SF Politics Breed-Backed SF Ballot Measures on Cops, Drug Screening Appear to be Cruising to Big Wins In a very-low-turnout election Tuesday, SF voters handed Mayor London Breed a couple of victories on police powers and drug screening for welfare recipients, while an affordable housing bond she abandoned is still too close to call.
SF News Election Day Around the Bay: Another Union Square Retailer Trying to Sell Their Building Elon Musk is no longer the world’s richest man (at the moment); a one-time SF gang member was sentenced in a 2013 gang killing case; and the Union Square Burberry is trying to sell their building.
Business & Tech Has the Self-Driving Car Bubble Burst? Some Analysts Say So, As Apple Exits the Autonomous Vehicle Race When the $70 billion tech giant Apple abandons an idea, it may be an idea simply not worth pursuing, which could be the state of the suddenly struggling autonomous vehicle industry.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Release Renderings of Proposed ‘Spherical Armadillo’ Las Vegas Stadium, To Widespread Mockery The sun is literally setting in the wrong direction in the Oakland A’s seemingly AI-generated new renderings of their proposed Las Vegas ballpark, which may be a metaphor for this troubled stadium gamble.
SF Politics Confusing-As-Heck SF DCCC Election Today Features 51 Candidates, Most of Whom You Haven’t Heard Of Today’s election for the SF Democratic County Central Committee features 51 candidates who you have likely never heard of, vying to make decisions you likely will never pay attention to. But for political nerds, the stakes are high!
SF News Alleged SF Sunglass Shop Thief Nabbed in Hawaii Faces Charges; Vacaville Sunglass Hut Burglar Convicted Some serious shade is coming down on two alleged sunglass shop thieves who've made headlines; as the SF woman was arrested getting off a plane in Hawaii has been extradited back, while a Solano County jury convicted a woman who pulled a $40,000 Sunglass Hut heist.
SF Politics The ‘Recall Pamela Price’ Crowd Has Submitted Their Signatures for Recall Attempt Against Alameda County DA The political group trying to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price submitted what they say are 123,000 signatures to get their measure on the ballot, though 73,000 of them have to be proven to be valid.
Business & Tech Fired Twitter Executives Suing Elon Musk for $128 Million in Unpaid Severance Four high-level Twitter executives whom Elon Musk immediately fired after taking over Twitter are suing for what they say is $128 million in unpaid severance, a lawsuit that claims Musk said he would “hunt” those executives “until the day they die.”
SF News Hayward Man Charged With Hate Crime for Burning Israeli Flag at Israel-Hamas Protest 36-year-old Christopher Khamis Victor Husary is in jail for allegedly stealing two counterprotesters’ Israeli flags and setting one of them on fire at a January El Cerrito protest, and now faces arson, grand theft, robbery, and hate crime charges.
Business & Tech Apple Slapped With $2 Billion Fine In EU Over Alleged Anti-Competitive Apple Music Practices Regulators in the European Union have hit Apple with a $2 billion fine (actually 1.8 billion euros) over allegations that Apple Music has been muscling out other streaming music platforms like Spotify in the App Store.
SF Politics Adam Schiff and Katie Porter Make Their Final Campaign Stumps Here in SF Before Tuesday’s Vote Rep. Katie Porter was at Manny’s barnstorming for votes Sunday, while Rep. Adam Schiff was across town at Dogpatch’s the Pearl, as their primary race for Dianne Feinstein’s former Senate seat looms Tuesday.
SF News State Agency Giving Fishermen ‘Ropeless’ Dungeness Crab Traps, So the Season Won’t Keep Getting Delayed The California Ocean Protection Council has authorized a couple million dollars to give fishermen whale-safe, ropeless Dungeness crab traps, in hopes of stopping the constant delays to crab season.
