SF News Humpday Headlines: Oregon Fire to Cause Some Hazy Skies Around the Bay There's a push to name a cable car after Tony Bennett; smoke from a wildfire burning in Oregon is likely to cause some haze around the Bay; and Rudy Giuliani has admitted to defaming two election workers in 2020.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 49ers Open Training Camp, Nick Bosa Holding Out Supervisor Dorsey wants to require that local pharmacies carry Narcan, the SF supervisors just softened affordable housing rules in hopes of enticing developers, and 49ers training camp opened Tuesday but Nick Bosa’s holding out for a new contract.
SF News Infamous, Secretive All-Male Bohemian Grove Retreat Now Underway In Sonoma County Fire up your conspiracy theories, as the men-only rich guy retreat Bohemian Grove is now happening up in Sonoma. We don't know if Clarence Thomas went there, but House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reportedly did.
SF News SF's Pandemic Response Praised In New Study Showing Low Number of COVID Deaths The choice was basically more freedom or less death after COVID arrived three years ago. Places like Florida and Texas chose freedom, California chose less death. And San Francisco in particular spared a lot of lives.
SF News Weekend Car-Free Hayes Street Extended, as City Backtracks on Plans To Cancel It The block of Hayes Street between Gough and Octavia Streets will stay car-free on weekends for at least another month, as merchants successfully lobby the city to back off a hastily announced cancellation.
SF News New Valencia Bike Lane Sows Confusion and Chaos, Some Call It ‘Valencia Meatgrinder' The reviews are decidedly mixed for the new Valencia center bike lane, with some saying it’s safer, and others alarmed that it “sandwiches” bicyclists between two lanes of moving cars.
SF News Carjackings, Robberies, Juvenile Crimes On Rise — Just Another Pandemic Hangover? Two recent, violent carjackings — one of which ended shortly thereafter in a spectacular crash in a normally quiet part of San Francisco's Castro District — are examples of what seems to be an uptick in these types of crimes, many of which appear to be committed by juveniles.
Business & Tech Musk Is Sacrificing Billions In Brand Value and Recognition By Killing Off Twitter Name, Analysts Say What do we even call a tweet now?
Business & Tech Renegade Group Disabling Self-Driving Cars With Orange Cones Speaks Out A local TV station spent a night with the monkey-wrench gang that’s been stopping self-driving cars with mere orange cones, and yes, it seems this incredibly simple hack does indeed work.
SF News Justification of Friday's Richmond Bridge Closure and Subsequent Carmageddon Being Questioned Many are wondering whether the California Highway Patrol overreacted to a situation involving one man on Friday, which they said necessitated the closure of all eastbound lanes of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge for 17 hours.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Man Rescued From McCovey Cove After Fall A man fell into the water near Oracle Park this morning and required rescue; workers at the Academy of Sciences have unionized; and A's fans want Giants fans to support the protest over the A's relocation to Vegas during this week's Bay Bridge series.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Davis Stabbing Suspect Begins Competency Hearing The 21-year-old former UC Davis student accused in those May stabbings has begun his competency hearing; a gun battle in downtown Oakland left several cars full of bullets; and one of the oldest newspapers in California just shut down.
SF News Livermore Winery Owner Mitchell Katz Killed in a Friday Car Accident A sad weekend for the Tri-Valley winery scene, as Mitchell Katz Winery founder and owner Mitchell Katz was killed in a Friday automobile accident in Livermore, as his family has confirmed.
Bay Area Sports A’s Fans Ask Giants Fans to Join in Their ‘Sell the Team’ Protests At This Week’s Bay Bridge Series Games The Giants and A’s resume their Bay Bridge Series Tuesday at Oracle Park, but this time A’s fans are asking Giants fans to join them with “Sell the Team” signs, chants, and t-shirts. And the t-shirts will be free!
SF News Flipped Car On 19th Likely Carjacked, Gun Reported at Scene, Suspects Still at Large A chaotic scene on Saturday evening in the Castro, which thankfully did not leave anyone killed or seriously wounded, appears to have been the work of armed, juvenile suspects who remain at large.
SF News 86- And 88-Year-Old Asian Women Hospitalized; SF's Unprovoked Attacks On Elderly AAPI Citizens Continue At least three unprovoked attacks on Asian seniors in a month, including two elderly women in the past few days, again raises concerns over the safety of elders in SF's AAPI communities.
SF News Twitter's Name Change to 'X' Gets Botched at SF Headquarters, Which Now Has a Sign That Says 'Er' When Elon Musk announced Twitter's name change to "X" Sunday and tried to remove the "@twitter" sign at its Market Street headquarters Monday, he got caught in a classic SF permitting snafu and cops halted work mid-removal.
SF News E-Scooter Ignites In SF Apartment; Residents Jump From Window, 1 Injured A recent e-scooter explosion that caused two individuals to leap from the window of their apartment in San Francisco adds to the growing list of lithium-ion battery-related fires.
SF Politics Mayor Breed’s Brother Gets His Prison Sentence Shortened, Could Be Out Within a Year Breed’s brother Napoleon Brown has been in prison for nearly 22 years for the death of Lenties White, but got his long-sought resentencing Monday, a resentencing that could see him released within a year.
SF News After 3-Month Protest, UC Berkeley Anthropology Library Saved from Closure When Cal planned to shutter the George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library to narrow a budget deficit, anthropology students and faculty occupied it for 85 days — and just reached a compromise with admin to keep it open (mostly).
SF News Woman Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Chico Murder-For-Hire Case Where She Paid in Bitcoin A 2016 murder-for-hire case in Chico has resulted in a five-year prison sentence for the woman who ordered the dirty deed, and moreover, the hired “killer” merely took her money in Bitcoin and did no actual murdering.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SF Marathon Breaks Participant Record Elon Musk has swapped out all the birds and projected an "X" on Twitter HQ last night; the San Francisco Marathon had its most participants ever on Sunday; and neighbors are trying to block a homeless housing hotel project in Millbrae.
SF News Martinez Refinery Releases Coke Dust (Again), Raising Concerns from Residents Martinez residents were alarmed that the Martinez Refining Company released coke dust, a byproduct of petroleum refining, for the second time in two weeks, after a major release of several tons of spent catalyst last year with potential public health risks.
SF News Mystery Buyer Acquiring Vast Land Near Travis Air Force Base Puzzles Government and Local Officials The investment group Flannery Associates has become the largest landowner in Solano County, but the government and military don't know the identity of the buyer and if there are "foreign interests" involved.
SF News Sunday Links: Elon Musk Plans to Remove All Birds from Twitter Logo and Platform Anchor Brewing's parent company confirmed it's considering the offer from employees who want to buy the brewery as a co-op; SF City Hall saw a rally to support the UPS union's planned strike on Saturday; and Elon Musk is taking the birds out of Twitter's branding.
