SF Politics Mayor Breed Nominates Controversial Owner of Manny's to SFMTA Board Cafe owner, activist, and lightning-rod for leftie quarrelling Manny Yekutiel is London Breed’s new nominee for one of two empty spots on the SFMTA board.
SF Politics Dialysis AGAIN? Why There Is Yet Another Dialysis Measure on the California Ballot California's healthcare unions are taking another shot at “Big Dialysis” after a failed 2018 measure, and get ready for TV ads, as the franchise clinics are outspending the unions 16-1.
SF Politics Meet Your 13 SF Ballot Measures, Nearly Half of Which Are More Taxes on Rich People Five of the 13 San Francisco ballot measures are tax hikes, but there are also a few measures that will surely draw Fox News ridicule, like allowing 16-year-olds to vote.
SF News Major BART Delays Hit East Bay as Power Line Gets Knocked Onto Tracks, Service Now Back This afternoon was not a good time to take BART in the East Bay, as service was disrupted when a semi truck knocked a power line onto the tracks.
SF News Missing Berkeley Woman’s Car Found in Humboldt County, But She’s Still Missing 75-year-old Betty Baxter Simmons hasn’t been seen since September 5, but her car was found with a note saying “Tow to Berkeley.”
SF News Western Addition Metal Bar Attack Leaves 30-Year-Old With Life-Threatening Injuries A yet-unidentified 30-year-old man clings to life after a Monday night attack at Fillmore and Geary.
SF News Local Man Allegedly Flies to Nashville With 87 Pounds of Marijuana, Predictable Result Ensues Who’s a good boy? That drug-sniffing dog from Nashville, Tennessee, who fetched 87 pounds of weed from luggage from an SFO inbound flight and didn’t smoke any of it.
Business & Tech Google Cracking Down On Apps That Don’t Pay Them a 30% Cut The Fortnite legal kerfuffle has Apple and now also Google digging in their heels that they should get a 30% cut of any purchase made within apps on their respective platforms.
SF News PG&E Power Outages Hitting NorCal Hard, Nearly 100,000 Homes May Be Without Power as Utility's Share Price Drops It’s that time of year, as the Napa and Sonoma fires have knocked out some 37,000 homes’ power, planned outages hit another 65,000 homes in the Sierras, and even Oakland and SF have a few areas without power.
Arts & Entertainment Your Folsom Street Fair Schedule and Lineup for Live Music, DJs, Performers, and Parties Folsom is all online this year, but if you ‘like to watch,’ here’s Sunday's full, detailed, all-day schedule of live performers, DJs, scenes, and after-parties that you just can’t beat.
Business & Tech Facebook Employee Raises Powered by ‘Really Dangerous’ Algorithm That Favors Angry Posts Employee raises at Facebook depend on engagement, and newly leaked private Zuckerberg recordings show the Groups algorithm prioritizes enragement.
SF Politics Supervisors Pass Budget That Will Supposedly Eliminate $1.5 Billion Deficit The supes pretty much gave Mayor Breed what she wanted in a near-unanimous vote, the only difference being that the Board dips into the rainy day fund to give city employees raises.
SF News Dozens of Rich White Kids Got 'Inappropriate Admissions’ to UC Berkeley, Says State Audit Another “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal hits UC Berkeley, as a new audit finds students from households with donor and staff connections inappropriately cruised through the admissions process.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bars Mixing Up Their Cocktail Delivery Methods to Avoid App Platforms’ Highball Fees The arguably exploitative business model of companies like Postmates and DoorDash has inspired some spirited innovations from bars and booze businesses, and some are turning to old-fashioned methods.
SF News What Are the California November Ballot Initiatives, and How Are They Polling? A Review There are 12 California ballot initiatives lost in the noise of the 2020 pandemic presidential election, but here are the state measures whose ads will soon clog your mailbox and television airwaves.
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.
