SF News Day Around The Bay: Cab Drivers Can't Smoke Medical Weed Tech stocks got killed today, like bad. [Business Times] Here is a tweetstorm prophecy regarding bubble-popping. [Re/code] Hackers menace tourists’ cell phones. [KRON 4] Cab drivers are not allowed to use medical
SF News Day Around The Bay: Another High-Speed Chase Ends In A Crash A woman spotted weaving in a silver Infinity in the East Bay took off at speeds up to 120 miles per hour and led CHP officers on a 3 a.m. chase from
SF News Day Around The Bay: Caltrans Would Like To Blow Up The Old Bay Bridge Span, Thanks Caltrans wants to blow up the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge, please. [KRON4] [CBS SF] First Republic Bank says they won’t offer mortgage financing to Ellis Act evictors. [Business Times]
SF News Day Around The Bay: Regarding The Housing Bubble, And How It Is Really A Bubble Is California having an earthquake "swarm"? (Probably not.) [Wired] Yesterday’s quake damaged water mains across the East Bay. [SF Appeal] San Jose police have issued a message to the third suspect in
SF News Day Around The Bay: Will The IRS Tax 'Free' Office Lunch? The IRS is inching closer to possibly taxing workers for free meals provided, on-site, by their companies, just as they’ve been threatening to do for a while. [Business Times] More on the
SF News Day Around The Bay: Barry Bonds Becomes Passionate Bicyclist Comcast, one of the most hatable companies in the world, is about to "launch a major video platform called Watchable to rival Facebook and Google." Good luck with that. [Business Insider] Here's a
SF News Day Around The Bay: Jerusalem Fire Now 23,500 Acres Apple has removed racist ringtones after the Chronicle contacted them about this weird loophole. [Chron] Get ready for mammoth Twitter DMs: They have arrived. [Wired] This $6,500 one bedroom Duboce Park “penthouse”
SF News Day Around The Bay: Don't Pass Cable Cars! Two cable car operators were hit earlier this year. And now @sfmta_muni is working to make the iconic job safer. http://t.co/p77rsOaDHW— KQED News (@KQEDnews) August 12, 2015 Following on
SF News Day Around The Bay: Cyclists To Protest Tonight's SFPD Meeting Rapper and thought leader Lil B switches allegiance from Hillary to Bernie. [KRON 4] One SoMa startup is pitching its “misty” shower as a water-saving tool, but it certainly isn't money-saving (it's very
SF News Day Around The Bay: Outside Lands Wristband Scalper Robbed At Gunpoint Mid-Market, around Van Ness, is going to get awfully crowded with tall buildings. [Socketsite] A kid who was (illegally) selling Outside Lands wristbands on Craigslist got briefly kidnapped and robbed at gunpoint of
SF News Day Around The Bay: Trans SF Singer Tells 'American Idol' Off According to the [East Bay Express], that smartphone app BART created for riders to report bad behavior is instead being used to racially profile people. Today is Shrimp Boy/Ed Lee news: HRC
SF News Day Around The Bay: Nordstrom Rack Attacker Gets Jail Time 27-year-old Terrie Vaiasaga Elzie who pleaded no contest to felony assault in that Nordstrom Rack beatdown of that hipster girl who told her to quiet her child is getting four months in jail.
SF News Day Around The Bay: BART Denies Environmental Group's Asbestos Claims Got some Bitcoin? Spend it in the Mission. [Capp Street Crapp] We now learn that the latest Pacifica whale to wash up dead was struck by a ship and has now been towed
SF News Day Around the Bay: Every Bay Area UFO Sighting, Mapped Female engineer used in BART ads recruiting for her company spurs #iLookLikeAnEngineer campaign. [Medium] Mapping every Bay Area UFO sighting since 1905. [Curbed] Facebook now claims it’s streaming more video than YouTube.
SF News Day Around The Bay: CalFire Using 'Heli-Torch' To Stem Rocky Fire The jail inmates forced into fighting are now suing SF. [CBS SF] Caltrans might have picked the wrong experts to take a look at the problems with the Bay Bridge’s rods. [Chron]
SF News Day Around The Bay: Muni's E Line Rolls Up The Embarcadero Reminder! Muni is shutting down the underground Metro at 9:30 or 10 p.m. starting tonight. Also there is no BART service Saturday or Sunday between West Oakland and Embarcadero Stations. [BART]
SF News Day Around The Bay: Richmond Rent Control Ordinance Stalls Richmond’s rent control ordinance has stalled. [Chron] Bay Area income inequality exceeds national levels. [CBS SF] Alameda County doesn’t want to play landlord to the Raiders and A’s anymore. [Chron]
SF News Day Around The Bay: Both Twitter And Yelp Are In Trouble Twitter has stopped growing its monthly active user base, and execs admit that they don't anticipate new growth until reaching a "mass market" which could take a "significant amount of town." Also, they're
SF News Day Around The Bay: Native American Tribes Band Together With Forest Service To Preserve Water The Old Way Los Altos residents need to boil their water after E. coli was discovered in their supply. [ABC7] Sinbad's is in court to fight their eviction this week. [Chron] Local doctors appear to be
SF News Day Around The Bay: Updates On Three Wildfires Still Raging The Wragg Fire near Lake Berryessa, which we talked about last week, remains at 6,591 acres as of early Monday and is 70 percent contained. Further north and east, the Lowell Fire
SF News Day Around The Bay: SFPD Lurks On Instagram Apple is throwing its weight behind The Equality Act of 2015, a sweeping piece of legislation introduced Thursday to outlaw discrimination against LGBT people under federal law. [Wired] After 35 years in business
SF News Day Around The Bay: Bowling Alley Still Up For Grabs! Remember that old Oakland bowling alley we told you about a couple weeks ago that was on the market and a sale was pending? It fell through. [SF Mag] There's a battle being
SF News Day Around The Bay: Hayward Cop Shot And Killed During Traffic Stop San Francisco wants luxury condo developments and private universities to pay for Muni upgrades. [Business Times] Supervisor Farrell proposes reforms following the Pier 14 murder of Kathryn Steinle, says Fox News and Donald
SF News Day Around The Bay: MTV's <em>Real World</em> Casting Comes To SF Again Apple's financials didn't turn out so bad, with profit up 38 percent, but their stock price still slipped in after-hours trading. [NYT] The Real World, which apparently will never end on MTV, is
SF News Day Around The Bay: Russian Billionaire Gives Berkeley $100 Million In Search For Extraterrestrial Life A judge has ruled that CA taxi companies can sue Uber for false advertising. [Chron] A permitting issue at the Castro Starbucks has led to the removal of outdoor seating. [Hoodline] An argument