SF Politics 23 States Sue Trump Over Rollback Of California Auto Emission Standards California sued the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration this morning, and 22 more states have jumped in on the lawsuit to preserve higher fuel-efficiency standards.
Arts & Entertainment As ‘Storm Area 51’ Prank Looms, Officials Fret While Organizers Feud With Rival Events The Storm Area 51 event could itself be stormed out by extreme Nevada weather, and the original organizers have chickened out and moved their event to Las Vegas.
SF Politics Protesters Shut Down Health Commission Meeting Over Empty Bed Fiasco Nearly 100 demonstrators bring the ruckus over dozens empty beds at San Francisco General Hospital, at a time when homelessness is running rampant.
Arts & Entertainment Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Dispute With Folsom Street Fair Could Untie Their Historic Bond The Sisters’ longtime habit of collecting donations at the Folsom Street Fair gates may be coming to an end, amid a disagreement over the allocation of charity funds and how volunteer shifts are managed.
SF News M-Ocean View Underground Tunnel Expansion to Parkmerced Could Get Fast-Tracked SFMTA has been floating the ‘tunnel under 19th Avenue’ plan for years but, but an impending doubling of housing units in Parkmerced brings urgency to the matter.
SF News BART Drivers: ‘Fleet of the Future’ Trains Might Trap And Kill You Oh, this isn’t troubling at all: A veteran BART driver says of the Fleet of the Future trains, “passengers could be trapped in a car while an emergency is going on.”
Arts & Entertainment Ocean Beach Music + Arts Festival, Formerly the Noriega Street Fair, To Make Waves Again Next Month The city’s westernmost street fair returns so you can get your pumpkin patch on without leaving the city, with ten live music acts just announced.
Business & Tech ‘Gig Worker’ Wage And Benefits Bill Passes Both Chambers Of Legislature, Likely To Become Law The gig may be up for the so-called unicorn startups who’ve coasted on crazy cheap labor, as California is poised to become the first state in the nation to make companies classify independent contractors as employees.
SF News Notorious SF Landlord Anne Kihagi Sued For Back Pay By Her Own Attorney Landlord Anne Kihagi gets sued by the attorney who still works for her, but that lawyer insists it’s just a completely normal “mechanism to secure regular payments from my client.”
Arts & Entertainment Photos: 80-Year-Old Emperor Norton Plaque Unveiled at the Salesforce Transit Center The Salesforce Transit Center cracks a beam of historical joy by reinstalling the Emperor Norton plaque that used to be at the Transbay Terminal, now fully restored by the de Young Museum.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Rolls Out Criminal Justice Reform Plan In Hopes of Reigniting Campaign Our one-time San Francisco district attorney is at least the sixth Dem presidential candidate to put out a criminal justice reform plan, but critics will charge that she was against all of these policies before she was for them.
SF News Boat Owners In Deadly SoCal Fire Trying To Avoid Compensating Victims’ Families, Citing 168-Year-Old Law It’s the same technicality that owners of the Titanic used in 1912, and could result in the Santa Barbara-based aquatics company not paying the victims' families a single penny.
Business & Tech Lyft Hit With Sexual Assault Lawsuit From 14 Different Women Lyft has allegedly received more than 100 rape and assault claims in California alone, and the victims say the company "chooses to stonewall" on prosecuting drivers. Now 14 women are suing.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Declare NRA a Domestic Terrorist Organization, Hope Rest of Nation Will Follow The supes unanimously passed a resolution calling the National Rifle Association “a domestic terrorist organization” that "spreads propaganda" to “incite gun owners to acts of violence.”
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Bans Coolers, Adopts Clear Bag Policy For The Mass Shooting Era It will be an Outside Lands-style gated entrance with security at this year’s free bluegrass festival, and your cooler is no longer welcome, but your dog still is.
SF Politics Wiener Wages Rhetorical War on Cupertino’s Plan B For Giant ‘Dead Mall’ Cupertino’s enormous and empty Vallco shopping mall has seen a zigzag of fortunes in the quest to turn it into a large housing development, and state Senator Scott Wiener is furious over the latest compromise.
SF News Disgraced Oakland Bakery Attorney Would Like To Practice Law Again, Thank You The Berkeley lawyer who who smuggled her client’s ‘hit list’ out of prison insists the whole thing was a misunderstanding, and asks the State Bar for reinstatement.
SF News Dede Wilsey Should Be Denied Nonprofit Award Because of Trump Fundraiser, Says David Campos Wilsey was listed as the co-host for a Trump fundraiser last month, so former supe David Campos is leading a charge to deny her an LGBTQ organization’s lifetime achievement award.
SF News Medical Marijuana Could Soon Be Allowed In K-12 Schools In California Cue the “high school” jokes, as the California State Assembly just passed a law allowing for medical marijuana in K-12 schools.
SF News Mayor’s Bed Cuts to Residential Mental Health Program Draws Outrage Even though it’s a trade-off that adds temporary shelter beds for the mentally ill, the mayor’s plan also includes moving many patients out of their permanent facilities.
Business & Tech Uber and Lyft Drivers Plan Protest Caravan To Fight For Employee Rights Disgruntled rideshare drivers from all over the state plan to storm the statehouse in their vehicles next week, and don’t be surprised if they raise a little hell at Uber’s downtown SF headquarters too.
SF Politics Adachi’s Family Fights Back On Autopsy With Experts Who Report He Died Of ‘Natural Causes’ One toxicologist says there was “no cocaine” in Jeff Adachi’s system, and another says his blood alcohol was the equivalent of “half a beer."
SF News Nevada Braces For Invasion of Alien Enthusiasts As ‘Storm Area 51’ Event Approaches Burning Man may not be the hippest upcoming Nevada event, as prank-turned-actual-event “Storm Area 51” sets its phasers to beam tens of thousands of alien conspiracy freaks toward the remote Air Force base.
Arts & Entertainment FogCam, The World’s Oldest Webcam, To Shut Off August 30 The oldest still-operating webcam was born in San Francisco, but it will cease to exist next week after 25 years of producing grainy footage of the fog rolling through SF State.
SF News BART Board May Ban Panhandling, But Buskers Could Be Barred Too A full banishment of panhandling could be in the works for the BART system, but we’d lose our lovely musical busking performers in the stations as well.
