SF News [Update] 94-Year-Old Woman Won't Be Evicted From Mission District Apartment After a local media stir, a 94-year-old woman who’s lived at her Mission District apartment since the 1940s will not be evicted as a landlord had initially proposed.
SF News California Forever Releases Aerial Rendering of Its Proposed, Utopian 'City of Yesterday' There was nothing on the ballot Tuesday in Solano County about the proposed new town/development that's being proposed by a cabal of Silicon Valley billionaires. But the group, called California Forever, did just release a new rendering.
SF News Safeway Fires 22-Year Veteran Employee For Thwarting a Shoplifter, Then Denies Unemployment Claim A San Mateo Safeway may regret their decision to fire an employee who stopped a $500 shoplifting attempt, and then deny that employee unemployment benefits, because a state board ruled they have to pay the unemployment, and now a wrongful termination suit is looming.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole Has Closed, Team to Relocate to New Valencia Street Space Bar Agricole, which won accolades for its drinks and design after opening more than a decade ago in SoMa, has closed its second location, which opened post-pandemic in the base of the tower at 1550 Mission Street.
SF Politics Lateefah Simon Commands Huge Lead in Primary Race for Barbara Lee’s House Seat Longtime East Bay congressional representative Barbara Lee was rendered a lame duck by Tuesday’s election results, but Lee’s preferred successor for her House seat, Lateefah Simon, crushed all rivals in Tuesday's primary.
SF News Video: Man Arrested After Shrieking Freakout at SFO Ticket Counter A man who appeared to be in the throes of a mental health crisis, perhaps brought on by the stresses of travel, was seen shrieking in the faces of ticket agents at the Frontier Airlines counter at SFO recently.
SF Politics Breed-Backed SF Ballot Measures on Cops, Drug Screening Appear to be Cruising to Big Wins In a very-low-turnout election Tuesday, SF voters handed Mayor London Breed a couple of victories on police powers and drug screening for welfare recipients, while an affordable housing bond she abandoned is still too close to call.
Business & Tech OpenAI Publishes Old Emails From Musk Showing He Approved For-Profit Venture In its first public response to a lawsuit from Elon Musk, OpenAI has published some emails with Musk showing that he signed off on the company's for-profit structure, and that he tried to claim "absolute control" of the company.
SF Politics It's Going to Be Schiff v. Garvey In November's Senate Race This means that California will not have a woman in the Senate next year for the first time in over 30 years.
SF News Humpday Headlines: The Election Proved a Very Good Night for SF Moderates Moderates won a bunch of seats on SF's Democratic Party governing board last night; at least one of two SF judges survived the election, while the other is too close to call; and Jackie Speier is back as a San Mateo County supervisor.
SF News Election Day Around the Bay: Another Union Square Retailer Trying to Sell Their Building Elon Musk is no longer the world’s richest man (at the moment); a one-time SF gang member was sentenced in a 2013 gang killing case; and the Union Square Burberry is trying to sell their building.
Business & Tech Has the Self-Driving Car Bubble Burst? Some Analysts Say So, As Apple Exits the Autonomous Vehicle Race When the $70 billion tech giant Apple abandons an idea, it may be an idea simply not worth pursuing, which could be the state of the suddenly struggling autonomous vehicle industry.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Release Renderings of Proposed ‘Spherical Armadillo’ Las Vegas Stadium, To Widespread Mockery The sun is literally setting in the wrong direction in the Oakland A’s seemingly AI-generated new renderings of their proposed Las Vegas ballpark, which may be a metaphor for this troubled stadium gamble.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Leo's Oyster Bar Reportedly Avoids Eviction After Receiving Notice Things look dicey for another of restaurateur Anna Weinberg's businesses, after it received an eviction notice last week and appears to have narrowly staved off that eviction, at least for now.
SF News Mentally Ill Homeless Man With at Least 60 Arrests Back In Jail on Federal Charges for Presidio Graffiti A very troubled and pretty clearly unmedicated man with a long history of mental illness, addiction, and criminal activity across San Francisco, has been in jail the past three months following an especially creepy incident in the Presidio.
SF Politics Confusing-As-Heck SF DCCC Election Today Features 51 Candidates, Most of Whom You Haven’t Heard Of Today’s election for the SF Democratic County Central Committee features 51 candidates who you have likely never heard of, vying to make decisions you likely will never pay attention to. But for political nerds, the stakes are high!
SF Politics Newsom Team Does Quick Cleanup After Story, Says Panera Bread Not Exempt From Minimum Wage Law After a Bloomberg story suggested Governor Gavin Newsom was guilty of cronyism in carving out an exception for a friend to California's minimum-wage law, his team has come out swinging and he's issued a vehement denial.
SF News East Bay Man Charged With Murdering Wife and Mother-in-Law, Six Months After Reporting Them Missing The bodies have not yet been found, but a San Pablo man has been arrested and charged with the murder of his wife and her mother last summer, after he had reported them missing.
SF News Alleged SF Sunglass Shop Thief Nabbed in Hawaii Faces Charges; Vacaville Sunglass Hut Burglar Convicted Some serious shade is coming down on two alleged sunglass shop thieves who've made headlines; as the SF woman was arrested getting off a plane in Hawaii has been extradited back, while a Solano County jury convicted a woman who pulled a $40,000 Sunglass Hut heist.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Time to Vote, If You Haven't Already Aaron Peskin and London Breed are already trading barbs as if they're running against each other; Newsom was in town campaigning for 'Yes on 1'; and have you cast your ballot yet today?
Business & Tech Meta Hit With Possible Super Tuesday Cyber Attack? Instagram, Threads, Facebook All Go Down People who roll over in bed and start their Instagram scrolling may have found their feeds not loading today, after a major widespread outage appeared to have begun around 7 a.m. Pacific Time.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Accused San Mateo Killer Says Confession Was AI-Generated A federal judge is questioning a plea deal in the vehicular homicide case involving cyclist Ethan Boyes; the suspect in a San Mateo stabbing streamed on Facebook made a bizarre declaration in court; and a spike in fatal ODs hits Marin County.
SF Politics The ‘Recall Pamela Price’ Crowd Has Submitted Their Signatures for Recall Attempt Against Alameda County DA The political group trying to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price submitted what they say are 123,000 signatures to get their measure on the ballot, though 73,000 of them have to be proven to be valid.
Business & Tech Fired Twitter Executives Suing Elon Musk for $128 Million in Unpaid Severance Four high-level Twitter executives whom Elon Musk immediately fired after taking over Twitter are suing for what they say is $128 million in unpaid severance, a lawsuit that claims Musk said he would “hunt” those executives “until the day they die.”
SF News Hayward Man Charged With Hate Crime for Burning Israeli Flag at Israel-Hamas Protest 36-year-old Christopher Khamis Victor Husary is in jail for allegedly stealing two counterprotesters’ Israeli flags and setting one of them on fire at a January El Cerrito protest, and now faces arson, grand theft, robbery, and hate crime charges.
