SF News Plans For That Second Transbay Tube May Be Getting Shelved Over High Cost, Low Ridership The latest grand plan for a second Transbay Tube would have cost at least $29 billion and wouldn’t have been completed until around 2040, and now regional transit planners are backing off the idea of building that new tube.
SF News Sierra Snowpack On Pace To Break 40-Year Record, Bay Area Rains Might Last Until April The current gigantic snow dump, combined with January’s storms, could break 40-year-old snowpack records in parts of the state, as the forecast calls for more cold and precipitation through March and possibly into April.
SF News Avalanche Buries Tahoe Apartment Building, Several Areas Evacuated Over Avalanche Risk The first two floors of this three-story apartment building near Palisades Tahoe were completely engulfed by an avalanche Tuesday night, and while everyone inside was rescued, avalanche orders remain in effect in parts of the Lake Tahoe area.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Now Your (Federal) Taxes Aren’t Due Until October 16 One of Mayor Breed’s scandal-plagued picks for the homeless oversight commission looks finished, arrests have been made in that Super Bowl Sunday Dolores Park attack, and the feds are now giving us until October 16 to file our taxes.
SF News New Owners of the Former Sir Francis Drake Sued Over $730,000 In Unpaid Wages The Sir Francis Drake hotel renovated and reopened as the Beacon Grand last year, but the California Labor Commissioner alleges they stiffed workers to the tune of $730,000 during that renovation.
SF News Pittsburg Construction Worker Found Guilty In 2021 Murder of His Supervisor in San Rafael 33-year-old Miguel Jimenez Alejandre had already confessed to police that he killed his own boss and dumped his body at a construction site in San Rafael, but a Marin County Superior Court jury found him guilty this week.
SF News Newsom’s CARE Court Deadline Looms October 1, But SF Lacks the Beds And Staff to Enforce It Gavin Newsom’s state-mandated CARE Court system is supposed to take effect October 1, but San Francisco doesn’t have the facilities or the staff to make it work, if it works in the first place anyway.
SF News More People’s Park Drama, As Appeals Court Again Blocks UC Berkeley’s $312 Million Housing Project The rabble-rousers and CEQA appellants have won another round in their attempts to thwart an 1,100-unit housing development at the site of Berkeley’s People’s Park, as the First District Appellate Court has hit the brakes on the project again.
Business & Tech John Oliver Goes After SF-Based OpenAI and Its ChatGPT Product: ‘The George Santos of Technology’ John Oliver’s ‘Last Week Tonight’ went on a fiery rant against AI products, pointing out how artificial intelligence is a lot more ‘artificial’ than it is ‘intelligent.’
SF Politics Duuude, Marianne Williamson Is Running For President Again Joe Biden has a challenger for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination, and it's crystal-slinging self-help author Marianne Williamson, who just announced that she’s throwing her hat in the ring to run for president again.
SF News Someone Stole a Van Full of Stray Cats In Napa, Van Full of Cats Still at Large A Napa animal rescue, shelter, and adoption organization had its van stolen this weekend, but more alarmingly, there were 16 rescue cats in the van when the cat burglar struck.
SF Politics Billionaire SF Standard Financier Gets Guff for SF-Bashing (and SF Chronicle-Bashing) In NYT Op-Ed A Sunday New York Times op-ed from the money-man behind the SF Standard reads like a formulaic Mad Libs SF-trashing hit piece, but his attacks on the rival publication The San Francisco Chronicle raise questions about his real motivations.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Lays Off 200 More ‘Hardcore’ Twitter Employees; Also He Was Weirdly Quick To Defend ‘Dilbert’ Cartoonist Even sleeping on the office floor won’t buy you Elon Musk’s love at Twitter, as another 200 staffers who met his ‘hardcore’ requirements were pink-slipped Saturday night, but the “Dilbert” cartoonist did win Elon’s love over his racist diatribe.
Bay Area Sports Giants Lowering Beer Prices, Though Only At a Few Concession Stands Facing dwindling ticket sales since 2017, the SF Giants announced they’re lowering the price of beer from $14 to $9, though this only applies at select concession stands at Oracle Park.
SF News East Bay-Based ‘Dilbert’ Cartoonist Declares White People Should ‘Just Get the F*** Away’ From Black People More newspapers are dropping the cartoon “Dilbert” this week, after its creator Scott Adams went full racist granddad in a podcast rant declaring “the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people. Just get the f*** away.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Someone Robbed The El Tonayense Taco Truck At Gunpoint This Week The eminently popular taco truck El Tonayense was the victim of an armed robbery Wednesday, with the gunman making off with an estimated $500 from the truck, which has done business outside the Harrison Street Best Buy for 17 years.
SF Politics San Mateo Mayor Faces Recall Effort After Barely Two Months On the Job Recall-mania is back! San Mateo Mayor Amourence Lee was just elected in December, but already faces a recall effort, one which seems entirely about rehashing the circumstances of her election.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Highway 101 Traffic Snarled By Downed Tree in Menlo Park SFPD has arrested a serial convenience store robbery suspect who is (!) 60 years old, we have our first poll in the four-way race for Feinstein’s Senate seat, and Highway 101 was a mess all afternoon when it was shut down over a downed tree.
SF News Hayward Teacher Placed On Leave Over Allegedly Giving ‘A Master Class in Antisemitism' An English teacher at Hayward’s Mt. Eden High School may have gone a little too Kanye West, adding to the curriculum a pamphlet that accuses Jewish people of a “Well-outlined Plan for World Dictatorship.”
SF News BART Beefing Up Police Presence In Hopes It Will Bring Riders Back BART Police say “We are going to saturate every train and hit every train in Oakland and San Francisco” as the BART board of directors is on the verge of agreeing to more than double the presence of officers.
SF Politics Breed’s Pick For Homeless Commission Hits Trouble Over Improper Federal Accounting Scandal A five-year-old scandal over improperly billing $15,000 of taxpayer money, and lying on a resume, is complicating the prospects for Breed’s nominee for the homelessness oversight commission, Vikrum Aiyer.
SF News Monkeybrains Purchase of Mission District Warehouse Provokes Hostilities With ‘Guerrilla Garden’ A vacant lot on Treat Avenue near 22nd Street has no owner, but has a community group who’ve occupied the space with a garden, and a new next-door owner in Monkeybrains who are effectively doing the same with parking. Their conflict is quickly growing like a weed.
SF News First Gray Whale Sighting of 2023 In SF Bay Has Happened, More Whales Apparently Out There Whale watching season is here a little early in 2023, as the Marine Mammal Center spotted this whale tail February 9, and SF Bay Ferry riders say they’ve seen a few more since.
SF News Breed Names Her Nominees to a Homelessness Commission She Preferred Did Not Exist San Francisco voters approved the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing oversight commission in November over Mayor Breed’s objections, but she still gets to pick most of the commission, which she did Tuesday.
SF News Wind Ripped Metal Panels Off the SFPUC Building Tuesday, Cars Smashed, Plenty of Wind Mayhem Elsewhere Amidst Tuesday afternoon’s wind gusts of nearly 65 miles per hour, two metal panels came flying off the SFPUC building near Civic Center, while downed trees and ripped-off roofs kept public employees busy all day.
