SF News Day Around The Bay: Leno's Ellis Act Bill Fails Again Without the votes in the senate committee, Mark Leno’s Elis Act reform bill is back on the shelf. [KQED] Just as it approaches its IPO, Fitbit faces a Jawbone lawsuit that alleges
SF News Day Around The Bay: Warriors Foes Emerge From Shadows Carly Fiorina called the Chinese “unimaginative.” [HuffPo] That group of super-rich anti-Warriors Arena people met with the Chronicle’s editorial board, and C.W. Nevius is not having it. But at least we
SF News Day Around The Bay: Former 49er Ray McDonald Arrested Again In San Jose Uber says disability laws don’t apply to them because they’re a tech company, not a transit one. But why stop there? Companies pay taxes, so soon Uber may claim to be
SF News Day Around The Bay: Rapper And Warriors Fan Lil B Puts Feared Curse On Rockets Bay Area rapper and Twitter thought leader Lil B aka The Based God has put what is known as The Lil B Curse on the Rockets James Harden for allegedly stealing his dance
SF News Day Around The Bay: Faulty Manufacturing Blamed For Broken BART Rail Following a threat of a lawsuit, the Haight Street McDonalds gets rent-a-cops. [Hoodline] BART blames a manufacturing defect, hydrogen bubbles in fact, for the piece of rail that broke the other week. [CBS
SF News Day Around The Bay: Inside A Stolen Bike Chop Shop Minimum-wage workers need two roommates to afford a San Francisco apartment. [Marketwatch] Farewell, Ratter, we hardly knew you. [re/code] Band "Fat White Family" had its gear stolen in San Francisco on Sunday
SF News Day Around The Bay: Third Dead Whale Washes Up A third whale carcass has washed up. [ABC7] Charts from Paragon show how astronomical home sale prices are in formerly affordable neighborhoods. [SFGate] Alice Waters is angered by how everyone now says ”farm-to-table.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Tech VCs Start To Take Pot Seriously Variety critic says Pixar’s Inside Out is "the greatest idea the toon studio has ever had." [Variety] The [Chron] just did a “special report” on SF school desegregation. Sausalito tries to make
SF News Day Around The Bay: Actual Elevator Pitch Ok, I love this-- VC firm General Catalyst has an elevator pitch room-- in an elevator. Clever. @GCVP pic.twitter.com/9fzSbU50dL— Foundersuite (@Foundersuite) May 14, 2015 The VC firm behind Snapchat and
SF News Day Around The Bay: Banning Left Turns On Divis? Remember Jelly, the San Francisco startup founded by Biz Stone after he left Twitter? It's dead now. [Chron] In sad news, local glitter artist Rene Garcia died of natural causes at age 41,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Warriors Arena Getting 'Fast-Tracked' The latest on the Warriors Arena, whose process Governor Brown is speeding along. [Chron] The owner of a 24th Street corner store has been accused of trying to evict an elderly tenant. [Uptown
SF News Day Around The Bay: A Little Bit More Rain On The Way LGBT groups are planning a big "real names" demonstration at Facebook HQ on June 1. [Daily Dot] And, in related news, a local woman whose legal name is Tru Love was booted from
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF's Black Population Among Lowest Of US Cities The Hapa Ramen scandal, now as fully explained as it probably will or need be. [Eater] A judge ruled against Google lawyer and infamous Mission evictor Jack Halperin. [Mission Local] Here are renderings
SF News Day Around The Bay: Watch Out For The 420 Games Like they did during the drought in the 70s, state officials began building an emergency, 40-foot-tall, $40 million rock wall to prevent saltwater intrusion into the Sacramento River Delta. [Chron] The 420 Games
SF News Day Around The Bay: Could Narrower Streets Solve SF Housing Crisis? Smash-and-grab season continues, and this time one was caught on video. [KRON 4] Some more details and figures for the “floor plan,” and timing of the massive Pier 70 development. [Socketsite] A man
SF News Day Around The Bay: More Layoffs At Zynga We may be in for some thunder and lightning with the storm that's passing through Thursday. [CBS 5] Zynga is having more layoffs, getting out of the sports game category, getting rid of
SF News Day Around The Bay: What Did Mark Twain Really Think Of SF? The last thing Silicon Valley needs is a Hollywood-like “Silicon Valley” sign, and yet... [Chron] [SFmag]. You can buy Steve Jobs’ old business cards, if you're inclined to pay thousands for them. [SFGate]
SF News Day Around The Bay: Inside The Miss Russian SF Contest Jonathan Kauffman penned a piece about why upscale vegan spot Millennium leaving SF matters (even though they're just moving to Oakland). [Inside Scoop] The Chron's Tony Bravo attended that Miss Russian pageant at
SF News Day Around The Bay: Alleged Mrs. Doubtfire Arsonist Is Representing Herself Is a new tech co-working hub in Chinatown violating city law? [Ex] Tesla has introduced a fascinating new solar battery. [Consumerist] Starbucks’ bottled water plant in Merced draws drought-focused criticism. [Business Times] Now
SF News Day Around The Bay: Twitter's Demise Predicted A look back at the victims of the San Francisco riots. [Huffington Post] The median incomes of California cities, ranked. [SocketSite] Corrupt SFPD officer/racist texter expected to surrender to authorities, head off
SF News Day Around The Bay: Those Water Usage Fines Might Hit $10,000 The SFPD cites eight times as many black people as they do white people for resisting arrest. [Chron] An iPad app used by pilots in all American Airlines cockpits malfunctioned Tuesday causing widespread
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF Woman Trapped On Everest The above photo of San Francisco was taken from space and tweeted by astronaut Scott Kelly. [Twitter] Peter Ragone is back! The former communications director for then-mayor Gavin Newsom became a figure of
SF News Day Around The Bay: Which Supes Agreed To Ride Muni? You know how the Transit Riders Union issued that challenge to the Supervisors and the Mayor to ride Muni to work at least 22 days in June? Well, seven of them signed on,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Bay Area Binge Drinking Shoots Up The cello stolen from a Union Square garage was left at a Great Avenue bar by a mysterious person who told the barkeep to give it to the cops. [SF Examiner] As if
SF News Day Around The Bay: An End To Homeless Veterans A Fillmore Safeway security guard injured an alleged shoplifter during an altercation. [Chronicle] This reprehensible Stanford PhD student was just sentenced for beating his girlfriend so horribly that she was disfigured. [Kron4] Barry
