SF Politics New Senator Alex Padilla Introduces His First Bill, Citizenship for Essential Workers The handpicked junior senator from California is likely to make immigration reform his signature cause, and comes out of the gate with a bill that would grant citizenship to immigrants working essential jobs.
SF News Another Alleged ‘Kneeling on the Neck’ Police Killing in Antioch Draws Wrongful Death Lawsuit A 30-year-old Navy veteran died after Antioch police allegedly used the ‘George Floyd hold’ on him while he was suffering a mental health incident, and the family is suing the Antioch PD.
Business & Tech Guy Who Flew ‘Suck My Nuts Robinhood’ Banner Over SF Tells His Story The GameStop “meme stocks” sensation has blown over, but the fellow whose “Suck My Nuts Robinhood” banner provided an amusing epilogue to the tale explains the details of the stunt.
Business & Tech Despite Threats, Elon Musk Expanding Fremont Tesla Plant, Not Abandoning It The world’s no-longer-richest man was apparently bluffing when he threatened to move his East Bay Tesla plant out-of-state, as the plant has just submitted permit requests to expand.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Long-Lived Mission Bar El Rio Has Reopened for Food and To-Go Cocktails It’s only Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays right now, but you can now ‘dive’ back in to the special magic of an El Rio cocktail paired with their new food menu.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Announces They Still Have No Announcement on Fate of 2021 Event The promised mid-February update has been issued, but the Burning Man Project cannot say whether the 2021 event can happen in person, and the new announcement timeline is “no later than the end of May.”
SF News SF Catholic Churches Pulled in Huge PPP Loans While Flouting Public Health Restrictions The Archdiocese of SF’s nearly $2 million PPP loan is just one of many that have gone to churches across the state who have openly defied restrictions and hosted superspreader events.
SF News Alameda Coast Guard Nabs 9,000 Pounds of Cocaine in Separate Busts The regional US Coast Guard is tooting its own horn after busting three separate smuggling vessels carrying an estimated $156 million in cocaine.
Business & Tech Report Shows Facebook Rarely Tagged Trump’s Lies as ‘False,’ Showed Different Versions of Fact-Check Labels to Different Users An outside company has analyzed reams of Facebook data, and found that ‘false’ or ‘disputed’ tags were shown to some users, but not others, possibly based on geography, and almost never slapped on Trump posts.
Arts & Entertainment Meet The 2021 'Hearts in San Francisco,' Now On Display In Union Square The pandemic scaled back the number of Hearts in SF on the city’s streets, but this year’s hearts are inspiring interpretations of the heartbreaking year we’ve just lived through.
SF Politics Feinstein’s Approval Rating Hits an All-Time Low of Just 35% Can we recall her instead? Senator Dianne Feinstein just registered the lowest approval rating in her 29 years in the Senate, as barely a third of Californians think she’s doing a good job.
Business & Tech Twitter Insists Trump Is Permanently Banned, Even If He Runs Again Trump cannot ever return to Twitter again and his deleted tweets are truly gone forever, but those very tweets are haunting him bigly at today’s impeachment trial proceedings.
SF News SFMOMA Director Steps Down Amid Race Scandals and Financial Turmoil, Insists it Has Nothing To Do With That SFMOMA director Neal Benezra had 18 good years, and one pretty bad one, but will stick around long enough to pick his successor.
SF News Court Clears Way for Condo Conversion on Property Where 100-Year-Old Woman was Evicted Iris Canada died at age 100 a month after her eviction in 2017, and the case that galvanized tenant activists just ended with a whimper of ‘Sure, build the condos.’
SF News SF Teachers Union Says They’ll Return To Classes with Vaccine Shots, Less Restrictive Tier The union says they’re ready to resume in-person classes if they’re vaccinated and the city is in the red tier, or even unvaccinated if it’s in the orange tier.
Bay Area Sports Steph and Ayesha Curry Have Quietly Served Up 15 Million Meals During the Pandemic We need to be talking more about how the Bay Area’s premier basketball glam couple have teamed up with chef José Andrés to serve more than 15 million free meals to families in need since COVID-19 hit.
SF News Oakland Developer Evicting People Like Mad During Eviction Moratorium The owner of Vulcan Lofts and nearly two dozen other East Bay apartment complexes is singularly responsible for nearly a third of all Oakland eviction notices filed during the eviction moratorium.
Arts & Entertainment Life-Sized Ox Statues Arrive All Over Town to Celebrate Lunar New Year There’s no Chinese New Year parade, but the Year of the Ox still rocks with 11 life-size ox statues painted by the artists who normally make the parade’s fantastic floats.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Camps Already Backing Out of 2021 Over COVID-19 Concerns, Despite No Official Call Well-known Burning Man camps are already chiming in with a big old “Nope” on attending the 2021 event, even as Black Rock City organizers have not officially decided whether to proceed this year.
SF News UC Berkeley Sees COVID-19 Surge, as Frat House Parties Are Becoming A Problem More than 7% of all positive UC Berkeley student body cases in the last six months came in just this past weekend, and school officials are scolding kids for letting their guards down.
SF News One of SF’s Biggest Cannabis Dispensaries is Poised to Hit Valencia Street The Planning Commission gave the green light for a sprawling dispensary with an on-site smoking lounge, over neighborhood concerns that it would be too big and upscale.
SF Politics Congress’ Resident QAnon Loon Claimed 2018 Camp Fire was Started by Space Lasers A recent dump of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s old social media posts includes a 2018 screed that a cabal of Jewish bankers used space lasers to start the deadliest fire in California history, as part of a high-speed rail scheme.
Arts & Entertainment One-Night Virtual Sketchfest Draws ‘Mr. Show’ Reunion, Peaches Christ, Weird Al SF Sketchfest has been whittled down to just a one-night livestream this Saturday, but still has dozens of the biggest names in comedy.
Business & Tech Uber Lays Off 15% of Postmates Staff, Just Two Months After Buying the Company Nearly 200 Postmates employees got pink slips Monday in the wake of being acquired by Uber, but top Postmates executives will get “multimillion dollar exit packages.”
SF News SF Archbishop Flouts COVID-19 Restrictions Again, Hosts Hundreds for Indoor Mass The nutty archbishop rises again in opposition to COVID-19 precautions, this time holding mass indoors for hundreds of congregants, and saying some combination of Proud Boys and Antifa forced him to do so.
