SF News Trump Military Accident In San Diego Manages to Hit Highway Patrol With Artillery Shrapnel Yes, there were “live weapons over the freeway” on I-5 near San Diego Saturday for a JD Vance and Pete Hegseth party, but the show had to be called off early, as the artillery blew off prematurely and pelted CHP vehicles with shrapnel.
SF News BART Turning to ‘Community-Driven’ Workshops In Latest Attempt to Clean Up 16th and Mission As pretty much every attempt to reduce blight around the 16th and Mission BART station has failed, BART is now floating the idea of a “community-driven process” of meetings and workshops to revitalize the beleaguered station area.
SF News Castro Dispensary Owner and Legendary SF Cannabis Activist Terrance Alan Has Died Former Cafe Flore owner Terrance Alan started as a member of the “gay weed mafia” that won medical marijuana legalization in 1996, and co-founded the SF Entertainment Commission, but the Flore Dispensary owner has just passed away at age 73.
Bay Area Sports Banged-Up 49ers Gang Bullies Their Way to 20-10 Win Over Falcons In Big National TV Game With many of the 49ers’ biggest stars out with injuries, running back Christian McCaffrey put the team on his back and racked up 201 yards just by himself, as the Niners pummeled the Falcons for a big 20-10 win.
Arts & Entertainment Taylor Swift Inadvertently Sets Off Frenzy for Monterey Bay Aquarium T-Shirts Taylor Swift donned a vintage Monterey Bay Aquarium t-shirt in her recent theatrical release. The aquarium is now offering that retro t-shirt again, or rather, 16 different versions of the shirt, plus coffee mugs, magnets, and tote bags.
SF News SFPD Royally Pisses Off Other Police Departments With Hiring Billboard Right In Their Parking Lots The SFPD is making no friends among the top brass of other Bay Area police departments, with their LED mobile billboard going right into other departments’ parking lots offering their cops higher pay to jump ship.
SF Politics SF Mayor Taking Heat for Awarding Big-Bucks Contract to Longtime Donors, Against Staff Recommendations Some tough questions are suddenly being asked of the Daniel Lurie administration, after they awarded a contract to a very pricey vendor with connections to Lurie, snubbing a much cheaper and more highly rated competitor.
SF News BART Releases Photos of Woman Wanted in Connection With Stabbing at Daly City Station A man was stabbed about a month ago at 3 pm on a Wednesday afternoon outside the Daly City BART station, and now BART Police are releasing photos of a woman they say is linked to the incident, as they would like a word with her.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Final Sunday Streets of 2025 Is This Weekend Gavin Newsom is promising $11 insulin in California; some November election ballots turned up at a Sacramento homeless encampment; and the last Sunday Streets of the year is this weekend, and it also comes with some renegade parties.
SF News SF Sheriff’s Deputy Fired for Alleged Sexual Assault of Trans Woman in SF County Jail The SF Sheriff’s Office is calling it “sexual misconduct," while the SF Public Defender’s Office says it was a “nonconsensual” sexual assault, but something got a deputy fired for an alleged incident with a trans woman prisoner.
SF Politics DA Jenkins Says If Trump Sends Troops to SF, She’ll Prosecute Them If They Use Excessive Force SF DA Brooke Jenkins sounds a lot like Chesa Boudin in her latest remarks about Trump sending troops to SF, saying she’d prosecute the troops if they use excessive force, though she’s always dismissed those charges against SF cops.
SF News AI Companies Now ‘Disrupting’ SF Rental Market By Giving People Free Apartments, Rent Stipends It will make renters sick that they have to compete with AI sector workers whose cash-flush companies pay their rent for them. It will make renters even sicker to hear those AI companies do this to make their workplaces like “a frat house.”
Business & Tech Potential SF Vanderbilt Campus Could Occupy the Chronicle Building, According to the Chronicle Some intriguing developments in San Francisco’s quest to lure Vanderbilt University to build a satellite campus here in SF, as the Chronicle reports that Vanderbilt might want their own Chronicle building to be part of the campus.
