SF News Giant New Illuminated LED Art Thingy Now Adorns Ceiling at Powell Street BART Station Some BART art is freshly installed into the ceiling of the Powell Street station, paying homage to both the architecture of Union Square and the “bubble tiles” of that station’s walls.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Asking for Killer Robots That Can Use Deadly Force An earthquake just hit the South Bay, Dungeness crab season might never start before Thanksgiving again, and SFPD wants its robots to be “used as a deadly force option” against civilians.
SF News SF Has Seen More Than 500 Overdoses This Year, Though That’s Down From 2020 and 2021 The overdose death count in San Francisco has declined since the height of the pandemic, but we’re still one of the most affected cities in the nation, behind Houston and Philadelphia.
SF News Michigan Man Charged With Threatening to Kill Rep. John Garamendi Over ‘Child Slave Ring’ Conspiracy Theory Yet more news of death threats against lawmakers over wackadoodle QAnon conjecture, this time with NorCal congressman John Garamendi and FBI Director Christopher Wray on the receiving end of the threats.
SF News Elizabeth Holmes May Be Shipped to Texas For Her Prison Sentence, Likely at Her Own Attorney’s Request The disgraced Theranos founder’s legal team has seemingly swayed her judge to recommend she serve her time at a Texas correctional facility described as “heaven,” but it’s ultimately up to the Bureau of Prisons where she goes.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Yeah, It’s Nuts At the Airport Right Now Bay Area hospitals are running out of pediatric beds over the RSV outbreak, Coinbase CEO blames San Francisco for Coinbase leaving San Francisco, and expect record-setting crowds if you’re heading to a Bay Area airport.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Now Stiffing Vendors, Not Paying Bills at Twitter A new report finds Twitter’s vendors and suppliers are “owed millions of dollars in back payments” which Musk is suddenly trying to weasel out of paying.
Arts & Entertainment Where To Buy Beer, Wine, and Liquor on Thanksgiving Day in SF Don’t be a turkey and run out of alcohol on Thanksgiving Day! Even if you drink through your supply on Thursday, there are many 11th hour beverage and grocery establishments that will gladly ring you up to refill your stock on Thanksgiving Day in SF.
SF Politics In Baffling Move, SF Elections Director With Impeccable Record Won’t Have Contract Renewed After 20 years of flawless and scandal-free performance, SF Department of Elections Director John Arntz, one of the most effective and hardest-working people in City Hall, won't have his contract renewed because of a “racial equity plan.”
SF Politics Sheng Thao Declares Victory as Oakland’s New Mayor, Opponent Loren Taylor Has Conceded It took two weeks of vote-counting, but Oakland City Councilmember Sheng Thao has eked out a razor-thin, 682-vote victory as of Monday night over fellow Councilmember Loren Taylor, and ranked-choice voting tabulations eventually handed her the victory.
SF News Bay Area Transit Planners Fret Over ’Doomsday Scenario’ of Service Cuts Amidst Plummeting Ridership The possibility of “No weekend BART, bus lines cancelled” looms for BART, Muni, Caltrain and the ferries, according to a new report detailing these transit agencies’ plans for dealing with the “death spiral” of a looming fiscal cliff.
SF News Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant Saved (For Now) With $1 Billion Lifeline From Feds The last remaining nuclear power plant in California just got a $1.1 billion dollar grant from the federal government to keep the lights on, as the on-again, off-again fate of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power facility is now that the plant will keep humming at least a couple more years.
SF News Alleged Club Q Mass Shooter Reportedly the Grandson of a Sitting GOP California Assemblymember We’re learning more today about the shooter in Saturday night’s massacre at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, including the fact that his grandfather is reportedly a sitting Republican California state Assemblyperson representing San Diego County.
SF News Prosecutors Finding Alleged Pelosi Attacker David DePape Was a Big Gamergate Guy As prosecutors build their case by digging into the online history of alleged Paul Pelosi hammer attacker David DePape, they’re finding that the 2014 Gamergate furor was his gateway from hippie nudism to QAnon-Pizzagate trutherism.
SF News UC Berkeley Law School Chooses to Bolt From Prestigious US News Rankings, as Have Harvard and Yale The UC Berkeley School of Law is joining several of the nation’s top law schools by opting out of the U.S. News & World Report’s annual top law school rankings over equity and diversity concerns, but the magazine says they’ll still include these schools anyway.
SF News State DOJ Probing Oakland School District Over Closing Seven Schools, Citing Civil Rights Violations The California Department of Justice has launched a “fact-finding mission” into the Oakland Unified School District over its plan to close seven schools and merge two others, as the closures may violate students’ rights to equal access to education.
SF News SF Activist Carol Leigh, the ‘Scarlot Harlot’ Who Coined the Term ‘Sex Work,’ Has Died One of the preeminent Bay Area sex work activists for nearly 50 years and the originator of the term “sex work” Carol Leigh, a.k.a. Scarlot Harlot, died of cancer Wednesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Elizabeth Holmes Files Final Plea For Leniency Elizabeth Holmes’s lawyers continue to beg for leniency, Ticketmaster is canceling Friday’s public sale of Taylor Swift tickets at Levi’s Stadium, and sex work activist Carol Leigh, popularly known as “Scarlot Harlot,” has died.
SF News Feathers Flying In Sactown Suburb After Postal Worker Fatally Bludgeons Aggressive, Menacing Turkey A controversy over a postal worker killing a turkey that attacked delivery workers has gobbled up Sacramento Nextdoor, as a “drumstick gang” of wild turkeys has had tensions marinating for months.
SF News Final Tab on $22 Million Tenderloin Center: 300 Overdoses Reversed, 600 Enrolled In Government Benefits The initially much-ballyhooed Tenderloin Center will be closing almost a month earlier than planned, and the first rigorous study on its effects found it did some good, but maybe not $22 million worth of good.
SF Politics Ann Hsu Has Lost School Board Race, as Challenger Alida Fisher Takes ‘Insurmountable’ Lead London Breed-appointed school board member Ann Hsu will be the only Breed appointee not reelected in last week’s election, as anti-recall candidate Alida Fisher has sealed the win with a more than 3,500-vote advantage.
SF Politics SF Examiner Apologizes For (Literally) Placing a Bullseye On Dean Preston’s Face in Print Edition In what’s being criticized as a “deeply irresponsible and contemptible” publishing decision, the SF Examiner Wednesday front page depicted Supervisor Dean Preston with a bullseye target over his face, and the paper is now apologizing.
SF Politics Supervisors Spend Five Hours Haranguing Over Mandated 82,000 New Housing Units, But We Might Actually Hit That Goal? It’s not surprising that the SF Board of Supervisors spent nearly five hours debating a state-mandated housing requirement that the city build 82,000 new housing units by 2031. What is surprising is that we might actually achieve the goal.
Bay Area Sports Now Someone’s Suing Steph Curry and the Warriors Over Promotions of Bankrupt Crypto Fund FTX Did you lose money in the collapse of cryptocurrency firm FTX? Maybe you can get some of it back by suing Steph Curry and the Warriors, because there’s a class action lawsuit against them and other sports stars like Tom Brady who endorsed the now-worthless digital currency exchange.
SF News Alleged Gunman In Oakland Dentist Lili Xu Murder-For-Hire Case Pleads Not Guilty The suspected hitman who stands accused of pulling the trigger on Oakland dentist Lili Xu pleaded not guilty Wednesday, but prosecutors appear to be seeking a life sentence with no parole for the 33-year-old alleged killer Hasheem Bason.
