SF Politics Mark Farrell Faces Questions After Companies With Business Before City Gave $1.2 Million to Nonprofit Where His Wife Is on the Board It’s beginning to look a lot like Nuru with a pattern uncovered during mayoral candidate Mark Farrell’s time on the Board of Supervisors, as a report details how he got $1.2 million in donations directed to a nonprofit where his wife serves on the board.
SF News SFPD Busts Illegal Gambling Den in Cayuga Terrace, One Day After Busting Tenderloin Gambling Den It’s been a jackpot for SFPD efforts to crack down on illegal gambling operations this week, as after a Tuesday raid on an underground Tenderloin casino operation, police on Wednesday popped a Cayuga Avenue home that also had an apparent illegal gambling den.
SF Politics Update: Yet Another Improper Spending Scandal Rocks SF City Hall, Commission Director Hastily Resigns The curious matter of a $10,000 Martha’s Vineyard house rental paid for with your tax dollars had led to the resignation of an SF City Hall commission director, and she appears to have also approved more than a million dollars in contracts to a man that lives with her.
SF News Road Rage Incident Leads to Fatal Shooting in Upscale Orinda An SUV driver had some reason to be so upset with a Tesla driver in Orinda that he reportedly punched the Tesla driver, who then allegedly shot and killed the SUV driver, bringing a rare gun homicide to the wealthy suburb of Orinda.
Bay Area Sports Rumors Flying That the A’s Might Stay in Oakland for Another Year, or Even Longer One of Major League Baseball’s most prominent agents has stirred the pot about the possibility of the A’s staying in Oakland for another year or longer, and it may be significant that the players’ union has still not signed off on the deal for the A’s to play in Sacramento.
SF News Day Around the Bay: PG&E Gets the Green Light to Hike Your Rates Yet Again The Transamerica Pyramid had its grand reopening Thursday; the hot dog vendor who SFPD roughed up in an arrest now says she’s pregnant; and PG&E will be raising your rates again for the third time in barely a year.
SF Politics SF’s Own Linda Ronstadt Goes Full-On ‘Childless Cat Lady’ In Condemning Trump, Endorsing Harris Donald Trump happens to be holding a rally today at Tucson, Arizona’s Linda Ronstadt Music Hall. San Francisco resident Linda Ronstadt is furious about this, and posted a Taylor-Swift style “childless cat lady” endorsement of Kamala Harris.
SF News Man Who Allegedly Stabbed Two People on an Amtrak Sunday in Fairfield Will Get a Mental Competency Hearing A Sacramento man accused of stabbing two people on an Amtrak train Sunday night had his attempted murder trial proceedings suspended, as he’ll now get a mental competency hearing to determine whether he even will stand trial.
SF Politics Ballot Measure Prop 3 Hopes to ‘Trump-Proof' Same-Sex Marriage In California, No Matter What US Supreme Court Does At least one US Supreme Court justice is on the record as wanting to overturn the landmark same-sex marriage decision, so California voters will consider Prop 3 in November, which would enshrine gay marriage into the state constitution.
SF News Alleged Brothel Raided in South San Francisco Apartment Building, 65-Year-Old Woman Charged With Pimping A certain apartment complex in South San Francisco allegedly had a brothel operating out of one of the units, and a 65-year-old woman has been arrested and is being accused of serving as its madame.
SF News Concord Man Arrested For Allegedly Having 100 Pounds of Meth In His Car The California Highway Patrol conducted a routine traffic stop in I-680 in Concord, and a drug-sniffing dog indicated there may have been narcotics in the vehicle. And were there ever, as the CHP seized nearly 100 pounds of suspected methamphetamine from the car.
SF News Both SFPD and Hot Dog Vendor Speak Out After Viral Video of Rough, Physical Arrest The SFPD arrest of a hot dog vendor who was slammed to the ground and held down made a splash in the local news. But both sides are now going public with their own versions of events, which unsurprisingly, do not quite match.