SF News San Jose Garbage Truck Hits and Kills Man Lying In an Alley and Covered in Blankets A man covered in blankets in the back alley of a San Jose strip mall was hit by a garbage truck and killed at about 4 am Thursday morning in San Jose’s Cambrian neighborhood.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Unsurprisingly, Downtown Bar Owners Not Happy That Lurie Is Adding 20 New Liquor Licenses to Union Square The 20 new liquor licenses Mayor Lurie is dropping on Union Square are getting predictable blowback from downtown bar owners, who are still struggling from the pandemic and not particularly keen on having 20 new competitors.
Arts & Entertainment Check Him Out: SF Zoo’s New Male Gorilla Cecil Makes His Public Debut This Weekend After months with no male gorillas in their troop, the San Francisco Zoo is set to introduce a 26-year-old male silverback gorilla named Cecil on Saturday, with high hopes that baby gorillas may soon follow his arrival.
SF News SF Federal Judge Strikes Down Trump’s Mass Firings of Government Workers During Shutdown (For Now, at Least) SF’s US District Judge Susan Illston issued a temporary restraining order on the Trump administration’s attempt to fire thousands of federal workers during the government shutdown, effectively undoing many of those firings.
SF News Another Round of ‘No Kings’ Anti-Trump Protests on Tap for Saturday In the Bay Area and Beyond After June’s ‘No Kings’ protests brought out millions nationwide, the rabble-rousers are having another go at it this Saturday, with more No Kings demonstrations scheduled for SF, Oakland, Berkeley, and other Bay Area municipalities.
SF News Another Oakland CHP Car Chase Ends in Crash, Four Injured, Fire Hydrant Gets Smashed A seven-mile California Highway Patrol chase from the Oakland Coliseum to the Uptown District left four people injured and a fire hydrant spewing a geyser Tuesday night, and the chase only ended when the suspect crashed into the hydrant.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Marc Benioff Continues His Trump Turn, Brings Trump Adviser David Sacks to Dreamforce The South Lake Tahoe mayor who allegedly embezzled from a church has resigned; R&B vocalist D’Angelo has died at the age of only 51; and Dreamforce just had a surprise speech from Trump’s crypto czar and fundraiser David Sacks.
SF Politics Trump Yanks Mark Zuckerberg’s Leash Again, Meta Deletes Page That ICE Didn’t Like Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook content moderation had “gone too far” earlier this year, and promised less censorship. Until his boss man Trump told him to censor a Facebook page that ICE complained about, and Zuck quickly complied.
SF News That Half-Cent Sales Tax To Save Public Transit From ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Will Indeed Be on the November 2026 Ballot Would you pay a half-cent extra in sales tax so BART and Muni don’t have to slash their service? That choice will be before you in November 2026, as a ballot measure was just approved to help Bay Area transit avoid a ‘fiscal cliff.’
SF News Newsom Signs Bill Allowing Immigrant Parents to Name Caretakers for Their Kids If They’re Deported Governor Gavin Newsom just signed a fairly sensible-sounding bill allowing immigrant parents to name a caregiver for their kids in case they are deported. Crazed conservatives are reacting by calling it the “Legalized Child Kidnapping Bill.”
SF News SFO Overwhelmed by Flight-Delay Chaos Right as Dreamforce Kicks Off, Nearly Half of Flights Delayed The ‘perfect storm’ of an actual storm, government shutdown short-handedness, and a deluge of Dreamforce attendees left SFO all higgledy-piggledy on Monday, with thousands of travelers facing flight delays and reroutes.
SF News California Will Indeed Have Reparations for Descendants of Slaves as Newsom Signs Reparations Bill A newly formed Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery will administer reparations in the state of California after Gavin Newsom just approved that bureau’s creation, but there’s still no word on what the reparations will look like.
