SF Politics California Ballot Measures: Rent Control Effort Fails, Property Tax Too Close to Call Results are still coming in, but the attempted revision of Prop 13 for commercial property is running slightly behind, and the reinstatement of affirmative action has likely failed.
SF News Quirky, Selfie-Perfect SF Polling Places Include Museum of Ice Cream, The Eagle Leather bar The Eagle, the Museum of Ice Cream, the Balboa Theater and Almanac Beer Co. are filling in as temporary polling places this as San Francisco is set to break turnout records in this bizarre pandemic election.
SF Politics Trump Rallies Caused 30,000 COVID-19 Cases, 700 Deaths, Stanford Study Finds Stanford researchers ran the numbers and linked Trump rallies to 700 deaths, with the depressing kicker that these were “not necessarily among attendees.”
SF News Asian Art Museum Hit with Lawsuit Over Allegedly Stolen Artifacts Look at these 1,000-year-old sculptures, because they’re unlikely to be on display at the Asian Art Museum any longer amidst a troubling lawsuit from the US government.
SF News Solano County Patient Has COVID-19/Flu Co-Infection, ‘Twin-demic’ Fears Grow A handful of people in the country have contracted coronavirus and the flu simultaneously, one here in the Bay Area, and the double-whammy co-infection threat is real.
Business & Tech Reddit’s Super Generous Work From Home Policy Sparks Bay Area Exodus Fears With people already bolting from the Bay in droves, Reddit is among the first tech companies to pay workers the same salary if they move somewhere cheaper.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Vote to Pay Up to 65% of Unpaid Back Rent to Landlords Back rent is piling up under the eviction moratorium, so the Board voted Tuesday that the city would pay between 50-65% of it for qualifying tenants and landlords.
SF Politics Mad Mud is Flying as Six Supervisor Seats Are Up for Grabs in November Election Some odd (and vaguely racist) political ads are shaking up the races, as all six odd-numbered supervisor districts are on the November ballot.
SF News SF Giving $2.5 Million in Tax Waivers to Nightlife and Entertainment Venues Some 300 San Francisco music venues, bars, and nightclubs will get their local taxes and fees waived in hopes of helping them survive the pandemic.
Bay Area Sports 49ers' Jed York Makes Lavish Donations In Attempt to Unseat Unfriendly Santa Clara City Councilmembers The 49ers CEO has dropped $3 million ($100 per registered voter!) to elect a new Santa Clara city council that would be far friendlier to billionaire NFL owner interests.
SF Politics Karens Beware as CAREN Act Unanimously Passes Board of Supervisors, Turning Some Karening Into a Civil Offense Under the Caution Against Racially Exploitative Non-Emergencies (CAREN) Act, racially motivated 911 calls could now land you in legal trouble.
SF News Raccoons Break Into Redwood City Bank, Make Themselves Completely at Home Two loutish raccoons took it upon themselves to occupy a Redwood City bank, and both suspects remain at large after their raccoon party free-for-all.
SF News Last Year’s PG&E Blackouts Attributed to Staff Being Mostly Untrained A “staggering failure of common sense” blamed for the October 2019 PG&E blackouts that caused more than two million northern Californians to lose electricity, many for days.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Marvel Kung Fu Flick ‘Shang-Chi’ (Starring Awkwafina!) Now Shooting in SF We’ve got some kick-ass car chase videos from the long-delayed shooting of “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” which is back on track and filming all week in Russian Hill.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Pole Dancers Mount A Get-Out-the-Vote Effort with ‘Poling for the Polls’ ‘Poling for the Polls’ puts a new spin on voter turnout efforts with a sexy Sunday livestream of buff boys and gripping girls working you to the polls.
Business & Tech Twitter Suspends Trump Campaign Account for Three Hours, as Trump-Twitter Battle Escalates Trump is threatening a “big lawsuit” after his campaign account was given a three-hour timeout on Twitter, and Senate Republicans have subpoena'd Jack Dorsey because they think this is the equivalent of Pearl Harbor.
SF Politics Kamala Harris’ Lawyer Husband Won Taco Bell Chihuahua Lawsuit With Dogged Pursuit Journalists tried to dig up some poop on Sen. Harris’ husband, but instead found he successfully handed Taco Bell a big chalupa $42 million legal bill in 2009.
SF Politics Feinstein Corners Amy Coney Barrett Into Non-Answers, But Lands No Punches; Harris Grills Her on ACA Sen. Feinstein needled the Supreme Court nominee on the two issues for which she was picked — to overturn Roe v. Wade and to hand Trump re-election — but DiFi didn’t really manage to swat any flies.
SF News Covidiot Files: Trumper Yoga Studio in Pacifica Advertising ‘Mask Free’ Classes The MAGA-yoga connection apparently exists, and a hot yoga studio could be in hot water for “mask free” classes flouting health restrictions.
SF Politics California GOP Putting Out Bogus Ballot Boxes In At Least Three Counties Republican party operations in Fresno, Los Angeles, and Orange County get busted for bamboozling voters with phony ballot drop boxes, which is totally a felony.
Business & Tech Waymo Unleashes ‘Fully Driverless’ Taxis (In Phoenix Only), Elon Musk Stews With Jealous Tweets The Google-Alphabet-Waymo dream of fully autonomous taxicabs is a reality as of today, but only in a small patch of the Phoenix, Arizona area.
Arts & Entertainment Artist Rigo 23 To Unveil Leonard Peltier Statue in SF, Ceremony to be Livestreamed Rigo 23’s large-scale homage to long-jailed Native American activist Leonard Peltier will be unveiled Friday for a six-month display in SF, after the FBI had the statue kicked out of Washington, DC.
SF News Vallejo Declares State of Emergency Over Pandemic Crime Wave and Police Misconduct Vallejo City Council thinks gangs are engaged in a turf war, but their emergency declaration sets off a turf war between the city’s police and its police officer’s association.
SF Politics Uber and Lyft’s Prop 22 Only Up By 3 Points in Poll, Despite $186 Million War Chest An all-time California record of campaign cash has not yet sealed the deal for Lyft and Uber in their campaign to ensure their drivers are not classified as employees.
SF News Entire West Coast Marijuana Crop Threatened By Fire, Smoke, and Ash In not just California, but Oregon and Washington too, where even cannabis plants that are hundreds of miles from the fires suffer smoke damage that renders the pot unsmokable.
