SF News SF Billionaire's 17-Story Condo Proposal Appears Dead In the Water, Which Partly Explains His Feud With Aaron Peskin SF Standard owner Michael Moritz trashed Supervisor Aaron Peskin in the NY Times yesterday. Today we get some insight into why, as a Telegraph Hill condo project Moritz is backing just had its applications canceled, though mostly because of a missed deadline.
SF Politics Tensions Over Gender Identity Instruction Hit South Bay School District After Pre-K Students Get Lessons In Pronouns A teacher has been placed on leave following complaints from parents at a school board meeting in Cupertino that their four-year-old children were being taught overly complex ideas about gender identity and expression.
SF News San Francisco Has Its Day at the Supreme Court In EPA Case, Conservative Justices Seem to Side With City The City of San Francisco finds itself in an odd position arguing a case before the Supreme Court that seeks to push back on the way the Environmental Protection Agency enforces the Clean Water Act.
SF Politics Sheng Thao Insists She Was Not a Target of FBI Raid in Fiery Chronicle Interview Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao gave an interview to the Chronicle, claiming the FBI has informed her she was not a target in the raid on her home, and insisting that the recall effort against her is 80% funded by one donor who does not even live in Oakland.
SF News Antioch Man Arrested After Mother and Brother Found Dead and Decomposing In Home They Shared Antioch police made a gruesome discovery Wednesday afternoon when they were performing a welfare check at a home near the DeltaFair Shopping Center.
SF News 35 Years Ago Today, the Loma Prieta Earthquake Shook the Bay Area, Took 63 Lives Thursday marks the 35th anniversary of the Loma Prieta Earthquake, which happened on October 17, 1989, amid a World Series that pitted the Bay Area's two baseball teams, the Giants and A's against each other.
SF News Union City Man Found Guilty of 2021 Murder of Trans Drag Artist Natalia Smüt In what appears to be Santa Clara County’s first guilty verdict in a transgender domestic homicide case, a 25-year-old Union City man was convicted of killing then-24-year-old Natalia Smüt Lopez of San Jose.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: New BART Fare Gates Installed at 16th & Mission Bay Area fire departments are setting up "strike teams" to prepare for possible wind-fueled fires; Aaron Peskin shoots back at Michael Moritz's op-ed; and those new BART fare gates have come to 16th & Mission Station.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Stabbing In Castro Leaves One Man Critically Wounded A Tuesday morning stabbing behind the Walgreens in the Castro left a man in critical condition; a good friend of Bob Lee testified at the Nima Momeni trial today; and the SFPD made an arrest in a July homicide at 16th and Mission.
SF News Latest Sean ‘Diddy' Combs Sex Assault Allegations Come From an Incident in Orinda As sexual assault accusations pile up against the now-jailed Sean “Diddy” Combs, the newest of these comes from a woman who says Combs raped her in Orinda in March 2018.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Halloween Will Again Be Tame, Mostly Daytime Affair This Year Halloween falls on a Thursday this year, which in the Castro basically counts as a Friday, but don't expect any big block party or street closure — neither of which has happened in nearly two decades.
SF Politics JD Vance’s Excuse For His ‘I Hate the Police’ Remark Falls Apart Once Reporters Look Into It When the NY Times confronted JD Vance over an old email where Vance said “I hate the police,” Vance claimed he was venting his frustration with SFPD over a car break-in. But the Chronicle found that the break-in happened several months after Vance sent the email.
Business & Tech Hilton Taking Over Mid-Market's Line Hotel After only two years as the boutique Line Hotel, the 12-story hotel portion of the building at 950 Market Street that also houses the Serif condo development is going to become a Hilton property as of December.
SF News Four Suspects Being Sought After Shooting In Mission District A woman is in critical condition following a shooting Tuesday morning in the Mission District, and police are looking for four male suspects.
SF News Three-Day Work Weeks Are Hammering BART Financially, But Muni Just Had Its Highest-Ridership Month In Four Years The BART system continues its ridership dregs due to remote work and persistent three-day work weeks, and it may come begging for a tax increase, but Muni just scored its highest monthly ridership numbers since before the pandemic.
SF Politics Local Billionaire Michael Moritz Pens Another NYT Op-Ed, This Time Attacking Aaron Peskin For the second time in two years, billionaire Silicon Valley investor Michael Moritz has taken to the New York Times Opinion pages to spout off about San Francisco politics, and this time his aim seems to be to ensure no one includes Aaron Peskin on their ranked-choice ballots.
SF News Suspect Arrested After Allegedly Making Threats That Closed Petaluma Schools A 47-year-old man was arrested Tuesday in the South Lake Tahoe area in connection with a threat made on Monday against an elementary school in Petaluma, which led to that school being evacuated.
SF News 14-Year-Old Girl Killed, 11-Year-Old Critically Injured in Richmond Stolen Car Crash Three teens and an 11-year-old were in a stolen Infinity G35 that crashed into two trees and a pole in Richmond early Monday morning, leaving a 14-year-old girl dead, and her 11-year-old sister hospitalized.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Exotic Bird Recovered After East Bay Theft Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao held a rally for opponents of her recall; parents in SF rallied against the proposed closure of a public Montessori school; and one of two exotic birds has been recovered after being stolen from a Concord shop.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Blind People Rally Against Uber and Lyft For Allegedly Denying Them Rides There’s another boozy “entertainment zone” party coming on Halloween; the sister of accused killer Nima Momeni did not end up taking the stand Tuesday; and blind riders rallied to point out alleged discrimination by Uber and Lyft.
Business & Tech Now the Metreon Is Up For Sale Too, In Latest SF Real Estate Shocker Another signature San Francisco mall is up for sale in the Metreon, but in this case, the sale is not being forced by owners surrendering the property to a lender, and the place has a bustling 92% occupancy rate.
SF News In a Political Stunner, Mayor Breed Calls For ‘Immediate Stop’ to SFUSD School Closures, Trashes Superintendent Mayor London Breed cannot stop the San Francisco school closures, but she just lent her muscle and bully pulpit to the cause, suddenly declaring “It is time to immediately stop this school closure process.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Very Large New Sports Bar From PCH Team Coming to Chase Center/Thrive City An enormous, two-level sports bar and entertainment complex is coming to Thrive City at the Chase Center early next year, and it will feature a beverage program from Pacific Cocktail Haven founder Kevin Diedrich.
SF News PG&E Warns of Possible Power Shutoffs For Parts of Five Bay Area Counties Starting Thursday With the announcement of a Red Flag Warning and forecast of a significant Diablo wind event, we now get the inevitable follow-up announcement from PG&E about pre-emptive power shutoffs.
Arts & Entertainment More Creepy Allegations Surface About Coppola’s Behavior on ‘Megalopolis’ Set, Now Accused of Kissing 13-Year-Old Girl The legacy of Francis Ford Coppola’s mega-flop “Megalopolis” may be the number of sexual misconduct allegations Coppola’s on-set behavior has generated, as now we have claims that he kissed a 13-year-old girl.
