SF News SF Teacher Strike Averted, After All-Night Bargaining Session Produces Significant Pay Raise A San Francisco teacher strike looked likely when 97% of the union voted in favor of a strike just last week, but an all-night session at the bargaining table just produced a new deal with a substantial pay raise.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Protesters Chain Selves to Federal Building Calling for Ceasefire in Gaza This week’s heat wave has cooled off into a fog wave, President Biden addressed the nation calling for more aid to Israel, while protesters at an SF federal building had other ideas on the matter.
SF News Day Around the Bay: PG&E Wants to Jack Your Rates Up By 22% Gavin Newsom is the latest U.S. politician heading to Israel, it’s a surreal scene inside that Folsom Street Target that closes Saturday, and PG&E is asking permission to lay a 22% rate increase on us.
SF News SFPD Releases Bodycam Footage of Shooting of Man Who Drove Into Chinese Consulate We still don’t know the motive of the man who was shot and killed after driving into the SF Chinese consulate last week, but at a town hall meeting showing the officers’ bodycam videos, we see that the suspect was indeed swinging a knife.
Arts & Entertainment Page Slow Street Gets Sweet New Public Parklet, First One in SF That’s Fully Open to the Public SF’s new completely public parklet has opened on Page Street near Golden Gate Park, as that designated Slow Street gets a public parklet with benches, plants, and a tiny free library.
SF News Mission Street Vendors Not at All Happy About New Vending Ban, Which May Only Be a 90-Day Ban Most Mission Street vendors do not even realize that SF is gearing up to ban vending on Mission Street, and we now learn the vending ban might only be in effect for 90 days.
SF News The MyShake App Went Off at a Highly Inconvenient Wrong Time for Earthquake Preparedness Alert There are some “You had one job” jokes being made at the expense of the MyShake earthquake notification app, as today’s scheduled 10:19 a.m. test alert instead blared out a 3:19 a.m. alert to potentially more than a million people.
SF News Valencia Street Vintage Store Stuff Closing in January Over Apparent Landlord Dispute The gigantic vintage modern collective Stuff has been at Valencia Street near Duboce Avenue for 12 years, but has announced a January 31 closure over what the owners say is an untenable rent increase.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Pro Soccer Teams Unveil New Stadium Designs, Ask for Public Feedback The Oakland Roots men’s soccer team and Oakland Soul women’s team have released renderings of their new proposed stadium designs, for if and when they move into their new home next to the Oakland Coliseum.
SF News Encampment Guy Infuriating Richmond District With ‘Free Fentanyl,’ ‘Meth for Stolen Items’ Signs Near School Some joker with a tent encampment in the Inner Richmond has posted hand-scrawled signs reading “Free fentanyl 4 new users,” and “Meth for stolen items!” across the street from a school and a church. Oh, and he's a registered sex offender, and he claims he's not joking.
SF News Valencia Street Center Bike Lane Causing Confusion, Exasperated Shops Say It's Ruining Business Add Valencia Street merchants to the chorus of people complaining about Valencia Street’s new center bike lane, as shops say it’s drastically cut their revenue, and transit advocates howl that it’s unsafe and counterintuitive.
SF News Great Shakeout Earthquake Drills Scheduled for Thursday, Which Means Yet More Earthquake Alerts Your phone may be blaring another earthquake alert Thursday morning at 10:19 a.m., as California and the nation at large encourage earthquake kits and preparedness with the Great Shakeout earthquake drill.
SF News Street Vending to Be Banned Outright on Mission Street, as City Workers Cite Assaults Supervisor Hillary Ronen made the surprise announcement that the city will ban all vending on Mission Street (or try to, at least), as threats and attacks on city workers have apparently been escalating.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Supervisors Vote to End Remote Public Comment at Board Meetings The bombing of a hospital in Gaza killed hundreds Tuesday, the House of Representatives failed to elect a new Speaker again, and the SF Board of Supervisors have ended remote public comment at their meetings.
SF News SF Supervisors Pass Ban on Security Guards Drawing Their Guns Over Property Crimes In the wake of April’s fatal Banko Brown shooting over an alleged Walgreens shoplifting incident, the SF Board of Supervisors passed a ban on security guards drawing guns for property crimes. But it wouldn’t be a shock if Mayor Breed vetoed the measure.
SF News Rare Baby White Raccoon Spotted Near Oakland's Lake Merritt In — Where Else? — the Trash A rare baby white raccoon was found by a cleanup volunteer in Lake Merritt this month, and naturally, the critter was found inside a trash receptacle.
SF News More Details Emerge on the Two Toddlers Who Drowned at a San Jose Daycare Center We now know the identities of the 18-month-old and 16-month-old who died by drowning while unattended at the Happy Happy Home daycare center in San Jose, and the operators of the center have been charged with felony child endangerment.
Business & Tech Feds Now Investigating Cruise Self-Driving Robotaxis Over Their Behavior Around Pedestrians The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a probe into an unknown number of incidents where Cruise robotaxis allegedly encroached on pedestrians, in the wake of one SF Cruise car running over a hit-and-run victim.
SF News Newsom Gives SFMTA $3 Million to Clean These Damned Streets Before the APEC Summit With the global spotlight of the APEC conference about to shine on San Francisco in less than a month, Governor Gavin Newsom has kicked down a few million dollars in hopes of cleaning up SF streets and transit stops.
Bay Area Sports Giants Interview Assistant Coach Alyssa Nakken To Be First-Ever Woman Manager of MLB Team The first woman to be an assistant coach in Major League Baseball could also be the first ever woman ever hired as manager of a team. The Giants confirmed that they’ve interviewed assistant coach Alyssa Nakken for the head coaching position.
SF News State AG Rob Bonta Announces Five-Year State Oversight of Scandal-Plagued Vallejo Police Department The troubled and some would say trigger-happy Vallejo Police Department is looking at state Department of Justice oversight for the next five years, as California Attorney General Rob Bonta looks to curb the department’s very frequent use of force.
SF News Developer Says That Long-Stalled Hayes Valley Trader Joe’s Will Open By Next Spring While Trader Joe’s has not officially confirmed this, the developer who recently bought the property slated to become the Hayes Valley Trader Joe’s is claiming the new grocery store at 555 Fulton will be open by June 2024.
SF Politics The Recall Pamela Price Campaign Kicks Off Its Signature-Gathering Effort Here we go again with another district attorney recall campaign, as paid signature gatherers made their first big official push Sunday to collect the 73,000 signatures they need to force a recall election on Alameda County DA Pamela Price.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Taylor Swift Movie Premiere Brings Out SF Swifties (And Little Girls) Dressed All Too Well The ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ concert film opened Friday, and San Francisco Taylor Swift fans showed they were evermore than willing to live up to their reputation as highly accessorized, friendship bracelet-wearing devotees.
Arts & Entertainment Bearrison and How Weird Street Faire Both Set to Unleash SF Wildness on Saturday It’s effectively the final weekend of festival season in San Francisco, and South of Market will be pumped up with both the Bearrison Street Far and How Weird Street Faire on Saturday.