SF News Frank Chu Released From Hospital, After a Fall That Left Him With a Severe Spinal Injury There’s relief across the 12 Galaxies, as San Francisco's ubiquitous sign-toting icon Frank Chu had been hospitalized after a late June fall at a BART station, but he is now mostly recovered. While he was at one point partially paralyzed, he’s now very much mobile and back on his beat.
SF News Oldest House In San Francisco Sold, Will Become Noise Pop Headquarters The 174-year-old “Abner Phelps House” at Oak and Divisadero streets is considered the oldest house in San Francisco, and it has just changed hands, with plans to make it the headquarters of local music promoter Noise Pop Industries.
SF News San Pablo Police Warrant Turns Up 700 Catalytic Converters, More Than a Thousand Pounds of Copper Wire A Tuesday search warrant on two East Bay homes in Richmond and San Pablo resulted in the discovery of more than 700 apparently stolen catalytic converters, as well as 1,100 pounds of copper wire, and $113,000 in cash.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dreamforce Road Closures Already Underway We now know the day the L-Taraval trains are going to begin running again; the Giants are finally ditching those bizarre creamsicle-orange uniforms; and Dreamforce road closures have already started with the conference looming next week.
Arts & Entertainment Update: Big Thursday Night Light Show to Celebrate Transamerica Pyramid’s Public Reopening A Thursday night light show celebrating the public reopening of the Transamerica Pyramid will cover the east-facing side of the tower with an array of precision laser graphics.
SF News Center-Running Valencia Bike Lanes Could Be Heading Back to the Curbside in January The experiment moving the Valencia Street bike lanes to the center of the street was not a success, and SFMTA says they’ll be moving the bike lanes back to the curbside possibly as soon as January 2025.
SF Politics Six Presidential Debate Watch Parties Tuesday In San Francisco The microphones won’t be muted at these six Bay Area presidential debate watch parties Tuesday night, many featuring booze, bingo, or comedians just making fun of the whole thing.
Arts & Entertainment Patti Smith Headlines the Just-Released Full Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Lineup We already had an impressive Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival lineup with Sleater-Kinney, Devendra Banhart, and Cat Power on the bill, but the complete artist list just dropped and now includes punk poet Patti Smith and guitarist Chuck Prophet.
SF News SF Police Slam Down and Handcuff a Sidewalk Hot Dog Vendor, In Front of Her Screaming, Crying Daughter In the latest case of bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors being more harshly persecuted than other illegal street vendors, video has emerged of a Sunday incident where a woman was tackled and detained for selling hot dogs, in front of her terrified toddler daughter.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Fans Were Already Lined Up at Noon to Get Into Levi’s Stadium Parking Lot for Tonight’s Season Opener A new, more restrictive tailgate policy at Levi’s Stadium may have backfired on its first try, as 49ers fans showed up earlier instead of later Monday, and set up their tailgate parties outside the stadium parking lot.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Pride Draws an Estimated 50,000 People to Downtown Oakland Parade and Celebration The news wasn’t all bad coming out of Oakland this weekend, as the 14th annual Oakland Pride brought a parade, concerts, dance pavilions, and tens of thousands of people to show Oakland being “Rooted in Pride.”
SF News Four People Shot In Oakland in Four-Hour Span Saturday Night, Three of Them Killed While the big sideshow that shut down the Bay Bridge at 3:30 am Sunday morning is all over the news, we’re also learning that there were four shootings with three fatalities in Oakland early Saturday night, plus reports that another TV camera crew was robbed.
Bay Area Sports 12-Year-Old Arizona Kid Has 49ers’ Ricky Pearsall’s Old Phone Number, Has Been Inundated With Texts Since Shooting Last weekend’s shooting of 49ers receiver Ricky Pearsall has upended the life of a 12-year-old boy in Arizona, who has since been bombarded by sympathetic text messages, because he has Pearsall’s old phone number.
