SF News Incredibly Pricey Trash Can Drama Returns, City Hall Committee Halts New Cans' Approval The saga of what were originally the widely derided $20,000 trash cans is back in the headlines, as a City Hall committee has put the final approval of the “Slim Silhouette” bins on hold over vandalism concerns.
SF News Whoa! You’ll Have to Pay SF Parking Meters ‘Til 10 p.m., Starting In July The SFMTA is literally trying to nickel-and-dime its way out of a $130 million deficit, as drivers will have to feed the meters at SF parking spaces until 10 p.m., starting in July in some neighborhoods, and free Sunday parking will be a thing of the past.
Bay Area Sports A’s Announce Agreement for New Vegas Ballpark, One Week After Bailing On Previous Vegas Ballpark The Oakland A’s claim they have a done deal to build a stadium at the Tropicana casino site on the Las Vegas Strip, though they just backed out a similar land deal last week, and the whole scenario is contingent on $400 million in yet-unapproved Nevada taxpayer money.
Arts & Entertainment BART, Caltrain Running Special Early Trains This Sunday For Bay to Breakers With Bay to Breakers starting at 8 a.m. Sunday, BART and Caltrain are both firing up special fleets of early morning trains for the occasion so “runners” from all over the Bay Area can be at the starting line in time for the race.
SF News New Squad of Community Ambassadors Hopes To Clean Up Mission District Blight A new group of “Mission Community Connector” ambassadors is being deployed starting today in the Mission District, in an effort to abate the neighborhood's rampant tent camping, street vending, and sidewalk drug use.
SF News CNN To Bash SF Sunday In Hour-Long Special, ‘What Happened to San Francisco?’ CNN will continue its Fox News tilt this Sunday night with an hour-long special called ‘What Happened to San Francisco?’ a mini-documentary determined to push the “failed city” narrative.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Baby Falcon Chicks Get Names: Luna, Rosa, and Zephyr The naming contest winners have been declared for the batch of three baby peregrine falcons atop the Berkeley Campanile, and going forward the fast-growing chicks will be known as Luna, Rosa, and Zephyr.
SF News SoCal YouTuber Admits He Crashed An Airplane Just for the Clicks, Faces 20 Years In Prison A 29-year-old YouTuber from Lompoc has pleaded guilty to crashing an airplane on purpose for the pageviews, then lying to federal investigators and clandestinely disposing of the wreckage.
SF News Mega-Landlord Veritas Investments In Default on Loans, Could Lose a Third of Its Buildings SF’s biggest residential landlord Veritas Investments has $1 billion in delinquent loans that the company is trying to sell off, and could lose about a third of its properties across town.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 49ers Announce 2023 Schedule, Will Play Monday Night Football on Christmas Day Six cars were torched this afternoon at the Antioch BART station, Banko Brown's mother has given her first interview, and the 49ers’ 2023 schedule has been released.
SF News That Gray Whale Who Spent a Record Two Months In San Francisco Bay Has Died It was not a good sign that a gray whale had been sticking in the waters of the SF Bay since February, and we now know he’d been hit by ships twice, and has been found dead at the Point Reyes National Seashore.
Arts & Entertainment San Jose Adobe HQ Gets New LED Semaphore Puzzle, and Another Contest To Solve It A new LED semaphore brain-teaser is being projected atop Adobe’s San Jose Almaden Tower headquarters, and you can win free Adobe software for solving it, though it is unlikely to be solved for many years.
SF News Detectives Detail How They Found the Alleged Killers In the Freeway Shooting of Toddler Jasper Wu Highway Patrol officers took the stand and detailed their sleuthwork on how they found the alleged shooters in the Oakland freeway shooting of toddler Jasper Wu, describing an elaborate investigation involving jail calls, wiretaps, and even car advertisements.
SF News Supreme Court Upholds California Bacon and Pork Regulations on Pig Confinement The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed the California law saying that pigs must have enough room to turn around and lie down for their meat to be sold here in the state, in a ruling that sliced wildly across ideological lines.
SF News After Banko Brown Shooting, Supervisor Preston Wants To Ban Retail Security Guards From Using Guns As the controversy rages on over Banko Brown being shot and killed over $14 worth of shoplifted items, Supervisor Dean Preston is drafting legislation to prohibit retail security guards from drawing loaded weapons to protect store inventory.
Arts & Entertainment Corgi Con Forced to Leave SF’s Ocean Beach Over 'Regulation Changes,' Moves to Pleasanton Dog gone! The prized annual SF event Corgi Con has been chased off Ocean Beach over some federal regulations, and is rescheduled for September on non-federal land at the Alameda County Fairgrounds.
SF News AG Bonta Launches State Investigation Into Scandal-Plagued Antioch PD, Says ‘We're Moving In’ As the Antioch police scandals of racist text messages and alleged cocaine distribution get worse, state Attorney General Rob Bonta declares, “We're going to get to the bottom of what's happening in the Antioch Police Department."
SF Politics Supervisors Come Out Swinging Against Plan to Shut Down Bayview Homeless RV Site The ‘Pier 94 Backlands’ is currently home to 118 people still waiting for permanent housing placement, and while the SF Department of Homelessness wants to close it ASAP, supervisors are saying place the residents first.
SF News SFO Will Be First In U.S. to Test Planes’ Wastewater For COVID Variants International arriving flights at SFO will have their wastewater tested for the emergence of new COVID-19 variants, the airport announced Tuesday, making it the first U.S. airport that's doing so.
SF News Day Around the Bay: A’s Las Vegas Deal May Be Falling Apart, Team Picks Different Stadium Site Trump lost his sexual assault and defamation case, free Narcan vending machines are popping up at Bay Area colleges, and the Oakland A’s just hastily pulled out of their Las Vegas stadium deal in favor of a different Las Vegas site.
SF News People Are Ditching BART Because of Safety and Uncleanliness, Says Pro-Business Group Poll A new poll suggests that it’s not remote work, but safety and lack of cleanliness keeping people off of BART. But the survey is from a business group with a history of somewhat dubious polls.
Arts & Entertainment Oaklash Drag and Queer Performance Festival Set to Serve More Punk Realness In Its Sixth Year The main events for the Oakland drag festival Oaklash are scheduled for the weekend after next (May 19-21) with a grand finale at Fairyland, but Oaklash is digging in its heels with early panels and workshops this week.
SF News Now Berkeley and UC Berkeley Are Talking Name Change Over Namesake’s Problematic History 18th-century philosopher George Berkeley, who it turns out owned slaves and wrote pro-slavery pamphlets, may spur the latest renaming crusade, as both UC Berkeley and the city of Berkeley delicately consider a possible renaming.
SF News Five People Injured In Early Morning Sunset Fire, Believed to Be Caused by E-Bike Battery Two people were injured leaping from windows to escape the fire, with three others injured by the fire itself, as an early Tuesday morning fire at the Sunset’s Avalon Sunset Towers is believed to have been caused by an e-bike’s lithium-ion battery.
SF News Oakland Catholic Diocese Files for Bankruptcy as 330 Sexual Abuse Lawsuits Loom With a substantial 330 sexual abuse lawsuits looming against their priests, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, hoping to stem financial losses from all these abuse cases.
