SF Politics United Auto Workers Union Files Federal Labor Charges Against Trump and Elon Musk Over Anti-Union Comments Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s rambling Twitter Spaces interview Monday night is making more news, as the United Auto Workers union has now filed federal labor charges against both of them for saying striking workers should be fired.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Denny’s at Fourth and Mission Streets Has Closed Permanently There will be no more moons over your hammy in San Francisco, as the city’s last remaining Denny’s restaurant at Fourth and Mission streets closed up shop permanently on August 1.
SF Politics Mayoral Candidates Scramble for Asian Vote, and Polls Say Mayor Breed Is Winning That Vote for Now London Breed’s sudden new strong standing in mayoral-race polling seems powered by the Asian and Chinese-American vote, as her approval rating has doubled in that demographic over the last six months.
SF News SFPD Busts Suspects With Two Pounds of Drugs In an RV In the Tenderloin An RV happened to have nearly 1,000 grams worth of fentanyl, meth, and cocaine inside when the SF Police Department entered it with a search warrant Thursday, and two suspects have been detained for narcotics trafficking.
SF News Car Demolishes Muni Bus Shelter Near Twin Peaks Some complications for Muni’s 44-O'Shaughnessy line Monday, as a car careened off the road and right into a Muni shelter near Twin Peaks at Portola Drive and O'Shaughnessy Boulevard.
Business & Tech Waymos Infuriate SoMa Neighborhood With Cacophony of 4AM Horn-Honking In today’s episode of robot cars seeming to be very confused, we have the story of a SoMa parking lot that gets taken over by Waymos every night, and keeps the neighborhood awake as the cars incessantly honk horns at each other around 4 am.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Roots Soccer Team Will Play at the Oakland Coliseum Starting Next Year There will be pro sports at the Oakland Coliseum after the A’s leave, as Oakland’s men’s professional soccer team the Oakland Roots will play their home games there starting in 2025.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Rolled Into SF For Sunday Fundraiser, Pulled in $12 Million, Drew More Than 100 Pro-Palestine Protesters Vice president and now-Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris held her first SF fundraiser since she was catapulted to the top of the ticket on Sunday, and raised an estimated $12 million, but also faced nearly 150 protesters calling out the Israeli attacks on Gaza.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Day One: The Killers Slay, While Daniel Caesar Just Keeps Playing Until They Cut Him Off A raucous start to Outside Lands 2024, as the Killers fired off their laser cannons, Daniel Caesar played so long they had to cut him off, and singer Tyla disappointed fans by taking the stage nearly 30 minutes late.
SF News Calistoga Woman Hit By Police Vehicle Identified, Suffering From Traumatic Brain Injuries We now know that the woman hit by a police vehicle in Calistoga is 22-year-old Brenda Sarabio, and she’s in critical condition, with traumatic brain injuries and numerous broken bones.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, There Is a Free Outside Lands 2024 Livestream A 2024 Outside Lands livestream is indeed available for those who can't manage to be there, with plenty of the big headliners streaming for free, and streams kick off Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 1:30 pm PT.
SF Politics Newsom Says He’ll Yank Counties’ Funding If They Don’t Clear Homeless Encampments Aggressively Enough Governor Gavin Newsom is ratcheting up the threat level toward California cities and counties on the homeless encampment front, now saying he’ll cut their funding if they aren’t more aggressive in clearing encampments.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Steph Curry Leads Team USA to Insane 17-Point Comeback at Olympics The disgraced Taco and Beer Festival just canceled its upcoming San Jose event; 16- and 17-year-olds can vote in school board elections in Oakland and Berkeley; and Steph Curry’s 36-point onslaught sent Team USA to a miracle comeback and the gold medal game.
SF Politics Trump Claims In Bizarre Press Conference That Willie Brown Said ‘Terrible Things’ About Kamala Harris When he wasn’t claiming that he drew bigger crowds than Dr. Martin Luther King at his meandering Thursday press conference, Donald Trump also claimed that Kamala Harris’s mentor Willie Brown said “terrible things” about her, without elaborating about what these things were.
SF News AC Transit Says It Will Start Using ‘AI’ Cameras to Bust Cars Parked in Bus Lanes Starting today, the East Bay public transit agency AC Transit will use cameras that they claim are “equipped with artificial intelligence” to cite cars parked in bus lanes, though the agency won’t start issuing $110 citations until early October.
SF News FBI Raids Notorious Bayview Towing Company, the One That Tried to Tow a Moving Car Specialty Towing had already been in the news over a viral video where they tried to tow a moving car, and an SF City Attorney suspension, but now they’ve got bigger problems as the FBI raided their Oakdale Avenue location Thursday morning.
SF Politics Breed Bounces Back Big-Time With Sizable Lead In New Mayoral Race Poll Is it the Kamala effect? Whatever it may be, Mayor London Breed is up by eight points in the five-way race for mayor, according to the latest poll from the Chronicle, but ranked-choice voting could scramble these results entirely.
SF News SF International Airport Has Changed Their Logo, Ditching the One They’ve Been Using for 24 Years After the Oakland Airport went and changed its name to "San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport," SFO is sort-of responding with a fresh, new version of the airport logo they’ve used for the last 24 years.
SF News Oakland Zoo Rescues Another Mountain Lion Cub, This One Found Abandoned In El Dorado County The Oakland Zoo just stepped up and rescued its 27th mountain lion, this one a four- to five-week old cub named Briar, who was found wandering motherless in El Dorado County over the weekend.
SF Politics Accused ‘Straw Donor’ In Sheng Thao Raid Under Investigation for Allegedly Bilking $4 Million From Investors One of the many characters in whatever scandal prompted the FBI raid on Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s home is businessman Mario Juarez, who’s under a separate Alameda County investigation into allegations that he conned $4.25 million from investors.
SF News Oakland Father of Two Clings to Life After Being Shot In Head by Stray Bullet East Oakland resident Run Hua Kuang was struck in the head by a stray bullet last Thursday, and his wife and two children are distraught as he remains on life support in intensive care.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Police Union (Predictably) Calls for Mayor Sheng Thao to Resign Idris Elba has canceled his DJ set at Outside Lands; longtime local political figure Jon Jacobo pleaded not guilty to sexual assault; and the latest calls for Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao to resign come from the city’s police union that has always hated her anyway.
Business & Tech Elon Musk’s Twitter/X Sues Advertisers for Not Advertising on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X So-called “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk apparently thinks that free speech means forcing advertisers to buy ads on his website by suing them, as his latest lawsuit has sued advertisers for pulling their ads from his platform.
Bay Area Sports Walnut Creek Native Becomes Youngest American Ever to Win Gold Medal in Wrestling 20-year-old Walnut Creek product Amit Elor just became the youngest American ever — man or woman— to win an Olympic Gold Medal in wrestling, after Tuesday’s gold medal win was her 41st consecutive victory.
SF News 37-Year-Old Pregnant Woman Murdered In San Mateo, Boyfriend Arrested While Apparently Fleeing to SoCal A yet-unidentified pregnant woman in San Mateo was killed Sunday, and the police department there identified her 33-year-old boyfriend Andrew Coleman as the suspect. He was arrested five hours later in West Covina, seemingly attempting to flee.
