SF News Union Square Hit-and-Run Leaves Pedestrian with Life-Threatening Injuries The driver of an SUV that mowed down a pedestrian Saturday is still at large, but the victim’s status has been “upgraded to non-life threatening.”
SF News Slain ‘Monster in the Mission’ Property Up for Sale, Local Nonprofit Interested in Buying The developer of the wildly unpopular proposed “Monster in the Mission” luxury condo and apartment project has given up the ghost, and a community group hopes to swoop in and build 100 percent affordable housing.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrated Pop-Up BBQ Pitmaster Gets Charred by Oakland, Permanent Restaurant Delayed A “slab of concrete” is indefinitely delaying slabs of ribs in West Oakland, as Horn Barbecue’s smoker for their brick-and-mortar restaurant has voided their permit application.
SF News Two More Coronavirus Cases Confirmed in NorCal, Plus One More Suspected As many as three more Sacramento and Humboldt County victims could be infected with coronavirus, in addition to the five cruise ship patients hospitalized in northern California.
SF Politics ‘Girlfriend 1’ Identified in Mohammed Nuru Scandal, And It’s Not London Breed The Chronicle has managed to identify “Girlfriend 1” in the FBI criminal complaint against Mohammed Nuru, and it’s high-ranking mayor’s office director Sandra Zuniga.
SF News FasTrak Lawsuit Is on the Fast Track, as Thousands Have Allegedly Been Jilted with Bogus Bridge Fees Think you’ve been charged unfair bridge fees by FasTrak? So do thousands more, and a class action suit against FasTrak — and Xerox — is moving forward.
SF News SF’s Largest-Ever AIDS Quilt Display Coming for Golden Gate Park Anniversary We’re gonna need a bigger box of Kleenex, as the biggest AIDS Memorial Quilt display San Francisco has ever seen will be part of Golden Gate Park’s 150th anniversary proceedings.
SF News SF Parking Meters May Start Charging on Evenings and Sundays Surge pricing for all cars, plus paid meters for Sunday and nighttime parking could be coming, as City Hall looks for ways to fight gridlock and discourage driving in general.
Bay Area sports Aubrey Huff Called Out of Giants’ Reunion After Umpteenth Sexist Tirade The inventor of the ‘rally thong’ has been hitting the #MAGA rhetoric hard lately, and the Giants have disinvited him from the 10-year reunion of the 2010 World Champion team.
Business & Tech Protesters Swarm Zuckerberg’s SF Home to Condemn Facebook Political Ad Policy Mark Zuckerberg was not home to see this morning’s demonstration, but maybe he’ll see the phrases ‘Facebook is a Russian asset’ chalked on his sidewalk when he's back in town.
SF News An Elementary School In Richmond Is Getting Named For Michelle Obama Some Black Girl Magic is applied to the West Contra Costa Unified School District, as Wilson Elementary School will be renamed for former First Lady Michelle Obama.
Arts & Entertainment Meet the 2020 ‘Hearts in San Francisco,’ Which Hit the Streets Today The new annual batch of Hearts in SF sculptures are out for Valentine’s Day, and we caught their unveiling last night to talk with the ‘heartists’ who created this year’s works.
SF News Jackie Speier’s Revived Equal Rights Amendment Passes House, Has Tiny Chance in Senate The ERA was OK’d by the House of Representatives Thursday morning, some 50 years after it was introduced Rep. Martha Griffiths (pictured at right).
SF Politics California’s Largest-Ever $15 Billion School Bond Ballot Measure, Explained There’s only one state ballot measure on the usually-crowded March 3 election slate, so let’s school ourselves up on what the $15 billion school construction bond proposes to do.
SF News Supervisor Haney Wants To Break Up Public Works, Create New Agency That Just Cleans Streets As shoes keep dropping in the Mohammed Nuru/DPW scandal, Matt Haney proposes making the street-cleaning unit its own separate city department.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Calls Facebook ‘Lame,’ Encourages His Twitter Followers to Delete It Little rocket man Elon Musk set his targets on Facebook over the weekend, though the ‘Friendship Ended With’ animosity on this one goes back years.
SF News Union Square Pot Dispensary OK’d After ‘Private Agreement’ with Suspicious Neighbor Chanel A cannabis dispensary got approval to move into the former John Varvatos space in the ‘Luxury Zone’ of the Union Square shopping district, despite months of opposition from its bougie retail neighbors.
SF News Tracy Mayor Calls for Busing His City's Homeless Off to Stockton Not even hiding it, the mayor of Tracy says “I know they just built a nice big shelter in Stockton” and “get a bus ticket to some of these shelters.”
SF Politics Breed Wants Ballot Measure to Streamline Housing in Wake of SB-50 Defeat The mayor introduces a ballot measure effort to eliminate red tape for affordable housing developments, but the definition of “affordable” is a bit mind-boggling.
Business & Tech Top 10 Airbnb Scams Bamboozling Users Out of Money Across the World “The plumbing suddenly broke” is the new “dog ate my homework” on the often-inhospitable hospitality platform.
SF News Wiener Introduces PG&E Public-Takeover Plan, Utility’s Stock Jumps 12 Percent Anyway PG&E wants to dig out of their problems by just adding some safety experts to their board, but state Senator Scott Wiener would prefer to end PG&E as we know it.
SF Politics Scandal-Embroiled DPW Head Still Not Fired, Possibly Still Eligible for Pension The City Hall director accused of multiple bribery and fraud charges has not yet been officially disciplined, but Supervisor Matt Haney got a nasty letter for publicly saying that Mohammed Nuru should be disciplined.
SF Politics Wiener’s Controversial SB-50 Housing Bill Dies for Third Consecutive Year A 20-hour scramble to whip up more support for a do-over vote has failed, and Sen. Scott Wiener’s high-density housing plan fell short yet again.
SF News Car-Free Market Street Plan Could Spread to Valencia Street, Too The SFMTA chair gave a full-throated endorsement to banning cars on Valencia Street too, though other Muni honchos prefer to walk that back to just a few blocks of the corridor.
SF News SF’s Biggest Landlord Insists It Won’t Delay Selling Its 67 Rent-Controlled Buildings Corporate mega-landlord Veritas Investments is performing a massive sell-off of mostly rent-controlled residential properties in San Francisco, drawing the ire of a few SF supervisors and a housing nonprofit.
