SF News Former Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick Strikes Two Pedestrians While Driving on the Job In New Orleans The new gig is not currently working out too well for former Oakland Chief of Police Anne Kirkpatrick, as she apparently ran her car into two pedestrians in New Orleans on Saturday night.
Bay Area Sports A’s Sell Their Share of the Oakland Coliseum to Black-Owned Development Group for $125 Million The African American Sports & Entertainment Group will soon become the full owner of the Oakland Coliseum, as they bought the City of Oakland's ownership share of the Coliseum earlier this year, and they just bought the other half from the departing Oakland A’s.
SF News Muni Somehow Scores Its Highest Rider Satisfaction Rate In 23 Years According to a new Muni survey, 72% of riders rated the city’s public transit service as “good” or “excellent,” though that comes with the catch that the more frequently people ride Muni, the less satisfied they are with it.
SF News Tents Return Right Away In Mission District, Tenderloin Areas Targeted By Encampment Sweeps The new and supposedly more aggressive sweeps of homeless encampments are turning into a familiar game of whack-a-mole, as new tents are reportedly popping right back up in areas where city workers have cleared encampments.
SF News Sunday Links: World Dog Surfing Championships Draw 7,000 Spectators to Pacifica Firefighters now have the Park Fire 30% contained; a wave of attacks is hitting a senior housing complex in Oakland; and the annual World Dog Surfing Championships on Saturday saw intrepid dogs surfing on some ruff waves.
SF News Victims In Last Week’s Devil’s Slide Crash Identified, Two Were US Army Veterans After a car plunged 300 feet off the Highway 1 Devil’s Slide area last Friday, we’re now learning that the two women killed were US Army veterans, and a third man killed was a military interpreter.
SF News Five Coyotes Ganged Up and Killed a Small Dog at Baker Beach Thursday Morning The San Francisco coyote discourse may be about to get more contentious, as a pack of five coyotes surrounded and killed a small Pomeranian dog early Thursday morning at Baker Beach.
Business & Tech Chevron Announces They’re Leaving Their San Ramon Headquarters, Relocating to Houston The second-largest US oil company Chevron seemed to have one foot out the door of its national headquarters in San Ramon, but now they’re making it official and moving to Texas, though their smoke-spewing Richmond refinery is apparently staying put.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Doubles Down on Just Shipping the Homeless Out of Town, as Encampment Sweeps Ratchet Up SF Mayor London Breed’s new tactic to reduce homelessness won’t be seen as particularly compassionate, as her latest executive order demands encampment sweeps where people are first offered a bus ticket out of town before they’re offered shelter.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: DJ Shortkut Has Suffered a Stroke There’s suddenly a terrible stench emanating from the Anchor Brewing Company building; Laguna Honda is finally admitting new patients again after its regulatory nightmare; and DJ Shortkut of Invisibl Skratch Piklz fame has been hospitalized after a severe stroke.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Retail Vacancies Hit a New All-Time High (Again) Don Lemon is suing Elon Musk over their canceled Twitter/X deal; we now know the identity of the Calistoga police officer who ran over a pedestrian with a police truck; and San Francisco retail vacancies just hit a new record high.
SF Politics Fundraising Totals Show Lurie Way Ahead In Mayoral Race Money, Lurie and Farrell Argue About It on Twitter Wealthy SF mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie is millions of dollars ahead of his rivals in the fundraising race, according to just-released public information, but this revelation wrought a puerile pissing match between Lurie and Mark Farrell on Twitter Thursday.
SF News San Mateo Construction Worker Buried in Ten Feet of Dirt, Gets Rescued But Remains In Critical Condition A terrifying construction accident in San Mateo Thursday morning, as a trench collapsed and buried a worker in ten feet of dirt, though he has been rescued, hospitalized, and remains in critical condition.
SF News Modest Glen Park Corner Store Sells Winning Powerball Ticket Worth Nearly $1 Million The hardly upscale corner store Buddies Market at Chenery and Diamond streets in Glen Park just produced a Powerball jackpot of nearly $1 million for a lucky customer, so it may be your corner store of choice for Saturday’s $171 million drawing.
SF News SFUSD To Announce Which Schools They’re Closing In About Six Weeks Tensions are high among students, parents, and teachers in the San Francisco Unified School District, as the district has announced they’re going to close a number of SF public schools, and they’ll say which ones they’re closing in just a few weeks.
SF News SF DPH Busting Out Drag Queens In Latest Drug Overdose Prevention Campaign The SF Department of Public Health’s latest effort to prevent drug overdoses is employing local drag queens Kochina Rude and Nicki Jizz to lead a month-long outreach campaign to distribute fentanyl testing strips and teach people how to administer Narcan.
SF Politics David Chiu Jumps on Trend With 'Asian American Men for Harris’ Event, Books Ken Jeong and BD Wong This sudden new trend of specific identifiable demographics doing online meetups for Kamala Harris has SF City Attorney David Chiu co-organizing a "AANHPI Men for Kamala Harris" call, and they’ve lined up stars Ken Jeong and BD Wong to join in.
Arts & Entertainment Yet More Outdoor Downtown ‘Entertainment Zone’ Parties Could Be Coming Under New Legislation From Aaron Peskin As downtown San Francisco tries to party its way out of the lack of foot traffic and the office vacancy problem, Supervisor Aaron Peskin has introduced a measure that would streamline the permitting process to create more outdoor parties.
SF News SF Supervisors Ban AI Software Used to Set Rental Prices, Arguing the Technology is Price-Fixing and Collusion San Francisco is the first city in the nation to ban AI software used to set rent prices, as the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved banning algorithms used to maximize what landlords charge for rent.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Silver Crest Donut Shop, Whose Sign Says ‘We Never Close,’ Has Closed The man accused of pushing a 74-year-old woman to her death at a BART station finally appeared in court; Lady Gaga got engaged to an SF tech executive; and Bayshore Boulevard 24-hour diner Silver Crest Donut Shop has closed, though perhaps only temporarily.
SF News Calistoga Police Vehicle Hits 22-Year-Old Pedestrian, Leaves Her With Serious Head Injuries An unidentified 22-year woman was struck and seriously injured by a Calistoga Police Department vehicle Monday night, and the California Highway Patrol has taken over the investigation into what happened.
SF Politics Former SFPD-Affiliated Nonprofit Director Arrested for Fraud, Theft, Misuse of $700,000 in Public Money The former director of the SFPD’s now-dissolved nonprofit SF SAFE was arrested Tuesday on 34 felony counts, after reports of profligate misspending of public money on lavish parties, forged checks, and possibly her own rent. But did city officials get some of these gifts too?
SF News After Many Waymo Near-Collisions at School Crossings, Mayor Breed Vows to Hold Waymo's Feet to the Fire An NBC Bay Area report in May detailed that 25% of SF school crossing guards said they or their school children had nearly been hit by self-driving Waymos, and now Mayor Breed is promising to hold the Google subsidiary more accountable.
SF Politics JD Vance In Palo Alto Monday Night for Big-Bucks Trump Fundraiser Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance will be in the Bay Area for a fundraiser Monday night, with tickets as much as $50,000 per couple, but you can pay your admission in crypto.
SF Politics Trump-Like Rhetoric at Mark Farrell Event Raises Eyebrows, Farrell Quickly Disavows Host’s Remarks The host of a recent Mark Farrell fundraiser in the Marina went off on SF for “lawlessness and wokeism,” a description Farrell called “pretty compelling.” But now Farrell says he disagrees, and Mayor Breed is taking him to task.
