SF News Yes, It Takes Forever To Build Anything In San Francisco, and That Is Part of Why Luxury Housing Is All That Gets Built Anyone with even a passing connection to the real estate world in San Francisco, or anyone who knows anyone who's tried to get a permit for an addition or to build a single-family home or duplex in SF, knows that this is a yearslong process. Does it have to be? Will it ever not be?
SF News Pelosi 911 Call and DePape's Hospital Confession Heard In Court; DePape's Target List Also Included Tom Hanks Some of the overwhelming evidence regarding David DePape's alleged October 28 attack on Paul Pelosi was presented in a preliminary hearing Wednesday in San Francisco attended by a whole lot of media.
SF News Violent Night: Five Separate SF Shootings In Six Hours on Monday Night While all eight victims have thus far survived, it’s concerning that San Francisco saw five separate and seemingly unrelated shooting incidents between 8 p.m. Monday night and 2 a.m. Tuesday morning.
SF News Arrests Made In Crazy San Bruno Ambush Shooting Over Thanksgiving Weekend Three men who are suspected of belonging to an Oakland-based gang have been arrested following a multi-agency investigation into a violent shooting caught on camera in San Bruno that injured one man.
SF News Too $hort Movie Shooting In Oakland, But Businesses Blow the Whistle Over Disruption, Lack of Notice There is no shortage of frustration over Too $hort’s 'Freaky Tales' filming in Oakland, where business owners say film crews blocking their storefronts have cost them tens of thousands of dollars — and they were not given much notice that all this would be happening.
Business & Tech The Twitter Account That Was Tracking Elon Musk's Private Jet Has Been Shut Down Shockingly, it took just over six weeks for "free speech absolutist" Elon Musk to suspend the automated Twitter account that has been tracking the movements of his private jet for the last year.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Pelosi Attack Suspect Faces Preliminary Hearing Pelosi attack suspect David DePape is appearing in court today for a preliminary hearing, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says he takes responsibility for controversial moderation decisions, and Mayor London Breed doesn't want to end traffic stops for minor infractions.
Day Around The Bay: Union Square Macy’s Employees Might Strike Before Christmas They’re building a gondola between two major Tahoe ski resorts, ex-FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s Stanford parents may be in hot water too, and the Union Square Macy’s might be looking at an employee strike before Christmas.
Business & Tech Twitter Reportedly Not Paying Rent as Musk Lawyers Up For That and Other Legal Battles Twitter has reportedly not been paying rent at its San Francisco headquarters, or any of its offices, in the six weeks since the start of the Elon Musk regime, and Musk has shaken up his legal team in anticipation of an avalanche of lawsuits from jilted creditors.
Arts & Entertainment Life-Size Gingerbread House Back At Fairmont Hotel, And You Can Book A Dinner Inside It The 22-foot-tall, 3,300-brick life-size gingerbread house is back at the Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill, and you too can make a dinner reservation to eat inside of it, for what shakes down to about a $1,500 minimum.
SF Politics Progressive Supes Defy Mayor and Health Department Over Safe-Consumption 'Wellness Hubs,' Say They Will Open Plans to create a dozen "wellness hubs" around the city to replace the Tenderloin Center and permit safer consumption of dangerous drugs like fentanyl are stalled due to legal concerns.
Business & Tech United Airlines Planning to Hire Thousands More SFO Employees Next Year The contraction of the air travel industry in 2020 has been followed by a steady rebuilding, and now United Airlines says it's planning for a major expansion at San Francisco International Airport and other hubs.
SF Politics San Mateo Appoints Amourence Lee As Mayor, Yet She Is Now Making Corruption Allegations San Mateo’s week-long mayor-less nightmare is over, as Amourence Lee was appointed the city’s first Asian American mayor Monday night, but she still described the proceedings as an attempted "insurrection."
SF Politics SF Elections Commission Reverses Itself, Backpedals After Uproar Over Proposed Director Search A perceived misstep by the SF Elections Commission last month, saying they were not planning to renew the contract of 20-year veteran director of the Department of Elections John Arntz in favor of conducting an executive search to seek a diverse array of candidates, has now been reversed.
SF News Senate Judiciary Committee to Investigate Bureau of Prisons, and Former Dublin Wardens Specifically A Congressional investigation is looking into why a regional prisons official and former acting warden of FCI Dublin was able to rise the ranks despite a history of inmate-beating charges for which other guards got fired.
SF News Dozens of Shots Fired Into SoMa Building, Two Men Injured A shooting Monday evening in SoMa was heard by many in the area, as dozens of shots rang out in the vicinity of Bryant and Ninth, near Dore Alley, and two men were reportedly injured, one of them seriously.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Twitter Dissolves Trust & Safety Council Elon Musk's Twitter abruptly dissolved the company's Trust & Safety Council last night, Joe Biden will sign same-sex marriage rights into law today, and parts of the Bay Area saw freezing temps this a.m.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Investigation Clears VTA of Negligence In Mass Shooting An outside investigation has cleared the VTA and its managers of negligence in missing warning signs of last year's mass shooting; Elon Musk is sending the mob after Yoel Roth now; and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas.
SF News Supreme Court Upholds California's Flavored Tobacco Ban The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge from R.J. Reynolds on the flavored tobacco ban California voters approved last month, and the ban will go into effect in less than ten days.
Business & Tech Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Lab Prepare Big Announcement About Advance In Nuclear Fusion Nuclear physicists from the Bay Area will be center stage Tuesday at a Department of Energy announcement about a breakthrough in fusion technology that could ultimately lead to clean energy plants without hazardous nuclear waste.
SF News SFPD Makes Arrest in Fatal Castro Safeway Stabbing From October Two months after a 40-year-old man was stabbed and killed outside the Castro Safeway shopping plaza, police arrested a suspect Thursday who’s currently in custody.
SF News Alameda Co. Deputy Pleads Not Guilty In Dublin Double-Murder The 24-year-old former Alameda County sheriff's deputy who turned himself in shortly after the September 7 double murder of a Dublin couple in their home has entered a plea in the case, and it's not guilty.
SF News Pac Heights Renters Got $410,000 To Move Out, Third-Highest SF Tenant Buyout Ever The tenant buyout market is at an all-time high this year, and we learn that two renters in Pacific Heights were paid $410,000 to vacate their unit, the third-largest ever such buyout in recorded SF history.
Bay Area Sports Brock Purdy Is Magnificent in 49ers' Blowout of Tom Brady and the Bucs Starting in his first-ever NFL game on Sunday, Brock Purdy wrote the next page in his young career, playing with the swagger and polished poise of a veteran. The San Francisco 49ers destroyed Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 35-7, and inched one step closer toward improbability.
SF News Suspect In Violent Ambulance Hijacking In Best Buy Parking Lot Arrested and Charged The suspect in a bizarre late August incident in which two SFFD paramedics had to flee from their ambulance as a crazed man allegedly hijacked it and tried to run them down, has finally been arrested and charged.
