SF News BART Board May Ban Panhandling, But Buskers Could Be Barred Too A full banishment of panhandling could be in the works for the BART system, but we’d lose our lovely musical busking performers in the stations as well.
SF Politics Pelosi Challengers Debated Online Saturday, And The Gloves Came Off Late In an online debate Saturday, Pelosi’s primary challengers called her “a corporate Democrat” who’s “been in office for longer than I’ve been alive,” but hit each other hard as the night wore on.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi’s Three Primary Challengers To Debate Saturday Night Want to see Nancy Pelosi get primaried? Then you want to see her challengers debate Saturday night in an online forum that you can stream on Facebook or YouTube.
SF News One Year Later, Brutal SoMa Dismemberment Murder Still Unsolved Brian Egg’s decapitation and dismemberment remains a heartbreakingly unsolved murder after an entire year, and suspicious neighbors “wish the police were being more active.”
SF News Sorry Guys, That E-40 Video With the Nuns Dancing Is a Fake E-40 himself has shared the video, which has racked up 500,000 views in the last 24 hours, but the it’s actually a bunch of Polish nuns dancing to a boys choir from September 2018.
SF News Report: Navy Merely Throwing Dirt On Top Of Contaminated Hunters Point Soil It’s a literal cover-up at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, as a watchdog group alleges the Navy is simply covering contaminated areas with “a thin layer of soil or asphalt.”
SF News Two More SFPD Officer-Involved Shootings Result In No Charges In a pattern familiar to anyone following the Gascón-led DA's office, officers will not be charged in a fatal 2017 shooting, and a non-fatal shooting that followed the 2018 Warriors championship celebrations.
Arts & Entertainment GrassLands at Outside Lands Stays Cleaner, Chiller Than The Rest Of Festival The festival’s “weed zone” called GrassLands had no arrests or medical incidents. Sales were high, prices were decent, and lines ran as long as 60 people or longer at some booths.
SF News East Bay Jewish Community On Edge As Guy Who Threatened To Shoot Up Synagogue Walks Free Ross Farca is a free man, despite bragging on a video game platform that he planned to commit a synagogue "shooting with a body count of over 30,” having a history of mental illness, and cops found him with an illegal AR-15.
SF News Modesto Straight Pride Organizer: “We’re A Totally Peaceful Racist Group!” A Freudian slip draws howls of laughter at an otherwise tense Modesto City Council meeting, as another batch of “Straight Pride” buffoons seek an event permit.
SF News Oakland Landlords Lose Case Over Paying Tenants $6,500 To Leave The first legal challenge to Oakland’s new tenant relocation payment law has been denied, but an appeal could undo San Francisco’s version of the measure.
SF News Uber and Lyft Account For Twice As Much SF Traffic As We Thought Lyft and Uber's real internal numbers show these two rideshare companies generate twice as much congestion as had been previously estimated.
SF News Muni Will Shut Down Nighttime Subway Tunnel Service For Much Of August From August 12-26, shuttle buses will replace underground tunnel service starting at 9:30 p.m. on the J Church, K Ingleside, L Taraval, M Ocean View, N Judah, and Third Street lines.
SF News SFO Will Ban Bottled Water In Less Than Three Weeks Effective August 20, airport shops will no longer sell single-use plastic water bottles, and thirsty flyers will need refillable aluminum or glass bottles.
SF News PG&E Denies Everything in Bombshell Journal Exposé, Argues They Were Not Neglectful In Camp Fire The bankrupt utility is on the defensive over safety failures that may have caused the Camp Fire, their lavish political contributions, and their big-bucks shareholder payouts.
SF News FBI Finds More ‘Extremist Materials’ As Police Search For Motive In Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting The FBI is keeping a tight lip on what they’ve found on the shooter’s computer, phone, and thumb drives, but a law enforcement source describes discovering “extremist materials.”
Arts & Entertainment Black Rock Census Shows Typical Burner Is White, Rich, Male Burning Man has kicked off a “Diversity & Radical Inclusion” effort as their census data again confirms that the majority of Burners are white dudes.
SF News Does Giving Bus Tickets Out Of Town Really Help The Homeless? The Chronicle Crunches The Numbers More than half of the people who “overcome homelessness” in San Francisco are merely shipped of town on a one-way Greyhound bus ticket, and the track record of this program is a mixed bag.
SF News BART Will Extend Its Poop-Preventing Elevator Patrol To Two More Downtown SF Stations The BART system would prefer you call them “elevator attendants,” and they’ll soon expand from just Civic Center and Powell Street to Montgomery Street and the Embarcadero Station as well.
SF News ‘Rideshare Rapist’ Charges To Proceed, Despite Allegations of Improperly Collected DNA A judge refuses to toss rape and kidnapping charges against Orlando Vilchez Lazo, even though the DNA sample used to bust him may have been obtained illegally.
SF News Oakland’s Homeless Population Has Skyrocketed Nearly 50% In Two Years Per capita homelessness in Oakland is now higher than San Francisco or Berkeley, in one of the biggest spikes in the unsheltered population of any city in California.
SF Politics Supes To Consider Banning Natural Gas From City Buildings The latest nanny-state measure from City Hall could banish natural gas from all new San Francisco municipal construction projects and renovations.
SF News Wildfire Season Already Proving Costly and Stressful As NorCal Fires Begin To Arrive Contra Costa County has been deemed one of the high-risk “hot zones” in the state for wildfires, while thrice-burnt Lake County had two new wildfires just this past weekend, leaving everyone on edge.
Arts & Entertainment SF's Linda Ronstadt and Michael Tilson Thomas To Get Kennedy Center Honors Soon to retire and looking great at 74, SF Symphony's outgoing music director Michael Tilson Thomas will receive one of the most prestigious awards in artistic achievement this year.
SF News Hackers Execute Ransomware Attack on Asian Art Museum The museum insists they did not pay the money hackers demanded, but they quietly suffered a ransomware outage in May at the hands of likely foreign hackers.
