backlash for Saying His Campaign Is ‘Fighting and Running Like Ukrainians’ in Assembly Race A hamfisted comparison by David Campos that his campaign was “fighting and running like Ukrainians” in his state Assembly race against Matt Haney is getting eyerolls and disapproval, right as early voting kicks off.
SF News Berkeley Tuolumne Camp Set to Reopen in June, Nine Years After Being Destroyed in Wildfire Just in time for its 100th anniversary, Berkeley Tuolumne Camp will reopen on June 4, nine years after the Rim Fire burned down the cabin site near Yosemite National Park.