SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland A’s Getting First Woman Primary Play-By-Play Announcer in MLB History The vacant Castro flower shop space for Ixia has a new tenant, Pinterest has unloaded their former headquarters as a sublease, and the Oakland A’s have hired the first-ever woman to be their primary play-by-play announcer.
SF Politics Let’s Consider the Upcoming SF Judge Elections, Which Have Been Upended by Pretend ‘Report Cards’ There are two SF Superior Court judge seats up for grabs in next month’s election, and a partisan group has been issuing report cards. These oddly leave out how one supposedly tough-on-crime candidate has a husband with a druggy past.
SF News More Vallejo Police Department Chaos, As Interim Chief is Reportedly Resigning for Another Job The Vallejo Police Department is reeling from a series of scandals and a highly unflattering new Netflix documentary, and interim Police Chief Jason Ta is reportedly leaving the department for a permanent job in Salinas.
SF Politics New Crypto Bro PAC Spending Millions on Ads to Defeat Katie Porter in California Senate Race Whatever remaining cryptocurrency moguls who are not looking at prison time have coalesced around a common enemy in Senate candidate Katie Porter, as money from Ron Conway and Andreessen Horowitz just bought $2 million worth of attack ads against her.
SF Politics Mark Farrell Formally Announces He's Running for Mayor, Giving Breed Three Moderate Challengers Former SF supervisor and interim mayor Mark Farrell officially threw his hat in the ring to challenge London Breed for mayor this November, so now Breed has three moderate opponents (two of whom are pretty wealthy).
SF News SFPD Touts 23 Arrests Last Week in U.N. Plaza Drug Crackdown ‘Night Operations’ The SF Police Department says they arrested 23 people in two nights during “night operations” last week in Civic Center’s long-beleaguered UN Plaza, as they continue their uphill battle to clean up that area.
SF News Peskin Says SFPD Has ‘Promising Leads’ In Hunt for Who Torched That Waymo In Chinatown Saturday Whoever set that self-driving Waymo car on fire in Chinatown Saturday night may have reason for worry, as the district’s supervisor Aaron Peskin claims that SFPD has “promising leads” on suspects.
SF News Activists Paint Street Mural Around Shipping Containers at Berkeley’s People’s Park, Get Harassed by Security A group opposing the housing complex being put up in People’s Park used their Super Bowl Sunday to paint a street mural around the shipping containers barricading the park, and you’d better believe there was a contentious brush with campus police.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Can Only Lick Their Wounds, Hope Their Championship Window Isn’t Closing Your San Francisco 49ers have to somehow process and hopefully rebound from blowing yet another 10-point Super Bowl lead to the Kansas City Chiefs, but if it's any consolation, oddsmakers have installed the 49ers as favorites to win next year’s championship.
SF News Former Mission-Bernal Big Lots Slated to Become 70 Units of Affordable Senior Housing The big lot that used to house Big Lots on Mission Street may soon be home to an affordable senior housing complex, from the same nonprofit that’s rebuilding the burnt remains of the 3300 Club across the street.
Bay Area Sports London Breed and Kansas City Mayor Make Most Predictable Super Bowl Bet Possible The mayors of SF and Kansas City made their obligatory Super Bowl friendly wager Friday morning on MSNBC, both offering up the most extremely obvious food dishes associated with their cities.
Business & Tech SF Pot Dispensary CEO In Hot Water Over Video Where He Brags About Not Paying His Bills The CEO of the Off The Charts dispensary chain, which has one location in San Francisco, has gone viral for the wrong reasons, in a video where he’s caught blustering to his colleagues he doesn’t pay “these f*cking mom and pops” vendors who supply his stores.
SF News Longtime SF Herbal Apothecary Scarlet Sage Herb Co. to Close Permanently This Month The 29-year-old herbal shop Scarlet Sage Herb Co. had just moved from Valencia Street to Lower Pac Heights last year, but city red tape and slow foot traffic have the store announcing they’ll close permanently “at the end of February.”
SF News Day Around the Bay: Former Bagdad Café Space to Be Reborn (Again) as Bar 49 It’s confirmed that the potential 49ers championship parade would indeed be in San Francisco and not Santa Clara; a Fremont man was arrested with 500 pounds of copper wire; and the old Bagdad Café space will rise again as a new bar from a Hi Tops manager.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Backs Republican-Led Campaign to Overhaul Prop 47 Facing less-than-outstanding poll numbers in the November election and being hammered by her opponents on crime, Mayor London Breed campaigned Thursday for a Republican-authored effort to redo the state’s Prop. 47 sentencing law.
SF News SFPD Announces Street Closures for Super Bowl Sunday, Anticipating 49ers Fan Mayhem Whether the 49ers win or lose Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday, SFPD and the Highway Patrol say they're still shutting down streets and highway off-ramps in anticipation of the rowdy public lunacy that may break out in the Mission District.
SF News We Now Have a Delivery Date and First Look at the Formerly $1.7 Million Toilet Coming to Noe Valley You won’t have to hold it much longer for the public toilet at Noe Valley Town Square, as there’s sneak peak at the prefab facility once infamously priced at $1.7 million (but will now be much cheaper), and a March 7 delivery date for it.
SF Politics Governor Newsom Sending In Wave of State Attorneys to Prosecute Crime in Alameda County Gavin Newsom’s Oakland and East Bay anti-crime crusade continues, now with Newsom announcing he’s sending a bunch of state Department of Justice attorneys to prosecute crime in Alameda County, which may be a message to DA Pamela Price.
Business & Tech Uber Actually Turned a Profit For the First Time Since Going Public Five Years Ago Guess it’s time to knock off the jokes about how Uber loses so much money, as the company just posted a $1.9 billion profit for 2023, its first annual profit since Uber’s 2019 IPO.
SF News Cruise Ship Where ‘Mystery Illness’ Has Sickened 150 People Has Docked in SF Here we go again with luxury cruises being vessels for illnesses, as a cruise ship suffering an outbreak of unexplained gastrointestinal illness has now docked itself in San Francisco.
SF Politics SF School Board Likely to Switch to Elections By District, Because a Lawsuit Is Forcing Them To More political drama completely unrelated to education at the SF school board, as some out-of-town attorney had lodged a lawsuit to force school board members to be elected by geographic districts, and SFUSD may have no choice but to comply.
Business & Tech Self-Driving Waymo Collides With Bicyclist In Potrero Hill A self-driving Waymo robotaxi apparently hit a bicyclist at about 3 p.m. Tuesday afternoon at 17th and Mississippi streets, which may put a dent in Waymo’s hopes to be considered the safer of the two big self-driving car companies.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Zoo Takes In Someone’s Illegally-Owned Marmoset Golden Boy Pizza is opening a new location in Parkside; the flagship Trader Vic’s in Emeryville may have to close next year; and the Oakland Zoo has taken in an illegally-owned and injured marmoset monkey.
Business & Tech The Kid Who Tracked Elon Musk’s Jet is Now Tracking Taylor Swift’s Jet, and Taylor is Seeing Red The young man who posted Elon Musk’s private jet coordinates has drawn the ire of Taylor Swift for tracking her private jet coordinates too (and posting her CO2 emissions), so Swift’s attorneys have handed him a pre-Super Bowl cease-and-desist letter.
Bay Area Sports Las Vegas Mayor Comes Out Swinging Against the Idea of the A’s Moving to Vegas In a stunning podcast interview published today, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman seemed to square up against the A’s moving to Las Vegas, saying their proposed stadium site “doesn’t make sense,” and “they’ve got to figure out a way to stay in Oakland.”