morning links

* Merl Reagle, a beloved crossword puzzle maker whose work anchored the magazine of the San Francisco Examiner and later the [SF Chronicle], has died. * Beware: Bay Area condo values are slipping slightly, [SocketSite]

* ICYMI this weekend: Two NorCal guys are getting the hero treatment in France, a tagger gets sued by the city, remembering the 50th anniversary of the Giants/Dodgers brawl, a San Jose cat

* The [SF Chronicle] takes a walk with a woman who calls the cops any time she sees a struggling homeless person (and the Coalition on Homelessness thinks it's great). [Update: Jennifer

* SF cop and cancer patient have breakdance battle. [KRON4] * SF employment numbers hit a record high. [SocketSite] * Is being a developer in SF like being a victim of the Nazis? [San Francisco Magazine]

* [BART] is fixing up some of its elevators. * SFPD captain who led a bike crackdown goes on a big bike ride. [ABC7] * Why former SF 49er Chris Borland doesn't trust the

* Robin Williams' children are asking a judge to toss out a claim made by the late actor’s wife, saying she’s trying to increase her share of his estate at their

* [Google]'s made a wifi router [Associated Press] [Wired], but they won't be making a do-it-yourself smartphone [SF Chronicle]. * Former SF Chronicle president Joanne Bradford has had a

* [Uptown Almanac] tracked a Dolores Park ranger to see what it is they're fighting for. * Citing the case of a landlord who went the extra mile to kick out a martial

* Your weekend ICYMI: Three CHP officers arrested in a NorCal murder, remembering the Castro's Anastasia, wildfires make for a smoky SF, an SF judge denied the right to die, Cal gets

* Are you Sparing the Air today? [KRON4] * Tech's move into mid-Market makes for a massive income gap there and in the Tenderloin. [New York Times] * The family of a woman

* UberX can legitimately pick up, drop off Oakland Airport passengers now. [Bay City News] * Two of SF's 32 new cops have almost everything in common. [KRON4] * Let the world know you&

* "The average [San Francisco] renter is paying nearly 47 percent of his or her monthly income on rent in the second quarter of 2015." [KRON4] * Why the logarithmic scale for earthquakes

* An SF State prof was part of a team that discovered a new planet orbiting around two stars as part of NASA’s Kepler Mission. [Bay City News] * Mods of Reddit's

* Stanley talks to some cyclists. [KRON4] * Expect confused drivers on/near Market Street, since most GPS systems won't reflect the new ban on turns onto the street. [Bay City News] * Farewell,

* Your weekend ICYMI: CA probably won't pay for a transgender inmate's surgery, Fantastic Negrito's Outside Lands show was canceled after his intern was busted for scalping, there

* A firefighter battling a wildfire near Lake Tahoe was killed when a burning tree collapsed. [KRON4] * SF's planning commission gears up for the first vote on a huge SoMa development. [SF

* Here's how the new Parkmerced development's going to look. [SF Business Times] * The SF Art Institute just found a bunch of frescoes from the 30s. [SF Chronicle] * The oldest

* The SFPD officers who shot Alex Nieto have been cleared. [Bay City News] * The family and some friends of Kate Steinle gathered in SF last night. [KRON4] * In "several weeks" a

* Ed Lee is hosting a breakfast reception for Hillary Clinton this morning. [ABC7] * 200 kids who got their start in an SF youth violence prevention organization have graduated from college. [KQED] * Two SF

* A beloved 7-year-old service dog who helped young patients at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital for five years died Monday. [KRON4] * A traffic stop near McLaren Park led SFPD to guns,

* [MyNorthwest.com] appears aghast at the actions of some SF cyclists. * “I have friends who don’t walk down Valencia street because they don’t recognize it anymore." [Mission Local] * Jacksonville and

* Your weekend ICYMI: There's an unauthorized Steve Jobs documentary, there was a refinery fire in Rodeo, a shoplifter went down hard at Bloomingdales, another dead whale washed up in Pacifica, and

* It took less than a half-hour into the San Francisco 49ers’ first practice Saturday night for the Levi’s Stadium sod to come up in pieces. [KRON4] * I will never get tired

* The suspect arrested in San Francisco's first domestic violence homicide of 2015 pleads not guilty. [Bay City News] * The San Francisco Fire Department got an $8.2 million federal grant so