SF Politics Breed Vows Major Encampment Crackdown Coming In August, Says There May Be ‘Criminal Penalties’ Emboldened by the recent Supreme Court decision allowing bans on homeless encampments, Mayor London Breed said Thursday that a major effort to sweep encampments was in the works and would start in August.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Union Square Saks Fifth Avenue Goes Appointment-Only Condo prices are nearly half-off at the beleaguered Millennium Tower; an international flight to SFO got diverted to Russia; and the Union Square Saks Fifth Avenue will soon only let you in if you have an appointment.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Gold Club Denied in Their $2 Million PPP Loan Forgiveness Request President Biden is said to be inching closer to stepping aside; COVID levels are surging in California wastewater; and the Gold Club got stripped of their forgiveness of a $2 million PPP loan.
SF News Outer Sunset Affordable Housing for Teachers Project Swamped With 900 Applications for Just 135 Units The good news is that the highly anticipated affordable housing complex for SFUSD teachers is just a couple months from allowing its new tenants in. The bad news is that the vast majority of applicants won’t get a place, as applicants outnumber available units by about sixfold.
SF News BART Installing the Evasion-Proof Fare Gates Throughout Civic Center Station, Starting Today Heads up, gate-hoppers: BART is installing their supposedly evasion-proof Next Generation Fare Gates at Civic Center Station starting today, hoping to stem fare evasion at one of their most notorious stations.
SF News SFist Turns 20: Here's to 20 Years of Gossip, Snark, and Covering This Beautiful City Hey everybody, SFist is celebrating its 20th anniversary this week! To honor the occasion, we look back with fondness on these two madcap decades of this site, and the writers who made us the best smart-ass news publication in town.
SF Politics Car Lovers Holding ‘Car Rally’ Thursday To Protest Car-Free Great Highway Plan Some people are not fans of the car-free Great Highway proposal slated for SF’s November ballot, and they’re organizing a car caravan Thursday morning to honk their displeasure at the idea.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Mick Jagger Cracks Bay Area Jokes at Levi’s Stadium Stones Show SF drug overdoses hit a two-year low in June; the Motel 6 near Ocean Beach might become an affordable housing complex; and Mick Jagger busted out some solid Silicon Valley wisecracks at Wednesday night’s Rolling Stones concert.
SF News FBI’s Sheng Thao Raid Investigation Has Now Expanded to the Oakland Police Department It may just be a legal technicality, or it may be a sign that the FBI smells something fishy with the Oakland PD, as the latest federal subpoena in “Sheng Thao raid-gate” asks for a slew of records from the Oakland Police Department.
Business & Tech Salesforce Work-From-Home Party Is Over, Employees Required to Be in Office Three to Five Days a Week SF’s largest private employer Salesforce is bringing the hammer down on its pajama-clad workers who’ve gotten used to remote work, as the company will start requiring employees to work three to five days a week in the office, and they’ll be monitoring security badge scans.
SF News Doctors and Users Explain Why Fentanyl Users Are Hunched Over So Often We’ve all observed the tell-tale sign that someone is high on fentanyl in that they’re bent over and frozen in the so-called “fentanyl fold,” and a new Chronicle report speaks to medical experts and users about why this happens.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 49ers’ Star Receiver Brandon Aiyuk Demands to Be Traded The Sunset Night Market is getting ready to double in size; a big political fight just broke out between Supervisors Hillary Ronen and Aaron Peskin; and the 49ers’ leading receiver Brandon Aiyuk has requested a trade amidst a contract standoff.
SF News SFPD Seeks Suspect Who Violently Attacked Disabled Person After Harassing a Waymo Vehicle A person SFPD described as "cognitively impaired" suffered a fractured skull in a recent late-night attack where the suspect also tried to start a fight with a self-driving Waymo, and the police are seeking the brown-haired male suspect seen here.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Claims He’s Moving X Headquarters to Texas, Because He’s Mad About a New Trans Rights Law Just days after we learned that Xitter is trying to sublease its entire mid-Market headquarters, Elon Musk says he’s moving the company to Texas, and claims it’s because of a new California law about the rights of trans kids.
SF News Strict New Wildfire Law Might Ban Plants and Bushes Within Five Feet of Homes in Wildfire-Prone Areas California fire officials are considering implementing a sweeping ban on bushes, brush, or any combustible materials within five feet of homes in areas considered high risk for wildfires.
SF News 24-Year-Old Woman Charged With Intentionally Running Down and Killing Vacaville Police Officer The Vacaville Police Department is mourning the loss of 32-year-old Officer Matthew Bowen, who was struck from his motorcycle and killed last week by a woman who was not only allegedly intoxicated, but is also accused of intentionally running Bowen down.
SF Politics SFMTA Wants to Put a Bike Lane in Chinatown, Chinatown Leaders Not at All Happy With the Idea Right after the SFMTA’s embarrassing need for a do-over on the Valencia Street bike lane, the agency is now pushing for a bike lane in Chinatown. But Chinatown community groups don’t want it, and say the idea “just doesn’t make sense.”
SF Politics SF Mayoral Candidates Keep Wanting to Be Seen Around Firefighters, Fire Department Reportedly Getting Sick of It All five major candidates running for Mayor of San Francisco are putting on a full-court press chasing the SF firefighters’ union endorsement, but the candidates’ very frequent visits to local fire departments may be burning their chances of winning brownie points.
SF News In Goodwill Gesture, Gavin Newsom Sending More Than 60 State Police to Republican Convention In the wake of Saturday’s assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Governor Gavin Newsom is sending five dozen Highway Patrol and state police officers to help keep the calm at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
SF Politics Trump Flags Come Out in Lafayette After Assassination Attempt on Trump A small rally covered a Lafayette highway overpass with Trump flags and a small handful of Trump supporters, with Saturday’s attempt on Trump’s life continuing to resonate across the Bay Area.
Business & Tech World’s First Commercial Hydrogen-Powered Ferry Spotted on the Waters of the SF Bay Today A ferry boat fueled entirely by hydrogen and oxygen hit the waters of the Bay Area Friday morning, and the zero-emissions boat will start carrying passengers on July 19, free of charge for the first six months.
SF News Heat Wave in Santa Clara County Now Blamed for 19 Deaths Since July 1 The temperatures have been above 90 degrees pretty much every day of July in Santa Clara County, and the marathon heat wave is believed to be responsible for 19 people dying from the heat there since July 1.
SF News Pac Heights Getting Speed Bumps to Deter Sideshows, Because Yes, There Are Sideshows in Pac Heights A rash of recent sideshows in the tony neighborhood of Pacific Heights has led the city to install speed bumps to prevent the motor mayhem at Divisadero and California streets.
Business & Tech Elon Musk’s Twitter/X Now Looking to Sublease Entire Market Street Headquarters It could be a sign of financial trouble for Musk’s Twitter, and it’s definitely a bad sign for downtown SF’s office space recovery, that the social media company just put all 800,000 square feet of its Ninth and Market headquarters up for sublease.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Grace Cathedral Laser Light Show Begins Again Tonight The FBI has unsealed their criminal complaint against an alleged Berkeley arsonist; we have fascinating new insights into how the neighborhood Dogpatch got its name; and the annual Grace Cathedral laser light show begins again Thursday night.
