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Monday Morning Headlines: Will Newsom Veto Safe-Consumption Site Bill?

Today is the deadline for Gov. Newsom to sign a bill legalizing safe-consumption sites, BART saw delays on Sunday after a person entered the Transbay Tube, and a family of four needed to be rescued in Tahoe National Forest.

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Weekend Palate Cleanser: San Francisco SPCA Is Still Waiving Adoption Fees on Dogs and Cats

Dozens of adult dogs and cats under SF SPCA's care are still in need of their forever homes. Until August 31, those looking to introduce a new fur baby into their lives can do so — without paying any adoption fees.

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How Much Did the Average SF City Employee Make in 2021? Around $127K

During the 2020-2021 fiscal year, thousands of people were employed by San Francisco. The lowest-earning among them made a bit more than $36k during that period, while the highest earner pulled in $602K. But collectively, the average SF City employee earned roughly $127K last year.

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Sunday Links: California Releases First Monkeypox Quarantine Guidelines

CDPH issued isolation practices for those suffering from a symptomatic monkeypox infection this week, two large fires burned in downtown San Jose Saturday, and First Lady Jill Biden is now negative for COVID-19 after testing positive this past Monday.

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SF to Receive 1,600 More Monkeypox Vaccine Units; Clinics Will Switch to Intradermal Injection Technique

San Francisco is expected to get 1,600 more monkeypox vaccines in the next distribution from the federal supply. To get this allotment, clinics will be using a transdermal injection technique, which requires only a fifth of the vaccine dose used in the subcutaneous method.

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Fences at 24th and Mission Have Been Ripped Down, Seemingly by Protesters

Those controversial fences at the 24th and Mission BART station were torn down, apparently Saturday morning, and a protest group is taking credit for holding down the “liberated space.”

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So... a Motorcycle Flew Off the Bay Bridge This Week

The Bay Bridge has doubled as a stage for many odd scenes as of late, including a traffic jam caused by a detached mobile restroom that looked like one of SF's Painted Ladies. And this week, the 4.5-mile bridge saw a motorcycle fly off it, sinking somewhere in the SF Bay.

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Saturday Links: Bay Area Temps to Remain Cool Over the Weekend Until Heating Up Monday Afternoon

Grizzly bears in California have been locally extinct for now almost a century, the Castro's decades-old "The Hope For The World Cure" mural was recently restored, and enjoy this two-day spat of mild weather — because temperatures will grow hotter starting Monday.

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Day Around the Bay: Plan for Bullet Train Line From Central Valley to SF Gets Green-Lit by California

SF's largest Filipino night market will come back in October, East Oakland got a new Black-owned graphic design business, and an extension that would connect a bullet train link between SF and the Central Valley was approved by California’s High-Speed Rail Authority board Thursday.

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Mohammed Nuru Could Face Nine-Year Prison Term As Sentencing Looms Next Week

Disgraced former SF Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru is set to be sentenced next week, and in newly filed court documents, federal prosecutors refer to him as a "quintessential grifter" whose schemes as a city employee amount to a "tale of greed as old as time."

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Woman Allegedly Groped and Punched in Face on BART Near El Cerrito Del Norte Station, Suspect in Custody

A 21-year-old San Francisco man is in custody at the Martinez Detention Facility after a Wednesday incident in which he’s accused of groping a woman on an East Bay BART train — and when she told him to stop, he allegedly punched her several times in the face.

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SFPD Catches Catalytic Converter Thief In the Act, Lets Him Go, Then Gives Him Directions Home

In today’s SF installment of “Police Did Nothing,” police catch an alleged catalytic converter thief red-handed in the Richmond, learn he is on probation for property theft, then kindly dismiss him while giving him directions so he could get home.

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23-Year-Old SF Man Confesses to Shooting Father and Stepmother and Live-Streaming Crime Scene

A 23-year-old man who was arrested last weekend for the double murder of his father and stepmother inside a home in San Francisco's Bayview district has given a jailhouse confession to a local TV station — but says he will plead not guilty to premeditated murder.

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Friday Morning Constitutional: Newsom's Office Threatens to Withhold Funds From Oakland Over Encampment Issues

Two men were wounded in a shooting in Emeryville Friday morning, an Oakland nonprofit's building was damaged by street-racing vehicles crashing into it, and Gov. Gavin Newsom's office sent a scathing letter to the city of Oakland over the handling of the Wood Street encampment.

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Day Around the Bay: Three Dead as Two Planes Collide in Watsonville

Club Deluxe is applying for Legacy Business Status in hopes of avoiding closure, Apple is urging people to update their devices because of a security exploit, and a plane accident in Watsonville has left three people dead.

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Newsom Unveils $4.7 Billion ‘Master Plan’ to Treat Mental Health Among Young People

With a statewide youth suicide rate that’s spiked by 20% during the pandemic, Newsom a announced a new plan Thursday to double the number of school counselors in the state, and add 40,000 more behavioral health professionals.

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Report: An Estimated 20,000 San Franciscans Will Experience Homelessness In 2022

A new addendum to this year’s Homeless Point-In-Time Count paints a much starker picture than we’d realized, as it estimates that an astonishing 20,000 people in San Francisco will experience homelessness at some point this year.

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SF School Board Now Facing Lawsuit Threat Over Vote To Observe Two Muslim Holidays

The same lawyer who previously sued the San Francisco school board and the school district over a decision to rename dozens of city schools is now threatening to sue again, this time over a vote to close schools on two Muslim holy days.

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54-Year-Old Suspect In Potrero Homicide Arrested In Yolo County

A man suspected in an early July homicide in SF's Potrero Hill neighborhood has been located and arrested six weeks later.

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Mushroom- and Weed-Dispensing Church In Oakland Sues Over Police Raid, Confiscated Property

A kooky church in Oakland that believes in the spiritual power of hallucinogens has now filed suit against the city and the Oakland Police Department over a raid two years ago in which police took cash, cannabis, and mushrooms.

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Thursday Morning What's Up: Woman Rescued at Fort Funston After Getting Lost

A 20-year-old woman called 911 and got an SFFD geo-locating rescue at Fort Funston, an Oakland woman was shot multiple times inside her home, and Chronicle critic Soleil Ho pans Little Saint in Healdsburg.

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Day Around the Bay: Body Found Sitting In Chair After Decomposing For Three Years In NorCal Home

The Secret Service apparently withheld information about a threat on Nancy Pelosi's life two days before January 6th, Airbnb is rolling out a new party-rental-detection system, and two local dog owners have been reunited with their stolen pups.

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Now Residents of Flooded 33 Tehama Report Contractors Are Stealing Items From Their Rooms

Displaced tenants of the flooded 33 Tehama say that items are being stolen from their rooms — including, allegedly, $1,500 in stolen checks — as their saga drags on into its third month.

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Tennis Enthusiasts Serve a Lawsuit To Block Sale of SoMa Property That Had Promised Them Tennis Courts

A real estate conglomerate is trying to unload an unfinished property where they’d agreed to rebuild a tennis club they’d previously razed. Now a local tennis group is saying, ‘We’ll see you in court.’

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Activists Win This Round, Development Halted at Berkeley’s People's Park Until October

Tents are already popping back up at People’s Park in Berkeley, and UC Berkeley must submit a legal filing today to prove that other sites were inadequate for a 16-story student housing project that they now can’t start building until October at the earliest.