SF News Gavin Newsom Throwing Around That $6 Billion Mental Health Bond Money Early After his $6.4 billion mental health bond measure just barely squeaked by with voters in March, Governor Newsom will begin disbursing half of it on July 1, and has combative words to the effect that counties better jump on it fast.
SF News FBI Issues Unusual Warning About Potential Terrorist Threats to LGBTQ Pride Celebrations ISIS-affiliated terrorists or their supporters could be plotting an attack on a public gathering during Pride Month, and the FBI and Homeland Security have issued a public warning in order to raise awareness of the potentially heightened threat.
SF Politics Pamela Price Recall Election Date Set, and It Won’t Be Until November 5 The effort to recall Alameda County DA Pamela Price now has an election date set, but recall supporters are not happy that it won’t be for another six months, and instead of a one-off special election it will be November 5.
SF News Woman Dragged By Cruise Robotaxi Gets Over $8 Million Settlement A woman who was struck and dragged about 20 feet by an autonomous Cruise vehicle last year has reportedly been awarded a settlement of $8 million to $12 million from parent company General Motors.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Farmworker Housing Approved In Half Moon Bay Hearing to get a new trial for Scott Peterson gets underway; a house fire in Brisbane was caused by dryer lint; and a project to build farmworker housing in Half Moon Bay was approved by the city's planning commission after lengthy debate.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Berkeley Gaza Protesters Agree to End Their Month-Long Encampment The 49ers’ 2024 schedule is being leaked in bits and pieces; Frank Somerville got community service instead of jail for his latest troubles; and UC Berkeley’s Gaza protesters have agreed to fold up their tents and go home.
SF News Alameda Puts Halt To ‘Cloud Brightening’ Experiment on USS Hornet, Saying City Didn’t Really Know About It A seemingly innovative experiment to spray sea salt into clouds to fight global warming has been underway in Alameda, but the city just hit the brakes on it, saying they were not informed of it and don’t appreciate being used as guinea pigs.
Business & Tech Ex-Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt Starts New ‘Bot Company,’ Gets Handed $150 Million Despite Having No Products Proving again that tech executives can always fail upwards, the CEO that ran self-driving car company Cruise into a ditch, Kyle Vogt, has just been handed $150 million for his new venture called the Bot Company that claims it will eventually develop robots to do household chores.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Restaurants Are Trying an Odd Legal Argument to Get Out of the Surcharge Ban Restaurateurs in California are very nervous about how their businesses will fare when they have to stop adding surcharges to customers' checks and either raise menu prices or lower wages, or both, starting in July.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley Trader Joe's Will Open At Long Last On Friday Neighbors in the vicinity of the new, very much anticipated, long-delayed Trader Joe's at Fulton and Laguna streets in Hayes Valley have been noticing some very well-stocked shelves and refrigerator cases in recent days. And now we have the official word on the opening.
Business & Tech Waymo Now Under Federal Investigation For 22 Crash and Safety Violation Incidents Self-driving car company Waymo may have its time in the barrel coming just like the now-suspended Cruise, as the NHTSA is probing 22 separate crashes and safety incidents with their cars. Oh, and Amazon’s Zoox is being investigated too.
SF Politics London Breed, Aaron Peskin Beg Off From Monday Mayoral Candidate Debate By TogetherSF, Will Host Their Own Thing A scheduled May 20 debate among mayoral candidates by two tech-funded advocacy groups has been making Mayor London Breed uneasy, and as of Tuesday, she is officially pulling out.
SF News American Eagle Outfitters Is the Latest Store to Depart Ailing Downtown SF Mall The Emporium Centre San Francisco, formerly known as the Westfield San Francisco Centre, continues on the vacancy train with the announcement of the July closure of American Eagle Outfitters, one of the larger remaining stores in the mall.
Bay Area Sports SF’s WNBA Team Now Has a Name and Logo: They’re the Golden State Valkyries Tuesday morning’s unveiling of San Francisco's WNBA expansion team name and logo did not disappoint, as we learn that the team will be the Golden State Valkyries, with a kick-ass Bay Bridge-inspired purple logo.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saigon Sandwich, Dalida Among the New Additions to the Food Lineup at Outside Lands 2024 The food lineup for this year's Outside Lands just dropped, and it includes a slew of past festival favorites, along with several notable newcomers to the fest from the local food scene.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Gaza Protest Targets North Bay Congressman Protesters are sitting in on the San Jose State campus as of Monday; a protest arrived at a fundraiser for North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman in Sonoma; and succession drama roils a family-owned winery in Napa.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kamala Drops an F-Bomb An SF man with six prior convictions has been arrested for an April murder in Oakland; gas prices in CA could go up 50 cents next year; and VP Kamala Harris dropped a very public F-bomb Monday in a conversation with a comedian.
SF News SF’s New ‘Drug Screening for Welfare’ Law Not as Harsh as Advertised, Basically Just an Honor System The so-called “drug testing for welfare benefits” law that SF voters passed in March will not actually involve drug testing, but instead be based simply on what people answer on a questionnaire.
SF News SF's 'Doomed' Downtown Actually Back to Almost Normal at Night, Some Nights A new dataset suggests that while SF still lags way behind New York and other cities in terms of daytime, mid-week foot traffic, people are now frequenting bars and restaurants in downtown SF almost at pre-pandemic levels.
SF News Former Anchorman Frank Somerville Gets 30-Day Jail Sentence After Family Fight Turned Ugly Former KTVU anchorman Frank Somerville, who has had a rough couple of years battling alcoholism and losing his prime local media gig, has been sentenced in connection with a drunken domestic incident in Berkeley last June.
SF News 172-Year-Old Shreve & Co. Jewelry Store Permanently Closing Its Union Square Shop The venerable San Francisco-based jeweler Shreve & Co. just announced they’re closing up their Union Square shop permanently, though watch and necklace enthusiasts can clean up on 60% off liquidation sales starting this Friday.
SF News Guilty Verdict Reached In Pleasanton Murder Case Stemming From Domestic Violence A jury in Alameda County on Monday reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Joseph Roberts, who was accused in the killing of his girlfriend, 27-year-old Rachel "Imani" Buckner — whose dismembered torso was discovered on the Alameda shoreline last summer.
SF News Port of Oakland Lithium Battery Fire Sent Plumes of Black Smoke Over the Bay Sunday A black smoke cloud spread over the San Francisco Bay on the Sunday afternoon of Mother’s Day, as a reported lithium battery fire broke out at the Port of Oakland.
Arts & Entertainment Portola Festival Lineup Includes Rufus Du Soul, Disclosure, M.I.A., Jessie Ware The summer music festival lineup news continues with a weekend leak of the Portola Festival lineup, which turns out to have been real and was confirmed by festival organizers Monday morning.
Business & Tech ChatGPT Reportedly Rolling Out a ‘Google Killer’ Search Engine, But Failed to Do So In Underwhelming Monday Demo There are reports that new tech industry darling OpenAI is working on an AI-powered search engine they hope will overtake Google, but the company’s ballyhooed Monday announcement did not show anything that will have Google shaking in their shoes.
