SF News Day Around The Bay: The Cool Kids Of TaskRabbit Hipster TaskRabbits don't want to work for the man, so they just gig, receive no health insurance. [BuzzFeed] Google Glass, back by popular demand. [9to5google] Pleasanton police shot a unarmed man. He died
SF News Day Around The Bay: Yelp Sale Stalls UC Berkeley has offered admission to more than 13,300 students for the 2015-16 freshman class. [KRON4] Tank down on Capp Street. [Capp Street Crap] Bryant Street resident awakes to stranger in his
SF News Day Around The Bay: iPhone 6S Details Leaked Zillow now claims that $4252 is SF's median rent, up from $4225, but we know better. [CBS 5] Caught on tape: man walks into Richmond District bike shop, steals thousand-dollar bike, assaults owner.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Uber Term Sheet Shows Company Operating At Heavy Loss Uber reveals to its potential investors that the company generates $470 million in operating losses on $415 million in revenue. They're saying the numbers are old. [Bloomberg] Cal Berkeley is getting sued over
SF News Day Around The Bay: Dolores Park 'Trashed' Over Pride Weekend Trans person who works at Facebook (and even pioneered their agender policy) was banned from the site over the "real names" policy, and says the company's got "a very WASP notion of how
SF News Day Around The Bay: Silicon Valley Saved Marriage Equality [Wired] thanks "the giants of Silicon Valley" for helping make marriage equality happen. OK! 37-year-old man busted for child abduction in SF. [KRON] Facebook is now changing users’ names without their consent, as
SF News Day Around The Bay: This Weekend Will Be Very Trafficky A new proposal would slash stolen car towing fees for auto theft victims in SF. (Under current law, victims have 20 minutes to come claim their car wherever police find it, or pay
SF News Day Around The Bay: Sean Parker Plans To Give Away All His Money The Board of Supervisors narrowly voted to approve an advisory resolution (that is, it’s not enforceable) to hire more police officers after a lengthy argument, [Chron, Examiner] That unruly jerk of a
SF News Day Around The Bay: Black People Are 7.1 Times More Likely To Be Arrested In SF Than White People Watch this artist render code even less scrutable to a mainstream audience in her latest work at Twitter HQ. Qinmin Liu is "the biting Dadaist artist known for trading her kidneys for Apple
SF News Day Around The Bay: Instacart Converts A Bunch Of Its Contractors Into Employees Apparently seeing the direction in which the wind is blowing, Instacart’s converting some independent contractors into part-time employees. CEO Apoorva Mehta acknowledges that the company's best "shoppers" are the ones who are
SF News Day Around The Bay: SFPD’s Racist Texting Scandal Disciplinary Process 'On Hold' Here's a sneak peek of what's to come tonight in celebration of City Hall's 100th birthday http://t.co/SgQTHp6Svu pic.twitter.com/xG7S0ujBXO— Only in SF (@onlyinsf) June 19, 2015 Remember that
SF News Day Around The Bay: Kids Sickened At Antioch Water Park About 40 children are being treated for respiratory ailments related to chemical exposure at an Antioch water park which may just have been related to a leak of excessive chlorine. [ABC 7] Chuck
SF News Day Around The Bay: Giants Say OK To 40% Affordable Housing For the upcoming, 28-acre mixed-use development behind AT&T Park, at Mission Rock, the Giants have now agreed to build an unprecedented 40 percent of the housing units as below-market-rate. [Socketsite] The
SF News Day Around The Bay: The Ancient Ruins Of Candlestick Park A photographer for Deadspin maybe went trespassing and got some amazing photos of what was once known to a local civilization as Candlestick Park. [Deadspin] Misters Matier and Ross of The San Francisco
SF News Day Around The Bay: Pink Party Entertainment Announced In a suspected DUI, a motorcyclist hit and critically injured a cable car operator as the operator was disembarking. [Contra Costa Times] SF General has joined UCSF in no longer offering sugary drinks.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Hetch Hetchy Still 90 Percent Full! Reddit is banning its worst Subreddit communities, such as Fat People Hate. [The Verge] Judge accuses Uber of deceptive practices in ruling that rejects Uber’s bid to keep that case out of
SF News Day Around The Bay: Why Cyclists Matter More Than Everyone A plan to give artists pieces of the old Bay Bridge span will cost toll-payers $2.2 million. [Chron] Today in Clickhole: Poking fun at cyclist politics. [ClickHole] John McCain (yes, that John
SF News Day Around The Bay: Ed Lee Refuses To Fund Body Cameras For SF Jail Sheriffs Facebook was going to build a satellite to provide cheap internet to developing nations but then they gave up on that plan. [Business Insider] In what world is In-N-Out “San Francisco's preeminent fast
SF News Day Around The Bay: Plane Makes Emergency Landing On 101 The FBI will be helping Oakland police solve some the city's unsolved homicides, and this bothers some privacy activists. [Chron] A small plane with four people inside made an emergency landing on Highway
SF News Day Around The Bay: Proposed Ballot Measure Could Call For 30 Month Moratorium Another day, another story about how the Bay Bridge is effed. Now about a quarter of the rods are flooded with corrosive salt water. [Chron] The definitive ranking, with videos, of Barry Bonds’
SF News Day Around The Bay: Warriors Fan Gives In To Filthy Lucre A container of 14 tons of Indian food was turned away at the Port of Oakland last week because it was full of beetles. Picky, picky. [Bay City News] On his company's five-year
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mission Restaurant Moratorium? Who put this swastika on the football field of a South San Francisco school? [KRON4] [San Jose Mercury News] [CBS5] [KTVU] Artists can apply to get some big pieces of the old Bay
SF News Day Around The Bay: Why Is Auto Towing In SF So Expensive? One developer is planning these teeny tiny micro-unit developments for SoMa and the Mission. [Business Times] Jane Kim is opposing the Giants development plans and a measure of hers could be on the
SF News Day Around The Bay: French Laundry Stays In World's Top 50 A new report released Friday breaks down the housing numbers that would be impacted with a Mission development moratorium. [Examiner] Remember the case of Tom Smith, the BART Police officer who was accidentally
SF News Day Around the Bay: Navy Hands Treasure Island To SF Treasure Island trades hands from the US Navy to the City of San Francisco today, a turning point in its development for housing. [Business Times] Homejoy, a cleaning and repairs on demand company,