SF News SFUSD Finally Replacing Their Disastrous, $40 Million Payroll System That Failed to Actually Pay People A two-year-long SF Unified School District payroll fiasco is still not resolved, so the district has decided to cut ties with the calamity of a payroll system called EMPower, and start over with a whole new vendor.
Business & Tech SF’s Former Westfield Mall Being Rebranded as ‘The Emporium Centre San Francisco’ In an apparent attempt to halt the nonstop parade of terrible headlines about the former Westfield San Francisco Centre mall, the mall’s new management is renaming it “the Emporium Centre San Francisco” while promising more security and new attractions.
Arts & Entertainment Huge New Amos Goldbaum Mural Now Adorns 13 Panels at Bernal Heights Street Garden The latest large-scale but insanely intricate work by SF muralist Amos Goldbaum jazzes up a little-known yet gorgeous public garden walkway in Bernal Heights.
SF Politics Yes Indeed, Aaron Peskin Is Running for Mayor, According to Multiple Media Outlets Supervisor Aaron Peskin has repeatedly said he’s not running to be mayor of San Francisco in November 2024, but it was easy to dismiss those claims as a chess-match ploy. And now, multiple local media outlets say that yes, Peskin will run for mayor this year.
SF News Leap Day Around the Bay: Gavin Newsom Now Says Panera Won’t Be Exempt From Minimum Wage Law UC Berkeley spent nearly $7 million to clear protesters out of People’s Park; the next ‘Star Wars’ movie will be shot entirely in California; and Gavin Newsom is responding to blowback by saying Panera won’t be exempt from an upcoming minimum wage increase.
Bay Area Sports USF Dons Basketball Team Has Huge National TV Game Against Gonzaga Tonight, Being Played at Chase Center The red-hot USF Dons men’s basketball team is playing at the Chase Center tonight in a monster game that will be on national TV (well, ESPN2), but they’re up against Gonzaga, who have beaten them 28 times in a row.
SF News SF Art Institute Will Live On After Finding a Buyer, and It’s That Group Led By Laurene Powell Jobs The San Francisco Art Institute looked done-for last year when it declared bankruptcy and was $10 million in debt, but it will now survive as an art institution, and its Diego Rivera mural is staying right where it is.
SF News City Report Finds Some People Arrested For Drugs In SF Live In Other Cities, But Still Receive SF Welfare A new city report that is conveniently timed before Tuesday’s 'drug screening for welfare recipients' vote finds that some drug users get SF welfare even though they don’t live here, though the report only details 41 people doing this.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink That Waterfront Chevys In Emeryville Is Closing Permanently on April 16 The rather unique waterfront Chevys Fresh Mex along the Emeryville Marina has announced its permanent closure, so if you’re a Chevys fan, you’ve got just six more weeks to go enjoy its fajitas and Bay views.
SF News Fourth Suspect Charged With Murder in Fatal Shooting of OPD Officer in December Dispensary Burglary While three suspects had been charged with murder in the December 29 shooting and killing of Oakland police officer Tuan Le, a fourth figured he could just plead guilty to robbing the cannabis shop and have that be that. But now that suspect is facing murder charges too.
SF News The Former Yoshi’s in the Fillmore Could Be Reborn as a New Food Hall Sometime This Year The building that housed Yoshi’s SF and the Fillmore Heritage Center has been a vacant reminder of a boondoggle for going on five years, but someone’s finally in negotiations to take on the lease and make it some sort of food hall and event space.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Dive Bar Ruby Room Set To Reopen Under New Ownership Friday Night The red-hued Lake Merritt-area Oakland bar Ruby Room closed New Year's Eve, but has reopened in sputters since, and reopens permanently on Friday night under a new local ownership team.
SF News SF Supervisors Approve Stunning $9 Million Settlement for Bicyclist Injured on Presidio Heights Slow Street Several people were injured by a dangerously installed speed bump on Clay Street back in August 2022. A few are suing for about $1 million, but one of them just scored a $9 million settlement for his injuries.