Bay Area Sports [Updated] Draymond Green Ejected Yet Again for Punching Someone; NBA Suspends Him Indefinitely The “dirty player” reputation of Draymond Green was cemented yet further when he punched one of the Phoenix Suns in Tuesday night’s game, and after the game, the Suns literally questioned Green’s sanity.
SF News Day Around the Bay: That CVS In the Lower Haight Won’t Be Closing After All California’s Hispanic population is getting a lot more Dominican and Venezuelan; a Daly City music teacher has been charged with having a relationship with a 14-year-old student; and CVS has reversed course and said they will not close their Lower Haight store.
SF News SFUSD Looks Likely to Cut 900 Jobs as District's Deficit Explodes to More Than $400 Million The good news is that SFUSD is scrapping its wildly ineffective EmPower payroll system. The bad news is that they're also likely to scrap 900 job positions too, but at least it means they probably won’t shut down any schools.
SF News Renderings Show Proposed New 100% Affordable Housing Project at Burned-Out 29th and Mission Building What used to be the 3300 Club, El Taco Loco, and a Mission-Bernal SRO is now slated to become 35 units of all-affordable housing, and we now have new renderings of plans for what has just been a burnt-out eyesore for seven and a half years.
Bay Area Sports Someone Broke Into Steph Curry’s House, and the 18-Year-Old Suspect Is Still at Large An 18-year-old Chinese exchange student managed to break into Steph Curry’s Atherton mansion, and we’re only learning of it nearly two months after the fact because the suspect failed to show up for his court date.
SF News Pro-Palestine Protest Planned for Tuesday Afternoon at Facebook Headquarters in Menlo Park Meta’s Menlo Park headquarters will be the site of a Tuesday afternoon protest, as supporters of Palestine say Facebook and Instagram are 'shadow-banning' or removing their posts about the Israel-Gaza conflict.
SF News Former SF Fire Commissioner Accused In Alleged Bear Spray Attack Will Not Testify In Assault Case The one-time SF fire commissioner who was allegedly assaulted by a homeless man, but faces counter-accusations that he bear-sprayed that man, will refuse to testify in that assault trial. And his attorney admitted his client is “not an angel.”
SF News So-Called ‘Speedball’ Mixtures of Fentanyl and Stimulants Now Account for Most SF Overdose Deaths There’s a new version of the old ‘speedball’ that now substitutes fentanyl for heroin, and the upper/downer mix now accounts for most SF overdose deaths, though many of those victims may just not have known there was fentanyl in their product.
SF News Senior Dog Rescue Muttville Facing ‘Crisis’ of Abandoned Dogs, Aims to Get 100 of Them Adopted Over Holidays The folks at Muttville are seeing unprecedented rates of senior dogs being euthanized at other shelters, and they’re responding with a huge push to take in and find homes for 100 of those adorable mutts.
SF News Long-Vacant, Frequently Tagged Mid-Market Condo May Finally Become Occupied as Apartments It is a very San Francisco problem to have a 12-story, 109-unit residential building just completely vacant for nearly three years because its owner got popped in the Mohammed Nuru scandal. But there may be new life for the empty building known as The Oak.
SF News Take That, Florida! SF Swipes Major Conference From Sunshine State Over Florida’s Anti-Diversity Agenda The National Black Nurses Association has just yanked their annual conference out of Florida and moved it to San Francisco, calling Florida a “a hostile dangerous environment” for Black medical professionals.
Bay Area Sports Alameda County Puts the Screws to the A’s, Demands $45 Million In Unpaid Coliseum Bills Some hardball tactics from Alameda County as the A’s try to bolt for Las Vegas, with the county pointing out a fine-print clause in their contract that says the team is on the hook for $45 million if they ever decide to leave town.
SF News SFPD Arrests Parolee For Shoving Elderly Woman on Muni Bus, Knocking Her Unconscious A 46-year-old SF man who was already on parole has been arrested for a September attack on an elderly woman boarding a Muni bus, wherein he knocked the 76-year-old woman unconscious.
SF News Fisticuffs Break Out Outside SF Federal Courtroom as Gang Member Sentenced to 33 Years for Killings In a case where the sentenced killer had been well-connected with City Hall officials, a brawl broke out between the victim’s family and the defendant’s friends after Norteño gang member Fernando Madrigal was sentenced to 33 years in prison.
SF News State of California Now Running a Record $68 Billion Deficit Those extended tax deadlines are having a big unintended consequence for the state of California’s budget, as miscalculations over how much tax revenue was coming have led to a much larger deficit than than the state thought it was running, now an all-time high of $68 billion.
Business & Tech OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Has Coyote Trouble at His $27 Million Russian Hill Mansion Even buying a $27 million home in a tony SF neighborhood will not keep the coyotes off your property, as artificial intelligence mogul Sam Altman admits in an interview with Time magazine that he’s got a coyote that refuses to leave his San Francisco yard.
Arts & Entertainment Hold On to Your Hats: Santacon Rears Its Bearded Head Again Saturday The annual, abominable snowman of a pub crawl known as Santacon returns Saturday, and here’s how you better watch out for the damned thing, or else Santa yourself up and ride the tide of Yule.
SF News Box of Puppies Found in Stolen Vehicle at Coliseum BART Station Parking Lot BART Police engaged in a car chase Tuesday afternoon with a vehicle that had been reported stolen in Fremont. But when they finally nabbed the driver, they made the unusual discovery of five newborn puppies inside the stolen car.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF City Hall Holiday Tree Lighting is Tonight Another shooting in Las Vegas has left three people dead; SF synagogues are on edge in advance of Thursday night’s Hanukkah celebrations; and tonight’s SF City Hall holiday tree lighting will be livestreamed.
SF News Thieves Make Off With ATM From K&H Liquors at Valencia and 16th Streets A late-night favorite corner store at 16th and Valencia Streets is the latest SF business to have their ATM dragged off, as K&H Liquors had their ATM stolen in an early Sunday morning heist.
SF Politics SF’s Once Highly Touted Office of Reparations Loses Its Funding In Breed’s New Budget Cuts Remember that SF Office of Reparations that once considered $5 million lump-sum payments to Black San Franciscans? Now the city can’t even afford the $2 million a year to run that department, and the office is gutted in Mayor Breed’s budget cuts.
Business & Tech Google Launches Updated AI Chatbot That They Say Is More Powerful Than ChatGPT Google’s new Gemini update to their so-called “ChatGPT killer” Bard claims to make it more powerful than its competitor, but says so in corporate-speak that makes little narrative sense, and in language that sounds like it was written by AI.
SF News Former ‘Monster in the Mission,’ Now to be 100% Affordable Housing, Awarded to Two Local Nonprofits A monster step forward for what was once a largely derided luxury condo development at 16th and Mission streets, as the former “Monster in the Mission” will be 100% affordable housing developed by two respected affordable housing nonprofits.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Jerry of the ‘Tom & Jerry Christmas House’ Has Died San Francisco office vacancy hit another all-time high; two long-planned residential towers at Fourth and Brannan have been redesigned yet again; and Jerry of the famed ‘Tom & Jerry House’ has passed away.
SF News SF Supervisors Pass Crucial Housing Ordinance Urged by State, But With Changes State Might Reject The SF Board of Supervisors played chicken with a state deadline to remove constraints on housing production, and while they theoretically met the deadline Tuesday, the amendments they added could still cost SF big money.