SF News Day Around The Bay: Zynga Dings CEO Mark Pincus, founder of mobile gaming company Zynga, returned as CEO less than a year ago. But as Zynga puts its San Francisco headquarters on the market, he'll be on the job market,
SF News Day Around The Bay: SCOTUS Allows CA Affordable Housing Requirement Rules To Stand In declining to hear a case challenging San Jose's recent ordinance (upheld by a California court last year), which still hasn't taken effect but is similar to San Francisco's, requiring developers of large
SF News Day Around The Bay: Pony Dressed As Unicorn Leads CHP On Chase Here are the new products Apple's expected to launch on March 15. [9 to 5 Mac] Forget Silicon Valley — Madera County has a Unicorn problem of its own. [USA TODAY] Distressed surfer saves
SF News Day Around The Bay: Woman Finds Rare Pearl In Her Dinner A Washington State woman found a rare, gem-quality Quahog purple pearl, valued at $600, in her Italian seafood dinner at Montalcino Ristorante Italiano in Issaquah, WA. [NY Post] Muni wants a new training
SF News Day Around The Bay: Carol Burnett Is Coming To Town! Supervisor Jane Kim and other city leaders are crying foul after it appears that UCSF fired a group of subcontracted, Chinese-speaking janitors who had worked for the hospital for years after they organized
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF's Sexy Circus Could Take Show On The Road Is Park Station’s weed bust program the best use of SFPD resources, [Hoodline] wonders? Three San Jose State students were convicted of misdemeanor battery for bullying a black roommate, putting a bike
SF News Day Around The Bay: E-40's Malt Liquor Will Make You Go Dumb A study claims that black drug dealers in the Tenderloin are arrested more frequently than their white or Latino fellow dealers. [SF Weekly] Bay Area rap legend E-40 has a "craft malt liquor,
SF News Day Around The Bay: 'Sun Of The Underworld,' The Shrimp Boy Story A San Jose Cop can keep his job despite posting anti-protest, anti-Black Lives Matter tweets. [Chron] All Oakland, Alameda, and Berkeley eviction hearings could be moved to Hayward... which isn’t accessible by
SF News Day Around The Bay: Your Amazon Boxes Are Overwhelming The Recycling Center All that online shopping — and attendant delivery packaging — means that San Francisco's Recology recycling center is overwhelmed with an "unsustainable" amount of cardboard boxes. [CBS 5] A UC Berkeley-based group just invented a
SF News Day Around The Bay: Where Is The California Powerball Winner?!? Two winners of that $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot last month have both come forward, but whoever bought the other winning ticket in Chino Hills, California has yet to show their face or
SF News Day Around The Bay: Your Muni Ticket Could Be Getting More Expensive Muni is currently mulling some possible changes, including the price of a bus ticket — fares may go up to $2.50 in 2018. Also, while you probably know it is illegal to not
SF News Day Around The Bay: NIMBYs Freak Out Over Kezar Stadium Soccer Plan Cole Valley and Upper Haight NIMBYs are worried about traffic headaches and roving, drunk soccer fans if and when Kezar Stadium becomes the home of pro soccer team the San Francisco Deltas. [Hoodline]
SF News Day Around The Bay: Silly Pink Bunny Will Rise Again Shortly after an iconic gay travel agency 'Now, Voyager," reopened to fanfare, its owner has passed away. [Hoodline, eBAR] El Tin Tan, a longtime Mexican dive bar on 16th Street, has closed. [Capp
SF News Day Around The Bay: More About The Man Who Drowned Saving His Wife From A Pacifica Sneaker Wave Another pleasant side-effect of the rain: Alamere Falls on the Point Reyes National Seashore has water in it again. [ABC 7] We noted in brief yesterday the tragic story of 61-year-old Larry Moore,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Twitter Stock Hits All-Time Low A report alleges that Airbnb manipulated data regarding New York City hosts with multiple listings immediately prior to handing over information to city regulators in December. Airbnb, for its part, denies what the
SF News Day Around The Bay: Crab Fishermen Catch A Break The percent occupancy of Airbnbs in the Bay Area was actually lower over the Super Bowl than it was at the same time last year. That's likely due to market glut, with everyone
SF News Day Around The Bay: Why The Super Bowl Traffic Nightmare Never Materialized We swear the Super Bowl news will end, probably by week's end. But the [SF Business Times] examines why the carmageddon everyone anticipated in the city on Super Bowl weekend didn't really occur.
SF News Day Around The Bay: SFO Asks Workers To 'Volunteer' For Super Bowl Remember when Muni asked its employees to "volunteer" for Super Bowl-related work on the clock? Well, it turns out the San Francisco International Airport is doing something similar. [SFist] [Examiner] Oh, speaking of
Arts & Entertainment Day Around The Bay: All The Super Bowl News That's Fit To Print During Super Bowl week, 911 dispatchers are working mandatory overtime on an unreliable emergency system that might just have a major crash or glitch. [Examiner, Earlier] The NFL requires that every state and
SF News Day Around The Bay: Drag Queens Deliver Aid To Tent City Fun story: A man by the name of Beezow Doo-doo Zopittybop-bop-bop has been arrested in Washington State. His not-that-funny crime: Allegedly assaulting two police officers at a college. Also, yes, before you ask,
SF News Day Around The Bay: No, Dude, You Can't Rent Your Dorm Room Out On Airbnb An Emerson student in Boston is facing expulsion after he tried to rent out his dorm room via Airbnb. [Guardian] In other higher education news, a student is sick at Santa Clara University
SF News Day Around The Bay: Arrest Rate In Murder Of Whites, Asians Double That Of Blacks, Latinos Arrests were made in 67.1 percent of murder cases where the victim was white or Asian, according to a [Chronicle] study, while it was just 37.1 percent where the victim was
SF News Day Around The Bay: FBI Super Bowl Command Center Is Reading Your Tweets The FBI has a secret command center set up for Super Bowl security, and agents "will be closely monitoring social media." So, you know, watch what you tweet! [Chronicle] BART is now using
SF News Day Around The Bay: The Warriors Arena Shall Be Called The Chase Center JP Morgan Chase "won" the naming rights to the upcoming, albeit delayed, Warriors Arena, and so it will be called The Chase Center, or just The Chase. [KRON 4, Business Times, ABC 7]
SF News Day Around The Bay: Lyft Settles Class Action Suit, Drivers Remain Contractors Lyft just settled a class action lawsuit for $12.25 million. The result: Its drivers won’t be employees. [Wired] Is Apple expanding to San Jose? San Jose sure hopes so. [Business Times]
