SF News Big Sur Tribe Gets Little Sur Land Back, 250 Years After It Was Colonized Yes, there is a Little Sur, and 1,200 acres of it are going back to the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County in the first-ever granting back of their lands.
SF News California Investigating Whether COVID-19 Disproportionately Affects LGBTQ Community The state will start reporting sexual orientation and gender identity in its COVID-19 counts, as LGBTQ activists suspect their community is particularly hard-hit.
SF News Sinking, Tilting Millennium Tower Slated for a $100 Million Fix This Fall The tallest residential butt of jokes in San Francisco will supposedly finally get fixed, as its permits and approvals for repairs are at long last complete.
SF News Muni Baseball Bat Attack May be Investigated as a Hate Crime New allegations emerge in last week’s attack of a Muni driver, with claims that the deplorable teens punched and spit on the driver, and accused him of having COVID-19 because he’s Asian.
SF Politics More Supes Call for Stripping Zuckerberg’s Name from SF General Hospital Supervisors Gordon Mar and Matt Haney revive a proposal to nix the “Zuckerberg” from Zuckerberg General Hospital, and hospital staff apparently hate the name too.
Business & Tech Twitter Mulls A Paid Subscription Model, As Congress Calls Jack Dorsey In To Testify Fresh off a highly embarrassing data breach, Twitter would like your credit card information — but Congressional Republicans want to grill Jack Dorsey first.
SF News Bay Area Doing Great On Census Responses, But Trump Still Trying to Game Who Gets Counted Three weeks out from “door knockers” being dispatched, the Bay Area is outpacing the country in responding to the delayed COVID-19 Census. Yet Trump still hopes to whittle our numbers.
SF Politics Vandals Tag the Hell Out of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s House Messages of "Cancel Rent," "Defund OPD," and "Wake Up, Libby" were among the less profane messages in a 2 a.m. graffiti and fireworks hit job on Libby Schaaf’s house.
SF News SFMTA Director Speaks to New York Times About Agency's Dire Finances The SFMTA is on course to lose more than a half billion dollars in revenue over the next four years, and director Jeffrey Tumlin warns we’re seeing a “transit death spiral.”
SF Politics FBI Probing Whether City Hall Power Couple Directed Contracts to the Person Who Sold Them Their House The widening Mohammed Nuru DPW investigation is now looking into why the City Administrator and SFPUC General Manager directed $8 million in contracts to the woman who sold them their house.
SF News Nationwide Retail Chains Make Masks Mandatory; Benioff Wants Unmasked People to Be Fined Walmart, Target, Starbucks, and a long list of other national chains are ignoring the culture war and requiring face coverings, and even Trump’s top toady at the CDC is now on the mandatory mask bandwagon.
SF News Police May Have Buried Evidence in Marin Kids’ Italian Murder Trial Graphic courtroom testimony caused emotional outbursts in Rome, but the two NorCal youngsters accused of killing an Italian cop have an emerging defense of a police cover-up.
SF Politics Facebook Loophole Allows Climate Change Deniers to Have a Misinformation Field Day By labeling blatant lies as “opinion,” fossil fuel industry pundits have found “a loophole that you can drive a Mack truck through.”
SF News Sean Monterrosa’s Family Demands More Body Cam Footage From Police Shooting The Vallejo Police Department has now changed its story over the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Sean Monterossa, and famed civil rights attorney John Burris wants answers.
SF News Zillionth Version of High-Speed Rail Plan Introduced, Funding Totally Uncertain For just $714 million, riders will be able to get from SF to San Jose in a mere 45 minutes under the umpteenth iteration of the high-speed rail plan.
SF News Borderlands Books Rocked By Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence Allegations Against Owner After a horror and sci-fi podcast aired shocking accusations against Borderlands owner Alan Beatts, the local press has confirmed these charges from his daughter and ex-girlfriend.
Arts & Entertainment SF Mime Troupe Still Doing Performances This Summer, Online and Via Radio It’s our first summer in 58 years without free San Francisco Mime Troupe performances in the park, but the show will go on over the internet and local radio.
SF News Update: SF Tech CEO Outed as Culprit in Racist Viral Video Rant; He Issues Lazy Apology Cancel culture and Twitter did their thing, as a local “cloud solution” CEO is identified as the fellow who yelled “Trump’s gonna f*** you” and “You Asian piece of s***” in a Monterey incident.
SF Politics Sup. Haney’s Bid to Break Up Public Works Likely Headed for November Ballot A new department would have one job — keeping our haggard sidewalks clean — under Supervisor Matt Haney’s proposal to break up the scandal-plagued Department of Public Works.
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Executive Steps Down After Instagram Institutional Racism Incident A hollow, corporate Black Lives Matter post on SFMOMA’s Instagram drew a critical comment from an ex-employee, setting off a month of escalating drama and critiques of the museum’s mostly white executive culture.
SF Politics DA Boudin Adopts Post-Apartheid-Inspired ‘Reconciliation Commission’ Led by Activist Shaun King Boudin joins district attorneys in Boston and Philly to “address the injustices of the past,” but the involvement of lightning-rod organizer Shaun King is leading to some questions.
SF News SF To Pay Nearly Half a Million Dollars to Settle Alleged Police Misconduct Cases It will surely interest the “Defund the Police” movement that San Francisco is paying out a combined $455,000 in settlements to a man SFPD shot in the back, and another they injured during the 2017 skateboard “hill bomb.”
SF News Alleged Excelsior DUI Crash Injures Four, Demolishes Bus Shelter Amazingly, all four victims are expected to survive this brutal Monday night accident where an SUV plowed into a bus shelter, but police suspect a DUI hit-and-run.
SF Politics Nuru Doled Out More Than $10 Million in City Contracts With Zero Oversight, Says City Controller The disgraced former DPW head tossed millions of taxpayer dollars around like candy, and benefited from loopholes with names like “BFF Gift Exemption” and “Donation Shakedown.”
SF News Hallelujah! Liquor Stores Can Resume Normal Hours Just As Bars Get Paused Your corner convenience store no longer has to close before sundown every night, as the 8 p.m. closure order has been quietly rescinded.
