SF News Tamalpais School District Hit With Title IX Violations Over Harassment of Trans Student A five-year-old case of bullying at an unnamed high school in the Tamalpais Union High School District brings a federal penalty, and the district is forced to take steps to remediate a pattern of alleged inaction.
SF Politics More Newsom Bucks Could Be Coming Your Way, State Has ‘Framework’ for Inflation Rebate Checks Checks of anywhere from $200 to $1,050 appear likely to be coming, as Governor Newsom and the state legislature have agreed to a “framework” for a budget that includes inflation rebate checks for every California taxpayer.
Business & Tech Chevron Selling Off Headquarters In San Ramon, But Richmond Refinery Staying Put Oil and gas giant Chevron is downsizing its Bay Area footprint and moving a bunch of employees from San Ramon to Houston, but sorry Richmond residents, that often-flaring refinery is not going anywhere.
Arts & Entertainment Liz Phair Cancels Sunday’s Stern Grove Show ‘Due to COVID,’ Ani DiFranco to Headline Instead Liz Phair has a “COVID related cancellation” just two days before her Stern Grove show Sunday, but Ani DiFranco is stepping in, and apparently everyone has COVID because lots of tickets are now suddenly available.
SF Politics Bay Area Revs Up to Rally for Abortion Rights, Here’s Where Friday‘s Protests Are Planned Pride Weekend just became protest weekend after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and we’ve collected all of Friday’s planned Bay Area actions and protests scheduled to go down as their announcements come in.
SF News SFPD Arrests Suspect In Wednesday’s Muni Shooting Near Castro Police arrested 26-year-old Javon Green of Pittsburgh Thursday night for the Wednesday morning fatal shooting on Muni near the Castro Station, and we now know the victim was 27-year-old Nesta Bowen.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pride Weekend About to Bloom Again in Its Full In-Person Glory Paul Pelosi got charged with driving under the influence today, a wildfire on the Pleasanton ridge is causing evacuations, and we’re on the eve of the in-person return of a full three-day Pride Weekend.
SF News Supreme Court Overturns Concealed-Carry Gun Laws, California Officials Vow to Keep Limiting Guns in Public Hours after the Trump-packed Supreme Court struck down states’ rights to limit the carrying of firearms in public, Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta insisted California’s concealed-carry law will remain in effect, and could even expand.
SF News Post-Recall School Board Reinstates Lowell High’s Merit-Based Admissions You can call it “selective admissions” or you can call it “segregation,” but the school board voted 4-3 to reinstate merit-based admissions at Lowell, with all four Yes votes being London Breed appointees.
Business & Tech Dreamforce Coming Back With ’Tens of Thousands’ Attending In September, Because What Could Go Wrong Apparently Salesforce is confident enough that COVID-19 will be a non-factor three months from now that they’re bringing back a large-scale Dreamforce, but they’re being a little vague on whether they’ll allow 170,000 people again.
Business & Tech Feds Order Juul to Pull All Products Off the U.S. Market The formerly SF-based Juul has been ordered by the FDA to pull all of its products off U.S. shelves, as regulatory scrutiny of the vaping industry starts to kick in.
SF Politics Despite $108 Million Surplus, Budget Wrangling Underway Between Mayor and Supervisors City Hall is enjoying an unprecedented $108 million budget surplus, which rather than making budgeting easier, is setting off all-out-wars between various special interests who think that the “fiscal cliff reserve” money really ought to be set aside for them.
SF News That Long-Planned ‘Sobering Center’ Will Finally Open Monday Near Howard and Seventh Streets A city-sponsored drug sobering center has been in the works in SF for more than two years, and it’s unclear whether drug use will be allowed on-site, or whether people will even access it. But it opens Monday as an 18-month pilot program.
SF Politics Sierra Foothills Town Nevada City Cancels Pride Over Safety Concerns, Mistrust of Police An inaugural Pride celebration in a small town roughly 150 miles northeast of SF would have been this past Saturday, but didn’t happen after Nevada City’s negative response to the Pride flags set off some red flags.
SF News Two Shot, One Killed on Muni Train Between Forest Hill and Castro Stations, Suspect at Large There’s a very heavy police presence at Castro and Market Streets, as two people were reportedly shot on a Muni train between Forest Hill and Castro Stations, but Muni service has now been restored in that tunnel.
SF News Longest Day of the Year Around the Bay: SF Temperatures Hit 92 Degrees on Summer Solstice A Mission District man was killed in a 4:30 a.m. hit-and-run at 16th and South Van Ness, and Bay Area grass fires are causing trouble, as today's summer solstice brought the hottest day in nearly two years.
SF News Same East Bay Suspect Allegedly Steals Two BMWs From Different Dealerships In a Week, Crashes One of Them An alleged identity fraud scammer managed to get two different East Bay dealerships to sell him BMWs with fake ID, but promptly crashed one of the two.
SF News 24th and Mission Vending Laws Kick In, Smattering of Enforcement Observed Thus Far The rollout of the street vending “crackdown” hit the 24th and Mission Street corner bazaar last week, and while there’s been a bit of enforcement, the portal for vendor permit applications is reportedly not even working yet anyway.
SF News Congress Steps In to Save Sequoia Trees, As Nearly 20% Have Been Killed By Wildfires California’s giant sequoia trees were once considered practically immune to wildfires. But after several thousand were killed by wildfires in recent years, a new bill in Washington hopes to protect and preserve the mighty sequoias.
SF News GLIDE’s ‘Lunch With Warren Buffett’ Auction Fetches Record $19 Million The annual Glide auction of a lunch with legendary investor Warren Buffett just finished its last-ever bidding, and it goes out on a high note of raising $19 million for poverty and hunger programs.
SF News Early June RSA Conference at Moscone Reportedly a ‘Hotbed for COVID-19,’ Attendees Call It ‘Super Spreader Event’ The “risk professionals” at a recent SF security conference may not have factored in the risk of a largely maskless event at the height of an Omicron surge, as hundreds of attendees say they caught the virus while networking to battle computer viruses.
SF News BART Predictably a Mess on Warriors Parade Day, Clipper Card App Melts Down Too “Take public transit to the Warriors’ championship parade,” they said, “It will be easier,” they said. But then BART trains quit stopping at Embarcadero and Montgomery Street, and the Clipper Card app was on the fritz for many users.
Bay Area Sports Klay Thompson Loses Championship Ball Cap in Bay While Boating to Parade It’s hats off to your Golden State Warriors for their championship parade today, but Klay Thompson saw his 2022 championship hat fly into the Bay Monday morning as his yacht rocked to the parade.
Arts & Entertainment Giant Roller Skating Mural Unveiled in Golden Gate Park, Roller Disco Grand Opening Set for Saturday A 93-foot roller skating-themed mural has been painted on the surface of the park's famed Skatin' Place area, and gets its Grand Opening Saturday morning with, of course, a roller disco celebration.
Arts & Entertainment The Obama Portraits Make Their SF Debut Saturday at the de Young Museum It’s free admission both Saturday and Sunday to see those life-size Barack and Michelle Obama portraits make their San Francisco debut at the de Young, and they remain on display there until August 14.
