Business & Tech Supreme Court Deals Second Blow This Term to Republicans Seeking to Punish Social Media Platforms Over Censorship The Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision Monday tossing two cases back to lower courts, stymieing a Republican-led effort to litigate their feelings about social media platforms' handling of the 2020 election, and of Donald Trump after January 6th.
SF News SF Forced by State to Streamline Housing Approvals After Missing 2023 Production Goals State Senator Scott Wiener’s bill intended to eliminate reviews and challenges to housing proposals has now done just that, as the state just forced San Francisco to streamline approvals and massively speed up housing production.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurants Will Continue Adding Surcharges Following Last-Minute Law Signed Saturday Thanks to an emergency bill that was introduced in early June by the same lawmaker who co-sponsored the law banning "junk fees," an exception was carved out for the California restaurant industry to continue charging those unpopular surcharges.
SF News Possible PG&E Power Shut-Offs Loom in North Bay, East Bay as Major Heat Wave Approaches It’s now officially PG&E power outage season again as the impending heat dome rolls in, with public safety power shutoffs possible this week for eight NorCal counties, including Napa County and Solano County.
SF News [Update] Three Coyotes Shot and Killed After Aggressive Coyote Attacks Child In SF Botanical Garden It's the second time in three years that a coyote has menaced a child in the San Francisco Botanical Garden, and this time the animal bit the child.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: One Dead In Tenderloin Fire One person died in a residential fire in SF's Tenderloin this morning; the Pride Parade on Sunday went off without a hitch; and a major heat dome is forming over NorCal that will bring some record-breaking temps in the coming days.
SF News Pride Sunday Headlines: Dolores Park Filled for Another Dyke March Day Two people were shot in Oakland Saturday evening, one fatally; the Rainbow Family has relocated to another part of Plumas National Forest; and Dyke March did happen, but it was fairly small.
SF News Saturday Headlines: Rainbow Lasers Up Market Even Brighter This Pride Former DBI plan checker just got a year in prison; the big rainbow lasers shining up Market Street this Pride Weekend are even brighter than before; and some deplorable teen tossed out an M100 or similar while dirt-biking past Mayor London Breed and the laser-light switch-on ceremony.
SF News Three 18-Year-Old Suspects Arrested After Alameda Woman Carjacked With Small Children In Car A trio of 18-year-olds allegedly crashed a BMW in San Francisco on Wednesday after carjacking the vehicle from an Alameda woman who had a two-year-old and four-year-old child in the car.
SF News Day Around the Bay: ACLU Vows to Keep Fighting Encampment Sweeps The ACLU says it will keep up its legal battle with SF following the Supreme Court's ruling on homeless encampments; Mayor Sheng Thao has a new lawyer; and Biden visited the site of the Stonewall Riots today as Pride Weekend kicks off.
SF Politics Alleged ‘Straw Donor’ in Sheng Thao Controversy Had His Home Shot At, and Was Allegedly Beaten Up A minor figure in the expanding political storm over the Sheng Thao FBI raid says he’s had some major harassment and violence directed at him, and shots were fired at his home just days before the raid.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 16th Street Queer Bar Mother Makes Bon Appetit’s ‘Best New Bars in the US’ List The Mission District bar Mother, in the former home of Esta Noche, has put itself on the map by making Bon Appetit’s “11 Best New Bars in the US” roundup.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Ginger's Rises Again The FiDi's only gay bar returns, Fiorella expands to Noe Valley, and longtime Mission stalwart Regalito is going to become something new in a matter of months.
SF Politics After Biden’s Debate Train Wreck, Both Newsom and Harris Insist They’re Not Replacing Him With President Joe Biden giving probably the worst debate performance in modern history Thursday night, the two leading “Break glass in case of emergency” candidates, Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom, are both holding firm that they won't step into his spot.
SF News One Lake Merritt Shooting Victim Was a Bystander Allegedly Targeted by Teen Suspect The family of one of the victims in last week's mass shooting event at Lake Merritt is telling a disturbing story that could amount to a hate crime, and this victim was not even a participant in the unsanctioned Juneteenth party that was going on.
SF News High-Speed Rail Now Has Full Environmental Approvals For SF-to-LA Route While still sorely short on funds to actually get built, California's high-speed rail project reached a planning milestone on Thursday, with full approval now secured for a rail line linking San Francisco to Los Angeles.
SF Politics Supreme Court Ruling Could Have Broad Implications for Homeless Encampment Sweeps In California The Supreme Court has, predictably, ruled in favor of the city of Grants Pass, Oregon, weighing in for the first time on the issue of homelessness and how cities and states may legally enforce laws around public camping.
SF News [Update] Castro Mollie Stone’s Reopens After Shutdown Over Rodent Infestation It’s not a Happy Pride for the Castro’s Mollie Stone’s grocery store, as the SF Department of Health shut them down over a rodent infestation Thursday, but the store blames nearby construction and says they’ll reopen Friday afternoon.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Environmental Group Sues Navy Over SF Shipyard Cleanup An environmental group has made good on a legal threat to sue the Navy over the Hunters Point Shipyard cleanup; the Supreme Court has overturned yet another huge precedent with wide-ranging consequences; and several UC Berkeley swimmers are headed to the Olympics.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Massive Heat Wave Heading Toward Bay Area Next Week SoMa’s Buzzworks bar is planning a rooftop expansion; Dr. Fauci popped in to San Francisco for a chat about the early days of HIV; and the year's biggest heat wave yet appears headed to California next week.
Arts & Entertainment That Record Number of Sea Lions at Pier 39? They’re All Gone Now Those 2,000 sea lions who’d crammed the docks of Pier 39 are now basically zero sea lions at Pier 39. But don't worry for them, they’re just off getting laid.
SF News Pro-Palestinian March In Castro to Coincide With Sunday Pride Parade A queer- and trans-led alternate march, in solidarity with the Palestinian people, is planned for Sunday in the Castro, dubbed 'No Pride in Genocide.'
SF Politics Vallejo’s Own E-40 Is Doing a Post-Presidential Debate Rally With Joe Biden While Fat Joe may be the headliner of the event, Vallejo native E-40 is also on the card for a Friday rally for Joe Biden in swing state North Carolina after Thursday night’s highly anticipated presidential debate.
Arts & Entertainment A Brief History of Pride Weekend In San Francisco San Francisco plays host every June to one of the biggest LGBTQ gatherings in the world, reminding everyone that this city is still the epicenter of the queer universe — even if that universe has grown much bigger since the early days of "gay liberation."
SF Politics Scandal Believed to Be Behind FBI’s Sheng Thao Raid Had 93 Alleged Illegal Donations — Some May Be to Recall Backers Embattled Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao may have received donations through a campaign money laundering scheme that could be the root of last week’s FBI raid of her home. But of the 93 alleged illegal donations, some may have gone to top Recall Sheng Thao backers too.
