SF Politics More Indictments for Ex-DBI Commissioner and Building Inspector for Disguising Kickbacks as Rugby Donations “RoDBIgo” Santos and Bernie Curran are on the wrong end of a fresh set of federal indictments, in a scheme where alleged kickbacks came in the form of youth hockey and rugby donations.
SF Politics Aaron Peskin Sure Has Questions About an Unexplained $461,000 Check the City Received from Recology The city apparently received a $461,000 check from Recology on September 16 and has no idea why. They haven’t cashed it yet, and Supervisor Peskin has a few pointed questions about this.
SF Politics Biden Picks First Major Fight With California, Holds Back Billions In Transit Funding Over Pension Dispute President Biden worked for months to get his $1 trillion infrastructure bill. Now he’s holding back $12 billion of that money from California over an obscure public employee pension rule.
Arts & Entertainment SF Nabs $2.5 Million For Outdoor Concert Series, To Be Curated By Clubs Like Bottom of the Hill A new initiative called SF Live will fund a series of outdoor concerts across the city, with Another Planet Entertainment and clubs like Bottom of the Hill putting on the shows.
SF Politics Audit Finds $3.5 Million In Anonymous Donations to SF Parks Alliance, Calls Out 'Potential Conflicts of Interest' Supervisor Connie Chan is not done snooping into the finances of the San Francisco Parks Alliance, with an audit she ordered finding millions in anonymous donations, but no smoking gun.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Muni Driver Goes Through ‘Shang-Chi’ Bus Fight Scene With a Fine-Tooth Comb Trump’s least favorite voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems has a monopoly here in SF, a Muni driver had a delightfully insightful take on the ‘Shang-Chi’ Muni bus fight, and Journey has a date at the Chase Center in March.
SF Politics There Could be Four Elections for This Same D-17 State Assembly Seat in 2022 This February’s special election pitting Matt Haney against Davis Campos for David Chiu’s old seat could be the first of four elections for the exact same seat in just a nine-month span.
SF Politics Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood Groups Taking Credit/Shifting Blame For Former McDonald’s Site Remaining Empty One neighborhood group is taking credit for killing off plans for a homeless drop-in center at the blighted Stanyan Street ex-McDonald’s site, others are baffled that the city may let it sit empty for years.
SF News Tourists Thwart Smash-and-Grab Near Baker Beach By Throwing Rocks Minutes after a group visiting from Tennessee and Kentucky had their car broken into and robbed, they managed to disrupt the burglary of another vehicle and even get their items returned.
SF News Haight Street Shooting Now a Homicide, as Victim Dies Three Weeks Later In one of the three shootings in three weeks on Haight Street, the victim in the October 23 nighttime shooting has now died, so the investigation will continue as a homicide.
SF Politics Steve Bannon Indicted for Contempt, Scheduled to Surrender to Authorities Monday Hold on to your liver spots, because the January 6 commission has won two indictments against Trump insurrection adviser Steve Bannon for refusing to comply with congressional subpoenas.
SF Politics Butte County Town of Oroville Declares Itself a ‘Constitutional Republic’ in the Latest Anti-Vaccine Tantrum The city council of a small town north of Sacramento is making a big stink that they don’t have to follow vaccine mandates, though the mayor backing the measure admits the resolution “doesn’t change anything.”
SF News Two Separate Car Theft and Baby Kidnapping Cases Bring Amber Alerts to Concord and Pittsburg The East Bay saw two separate cases Thursday night where cars were stolen that had babies inside — and both babies are safe, but the suspect in a Concord case is still at large.
SF News San Jose Man Posing as ‘Spiritual Healer’ Allegedly Raped 15-Year-Old Girl Police say there could be more victims of this 42-year-old suspect accused of 10 felony counts of sex crimes against a juvenile, after telling the girl he was a “spiritual healer.”
Business & Tech Filings Show Elon Musk’s Stock Sell-Off Was Pre-Scheduled, Likely Unrelated to Twitter Poll The latest Elon Musk Twitter nonsense involved a poll where his fanboys would determine whether he should sell his Tesla stock and finally pay taxes, but regulatory filings show the sale was planned in mid-September.
SF News I-280 On the Peninsula Is the Roadkill Capital of California A new study on the frequency of roadkill on California roads finds that I-280 between San Bruno and Cupertino is the “Deadliest Highway in California” for animals.
SF News More Details Emerge on Fox Theater Shooting, and Another Woman Was Shot Nearby Just Hours Later Two women were shot in separate incidents Wednesday afternoon and early Thursday morning in Oakland, and while the Fox Theater victim is expected to recover, the other woman is reportedly in grave condition.
SF Politics Ex-Windsor Mayor Dominic Foppoli Has House Raided by Sonoma County Sheriff's Office The former Windsor mayor who went down in a cloud of sexual assault allegations from nine different women may be hiding at an Italian castle, but his Sonoma County home was relieved of a few items today by sheriff's detectives investigating those allegations.
SF Politics SF’s Proposed New State Assembly Map Draws Flak for Creating White-Majority District One of the many quirks of the proposed SF state assembly district boundaries is that if David Campos won his assembly race, he would not even live in the district he represents.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Upscale Fish Taco Place Cholita Linda has Opened in the Ferry Building Traci Des Jardins' fast-casual Ferry Building Mexican spot Mijita has been closed since before the pandemic, but a worthy replacement has arrived in artisan taco purveyor Cholita Linda.
Arts & Entertainment San Ramon Roller Rink Golden Skate, One of the Bay Area’s Last Rinks, Says It’s Closing COVID-19 has been tough on the roller rink business, and decades-old San Ramon roller rink Golden Skate says it’s hanging up its skates after the year’s end.
SF News In Wake of Gabby Petito Hysteria, CNN Takes Up Case of Arianna Fitts, the SF Toddler Now Missing for Five Years Arianna Fitts would now be eight years old, but she hasn’t been seen since 2016, and CNN is shining new light on her case in hopes of a breakthrough.
SF Politics The Press Has Located Gavin Newsom — He Was at Ivy Getty’s Wedding/Trick or Treating With His Kids The mystery of the disappearing governor has been solved, as Gavin Newsom apparently skipped a global climate conference to attend the fancy Getty heiress wedding at City Hall Saturday.
SF Politics Haney Introducing Measure to Apologize to Chinese Community, Hopes to Make It More Than Symbolic After Los Angeles, San Jose, and Antioch have issued similar apologies for their historical mistreatment of the Chinese-American community, Supervisor Matt Haney wants one from SF, possibly with reparations.
SF Politics Boudin’s Former Prosecutor Continues Fuming Over Case Where DA Didn't Fight Insanity Plea One of the prosecutors who left the DA’s office, and made a big stink to the press about doing so, continues to air complaints about a homicide case she prosecuted where Boudin ended up relenting to an insanity plea from the suspect.