SF Politics In Typical Fashion, Trump Now Spreading Lies About the California Vote Count In 2024 Trump naturally doesn't like anyone to point out the margin by which he won the 2024 election, which was very small, and now he's trying to blame the vote count in California.
SF News As Water Levels Rise, NorCal's Largest Dams Put Spillways Into Action The two largest reservoirs in California, Shasta Lake and Lake Oroville, have been nearing capacity in recent weeks, and so their giant spillways are back in use, releasing millions of gallons of water.
SF News Muni Is Free This Weekend, Because SF Really Doesn’t Want You Driving During NBA and Chinese New Year Events The blockbuster combination of both the NBA All-Star Game and the Lunar New Year Parade in SF this weekend has SFMTA making Muni free on Saturday and Sunday to limit traffic gridlock, and the little-used Chinatown Subway and T-Third will be in the spotlight.
SF News Evacuation Order Issued In Santa Cruz and More Impacts From the Latest Rain Flood Advisories have been issued for western Sonoma County, San Francisco, San Jose, and the Big Sur coast, and the rising San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz has led to the evacuation of the Felton Grove area.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: RFK Jr. Is Our New Health Secretary A rescue crew came to the aid of a driver who went off a road on Mt. Hamilton; the PG&E contractor shot on Wednesday in SF was shot in the leg; and, insanely, the Senate has confirmed RFK Jr. as our new Health Secretary.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Teslas In Humboldt County Get Anti-Nazi Flyers Put On Them Tesla owners in Arcata have been receiving some vaguely threatening flyers; BART says it is prepared for All Star Game Weekend and Chinese New Year Parade crowds; and the Burke Williams Day Spa is now leaving the SF Centre mall.
SF News Two Women Charged For Sunday Crash Into Napper Tandy Parklet on 24th The two women who were in the allegedly stolen SUV that crashed into the Napper Tandy's parklet in the Mission District on Super Bowl Sunday, injuring seven people, have now been charged.
SF News Visitacion Valley Shooting Leaves One Injured, and It May Have Been a PG&E Contractor A shooting just before 1 pm some two blocks from McLaren Bike Park in Visitacion Valley has left one person hospitalized, and PG&E is saying that the victim may have been one of their contractors.
Arts & Entertainment A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Parlor Pops Up, and More Excitement On Powell Street For All-Star Game Weekend The usually beleaguered, largely vacant first couple blocks of Powell Street will suddenly come back to life this weekend, as all of Union Square becomes a hub of activity linked to the All-Star Game, which is being played Sunday at the Chase Center.
SF News Unhoused Fairfax Woman Delays Clearing of Her Own Encampment With Lawsuit; Fremont Passes Strict New Ordinance Two Bay Area cities are going in different directions in battling encampments, as a Fairfax woman just won a delay on the clearing of her own encampment, while Fremont just passed a law that activists fear could illegalize handing cash or food to the homeless.
Arts & Entertainment Two Transit Nerds Embark on Nine-County Odyssey to Ride All 24 Clipper Card Transit Services In 24 Hours These two youngsters with a big appetite for Bay Area public transit took on the task of seeing if they could ride all 24 Clipper Card-using transit agencies within a 24-hour period, and actually pulled it off by a hair.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Still Says She's Innocent, Gives Prison Interview to 'People' Magazine Convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes still maintains her innocence, and apparently she saw a reason to give an interview to People Magazine that's out this week, trying to un-tarnish her reputation, or something.
SF News Felon on Parole Allegedly Carrying Meth For Sale Leads Police on Chase, Tries to Hide In East Bay Casino A man fleeing from Vallejo police last weekend led the cops on a multi-county pursuit into the East Bay, where he reportedly ran into a casino in San Pablo in an attempt to escape from arrest.
Business & Tech Lyft Claims It Will Launch Self-Driving Cars Next Year, Though Only in Dallas Eight years after Lyft’s first claim that they would have self-driving cars, the rideshare company just made their latest declaration that these robotaxis are right around the corner, with “right around the corner” meaning “next year,” and only in Dallas.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Man Held In Fatal East Bay Crash A 36-year-old man is on a mental health hold after allegedly killing a woman with his car Monday in Hayward; conservationists fight a development plan on San Bruno Mountain; and the rain is moving in today after 4 pm but will be heaviest overnight.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Patti Smith Returning to Bay Area for 50th Anniversary of ‘Horses’ Tour A SFPD officer was slashed with a piece of broken glass during a SoMa arrest; a red-faced Shopify quickly removed Kanye’s swastika t-shirt site; and Patti Smith is playing both SF and Oakland for the 50th anniversary of her album ‘Horses.’
SF Politics DA Jenkins Taking Heat for Again Blaming Judges for Things She Used to Blame on Chesa Boudin SF DA Brooke Jenkins took to Twitter to name and shame an SF judge who did not hand down the sentence that she wanted, though this has brought death threats against judges in the past, and maybe her office could have just argued their case better.
SF News Fake Flyers Falsely Claim ICE Raids in SF, But Feds Go After KCBS for Accurately Reporting Agents’ San Jose Location While the undated flyers claiming ICE raids are happening in SF “tomorrow” have been debunked, a real January 26 report on ICE agents’ location in San Jose has brought an investigation from Trump’s FCC.
SF News SF Supervisor Jackie Fielder Asks SFPD For Answers About Chase That Led to Sunday's Crash One new SF supervisor is pressing the SFPD for answers about the latest example that left seven people injured.
SF Politics Biden's Medicaid Chief Daniel Tsai Appointed to Lead SF's Department of Public Health Seeking refuge from the current Trump era in Washington, a former Biden administration health official has just landed a job in SF's Lurie administration.
SF News Judge Blocks Trump’s Medical Research Funding Cuts, After California and 21 Other States Sue While the case is not fully decided, a pair of lawsuits has for now halted Trump's attempt to block tens of billions of dollars of life-saving medical research funding provided by the National Institutes of Health, and California played a role.
SF News BART Says 'Fiscal Cliff' Is Coming Next Year, and They Obviously Won't See More Federal Funding A day after BART was touting rising ridership numbers and a drop in crime, the transit agency is warning the public that its much discussed "fiscal cliff" is set to arrive in 2026, absent new funding sources.
SF News Suspect In Vallejo Murder Distances Himself From 'Zizian' Cult, Suggests He Is Primarily Motivated By Veganism It may not get us any further in understanding actual motive in the case of a January murder in Vallejo, but we now have an extended statement from the suspect in the case.
SF News SF Pride Looking to Bolster Security for 2025 Celebration, Anticipating ‘More Threats’ as Hate Speech Rises The first SF Pride of the Trump 2.0 era is planning for a bigger potential threat vector from far-right hate actors, amidst policy attacks on the LGBTQ community and an emboldened sense of entitlement from those engaging in political violence.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: More Flu Deaths Than COVID Deaths This Winter In CA The rain will arrive a little earlier than previously forecast this week, starting late Tuesday night; more people have died from the flu than from COVID in CA for the first time since 2020; and Trump is looking to destroy The Kennedy Center now.
