Business & Tech Meta Is Downsizing Its Offices, Prefers to Call This ‘Vibe Planning’ Amidst a hiring freeze and a plummeting stock price, Meta says it is downsizing and rearranging its offices, a process they bizarrely refer to as "vibe planning."
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mayor Breed Demanded a Resignation Letter from Kamala Harris’s Niece Dede Wilsey has dropped $350,000 on SF election measures, a Samsung pop-up shop is coming to the former Uniqlo space in Union Square, and even Kamala Harris’s niece had to sign an undated resignation letter to Mayor Breed.
SF Politics We’ve Got Polling on State Ballot Props: Both Gambling Measures In the Toilet, Wealth Tax Looks Like a Squeaker A combined $400 million-plus in spending has bought no love for the two competing sports gambling measures on California’s November ballot, whereas a new millionaire’s tax stands just 1% shy of the majority threshold it needs.
SF Politics Richmond Mayor Tells Homeless to Camp In Front of Political Rivals’ Houses, Gives Out Their Addresses Here's a political dirty trick we haven’t seen before, though it’s drawing comparisons to Ron DeSantis’s Martha’s Vineyard stunt; the mayor of Richmond revealed the home addresses of city councilmembers, and told RV dwellers to set up camp in front of those officials’ houses.
SF News Oakland Records 101st Homicide of Year; State AG Rob Bonta Comes to East Bay to Address Gun Violence Oakland’s 100th homicide of 2022 on Monday was the fatal shooting of a city violence prevention coordinator’s uncle. But then some 12 hours later, the city saw its 101st killing of the year.
SF News Caltrain Mulling Plans For a Huge Housing Development On What Is Currently 20 Acres of Often Empty Tracks Caltrain and property owner Prologis may resurrect an Ed Lee-era plan to turn 20 acres of SoMa and Mission Bay railyard into a “mixed-use development” full of housing, retail, and the new electrified Caltrain tracks.
SF News Log Gatos ‘Cool Mom’ Pleads Not Guilty To All 39 Felonies and Misdemeanors Facing charges ranging from child endangerment to sexual assault for what are described as “alcohol-fueled sex parties for young teenagers,” the multiple-aliased Shannon O'Connor pleaded not guilty to all 39 criminal charges against her in a San Jose courtroom Monday morning.
SF News Breakthrough in Alexis Gabe Case, Volunteers May Have Found Her Remains We may finally have closure in the case of Alexis Gabe, the 24-year-old Oakley woman who went missing in January, as a volunteer search team has found what may be her remains some 90 miles from home in Amador County.
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Draws 500,000 People, 'As Many People As We’ve Ever Had' It may have been the biggest Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival ever, as an estimated half million people descended on Golden Gate Park this weekend for the glorious return of one of the largest free music festivals in the U.S.
SF News Manhunt for Oakland School Shooters Still Fruitless, Police Up Reward Ante to $30,000 More than two days after six people were shot at Oakland's Rudsdale Newcomer High School, among them two students, police are seemingly without leads and increasing the reward for information to $30,000.
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2022 Starts Fiddlin’ Friday Afternoon, Will be Livestreamed, Weather Looks Awesome The first in-person Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in three years gets pickin’ Friday afternoon, and while it’s still free, here’s a Foggy Mountain breakdown of what you can and can’t bring to the festival grounds at Golden Gate Park.
SF News Here Are the Hundreds of SF Archdiocese Catholic Clergy Accused of Sexual Abuse On Thursday, a group of Catholic Church sexual abuse survivors revealed a public list of 312 clergy and non-ordained church staff of the Archdiocese of San Francisco who stand credibly accused of sexual abuse, a list Archbishop Cordileone has long refused to disclose.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Brown Paper Tickets Leaves Bay Area Theaters Holding the Bag A street name will indeed be renamed Vicha Ratanapakdee Way, Elon Musk is in hot water for deleting messages he was supposed to keep, and Brown Paper tickets is badly in arrears with some of your favorite local theaters and performers.
Arts & Entertainment Critical Mass Gears Up for Its 30th Anniversary Ride Friday, After Decades of Adjusting the Resistance Critical Mass still brakes for no one after 30 years of blazing paths and creating controversy, though it’s sped up the adoption of urban biking in SF and all over the world.
SF News Guess Who’s California’s Only Archbishop Who Won’t Name the Priests Accused of Sexually Abusing Children? San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone refuses to name the 312 men currently or formerly employed by the SF Archdiocese accused of abusing children. Sorry Padre, but on Thursday, the victims are going to release the names anyway.
SF News Mission District Attack Victims Can Identify Their Attackers, Denounce Police Inaction on Cases Two recent assault victims in the Mission District say they can point out or even name their attackers, yet both attackers continue to roam the neighborhood without consequences.
SF Politics Newsom Razzes Elon Musk Over Tesla Taking $3.2 Billion in California Subsidies Gavin Newsom is happy to rub Elon Musk’s face in how many billions of dollars Tesla has taken in state subsidies, declaring there is “no Tesla without California.”
SF Politics Pelosi’s Trips Abroad Have Tea-Leaf Readers Speculating She’s Ready to Call it Quits Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent trips to Ukraine, Taiwan, and Armenia are being seen as a “swan song” among prognosticators, potentially capping a historic four congressional terms as Speaker of the House.
Arts & Entertainment SF's Japanese Tea Garden Pagoda Unveiled Amidst $2 Million Renovation (Which Is Not Done Yet) The white plastic has come down and the renovated Japanese Tea Garden debuted Wednesday in Golden Gate Park, though there’s still another year of stonemason and landscaping work until the job is complete.
SF News Advocates for Homeless Population Sue San Francisco to End Encampment Sweeps A coalition of the Coalition on Homelessness, the ACLU, and a handful of unsheltered people have brought a U.S. District Court lawsuit against San Francisco, hoping to halt encampment sweeps under the claim that they are unconstitutional on several levels.
SF News Day Around the Bay: We Now Know Which City Officials Submitted Those Undated Resignation Letters A Tuesday morning shooting in Oakland’s Brookfield Village left one man dead and another injured, we have a video tour from inside the infamous Painted Lady fixer-upper, and the trove of city officials Mayor Breed demanded undated resignation letters from has become public.
SF News Caltrans Crew Hits an Amtrak Train With a Crane While Trying to Clear Wood Street Encampment In Oakland An unexpected snag straight from a Looney Tunes cartoon has held up the renewed clearing of West Oakland's Wood Street encampment, as Caltrans reportedly managed to hit a moving Amtrak train while bagging and tagging unsheltered people’s tents and structures.
SF News Marina Household Sees Garage Robbed Three Times In One Night, Car Stolen on Thieves' Third Visit Security video indicates it may have been the same group of thieves who hit a Marina District garage three times in one night last week, and on the third trip, they made off with a car.
SF News SF Tourism Honchos Celebrate a Banner Week, With Dreamforce, Folsom, and Portola Festival Packing Hotels Local tourism industry officials are crowing over the most lucrative week they’ve had in a couple years, and while every weekend won’t have this many events, there is optimism for a booming holiday season.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi Gets Booed Hard When Unwisely Trying Give Speech at a Music Festival It was surely the wrong call for Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s advance bookers to schedule her giving a speech to a crowd that was waiting to see Metallica, and the expected chorus of boos rained down on her as a result.