SF News Fire at SoMa Apartment High-Rise Leaves Hundreds Without Running Water or Electricity A Wednesday fire at the 40-story Paramount apartment tower at Mission and Third streets has left hundreds of tenants without electricity or running water, and very limited elevator service to navigate the building’s dozens of floors.
SF News San Leandro Police Chief Steps Down Amidst Investigation, So He Likely Won’t Be Oakland Police Chief San Leandro's chief of police Abdul Pridgen was already on administrative leave over some undisclosed, alleged violations of department policies. That made him an odd candidate for Oakland Police Chief, and now he’s officially gone from the San Leandro job.
SF Politics New Poll Shows Mark Farrell Beating London Breed in First-Choice Vote, and Breed Trailing In Ranked-Choice The first poll conducted since Mark Farrell jumped into the SF mayor’s race shows him edging London Breed slightly in first-choice votes, while Daniel Lurie does the best in second-choice votes, and there are generally low approval ratings for Breed.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom on a Blitz Pushing Prop 1, a Statewide $6.4B Mental Health Bond Remember Gavin’s Newsom’s old “Care Not Cash” phrase? He’s dusting off that rhetoric with the new phrase “Treatment Not Tents,” in hopes of pushing California voters to pass his $6.38 billion mental health bond.
SF News Long-Stalled Plan to Build Affordable Housing on Top of Chinatown’s New Asia Restaurant Back in the Works A 2017 idea to build a large affordable housing complex on top of New Asia restaurant in Chinatown has just been rebooted, and the plan would convert New Asia back into the banquet hall it used to be.
SF News SFMTA Takes No Action on Changing Valencia Bike Lane, Despite Its Ongoing Controversies Despite a new lawsuit and a claim that SFMTA might move the Valencia Street bike lane back to the curbside, the agency’s board made no changes to the controversial bike lane at Tuesday’s meeting.
SF News Guy In ‘White Power’ T-Shirt With Swastika Tries to Hijack Walnut Creek City Council Meeting With Antisemitic Rant Walnut Creek is one of many cities that ended remote public comment because of racist Zoombombs, so one of the racist Zoombombers showed up in person at Tuesday’s meeting in hopes of blaming it all on Jewish people.
Business & Tech Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin Hit With Wrongful-Death Lawsuit Over Fatal 2023 Plane Crash A private plane belonging to Google co-founder Sergey Brin crashed off Half Moon Bay last year, killing both pilots onboard, and one pilot’s widow is now suing Brin and Google for allegedly making improper modifications to the plane and obstructing the crash investigation.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tech CEOs Who Left SF Are Curiously Moving Back to SF Apple has officially debunked the idea that you should put a water-damaged iPhone in a bag of rice; some anti-Israeli graffiti has turned up at Lake Merritt; and plenty of tech bros who made a big deal of leaving SF are now moving back to SF.
SF Politics New Poll Shows Steve Garvey In Second Place In Senate Race, Which Is Bad News for Katie Porter and Barbara Lee A brand new poll shows a very definite top two in the upcoming top-two primary for Dianne Feinstein’s former Senate seat, with Adam Schiff well in the lead, but Republican Steve Garvey solidly in second place, which is trouble for Katie Porter and Barbara Lee.
SF News The Drive-Thru ATM at Diamond Heights Plaza is Gone, Because Someone Tried to Steal It A recent attempt to rip the ATM out of the parking lot at the Diamond Heights Safeway was unsuccessful, but the thieves damaged the machine so badly it had to be removed. Yet Bank of America insists they will replace the ATM.
SF News Yet Another Gaza Protest Shuts Down Major SF Financial District Intersection After pro-Palestine protesters briefly blocked an SF Central Freeway onramp Monday afternoon, the protesters were back at it Tuesday morning, shutting down an intersection at Market and Montgomery streets.
SF News Three California Lawmakers Introduce New Tough-on-Retail-Crime Bill Aimed at Smash-and-Grab Thefts There’s a flurry of new proposed California legislative bills that would chip away at Prop 47, including one intended to lock up people identified as “professional retail thieves.”
Bay Area Sports Giants Bring Back ‘The Panda’ Pablo Sandoval For Now the Third Time Do you still have your Pablo Sandoval “panda hat” from ten years ago? You may be able to put it to good use, as the Giants have just re-signed Sandoval to a minor-league contract, though with no guarantees he’ll play again in the big leagues.
SF News Library Patrons Gone Wild: Antioch Library Temporarily Closes After Reports of Sex, Drugs, Car Break-Ins The Antioch Public Library was temporarily closed this weekend after reports of on-site drug use and sex, plus the discovery of pools of blood and bullet casings, though the library is expected to reopen Tuesday with beefed-up security.
SF News Storms Cause Highway 84 in Alameda County to Just Crack Open and Fall Into Creek There’s only one lane open on State Route 84 a.k.a. Niles Canyon Road west of Sunol, because part of the other lane has simply broken off and fallen into Alameda Creek.
SF News Well-Known Oakland Auto Repair Shop Owner Shot and Killed in His Own Store A 68-year-old Oakland auto repair shop owner, who once worked alongside Cesar Chavez in the United Farm Workers movement, was on the verge of retirement. But he was shot and killed in his shop, ending that dream.
SF News Concord Is On Track to Get Rent Control, More Bay Area Cities May Follow Rent control is going beyond Oakland and San Francisco, as Concord is on the verge of implementing it, and a handful of other Bay Area cities also have rent control ballot measures in the works.
SF Politics Wealthy Donors Funneling a Fortune to Make Prop. 1 Ads That Are Basically Just Brooke Jenkins Ads The latest political campaign money end-around is setting up a state-level committee to prop up local DA Brooke Jenkins, and slather her face and name all over ads for next month’s statewide Proposition 1.
SF News SFMTA Claims New Valencia Bike Lane Is Safer, But They Might Bow to Pressure and Redesign It Anyway If you believe the SFMTA, the new Valencia Street center bike lane has been a smashing success. But businesses say it has smashed their revenues, and some bicyclists say it’s uniquely dangerous, so SFMTA is considering redesigning the whole thing.
SF News Scott Wiener Introduces Bill to Halt Environmental Reviews In Downtown SF for 10 Years As downtown San Francisco still has a glut of unused office space, state Senator Scott Wiener says he’s pushing legislation for a decade-long elimination of the environmental review mandate known as CEQA from downtown projects, in hopes of spurring conversion to uses like housing.
SF News Trash and Debris Showing Up Again On SF Beaches, As It Often Does After Rainstorms Fort Funston and Ocean Beach are once again strewn with litter and debris, as rainstorms have a way of drifting white bags and single-use plastics onto the shores near the Pacific Ocean.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose’s Raging Waters Waterslide Park Likely to Reopen This Summer Santa Clara-based Nvidia just became the nation’s third most valuable company; former supervisor John Avalos is in hot water over a provocative tweet; and San Jose’s shuttered Raging Waters park will probably reopen under new ownership this summer.
Bay Area Sports The Giants Are Dumping That GM Cruise Patch on Their Uniforms That Fans Hated Here’s one reason to get excited for Giants baseball after the free agency flops in the offseason — the team won’t be wearing that cursed Cruise patch on their uniforms this year.
SF News State Raid of Richmond Home Turns Up Tons of Guns, a Million Rounds of Ammo The California Bureau of Firearms raided a home in the East Bay city of Richmond, and arrested a man for having nearly 250 guns and a million rounds of ammunition. And for good measure, the fellow had already been prohibited from owning weapons.
