SF News Another Scandal for San Rafael Police, This Time for Beating and Bloodying Someone Over an Open Container The San Rafael Police Department was already under scrutiny over depositing a mentally ill homeless man in SF, but now two other officers are on leave for an incredibly violent, brutal response to a day laborer who had an open container of beer.
SF News A San Francisco Parking Spot Is On Sale In South Beach For $90,000 SF’s latest cost-of-living outrage comes in the form of a standard parking space one block from Oracle Park, as a parking space that currently costs $300 a month has had its listing jacked up to $90,000 for permanent ownership of the space.
SF News SF Supervisors Vote to Decriminalize Shrooms, Peyote, Other Plant-Based Psychedelics San Francisco joins a movement that’s coming on hard in several other cities and states, decriminalizing “entheogenic plants” like magic mushrooms and ayahuasca, and encouraging research of these for therapeutic purposes.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Leanna Louie Loses Ballot-Booting Lawsuit Elvis Costello has been added to the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass lineup, a security guard was critically wounded in a San Leandro armored truck robbery, and District 4 candidate Leanna Louie lost her appeal to get back on the November ballot.
SF News Alameda, Healdsburg, and Palo Alto Lost Power Over ‘Miscommunication,’ Blackouts Weren’t Ordered An hour of power loss in three NorCal cities didn’t have to happen Tuesday night, and you’d better believe that various power agencies are pointing fingers over the snafu.
SF News Homeless Shelter Proposals Across California Taking Flak, Advocates Call for More ‘Gap Housing’ Like Tiny Houses Supervisor Rafael Mandelman’s “A Place for All” legislation is just one of many California proposals being criticized for rounding people up into shelters instead of setting people up for permanent housing.
SF News PG&E Will Pay You to Conserve Electricity During Peak Usage Hours — Starting Today Now you can score a little rebate for conserving electricity during the most brutal hours the California power grid experiences, as a Flex Alert rebate program kicks in today at 4 p.m.
SF News Day Around the Bay: High Temperatures Shatter Records Across California, Blackouts Could Be Coming The Queen of the Netherlands held court in the Castro, Sup. Connie Chan’s November housing ballot measure survived a legal challenge, and several California cities saw their all-time highest temperatures recorded Tuesday.
Arts & Entertainment How Weird Street Faire Returning for 2022, Set for October 15 Formerly the springtime kick-off of street fair season, it appears the How Weird Street Faire is now becoming an autumn festival, as they just announced their 2022 version will be Saturday, October 15.
Business & Tech Santa Clara County Sues Rihanna’s Lingerie Brand Over Allegedly Deceptive Recurring Monthly Fees People who bought bras and underwear from Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty label were allegedly enrolled in a recurring monthly fee program without their knowledge, according to a lawsuit from the Santa Clara District Attorney’s Office.
SF News Two Men Escape From Clayton Correctional Facility, Despite Having Only a Few More Months to Serve Two men serving time at a minimum-security detention facility in Clayton sprung the place Sunday morning and remain at large, though one of them only had four more months to serve.
SF News More Than 3,000 Without Power In Livermore After Temperatures Hit 116 Degrees Monday Today could be one of the most taxing days ever on the California power grid, and it got off to a troublesome start, as thousands are without power in Livermore due to transformer failures.
SF News 49ers Forced to Notify Nearly 21,000 People That They Had Their Personal Data Obtained by Hackers The names and Social Security Numbers of nearly 21,000 people got into the wrong hands, as the 49ers quietly acknowledged in notifications to those folks that their information was breached in a February ransomware attack against the team.
SF News Trial Underway for Guy Who Allegedly Threatened to Kill Scott Wiener Over Vaccine Legislation State Senator Scott Wiener introduced a bill that would allow teens to get vaccinated without parental consent; which led to an anti-vaxxer saying “expect a visit from me and my rifle,” which led to that fellow now being on trial on eight felony counts.
SF News Oakland Settles for $250K With Two George Floyd Protesters, Agrees to Not Use Explosives on Demonstrators Two demonstrators from a June 2020 George Floyd protest won a quarter million dollars after being shot with rubber bullets, and the Oakland Police Department has agreed to not use “explosive grenades on peaceful crowds.”
SF News Convicted Real Estate Investor Victor Makras’s Son Trying to Open Pot Shop In Ingleside Just after SF real estate magnate Victor Makras was found guilty of bank fraud, we learn his son is trying to turn over a new leaf with a proposed Ingleside-Mission Terrace cannabis dispensary.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Farewell, San Francisco Newspaper Racks The CDC has authorized Omicron-specific booster vaccines, C.W. Nevius is moving to Napa, and many of those big green newspaper racks all over town are being removed.
SF News City of Oakland Will Incinerate the 1,200 Pounds of Dead Fish That Have Turned Up in Lake Merritt There’ll be a big fish fry in Oakland, but not the good kind. The toxic algal bloom that has killed literally tons of fish in Bay Area waters is leading to Oakland Public Works incinerating the 1,200 pounds of dead fish that were floating in Lake Merritt.
Business & Tech Yes Indeed, Twitter Is Finally Getting That Edit Button Starting Today (For Some) The long-demanded, recently rumored edit button is finally a reality on Twitter, though it’s going to roll out slowly, and you’ll only be able to edit the tweet within the first 30 minutes after you post it.
SF News Thursday Morning What’s Up: Big Heat Wave Day on the Way Another apartment fire has displaced a dozen on Divisadero Street, someone set a bunch of trash cans on fire along the Embarcadero last night, and some of the East Bay may see temperatures tip above 100 degrees today.
SF News Muni Fans Losing Their Lunch Over Lunchables Ad Blitz, Now Wrapped Around Buses All Over Town Social media is going crackers over a very cheesy saturation ad campaign spreading takeover Lunchables ads all over Muni buses, and some people just don’t have the appetite for this.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Hip Hop Festival Hiero Day Returns for 10th Annual Celebration Monday, But Really All Weekend Multi-platinum Oakland native Keyshia Cole headlines Monday’s 10th annual Hiero Day, with Mistah F.A.B. and of course Hieroglyphics in the mix too, but this year the festival has events all Labor Day weekend long.
SF Politics Assembly Passes Newsom’s ‘CARE Court’ Proposal to Let Judges Determine Mental Health Plans San Francisco would be one of the first counties under the jurisdiction of Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court bill, which is cruising through the state legislature with big momentum, despite questions whether it’s just ineffective and hostile bureaucracy.
SF News Activists Still Occupying Shuttered Oakland Elementary School, District Vows to Crack Down An East Oakland elementary school that was closed down in June has drawn a months-long sit-in protest and occupation, but the school district insists they've had enough of all this, claiming one occupier was carrying “what appears to be a firearm.”
SF News Day Around the Bay: We Appear to Have the First U.S. Monkeypox Death A missing Solano Community College grad has been found, people are still choosing to swim in algae-infested waters, and it appears we have the first confirmed monkeypox death in the United States.