SF News Day Around the Bay: Caltrain Strikes Truck in San Bruno, 13 Injured The woman whose rape kit DNA was used to prosecute her speaks out, BART’s Richmond Red Line could be out of service another week or longer, and 13 people were injured whan a Caltrain struck a Caltrain maintenance truck.
SF News Oakland Scofflaw Tries to Siphon Gas From Reporter’s Car While Reporter Is Still In Car Gas siphoning is becoming a thing amidst the highest gasoline prices ever, and one correspondent experienced a pretty brazen gas guzzling theft attempt — while she was still sitting in the car.
Bay Area Sports The MLB Lockout Is Over! Giants Likely to Play Ball Starting April 8 We will still get a full 162-game season after all, as the MLB and the players’ union strike an unexpected and sudden tentative labor agreement, and the Giants' Home Opener looks likely to be April 8 against the Miami Marlins
SF News After Star Soccer Player’s Suicide, Stanford Acknowledges It Has a Suicide Problem With four suicides in 13 months, and new details about goalie Katie Meyer’s circumstances that don’t make the school look good, Stanford promises to beef up mental health resources for students.
SF News Sacramento Man Convicted of Trafficking Oakland Teen Whom He Busted Out of a Group Home In a story that involves both a jailbreak and breaking a minor out of a group home, the dust has finally settled, and the feds won a conviction of Sacramento man Robert Pierre Duncan.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin Speaks After High-Profile Defeat in Prosecution of Officer for Police Beating After losing the trial in the first use-of-force case brought against an on-duty SFPD officer, DA Chesa Boudin says “You can’t be scared to lose,” and is still prosecuting cases against five other officers.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Fan Beaten in L.A. is Out of Coma, Standing On Own Two Feet Oakland chef and 49ers fan Daniel Luna is out of his medically induced coma after a parking lot beating during the Niners-Rams game in late January, and while he has plenty of rehab ahead, his recovery is exceeding expectations.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Conservatory of Flowers and Japanese Tea Garden Will Be Free for SF Residents Apple announces a cheap 5G iPhone, a fully loaded Glock was found in an 18-month-old’s backpack, and two iconic flower gardens at Golden Gate Park will be free of charge for residents of San Francisco.
SF News Ex-Planning Commissioner Poised for $1.8 Million Settlement Over DBI Retaliation Lawsuit Former Planning Commissioner Dennis Richards once told the Department of Building Inspection to “go f*ck themselves,” but several DBI scandals later, Richards gets the last laugh with a $1.8 million lawsuit settlement.
SF News Supervisors Vote to Crack Down On Stolen-Item Street Vending With Permit Legislation As sidewalk bazaars of items that “fell off a truck” crowd Mission Street and Civic Center, the Board of Supervisors just passed a bill to regulate and permit vendors to keep the stolen stuff out.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Outdoor Dining Parklets Becoming Permanent, But New Permits and Costs Are Looming While the “Shared Spaces” program is spawning permanent, lovely parklets in SF and the greater Bay Area, a quagmire of new permits, regulations, and costs will be kicking in soon.
SF News In More Fourplex Legislation Drama, SF May Un-Streamline the New Streamlined Approval Process Supervisor Rafael Mandelman’s fourplex legislation is not a done deal yet, and the expedited review process could still be yanked from the recent SB-9 legislation
SF News After Winning UC Berkeley Enrollment Cap, Neighborhood Group Now Playing Games and Offering New Terms The NIMBY group Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods won a court battle and trimmed UC Berkeley’s enrollment by 3,000. Now they’re offering a new deal to cut it by only 2,000, but the school says ‘No thanks, we’ll keep fighting you.’
SF News The Biggest Cannabis Dispensary Chain Yet to Arrive in SF, MedMen, Opens Store in Cow Hollow The largest, nationwide legal marijuana retailer San Francisco has seen yet, MedMen, just opened a Cow Hollow outpost. But the former high-flying Green Rush “unicorn” arrives in SF awash in red ink and restructuring after a high-profile flame-out.
SF News People, There Is a $1 Shuttle That Goes Between Downtown SF and MacArthur BART The cheapest deal in Bay Area public transit takes you ten miles for a measly dollar, as a little-known Caltrans shuttle offers $1 dollar trips between Pier 30 and MacArthur BART, and it’s been quietly running for almost 45 years.
SF Politics Boudin’s Office Releases 2021 Prosecution and Conviction Data, Opponents and Supporters Both Say ‘I Told You So’ District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s office released an annual report on SF convictions and prosecutions, giving both sides grist on whether he’s prosecuting hard, or hardly prosecuting.
SF News Bay Area Ukrainians Are Signing Up to Head Home and Defend Their Country After President Volodymyr Zelenskyy put out a call for Ukrainian-Americans to come home and fight — complete with a handy QR code to register — around 1,400 Bay Area Ukrainians are trying to do just that.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pointless Fight Fan Elon Musk Challenges UAW to Pointless Fight A Ukrainian nuclear power plant is reportedly on fire after a Russian attack, a new sobriety meetup group is catering to SF food and beverage industry workers, and Elon Musk is daring the United Auto Workers to just come and try to unionize his Tesla plants.
Arts & Entertainment The Pride Weekend ‘People’s March’ Will Return This Year, Possibly In Direct Competition With the SF Pride Parade San Francisco could be a two Pride Parade town this year, as the upstart People’s March on Polk Street is planning to return — on the same day as the SF Pride Parade, and possibly even the same time.
SF News Mayor Breed Would Like You Back Downtown Working in the Office Again, Thank You Very Much The mayor wants businesses to take a “pledge” to return their workers to offices, in a new Welcome Back to SF campaign that’s long on business interests, and short on public health concerns.
SF News Test Ride: The New Treasure Island Ferry Is Awesome, Though Often Late, and Generally Pretty Much Empty We’ve got pictures and video from the stunningly scenic Treasure Island Ferry ride, which is not exactly running on a tight schedule, and the crew often outnumbers actual passengers.
SF News Monterey Sheriffs Question Assault Suspect, Find 80 Firearms and 50,000 Rounds of Ammo What started as questioning over the alleged sexual assault of a minor turned into a trove of guns, ammo, and prescription narcotics, and as you can imagine, this Pebble Beach suspect is now in jail.
Bay Area Sports Stanford Women's Soccer Star Goalie Found Dead in Dorm Room, Had Been on 2019 National Championship Team Star goalie Katie Meyer won the Stanford Cardinal women the 2019 NCAA with heroic saves in a shootout, but was found dead in her dorm Tuesday. She was 22.
SF News Sup. Preston Seeks To Close Rent-Control Loophole That’s Leading to 182% Rent Increases An affordable housing nonprofit ironically called HumanGood has announced 182% rent increases for some tenants thanks to a HUD loophole, but Supervisor Dean Preston has introduced an ordinance to prevent this.
SF News Berkeley Yoga Instructor Fired For Helping Boyfriend Run Anti-Semitic Website The same group that spread “the COVID agenda is Jewish” flyers across the Bay Area is linked to a popular Berkeley yoga instructor, and her Jewish boss had to fire her amidst a growing public relations mess.