SF Politics IPO Tax Axed From The November Ballot Tech companies with IPOs this year are off the hook as Sup. Eric Mar is nixing his own effort to put a stock-based IPO payroll tax before San Francisco voters this year.
SF Politics Supervisors Debate Putting More Oversight For City’s Homeless Department On November Ballot Voters may get to decide whether an oversight commission for the San Francisco Department of Homelessness would bring more accountability, or just create more red tape.
Business & Tech Juul CEO Full-On Apologizes For Teen Vaping As Vape Ban Ballot Fight Heats Up The San Francisco-based e-cigarette giant might have just taken a hit in their attempt to undo the local vape ban, as their CEO goes deer-in-the-headlights under tough questioning from CNBC.
SF News Former Castro Funeral Home Set To Turn Into Large Apartment Complex The big old parking lot and one-time mortuary next to Beck’s Motor Lodge in the Castro breaks ground today to become a 44-unit housing development.
Arts & Entertainment Ed Hardy Exhibit At The De Young Puts New Skin In The Game Tattoo icon Ed Hardy actually hates the hipster clothing brand created in his name, and his new exhibit just about to open at the de Young Museum may help redefine his legacy.
SF News Third Fatal Shooting In Three Days Has Police Chief On Edge Three separate shooting incidents took three lives in less than 72 hours, and it probably doesn’t help the current discourse that the latest shooting was at a homeless shelter.
SF News Tourist Mowed Down By Car While Trying to Thwart A Break-In Of His Own Car A trip to the Legion of Honor went from bad to worse Tuesday afternoon, as a 46-year-old man noticed his car being broken into, and was promptly run down by the thieves’ getaway vehicle.
SF News Ghost Ship Founder Derick Almena Takes Stand For First Time, Blames Landlord Derick Almena testified at the Ghost Ship manslaughter trial Monday, and reiterated that the space’s landlord and the city of Oakland are the ones really responsible for the 36 deaths in the 2016 fire.
SF News Muni Debates Overhauls To Poorly Designed Subway Rail System The roots of Muni’s incessant Metro train delays date back 40 years to the tracks' original design, and the SFMTA is debating fixes for the flaws, including "pocket tracks" for disabled trains.
SF News Assault Suspect Struck and Killed By Car While Trying To Escape Across I-280 The suspect was on the run from an alleged assault the Balboa Park station, then ran onto the freeway and was struck by a vehicle.
SF News SF General Hospital Sued By Family Of Second Woman Who Died Alone In Stairwell The children of Ruby Lee Andersen, a 75-year-old dementia victim who died while trapped in a hospital stairwell last year, are suing the hospital for neglect.
SF News Trump Rants On San Francisco’s Homeless Problem, Which He Thinks 'Started Two Years Ago' The president’s latest stream-of-consciousness diatribe touched on San Francisco’s homelessness crisis, with vague claims that “We may intercede” and “We may do something.”
SF News Oakland Official Wants to Shut Down Street By Home Depot That’s Become An RV Magnet Councilmember Noel Gallo is fed up with an RV-packed homeless encampment on a dead-end street in Fruitvale, and has proposed fully closing the street for 18 months.
SF News SFPD Investigating Case of Guy Who Dumped Bucket of Water On Homeless Woman Whoever dumped a bucket of water on a homeless woman has become the wrong kind of social media star, with SFPD investigating him, and private offers of a $1,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.
SF News Solano County Teens Accused Of Online Dating Scam Where Victims Were Shot, Robbed Three Woodland teens allegedly lured their victims to a remote area, gave them a little taste of action, but then shot and robbed them.
SF News Quadruple Murder-Suicide In San Jose Apparently Motivated By Visa Dispute A San Jose man shot and killed four relatives, and himself, allegedly because he was jealous that his wife’s family got visas and his didn’t.
SF News Report: Violent Crime on BART More Than Doubled In Four Years Robberies have more than doubled on BART since 2014, assaults are way up too, and officials are blaming the age-old bogeyman of fare evasion — though it's clearly more complicated than that.
SF News Here Comes The Gayborhood: Castro May Be Designated As An LGBTQ Cultural District It’s no accident that Sup. Rafael Mandelman’s proposal to honor the Castro as an LGBTQ Cultural District goes before the Board on Tuesday of Pride Week.
Arts & Entertainment Clusterfest Sneak Peek: Step Inside ‘The Office’ of Dunder-Mifflin and the Returning ‘Seinfeld’ Apartment Check out sneak preview pictures from Clusterfest’s immersive, interactive replicas of ‘The Office’ and ‘Seinfeld’ sets, which will be available for your Instagramming pleasure all weekend.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Toy Story 4’ Reviews Are Pouring In, And Etch A Sketch Comedy Masterpiece That Will Of Course Also Make You Cry Action figures into the positive remarks about the pacing of ‘Toy Story 4,’ but get out your hankies for Tom Hanks and company’s silver screen return.
Business & Tech Local Companies Slack and Grocery Outlet Both Hit The Stock Market Thursday Slack Technologies will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange, while the much less-online Grocery Outlet Bargain Market will also debut on the NASDAQ.
SF News District Attorney Candidates Talk Crime, Punishment, and Replacing Gascón In Debate The battle to succeed DA George Gascón is on, as the four November candidates duke it out on closing Juvie, eliminating cash bail, and prosecuting sexual assaults.
SF News Burning Man Could Be Hit With New Drug Screening Requirements A federal agency has ruled that Burning Man should have third-party, private security screening for drugs at every entrance of Burning Man.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Dinosaur Train’ Host Named New Director of the Academy of Sciences You may know him as “paleontologist Dr. Scott” of the PBS kids show “Dinosaur Train,” but he’s now California Academy of Sciences executive director Dr. Scott Sampson.
SF News SFPD Touts Fewer Use-Of-Force Incidents In Mental Health Calls Mental health crises and 5150s are resulting in use of force only 0.2% of the time, according to an extremely detailed report just presented to the Police Commission.
