SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pelosi Signs On To $125 Billion Bill To Save Restaurants Nationwide In an interview that made news because Jim Cramer called her “Crazy Nancy,” Speaker Pelosi lent her support to a bipartisan $125 billion restaurant aid bill that senators hope to ram past Mitch McConnell.
Arts & Entertainment Is Halloween Cancelled? Top Public Health Officials Give Crypt-ic, Conflicting Messages Cities and counties across California are spinning cobwebs of different possible Halloween celebration scenarios, but Mayor Breed warns we may be whistling past the graveyard if we let kids trick-or-treat here.
SF News Another SF Lab Technician Arrested with Allegedly Lab-Stolen Meth Here we go again, as a this time a Medical Examiner lab analyst has been arrested with narcotics allegedly ripped off from his own lab, and as many as 2,500 cases could be tainted.
Business & Tech Oracle Wins TikTok Sweepstakes, Rewarding Trump Donor Larry Ellison Microsoft and Twitter get left at the altar, as the Redwood City-based enterprise software giant with no real experience in social media wins the prized video app that Trump pressured into being sold.
SF Politics QAnon Goes Wild On Wiener Over Sex Offender Registration Bill State Senator Scott Wiener’s bill, SB 145, seeks to treat straight and LGBTQ people the same under sex offender registry laws. The response has been death threats and doxxing from the right wing.
SF News The ‘Orange Sky’ Was Also the 10th Anniversary of the San Bruno Pipeline Explosion Wednesday’s ominous dark orange skies came literally on the 10-year anniversary of the San Bruno explosion, a sort of horrible reminder of PG&E’s staying power.
SF News Vallejo Approves Largest-Ever Settlement for a Police Shooting, $5.7 Million, for the Family of Ronell Foster A Vallejo Police officer is on paid administrative leave after killing two people in less than a year, as police misconduct settlements are piling up in Vallejo.
SF News SF Has 'Mediocre’ Census Response Rate, Fire-Ravaged North Bay Faring Much Worse The triple-whammy of Trump, COVID-19, and wildfire displacement are creating a drastic census undercount in NorCal, with congressional seats and billions of dollars on the line.
Bay Area Sports Colin Kaepernick is Back in the NFL — Virtually — in ‘Madden NFL’ Video Game Well, kiss my biceps! Blackballed NFL star Colin Kaepernick is included in this year’s update to the popular ‘Madden NFL’ franchise, and you can play him for any team.
Arts & Entertainment Distanced Drag Events Work the Circuit as Shelter-In-Place Drags On This weekend’s Oaklash drag festival will be applied online, but The Oasis, Red Victorian, and even the Castro’s sidewalks are hosting in-person drag events — but no cheaters allowed on masks and distancing.
Bay Area Sports U Mad, Bum? Madison Bumgarner Returns to SF Saturday, as an Arizona Diamondback Madison Bumgarner left the Giants in December for $85 million, saying “It’s all about winning.” He hasn’t won a game since, but will try again Saturday at Oracle Park.
SF Politics Supervisor Haney Floats a Universal Basic Income Program for SF Matt Haney is calling for a San Francisco guaranteed income, but did not say how much money people would get, and merely hoped the funding would come from a “private philanthropist foundation or something else.”
SF Politics ‘Bad Officers’ Bill Fails in Legislature, Police Won’t Be Stripped of Badges for Misconduct California remains one of five states that won’t strip badges from officers who commit crimes or misconduct, after an attempt to reform that failed to make the Assembly floor.
Business & Tech Facebook (Finally) Removes Racial Ad Targeting After four years of scandals over targeting users by race — including a white users only option — Facebook has very quietly removed the racial targeting option for advertisements.
Business & Tech Will TikTok Youth Rock the Vote? Or Will Conservatives Game Facebook to Win Trump Another Four Years? Right-wingers have already won the fight to dominate Facebook engagement, but rival social media upstarts could blaze a new path, or go down in flames of election misinformation.
Business & Tech Facebook Gets Heat For Not Removing ‘Kenosha Guard’ Militia Page Before Shootings Two users flagged a militia group's page for inciting violence in Wisconsin, but Facebook did not take the page down until after two people were killed Tuesday night.
SF Politics Sonoma County Rescue Copter Could Be Victim of Budget Cuts, Claims Controversial Sheriff The Bay Area sheriff who gained notoriety in May for refusing to enforce his county's public health orders says that budget cuts would mean no more rescue copter for the cash-strapped and currently burning Sonoma County.
SF News Dilapidated County Jail Building to Close September 5, Months Ahead of Schedule The raw sewage, COVID-19 hotbed known as San Francisco County Jail No. 4 will close permanently on Labor Day weekend, ending an injustice at the Hall of Justice.
SF News Newsom Enacts New Fire Shelter Strategies to Avoid COVID-19 Outbreaks We’re now feeling the full fury of coronavirus and wildfire crises happening at the same time, and the state is scrambling to make sure COVID outbreaks don’t hit thousands of shelter evacuees.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, The 2020 Election Will Have Drag Queens at Polling Places — And You Can Be One of Them For this fiercely contested election, the California secretary of state has officially partnered with Drag Out the Vote to ‘work’ the polls and lay the foundation for a big turnout.
Business & Tech Uber and Lyft Will Not Shut Down at Midnight After Last-Minute Reprieve Lyft was about to shut down all California rideshare operations at the stroke of midnight, but an appeals court granted a reprieve only about 12 hours before that would have happened.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man To Fire Up Online Shows and Apps, But Nevada Preparing for Crashers Anyway Burners are madly coding away to create a suite of “Multiverse” experiences in lieu of their annual bacchanalia, but the feds are keeping an eye on whether some of them will just show up at the Black Rock Desert anyway.
SF Politics Pelosi Shows Up at Bayview Post Office After Winning Apparent Concessions On Mail Delivery The postmaster general now claims he’s backing off his draconian postal service cutbacks, but Nancy Pelosi was in the Bayview Tuesday morning to vow she’ll keep pushing the envelope.
SF News SF Jury Trials Are Back Underway, With First Verdict Now Rendered You’re officially now at risk of being called in to jury duty again, as transparent masks, Zoom, and tiny jury pools have the wheels of justice turning once more.
SF News Arrest Finally Made In Year-Old Murder of Mission District Teen Day’von Hann was only 15 when he was shot and killed in July 2019, but a suspect has finally been identified and arrested with the FBI's help.