SF Politics Breed Goes on ‘Meet the Press’ as Small Potatoes, Off-Year School Board Recall Still Making National Headlines SF’s low-turnout, off-year local school board race is still generating national coverage as a revolt against the “woke left,” and Mayor London Breed hit ‘Meet the Press’ on Sunday to ride that narrative.
SF News Disgraced DBI Inspector Bernard Curran Surrenders to Arrest, Charged With Perjury Former Department of Building Inspection “Employee of the Quarter” Bernard Curran was arrested Friday, and charged with perjury and violating conflict of interest laws, in the latest batch of tentacles spawned by the Mohammed Nuru scandal.
SF News BART to San Jose ‘Likely’ Delayed Until 2034, If We Should Even Live That Long An internal document from the Federal Transit Administration says the BART to San Jose project will take four years longer — and cost twice as much to complete — as Bay Area transit authorities had once estimated.
SF Politics All Three Recalled School Board Members Speak Out, Collins Insists She’s ‘Not Done’ The three school board members all have their say over being ousted in Tuesday’s recall vote, and soon-to-be-former board president Gabriela Lopez is saying the recall targeted “people of color, primarily women of color.”
SF News Final Unsent Text Message Recovered From Couple Who Died On August Mariposa County Hike The Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office managed to access the text messages on the phone of the pair who died mysteriously with their infant and dog on a hike, texts that never went through, and show the couple knew they were in deep trouble.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sonoma Sheriff's Office Cracks 1996 Cold Case Murder, But the Killer’s Already Dead The MLB lockout is now cutting into Spring Training, the recalled school board members are getting all manner of racist trolling online, and Sonoma County just solved a 1996 murder, albeit too late to deliver justice.
SF News A Ball Python Is On the Loose in Castro Valley, and Officials Are Worried — For the Health of the Snake Someone apparently dumped an adult ball python in Chabot Regional Park in Castro Valley, and park officials are scrambling to find it, because the cold-blooded critter is unlikely to survive the chilly nighttime temperatures.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A ‘Zero Proof,’ Mocktails-Only Liquor Store Has Opened in Los Gatos Faux Real is a new high-end mocktails shop with no booze, as the alcohol-free, mocktail trend spawns ever more ways to recreate the spirit of drinking without the spirits.
SF News A Few NorCal School Districts Are Now Just Flat-Out Defying the Mask Mandate Kids walked out of class in one school district near Sacramento to protest the mask mandate, while other districts are just refusing to enforce mask-wearing, as tension grows over California dropping mask mandates in general — but not for schools.
SF News SF Cannabis Dispensary Smoking Lounges Get the Green Light to Start Blazing Up Again The SF Department of Public Health gave pot dispensary lounges the “smoke ‘em if you got ‘em” signal on Tuesday, and you’d better believe that some of those lounges were firing up come Wednesday morning.
SF News San Jose Man Charged With 20 Counts Of Burglary for Stealing Entire ATMs Filled With Cash Stealing whole ATMs full of cash may sound like a deviously brazen scheme, but when the suspect also steals an American Legion Hall’s donation box of eyeglasses for veterans, well, that’s where we draw the line.
Arts & Entertainment SF Pride Announces They Are Definitely Doing the Full In-Person Parade and Everything in June Mark your calendar for the final weekend in June, as SF Pride says the whole Pride Weekend-long lineup is back on for an in-person celebration June 25-26, 2022.
SF News No Fooling! The Van Ness Rapid Transit Project Will Be Completed April 1 SFMTA is confident enough that they’ll finally finish the Van Ness Transit Project by April 1 that they’re already scheduling the ribbon-cutting and party ceremony, and after nearly 18 years of red tape, the red lanes will finally have buses cruising through them.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Supervisors Will Try to Recall the Recall Process on June 7 Ballot The first ever Latina judge has been nominated to the California Supreme Court, Oscar winner Mahershala Ali just bought a sweet Oakland Hills bungalow, and your June 7 Recall Chesa Boudin ballot will also contain a measure to reign in all these recalls.
Arts & Entertainment Meet the Tiger Floats of the 2022 SF Lunar New Year Festival and Parade There are 14 floats ready to pounce for Saturday’s 2022 SF Chinese New Year Festival and Parade. Here’s a sneak preview of this year’s finest Year of the Tiger floats, and ‘They're Grrrreat!’
SF Politics Low-Turnout, Seemingly Minor School Board and State Assembly Elections Today Have High Stakes Even CNN is covering today’s SF school board recall and state assembly special election, and while results could make national waves, a ho-hum San Francisco electorate is hardly turning out to vote thus far.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Hit With Ransomware Attack, Team Financial Data Exposed The 49ers would prefer to call it a "network security incident," but team documents are now posted on the dark web, and the hackers may have plenty more breached data to expose if the 49ers don’t pay up.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink ‘Best Parklet in the City’ Trashed by a Vandal, and Police Reportedly Did Not Intervene When a downtown wine bar's prize-winning parklet was thoroughly vandalized on December 31, security footage indicates SFPD approached the vandal, but then left and allowed him to continue.
SF News The Current Western U.S. Drought is the Worst in 1,200 Years, Says New Study Analysis of tree-ring data says that we haven’t seen a drought like this since the year 800 A.D., or maybe longer, but the data doesn’t go back any further than that.
Bay Area Sports How the Raiders Bilked the City of Oakland Out of $190 Million The Raiders may be long gone, but new calculations reveal that the team took a loan from the city of Oakland, let the interest run its total up to $190 million, and then left for Las Vegas without the city even asking for the money.
SF News Crowds Return to SF Bars and Restaurants Amidst Warm Weather, Super Bowl, and Valentine's Day The stars aligned with unseasonably balmy temperatures, Valentine's Day dates, and the Super Bowl bringing out throngs, while next weekend’s three-day holiday brings the Lunar New Year and the end of the indoor mask mandate.
SF News East Bay Assemblymember Proposes Mandatory Vaccination For All California Employees Nobody tell the truckers, but Oakland state assemblymember Buffy Wicks just unveiled a bill that would require every single employee in the state of California to be fully vaccinated.
SF News In Police Beating Trial, Officer Testifies That Police Declined to Interview Two Eyewitnesses The SFPD says Chesa Boudin buried an interview that would have absolved an officer in a police beating. But it turns out that officer had eyewitnesses asking to be interviewed at the scene, and wouldn’t talk to them.
SF News San Ramon Police Determine K-9 Attack on Suspect Was Justified, Outside Experts Call It 'Cops Gone Wild' An Uber driver had a K-9 dog sicced on him when he was 10 days late on a car payment, and while the San Ramon PD says the dog attack was justified, use-of-force experts call it a “hyperexaggerated and hysterical response.”
Arts & Entertainment Meet the 2022 Hearts in San Francisco, Featuring One By Banksy’s Buddy Mr. Brainwash This year’s giant Hearts in SF sculptures are a Ferry Building affair for Valentine's Day, and here’s a look at this year’s big-hearted display.