SF Politics DA Boudin Adopts Post-Apartheid-Inspired ‘Reconciliation Commission’ Led by Activist Shaun King Boudin joins district attorneys in Boston and Philly to “address the injustices of the past,” but the involvement of lightning-rod organizer Shaun King is leading to some questions.
SF News SF To Pay Nearly Half a Million Dollars to Settle Alleged Police Misconduct Cases It will surely interest the “Defund the Police” movement that San Francisco is paying out a combined $455,000 in settlements to a man SFPD shot in the back, and another they injured during the 2017 skateboard “hill bomb.”
SF News Alleged Excelsior DUI Crash Injures Four, Demolishes Bus Shelter Amazingly, all four victims are expected to survive this brutal Monday night accident where an SUV plowed into a bus shelter, but police suspect a DUI hit-and-run.
SF Politics Nuru Doled Out More Than $10 Million in City Contracts With Zero Oversight, Says City Controller The disgraced former DPW head tossed millions of taxpayer dollars around like candy, and benefited from loopholes with names like “BFF Gift Exemption” and “Donation Shakedown.”
SF News Hallelujah! Liquor Stores Can Resume Normal Hours Just As Bars Get Paused Your corner convenience store no longer has to close before sundown every night, as the 8 p.m. closure order has been quietly rescinded.
SF News Doctors Warn San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak Could Affect the Whole Bay Area The Marin County prison is turning into “a catastrophic super spreader” according to a bombshell memo that explains how a bad situation is much worse than anyone realizes.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Outdoor Booze Permits Still Uncertain as Bars, Restaurants Face Monday Reopening There’s a stumbling stone for alcohol service at the Shared Spaces sidewalk seating that’s supposed to kick in Monday — not one establishment has yet been granted a state permit to serve booze.
Business & Tech Local Attorney Sues Facebook for Blocking His Account Over and Over Again After the fifth time Facebook classified his sardonic jokes as hate speech and shut down his account, a gadfly Bay Area lawyer tries to zing Zuckerberg’s algorithm.
SF News Horrible Father’s Day in Morgan Hill as Son Allegedly Stabs Dad, Kills Mom A 25-year-old allegedly stabbed both his parents repeatedly in a Father's Day argument, then begged Morgan Hill police to shoot him.
SF News Report: 49ers Player Has Tested Positive for Coronavirus The 49ers had their offseason workout in Tennessee, to avoid California's rigid COVID-19 restrictions. Guess what happened next.
SF News Livermore Farmers' Market ‘Suspended’ After Cookie Vendor Scolded for Handing Out Pride Flags The latest ‘complaining white woman’ brouhaha comes from Livermore, where a farmers' market crackdown on Pride flags has led to the director’s resignation and a suspension of the event.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Adds a Little COVID-19 Widget to List Restaurants’ Safety Precautions The voluntary listing of precautions, like whether they provide hand sanitizer, is a new feature that restaurants can list on their Yelp page if they choose to.
Bay Area Sports Now the NFL Is Practically Begging Teams to Sign Colin Kaepernick The bandwagon has done a sudden 180 on national anthem kneeling protests, and the head of the NFL says he would “encourage” a team to bring Kaep back.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Possible Arson Attempts Hit Travis Kalanick’s Ghost Kitchen Travis Kalanick’s follow-up to Uber, a caboodle of secretive ghost kitchens in SoMa, suffered a break-in and a fire last week.
SF Politics East Bay BART Director Under Fire for Disputing That ‘BART PD Murders People,' Forgetting Oscar Grant UPDATE: A BART board director who was Karen-ing pretty hard has deleted her Twitter after the local transit Twitterverse called for her to step down.
Arts & Entertainment Frameline Still Doing An Online Film Festival in Late June, Announces Lineup The full Frameline is still postponed til fall, but they’re filling your late June with an online mini-Frameline called “Frameline44 Pride Showcase”— which includes a drive-in show in Concord!
SF News Highly Suspicious COVID-19 Antibody Testing Site Raises Scam Concerns in San Jose A company called TestMe2 is charging $150 a pop for coronavirus antibody tests that have been rejected by the FDA, and not returning results for a month or longer, among many other red flags.
SF News Sure Enough, COVID-19 Outbreak Hits Tesla Plants After Elon Musk Defies Local Orders We don’t know how many of the 10,000 workers at the Fremont Tesla plant tested positive for coronavirus, but media reports describe the number as “several.”
Business & Tech Airbnb Totally Making a Comeback, Claims Airbnb The online apartment booking site says it actually had more bookings for the Memorial Day holiday this year compared to last year, and its delayed IPO may be back on for 2020.
SF News SF Street Sweeping Tickets Set to Resume on June 15 You’ve still got 10 days to move your car, but street sweeping tickets will resume their weekly nuisance to your routine on June 15.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here's How to Find Black-Owned Businesses to Support in the Bay Area, Including Restaurants The Chronicle’s exhaustive list of black-owned Bay Area restaurants is just one of many resources available to support African-American-owned shops, eateries, and service providers.
SF News Pot Dispensaries Broken Into and Looted Across SF and California Cannabis shop owners suspect organized crime has a hand in the ransacking of dispensaries sweeping the state under the George Floyd demonstrations.
SF Politics Steve Kerr, Pelosi, Other Notables Pile On Trump’s Bible Photo-Op After tear gas was fired at clergy to create the Proverb-ial photo with a Bible, Trump critics are doing Numbers on his hamfisted attempt to create the illusion of Christianity.
SF News More Curfews Spread Across East Bay After Another Police Shooting in Hayward Hayward, San Leandro, and Union City have all joined in on instituting curfews as the ongoing unrest spawns another police shooting of a suspect and the ransacking of the Bayfair Center.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Live Music Venues and Sports Bars Slowly Adapt to Operate Under Shelter-In-Place Street performances, patio service, and creative use of masks are bringing a little drip of revenue toward the thirsty taverns that serve up SF music and live sports.
