SF News Newsom Angling to Close San Quentin Death Row, Make It a ‘Healing Environment’ San Quentin State Prison is home to California’s last remaining death row for men, but Governor Newsom wants to dismantle and repurpose it into some sort of vaguely described “positive, healing environment.”
SF News Retired Oakland Police Captain, Left With 22 Bullet Wounds From Gas Station Shooting, Tells His Story In First Interview Former Oakland PD captain Ersie Joyner still has lead in him for the day he suffered 22 bullet wounds at a Chevron station shakedown in West Oakland in October, but is back to full health and just gave his first interview describing what happened that day.
Bay Area Sports Jimmy Garoppolo Taking All the Blame, Likely Done Here After 20-17 Loss to Rams Jimmy G doesn’t look so handsome anymore after an atrocious interception ended the 49ers’ season in heartbreak Sunday, and it is a foregone conclusion that he will be shipped elsewhere in the offseason.
SF News Alleged Police Beating Victim Poised for $700K Settlement, Judge Not Buying Cop’s Claim That Boudin Buried Evidence While the city is ready to settle an alleged police brutality claim for $700K, the officer asking a judge to toss his assault case had a bad day in court Thursday.
SF News Veritas Tenants End Rent Strike After Winning Significant Concessions on Back Debt San Francisco’s biggest landlord Veritas Investments hoped to leave tenants on the hook for rent not covered by federal relief, but a tenants' group changed that with a five-month rent strike that ended Thursday.
Bay Area Sports Reminder: 49ers Pass Rusher Nick Bosa’s Great-Grandfather Was Al Capone’s Bodyguard, Eventually Became Mob Boss The 49ers’ playoff run resurfaces a genealogical quirk — that defensive end Nick Bosa’s great-granddad was the former chauffeur and bodyguard for Al Capone, and eventually took over the Chicago Outfit.
SF News SoMa Sandwich Shop Deli Board Vandalized and Robbed, But Quickly Crowdfunds $13,000 For Repairs Popular Folsom Street sandwich shop Deli Board found itself broken into and robbed Thursday morning, but a GoFundMe campaign has raised close to $14,000, despite (or perhaps because) how donors have politicized it.
SF Politics Lawsuit Against Boudin Over ‘Brutal’ Chinatown Attack Seems a Little Shaky as Further Details Emerge Allegations of a horrible-sounding baseball bat attack against an Asian senior sound a little less horrible as we learn that the baseball bat was a plastic toy, and the alleged attackers were a disabled man in a wheelchair and an 11-year-old boy.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Casa Sanchez Building Officially Gets Historical Landmark Status The Castro Theatre's new management speaks out about whether it will remain a movie theater, a fire broke out at a Pleasanton senior home, and Casa Sanchez will officially become a historical landmark.
SF News BART Station Bathrooms in Underground Stations to Reopen Again, Starting February 2 The Powell Street BART station will have working bathrooms again on February 2, Oakland’s 19th Street will get them on February 25, and eventually, you’ll be able to relieve yourself at pretty much every station on the line.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Will Still Host SFFILM Festival In Late April The future of the Castro Theatre as an almost-full-time movie house is in question, but for the short term, the SFFILM Festival will still be screening there this year from April 21-May 1.
SF News West Oakland ISIS Wannabe Gets Sentence Reduced After Terrorism Charges Dropped An East Bay man who’d tried to get recruited by ISIS in 2016, but was dealing with undercover FBI instead, had his sentence reduced from 16 years to seven years, after an appeals court decided that his Twitter threats did not constitute actual terrorism.
SF News Return of the Tuesday ‘Noon Siren’ Delayed Until At Least 2024 This is not a test… the Tuesday noon emergency siren was supposed to return last month, but because of COVID-19 setbacks, will not wail again for nearly three years or longer.
SF Politics Pelosi Announces She Will Seek Reelection For a 19th (!) Term In Congress The House Speaker announced she’s running for yet another term in Congress, but did not address whether she would run for Speaker again, and that’s a moot point anyway if Republicans win the chamber back.
SF News Open Drug Use at Breed’s Tenderloin Linkage Center Divides Addiction Experts Media reports confirm that people are allowed to use drugs at the Tenderloin Linkage Center, which some recovery experts applaud, and others say is “like trying to have an AA meeting in a bar.”
SF News Day Around the Bay: Barry Bonds Loses Final Bid for Baseball Hall of Fame Pfizer thinks they have an Omicron-specific vaccine up their sleeves, Pelosi says she’s running again, and the Giants’ famed steroids slugger Barry Bonds lost out on his last chance to make the Baseball Hall of Fame.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Can Get New Bars for First Time in 34 Years, After Board Passes New Zoning Law There has not been a new alcohol license granted to a Castro bar since 1987, but there probably will be soon, as the SF Board of Supervisors has approved an updated zoning ordinance.
SF Politics Cop Claims Boudin Withheld Evidence in Fisherman’s Wharf Beating Case, Asks Judge to Dismiss Case The ongoing acrimony between the SFPD and Chesa Boudin is escalating still with an officer facing assault charges saying that the DA’s office lied about and allegedly buried additional evidence that would justify his use of force.
Arts & Entertainment Neil Young Demands His Music Be Pulled From Spotify Over Joe Rogan’s Anti-Vaccine Antics In an angry online letter that has since been deleted, Neil Young declared that Spotify “can have Rogan or Young. Not both,” but the streaming service continues to pay Joe Rogan $100 million to spew anti-vaxx misinformation.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Announces 2022 Ticket Sales, Price Increase to $575 Per Ticket Burning Man says it’s happening again in 2022, but with Main Sale tickets $100 more expensive than last time around, and a “COVID-19 health check process” purportedly in place.
SF News ‘California’s Richest City’ In Marin Could Get Its First-Ever Mixed-Income Housing, Though It Doesn't Look Too Affordable The Marin County city of Belvedere has not built a unit of affordable housing in 33 years, but a new complex with a couple of affordable units is making waves along its lagoons.
SF News PG&E About to Finish Criminal Probation for San Bruno Explosion, Judge Says They're Still a ‘Menace to California’ During its five years of criminal probation, PG&E has been blamed for more than 30 wildfires, destroying 23,000 homes, and killing 113 Californians, raising questions about the effectiveness of corporate probation.
Bay Area Sports L.A. Rams Refused to Sell Playoff Tickets to Bay Area, Fearing Visiting Fans Would Take Over Stadium Again The Rams fear another red-shirt “49er takeover” in their stands for Sunday's NFC title game, and refused to sell tickets to Bay Area fans, but then did a red-faced 180 after nationwide mockery.
SF News Video: Mission Street Loses Mind After 49ers Playoff Win, But Deplorable Taggers Paint On Muni Windshields The requisite Mission Street mayhem and fireworks erupted after the 49ers’ big win Saturday night, and was rowdy but not violent, though a few Muni buses will be placed on injured reserve.
SF News Bayview RV Lot for Homeless Opens, But Many Resist Moving in For Lack of Electricity Resources The new “vehicle triage center” opened Wednesday at Candlestick Point, but those who’ve been invited to stay are balking at the idea because propane tanks and generators are prohibited.
