Business & Tech Gig Workers Uniquely Vulnerable to Coronavirus, No Employee Protections in Place Many on-demand delivery companies are cleaning up as the shut-in economy surges, but the rideshare industry is taking a hit, and gig workers are forced to put in extra work under high-risk conditions.
Business & Tech Uber’s Self-Driving Volvos Resumed Testing in San Francisco Today They’re only in the Richmond District, with a human safety driver onboard, but the Uber self-driving cars are back in town starting today.
SF News Church of 8 Wheels Roller Rink Could Be Razed for Development Planning Department documents show the church-turned roller rink has plans to transform into “36 group housing rooms,” which could be badly needed housing, or could be a giant Airbnb scheme.
SF News PG&E Unveils Bankruptcy Plan: Ask Wall Street for Another $60 Billion The bankrupt utility needs $57.6 billion to pull itself out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Investors would probably hook them up, but exasperated state regulators may put the kibosh on it.
SF News Sunnyvale Police Thwart Alleged Mass Shooting Attempt by Disgruntled UPS Employee The accused would-be killer live streamed his police chase on Facebook, whilst in possession of nine guns and 20,000 rounds of ammunition.
SF Politics More Than 100,000 Uncounted Ballots Could Determine Vacancy Tax, Judge Seats In SF Though every SF local ballot measure is ahead, around 104,000 uncounted ballots could change the fate of the storefront vacancy tax and a couple of judges’ seats.
SF Politics Biden Pops by Oakland Diner, Greeted by Protesters, Sex Toy Shop Owner Biden’s Super Tuesday swing through Oakland featured “Sully” Sullenberger, an encounter with a sex toy purveyor, and a few protesting Democratic Socialists.
SF News Adachi-Chasing Journalist Gets $369,000 SFPD Settlement Over Sledgehammer Raid Freelance journalist Bryan Carmody sold details of Jeff Adachi’s death report for $2,500 a pop, and now he’s sledgehammered out a $369,000 settlement with SFPD over the raid of his home.
SF News Valencia Street Salvation Army Poised to Become Homeless Shelter, But Residents Remain Split A new Hummingbird Place homeless drop-in center could spring up at Valencia Street’s current Salvation Army Mission Corps Community Center, and while some neighbors are skeptical, the opposition is nowhere near as fierce as the Embarcadero Navigation Center's was.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurants Rant Over Ghost Kitchens and Delivery Apps to City Hall Officials Ghost kitchens are putting a scare in brick-and-mortar SF restaurants, who served the Small Business Commission notice that delivery apps are listing them without permission.
Arts & Entertainment Sting’s ‘The Last Ship’ Is a Glorious Depiction of Bleakness and Desolation Sting’s new musical, starring Sting basically playing Sting, sets sail for the month at the Golden Gate Theatre following its brief Broadway run, and it's buoyed by its spectacular score.
SF News Drone High Jinks — And Potential Deadly Crashes — Worry Golden Gate Bridge Officials With six drone crashes on the bridge in the last five years, a top official posits, “By the grace of God, it hasn’t hit a car, bicyclist or pedestrian.”
Business & Tech Startup Boom Starting to Bust, as Layoffs Sweep Silicon Valley The robot reckoning may be afoot, as the New York Times finds that startups have laid off more than 8,000 people in the last four months.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Fired Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick Speaks This could be SF’s first rain-less February in 156 years, Mohammed Nuru is apparently singing like a bird to the City Attorney, and a man suspected of running over two homeless people in the Haight is believed to have then rammed a police cruiser on Twin Peaks.
SF News Union Square Hit-and-Run Leaves Pedestrian with Life-Threatening Injuries The driver of an SUV that mowed down a pedestrian Saturday is still at large, but the victim’s status has been “upgraded to non-life threatening.”
SF News Slain ‘Monster in the Mission’ Property Up for Sale, Local Nonprofit Interested in Buying The developer of the wildly unpopular proposed “Monster in the Mission” luxury condo and apartment project has given up the ghost, and a community group hopes to swoop in and build 100 percent affordable housing.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrated Pop-Up BBQ Pitmaster Gets Charred by Oakland, Permanent Restaurant Delayed A “slab of concrete” is indefinitely delaying slabs of ribs in West Oakland, as Horn Barbecue’s smoker for their brick-and-mortar restaurant has voided their permit application.
SF News Two More Coronavirus Cases Confirmed in NorCal, Plus One More Suspected As many as three more Sacramento and Humboldt County victims could be infected with coronavirus, in addition to the five cruise ship patients hospitalized in northern California.
SF Politics ‘Girlfriend 1’ Identified in Mohammed Nuru Scandal, And It’s Not London Breed The Chronicle has managed to identify “Girlfriend 1” in the FBI criminal complaint against Mohammed Nuru, and it’s high-ranking mayor’s office director Sandra Zuniga.
SF News FasTrak Lawsuit Is on the Fast Track, as Thousands Have Allegedly Been Jilted with Bogus Bridge Fees Think you’ve been charged unfair bridge fees by FasTrak? So do thousands more, and a class action suit against FasTrak — and Xerox — is moving forward.
SF News SF’s Largest-Ever AIDS Quilt Display Coming for Golden Gate Park Anniversary We’re gonna need a bigger box of Kleenex, as the biggest AIDS Memorial Quilt display San Francisco has ever seen will be part of Golden Gate Park’s 150th anniversary proceedings.
SF News SF Parking Meters May Start Charging on Evenings and Sundays Surge pricing for all cars, plus paid meters for Sunday and nighttime parking could be coming, as City Hall looks for ways to fight gridlock and discourage driving in general.
Bay Area sports Aubrey Huff Called Out of Giants’ Reunion After Umpteenth Sexist Tirade The inventor of the ‘rally thong’ has been hitting the #MAGA rhetoric hard lately, and the Giants have disinvited him from the 10-year reunion of the 2010 World Champion team.
Business & Tech Protesters Swarm Zuckerberg’s SF Home to Condemn Facebook Political Ad Policy Mark Zuckerberg was not home to see this morning’s demonstration, but maybe he’ll see the phrases ‘Facebook is a Russian asset’ chalked on his sidewalk when he's back in town.
SF News An Elementary School In Richmond Is Getting Named For Michelle Obama Some Black Girl Magic is applied to the West Contra Costa Unified School District, as Wilson Elementary School will be renamed for former First Lady Michelle Obama.
