SF News Day Around the Bay: Tech CEOs Who Left SF Are Curiously Moving Back to SF Apple has officially debunked the idea that you should put a water-damaged iPhone in a bag of rice; some anti-Israeli graffiti has turned up at Lake Merritt; and plenty of tech bros who made a big deal of leaving SF are now moving back to SF.
SF Politics New Poll Shows Steve Garvey In Second Place In Senate Race, Which Is Bad News for Katie Porter and Barbara Lee A brand new poll shows a very definite top two in the upcoming top-two primary for Dianne Feinstein’s former Senate seat, with Adam Schiff well in the lead, but Republican Steve Garvey solidly in second place, which is trouble for Katie Porter and Barbara Lee.
SF News The Drive-Thru ATM at Diamond Heights Plaza is Gone, Because Someone Tried to Steal It A recent attempt to rip the ATM out of the parking lot at the Diamond Heights Safeway was unsuccessful, but the thieves damaged the machine so badly it had to be removed. Yet Bank of America insists they will replace the ATM.
SF News Yet Another Gaza Protest Shuts Down Major SF Financial District Intersection After pro-Palestine protesters briefly blocked an SF Central Freeway onramp Monday afternoon, the protesters were back at it Tuesday morning, shutting down an intersection at Market and Montgomery streets.
SF News Three California Lawmakers Introduce New Tough-on-Retail-Crime Bill Aimed at Smash-and-Grab Thefts There’s a flurry of new proposed California legislative bills that would chip away at Prop 47, including one intended to lock up people identified as “professional retail thieves.”
Bay Area Sports Giants Bring Back ‘The Panda’ Pablo Sandoval For Now the Third Time Do you still have your Pablo Sandoval “panda hat” from ten years ago? You may be able to put it to good use, as the Giants have just re-signed Sandoval to a minor-league contract, though with no guarantees he’ll play again in the big leagues.
SF News Library Patrons Gone Wild: Antioch Library Temporarily Closes After Reports of Sex, Drugs, Car Break-Ins The Antioch Public Library was temporarily closed this weekend after reports of on-site drug use and sex, plus the discovery of pools of blood and bullet casings, though the library is expected to reopen Tuesday with beefed-up security.
SF News Storms Cause Highway 84 in Alameda County to Just Crack Open and Fall Into Creek There’s only one lane open on State Route 84 a.k.a. Niles Canyon Road west of Sunol, because part of the other lane has simply broken off and fallen into Alameda Creek.
SF News Well-Known Oakland Auto Repair Shop Owner Shot and Killed in His Own Store A 68-year-old Oakland auto repair shop owner, who once worked alongside Cesar Chavez in the United Farm Workers movement, was on the verge of retirement. But he was shot and killed in his shop, ending that dream.
SF News Concord Is On Track to Get Rent Control, More Bay Area Cities May Follow Rent control is going beyond Oakland and San Francisco, as Concord is on the verge of implementing it, and a handful of other Bay Area cities also have rent control ballot measures in the works.
SF Politics Wealthy Donors Funneling a Fortune to Make Prop. 1 Ads That Are Basically Just Brooke Jenkins Ads The latest political campaign money end-around is setting up a state-level committee to prop up local DA Brooke Jenkins, and slather her face and name all over ads for next month’s statewide Proposition 1.
SF News SFMTA Claims New Valencia Bike Lane Is Safer, But They Might Bow to Pressure and Redesign It Anyway If you believe the SFMTA, the new Valencia Street center bike lane has been a smashing success. But businesses say it has smashed their revenues, and some bicyclists say it’s uniquely dangerous, so SFMTA is considering redesigning the whole thing.
SF News Scott Wiener Introduces Bill to Halt Environmental Reviews In Downtown SF for 10 Years As downtown San Francisco still has a glut of unused office space, state Senator Scott Wiener says he’s pushing legislation for a decade-long elimination of the environmental review mandate known as CEQA from downtown projects, in hopes of spurring conversion to uses like housing.
SF News Trash and Debris Showing Up Again On SF Beaches, As It Often Does After Rainstorms Fort Funston and Ocean Beach are once again strewn with litter and debris, as rainstorms have a way of drifting white bags and single-use plastics onto the shores near the Pacific Ocean.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose’s Raging Waters Waterslide Park Likely to Reopen This Summer Santa Clara-based Nvidia just became the nation’s third most valuable company; former supervisor John Avalos is in hot water over a provocative tweet; and San Jose’s shuttered Raging Waters park will probably reopen under new ownership this summer.
Bay Area Sports The Giants Are Dumping That GM Cruise Patch on Their Uniforms That Fans Hated Here’s one reason to get excited for Giants baseball after the free agency flops in the offseason — the team won’t be wearing that cursed Cruise patch on their uniforms this year.
SF News State Raid of Richmond Home Turns Up Tons of Guns, a Million Rounds of Ammo The California Bureau of Firearms raided a home in the East Bay city of Richmond, and arrested a man for having nearly 250 guns and a million rounds of ammunition. And for good measure, the fellow had already been prohibited from owning weapons.
Bay Area Sports The Newly Formed Oakland Ballers Will Renovate and Play Ball at West Oakland’s Raimondi Field Oakland is getting a new minor league baseball team called the Oakland Ballers (or “The B’s”). They just announced they’ll be playing at Raimondi Field in West Oakland, and spiffing the place up with a $1.6 million renovation.
SF News SF’s Ankle Monitor System Not Working, As People Still Commit Crimes, or Just Tear Them Right Off GPS ankle monitors seem like a humane alternative to jail. But they may be too humane, as suspects are still committing crimes in San Francisco while wearing them, or simply cutting them off and throwing them in the trash.
Bay Area Sports A’s Negotiating to Stay In Oakland Three More Years, Because They Have Nowhere Else to Play The Oakland A’s are dragging their tails into negotiations with the City of Oakland and Alameda County to continue playing at the Oakland Coliseum through 2027, even though they’re still planning to move to Las Vegas, because they don’t have anywhere else to play.
SF News Waymo Problems With Self-Driving Cars, as Waymo Collisions With Tow Truck Force Software Recall Two self-driving Waymo robotaxis hit a truck being towed in Phoenix two months ago, perhaps confused because the angle of a truck being towed but facing rearward, and the Google-owned company recalled the software running the vehicles.
Arts & Entertainment SFPD Sergeant’s Crime Novel Just Got Picked Up to Be Developed As a TV Series San Francisco police sergeant Adam Plantinga’s new novel ‘The Ascent’ is in some ways autobiographical, with one major exception — the protagonist cop is forced to break out of a maximum security prison.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Fire Defensive Coordinator Steve Wilks, Making Him Scapegoat for Super Bowl Loss The 49ers’ defensive collapse late in the Super Bowl was the last straw that has drawn the firing of defensive coordinator Steve Wilks, who was shown the door despite the Niners being the third-best defense in the league over the season.
SF News Two Teens Have Died In Two Weeks by ‘Surfing’ on the Tops of BART Trains, Agency Considers Modifications What appears to be another social media-fueled “dare” trend has taken the lives of two Bay Area teens who engaged in BART-surfing on the tops of trains, and BART is now considering modifications to the trains’ rooftop access.
Arts & Entertainment Meet Your 2024 'Hearts in San Francisco,' Including One That Once Belonged to Robin Williams SF’s annual display of huge Valentine’s hearts beats on for its 20th anniversary, and this year’s batch includes one that used to belong to Robin Williams. You can see them at the Ferry Building through February 29.