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]
SF News Day Around The Bay: 3,000 Limo Drivers Sought To Ferry Around Super Bowl VIP's A company is trying to hire 3,000 limo drivers for the express purpose of driving around Super Bowl 50 VIP's. The firm doing the hiring has been contracted out by the NFL,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Get Even More Paranoid About Super Bowl Terrorism! [BuzzFeed] is still trying to make 'Frisco' happen. [Earlier] As discussed last week, the FBI is gearing up for various kinds of potential terrorist threats during Super Bowl Week. And while there will
SF News Day Around The Bay: Chronicle Tolls Bell For Tech Sector These are the [San Francisco Chronicle's] reasons why “the tech sector should be scared.” In fact, has a bubble already burst, and we just didn't notice? Essex Street? The Caltrain Paint Yard? Those
SF News Day Around The Bay: Rain Blamed For Majority Of Nearly 500 Bay Area Car Crashes In 12 Hours Mayor Lee apparently requested that major taxpayer-funded construction projects be put on hold to ease traffic during Super Bowl 50. [CBS SF] This Portland, Oregon Community College has planned a White History Month
SF News Day Around The Bay: Wave Of Fainting Strikes BART Passengers Well this is a weird one. It seems that three separate passengers fainted on three separate BART trains this morning. One passenger reportedly accepted medical treatment, while the other two refused. [Chronicle] A
SF News Day Around The Bay: How Was Your 'Blue Monday'? Congratulations on making it through the “saddest day of the year,” i.e. Blue Monday, i.e. the second or third Monday in a new year that one psychologist claimed a decade ago
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mission Bay Alliance Delays Opening Of Warriors Arena Until 2019 "We're officially announcing that the arena will open in 2019 rather than 2018 in light of the litigation that the Mission Bay Alliance recently filed," said Warriors team President Welts. The deep-pocketed Alliance
SF News Day Around The Bay: Super Bowl Is Coming For Your Parks With Huge, Light-Up Statues Ten Super Bowl 50 statues are being placed around San Francisco. The 1,600-pound signs are self powered, and light up. One of them was installed in Alamo Square Park, and was vandalized
