SF Politics Newsom and Lurie Distance Themselves From Campaign Against California Billionaire Tax The billionaires who don’t want to pay the California billionaire tax are lining up big bucks to defeat the ballot measure, but Gavin Newsom and Daniel Lurie deny reports they will appear in ads against the billionaire tax.
SF News Someone Stole Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee’s Car, It Was Recovered the Next Day in Vallejo Some clever thief actually managed to steal Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee’s city-issued SUV on Monday, and took it for some degree of joy-riding, though the vehicle was reportedly recovered Tuesday in (where else?) Vallejo.
Business & Tech Tesla Agrees to Stop Using the Term ‘Autopilot’ in California to Avoid 30-Day Sales Suspension Tesla was facing a 30-day ban of all car sales in California over deceptive use of the term “autopilot” in their marketing materials, but the electric carmaker just backed down and simply agreed to stop using that word.
SF News California High-Speed Rail Authority CEO Caught Up in Some Manner of Domestic Battery Incident The CEO of California’s High-Speed Rail Authority was apparently arrested earlier this month on suspicion of domestic battery, and though he won't face charges, he’s taking a leave of absence anyway.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Yes, That Was a Hail Storm Tonight in San Francisco Bruce Springsteen is bringing his anti-Trump road show to the Chase Center; San Jose is getting an all-you-can-eat Wagyu steak restaurant; and San Francisco just saw hail, thunder, and lightning in a freak aspect to today’s winter storm.
Business & Tech AT&T Moving Back Into the Exact Same Union Square Flagship Store They Just Left in 2023 An unlikely tenant is stepping forward to move into the Union Square cable car turnaround’s vacant One Powell Street storefront — the very AT&T store that moved out of that storefront two and a half years ago
SF News Several Back-Country Skiers Missing After Tuesday Morning Avalanche Near Tahoe An unknown number of back-country skiers are missing after an avalanche hit Tuesday morning in the Castle Peak area near Donner Pass, as some parts of the Sierra experience their harshest winter conditions in three years.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Pride Dissolves Its Board And Goes Kaput, New Oakland Pride Will Be Mid-August The Oakland Pride Parade and party just declared itself finished, but a new leadership organization immediately sprang up in its place, and the long and the short of it is that Oakland Pride will now be Sunday, August 16.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Marry Lisa’ Billboard Woman Still Very Much In Hunt for Husband, Being Pretty Choosy About It 42-year-old Lisa Catalano has been at it for six months now with the “Marry Lisa" billboards up and down Silicon Valley's US-101, and she’s still paying for them while looking for a husband, but her viral fame is a mixed bag.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Pair of Giant Horse Statues Ring In the Lunar New Year ‘Year of the Horse’ In SF Meet all the horse statues just installed around San Francisco to celebrate the Lunar New Year’s Year of the Horse, as these intricately designed horse monuments now adorn SF parks, markets, and public spaces.
SF News Here We Go Again: Vaillancourt Fountain Fans Sue SF In Yet Another Last-Gasp Attempt to Save Fountain Just when you thought that SF was absolutely, positively getting rid of that 710-ton some-would-say-eyesore known as Vaillancourt Fountain, a group of preservationists is suing the city to keep the damn thing there.
SF News Newsom and California Sue Trump Administration Again, This Time Over Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trump’s EPA is running roughshod over all California’s environmental protections, so the state is suing to keep as many of them as intact as possible, the latest being our rollback of how much greenhouse gases can be emitted into the environment.
SF News There’s Fresh Friction Between Lurie and PG&E Over Day-of-Blackout ‘Nutcracker’ Performance A PG&E executive testified that Mayor Lurie demanded the lights be turned back on during the Dec. 20 blackout for his daughter's ‘Nutcracker’ performance, but now PG&E is backtracking on that claim.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pride Flag Re-Raised at Stonewall After Trump Administration Tore It Down A teen was charged with last November's shooting at Ocean Beach, the Puppy Bowl got higher ratings than Kid Rock’s halftime show; and activists just replaced the Stonewall Pride flag that the Trump administration tore down.
SF Politics Sup. Dorsey Threatening to Censure or Even Remove Mystery Supervisor He Says Leaked Information A ho-hum item on Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors agenda has turned into a full-blown witch-hunt for Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who says he’s launching an investigation into some fellow supe he claims leaked confidential info.
Business & Tech Marc Benioff Sticks Foot In His Mouth Again Making Jokes About ICE, Wisecracks Over Employees Getting Arrested Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff made the exceedingly unwise decision to kid his international employees that they might be arrested by ICE, and boy did that joke not land whilst he was addressing a company event.
Arts & Entertainment More SF Movie Theaters Can Sell Beer and Wine After Supervisors Relax the Rules It’s ‘bottoms up’ at more SF movie theaters, as the Board of Supervisors just social-lubricated the red tape around alcohol sales at movie houses.
SF News SF Supervisors Vow to Keep Mission Cultural Center at Its Current Home, Regardless of Financial Problems This is more than just a symbolic resolution, because the city owns the building, and the SF Board of Supervisors promised that the currently closed Mission Cultural Center will stay put and reopen no matter what.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sure Enough, School Canceled for Wednesday as Teacher’s Strike Still Not Resolved The Trump administration tore down the Pride flag at Stonewall; turns out the pastor who did the Bad Bunny halftime show wedding is from Sacramento; and the SF teachers’ strike will indeed barrel into Wednesday.
SF News Judge Shoots Down Wiener’s ICE Mask Ban, and Gavin Newsom and Wiener Are Blaming Each Other For it A federal judge has shot down state Senator Scott Wiener’s ban on ICE agents wearing masks, because of wonky new amendments that Wiener and Governor Newsom added to it, constituting a classic Democratic political screw-up.
SF News Alameda County Sheriff’s Deputies Mistakenly Shoot and Kill Man Because They Thought He Had a Gun In the deputies’ defense, the man they shot had called 911, claimed that he had a gun, and said that he intended to harm people with it. But when the smoke had cleared, it turns out the man was just carrying a pipe.
Business & Tech Meta and YouTube Now On Trial Over Claims They Are Addicting Kids With ‘Digital Casinos’ Opening statements started Monday in a trial where plaintiffs allege that Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube are acting as ‘digital casinos’ designing their platforms to addict kids, and Zuckerberg will be forced to testify.
SF Politics In First Big Governor’s Race Endorsement, Senator Adam Schiff Endorses Eric Swalwell A sleepy race to succeed Gavin Newsom as California Governor just got a little bit of a jolt, as Senator Adam Schiff publicly put his chips on East Bay House Representative Eric Swalwell.
Bay Area Sports Seahawks Desecrate 49ers’ Locker Room With Cigar Smoke After Winning Super Bowl After knocking the 49ers out of the playoffs, the Seattle Seahawks rubbed it in even harder after winning the Super Bowl Sunday night on the Niners' home field, hotboxing the 49ers locker room with the awful smell of cigars.
SF News Trump Administration Trying to Boot All Undocumented Immigrants Out of SF Public Housing The latest ‘Show me your papers’ bully move from the Trump administration seems to want immigrants out of any supportive housing that receives federal funding, and they're demanding citizenship checks of Section 8 residents.
