SF News Oakland City Council to Decide Whether to Renew Controversial ShotSpotter Gunfire Detection System Several US cities have recently ditched the police surveillance tool ShotSpotter that’s used to detect gunfire, and Oakland could become the latest, as critics say it bogs police down with false-positive notifications.
SF News Report: Some of UCSF Parnassus Was Sweltering With No Air Conditioning During Heatwave Nurses say that a group of patients at the UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus were subjected to torrid indoor temperatures of 98 degrees or more during this past week’s heatwave, as the hospital does not have air conditioning on certain floors.
SF Politics Chronicle Infers That Maybe Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi Aren't All That Cool With Each Other Right Now An exhaustive analysis from the Chronicle wonders if there’s some chilly vibes in the relationship between Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, possibly dating back to Harris beating Pelosi’s friend DA Terence Hallinan in 2003.
Business & Tech SF-Based Weed Delivery Service Eaze, Once Valued at $700 Million, Shutting Down By Year’s End The company that called themselves “the Uber of Weed” is going up in smoke, having blown through $250 million in venture capital but now announcing they’ll likely cease operations on December 31.
SF Politics Elon Musk Jumps Around Like a Cheerleader at Trump Rally, Internet Memesters Have a Field Day The only thing funnier than Elon Musk’s prepubescent jumping at a Donald Trump rally this weekend was a series of jokes made on Musk's own Twitter mocking the awkward antics.
SF News Dramatic Video Shows Oakland Police Rescue Drowning Man From Lake Merritt Channel Bodycam video from the Oakland Police Department shows a high-stakes drowning situation in the Lake Merritt Channel, but officers were able to rescue a man by jumping into the water themselves to pull him ashore.
SF News Gaza Protest In Mission District on Eve of October 7 Anniversary, Manny’s Gets Tagged Hard Again The day before the one-year anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, and the now-year-long response of sustained Israeli counterattacks, a Sunday Mission District protest drew 1,500 people but left the event space Manny’s coated with malicious graffiti.
SF News SF Sheriff’s Office Suspends Pre-Trial Ankle Monitor Program, Claims Courts Are Forcing Them To Suspects awaiting trial in SF will no longer be assigned to home confinement or an ankle monitor, and must proceed directly to jail, because the SF Sheriff’s Office is yanking the ankle monitor program over a legal rift on warrantless searches.
SF Politics Your November Ballot’s Prop 33 Rent Control Measure Could Repeal Costa-Hawkins Statewide California rent control advocates could score one of their biggest wins ever this November 5 if they pass Prop 33, which would legalize rent control across the state, and effectively repeal the 1995 Costa-Hawkins Act.
SF News Daly City Gym Custodian Shot and Killed by Disgruntled Customer Who Followed Him Home A 60-year-old custodian at Daly City’s Fitness 19 gym was followed home and shot by a gym member last Saturday night, and the San Mateo County DA says the whole thing was tied to a dispute over the alleged shooter’s hygiene habits at the gym.
SF News Multiple SFPD Plainclothes Officers Shot at in SoMa, Suspect in Custody Several blocks of Market and Mission streets were roped off Thursday night, after a suspect opened fire on multiple plainclothes officers. No one was hit by any bullets, and the suspect was taken into custody.
SF News Day Around the Bay: That Union Square Jollibee in the Former Payless Is Supposedly Opening This Year SF temperatures baked in the mid-90s for the second day in a row; an SF firefighter will not get jail time for attacking another firefighter with a wrench; and that Jollibee in the former Payless ShoeSource is vowing to open by year’s end.
Arts & Entertainment Popular SF Artist and Oasis Muralist Diego Gomez Brutally Attacked, Placed in Intensive Care SF muralist Diego Gomez, who painted much of The Oasis and is also known as drag personality Trangela Lansbury, is in intensive care after a Monday attack in the Tenderloin left him with multiple facial fractures.
SF Politics Mark Farrell and Ahsha Safai Come Together for Improbable ‘1-2’ Ranked-Choice Alliance In Mayoral Race Some strange bedfellows at opposite ends of the political spectrum have come together in the SF mayor’s race, as moderate Mark Farrell has made a puzzling partnership with Ahsha Safai in hopes of gaming the ranked-choice votes.
SF News SFPD on the Defensive, Releases Bodycam Video of Controversially Physical Hot Dog Vendor Arrest An early September arrest of a hot dog cart vendor at the Embarcadero is still in the news because of the very rough physical tactics used, but the SFPD just released body cam video they claim shows the woman assaulted a city employee, and coerced a little girl to cry.
SF News Those ‘Anti-Sex Work’ Barriers Are Now Coming to Shotwell Street After street bollards and barriers chased the sex work scene off of Capp Street, but merely moved that activity over to Shotwell Street, the SFMTA has voted to bring the barriers to Shotwell Street too.
Business & Tech OpenAI Raises All-Time Record Largest VC Round Ever, But Still Hemorrhaging Money Like Mad Is it a “success” when your company rakes in an all-time record $6.6 billion venture capital round, but expects to lose nearly that same amount of money this year? Welcome to SF’s new AI economy, where OpenAI just raised the largest VC round of all time.
SF News SF Amazon Workers at Bayview Warehouse Vote to Unionize, Ball Now In Amazon’s Court More than 100 workers at Amazon’s Toland Street warehouse in SF’s Bayview District have voted to unionize, though the hard part will be getting Amazon to recognize or negotiate with the union.
SF News Oakland Mother and Five-Year-Old Son Have Been Missing For Nine Days, Police Asking Public’s Help 29-year-old Mikala King, and her five-year-old son King Scott, were last seen in Oakland on September 24. Both have disappeared since, and the Oakland Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating them.
SF News SFMTA Votes to Tow RVs Parked Overnight on Streets If Campers Refuse Offers of Shelter San Francisco's rules targeting people who live in parked RVs on the streets are about to tighten up, as the SF Municipal Transit Agency has approved a law to tow people’s RVs if they refuse an offer of shelter.
Business & Tech Woman In Driverless Waymo Harassed By Bros Wanting Her Phone Number It’s the second incident in two weeks where misbehaving pedestrians effectively held someone hostage in an SF Waymo, as two bros stood in front of the self-driving car and persistently demanded the phone number of the woman riding it.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Today Was the Hottest Day of 2024 in SF, Wednesday Could Be Even Hotter Giants legend Buster Posey was introduced as the team’s new president of operations; there was yet another fire at a troubled Potrero Hill affordable housing complex; and Tuesday was the hottest day of 2024 (so far).
SF News Supervisors Grill SFUSD Superintendent Over $20 Million Unaccounted For In Budget, Which Is Actually More Like $30 Million It was a supervisor-on-superintendent pile-on Tuesday afternoon, as the SF supervisors unloaded on embattled SFUSD superintendent Matt Wayne over a $20 million hole in the special ed budget, which was revealed to be nearly $30 million.
Bay Area Sports ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ Coming to Berkeley Saturday for Big Cal Game The Cal Golden Bears will be in the national spotlight Saturday as ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ will be broadcast live from Berkeley for the first time ever, but if you want to get your sign on TV, you better get there by 6 am.
SF News AG Rob Bonta Sues Humboldt Catholic Hospital for Refusing to Provide Emergency Abortion With Mother’s Life at Risk The state attorney general has filed a lawsuit against Humboldt County's Providence St. Joseph Hospital for refusing to provide an emergency abortion on a night when the mother might have died without one.
