SF News Elected Officials Statewide Push for Consumer Takeover of PG&E PG&E would be radically transformed into a customer-owned co-op under a new plan being pushed by more than 100 California elected officials.
Business & Tech 12 Years After The First iPhone, Craigslist Has Finally Launched a Smartphone App The purple peace sign power of Craigslist is now available as an official iOS app, though the Android app is more of a beta version casual encounter.
SF News Guy Who Brought Loaded Semi-Automatic Gun To Pride Event Gets 18 Months in Prison The 22-year-old San Francisco man who brought a loaded handgun with eight additional rounds into this year’s SF Pride festival gets prison, and had prior gun charges.
SF Politics Scaled-Down Mental Health SF Plan Finalized, Set for Supervisors’ Approval The formerly universal mental health plan will still treat as many as 4,000 people in need, and the mayor and supervisors’ compromise version looks likely to cruise through City Hall by next week.
SF News PG&E Admits to More Than 200 Damage Incidents That Could Have Started More Wildfires Post-blackout inspections showed 218 cases of busted equipment that could have made this fire season a whole lot worse had they not been turned off.
SF News Street Sheet Turns 30 as the Underdog Paper Refuses to Fold It’s the 30th anniversary of Street Sheet, San Francisco’s firsthand chronicle of poverty and homelessness in the city.
SF News Alcatraz Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering to Be Simulcast Online A few early morning boat tickets will be released at 3 a.m, and they’ll go quick, but KPFA will have an online simulcast of the ceremony.
SF News Three ‘Pit Stop’ Porta-Potties to Remain Open 24 Hours As Program Gets Renewed The potty will keep going all night long at three Pit Stops citywide, but Sup. Matt Haney yearns for all of them to be open through the wee hours.
SF News NorCal City Asks Permission to Essentially Incarcerate Homeless Population A spike in unsheltered people camping along Shasta County’s Sacramento River has the mayor of Redding requesting a “low-security facility” in which to round them up and detain them involuntarily.
SF Politics Vacancy Tax Passes Board of Supervisors, Will Appear on March Ballot Landlords will get charged by the square foot for keeping spots empty, if voters approve the Storefront Vacancy Tax in the March 2020 election.
Arts & Entertainment Santacon Stumbles On, Despite Once Again Having No Permits Thousands of drunken Santas may get a frosty reception, as Rec and Parks has not granted Santacon 2019 a permit, and last year’s event was marred by some Santa babies’ vandalism.
SF News New Bike and Pedestrian Lane Opens on Richmond-San Rafael Bridge You can now bike or walk between Richmond and Marin County, as the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Bike/Pedestrian Path opens up to non-car traffic.
SF News Now the Police Are Suing the Hunters Point Shipyard Consultant Too Hundreds of police claim in a lawsuit that the alleged fake soil samples led to cases of lung cancer, and possibly even two fatalities.
SF News Lengthy Exposé Shows How Crime on BART Has Gone Off the Rails NBC Bay Area reveals that BART is “one of the most dangerous transportation systems in the country,” and details which stations are the worst for violent crime.
SF Politics Former Supervisor John Avalos Is Running Again for District 11 Supervisor The 2020 Board of Supervisors races are now underway, as one-time supervisor John Avalos is challenging Ahsha Safai for the seat Avalos held for eight years.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Backs Off A’s Stadium Lawsuit, Jack London Ballpark Plan Back On Track The umpteenth attempt to build a new Oakland A’s ballpark has revolved its latest setback, and the team will not threaten to move to Las Vegas again for at least another six months.
SF News PG&E Blackouts Now the Subject of Public Utility Commission Investigation PG&E could be fined $100,000 per day for each violation found of failing to properly notify customers and local officials that blackouts were coming, regulators ruled Wednewsday morning.
SF News Juul Lays off 650 People in Attempt to Cut Costs by $1 Billion Juul just smoked 16 percent of its staff, mostly in the marketing department, as the San Francisco e-cig maker continues its spiral.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin’s Win Sets Off Twitter Wars, Uncertainty Over When He’ll Be Sworn In Depending on who you ask, new district attorney Chesa Boudin will either bring progressive reform to mass incarceration, or will require techies to don Batman suits to defend themselves from crime.
SF Politics Mayor Breed’s Brother Can Seek Reprieve In Manslaughter Charge, Judge Rules The mayor’s brother Napoleon Brown won the chance at a re-sentencing in his manslaughter conviction from 14 years ago, thanks to a ruling that just came from a San Francisco Superior Court judge.
SF News PrEP-Maker Gilead Sued by Feds for Patent Infringement Foster City-based Gilead Sciences is accused is ripping off government patents to develop its blockbuster, billion-dollar HIV treatment PrEP.
Business & Tech California Sues for Zuck’s Emails as Growing Scandal Reveals More About Facebook Data Dealings A four-pronged scandal-palooza is rocking Facebook’s world today, the worst of which is probably the “Switcharoo Plan” where recent user privacy measures did not apply to choice advertisers.
Business & Tech Bernie Bashes Apple’s $2.5 Billion Housing Pledge, Calls It Corporate ‘Hypocrisy’ The Democratic candidate slams Apple for being “corporate tax evaders” who “helped create California’s housing crisis.”
SF Politics DA Loftus Announces Car Break-In Task Force, Less Than A Week Before the Election A mere five days before the election, Suzy Loftus tries to bolster her standing by unveiling an automobile break-in prevention strategy that sounds much like an idea one of her rivals already introduced.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Emperor Norton Bar Buys Emperor Norton Bond, Which Is Worth $15,000 The proprietor of Emperor Norton’s Boozeland stumbled upon a Norton-signed promissory note that’s worth a fortune, though its 1878 face value is “fifty cents.”
