SF News Rejoice! BART Is Dumping the $6.40 ‘Excursion Fare’ For Getting On and Off at The Same Station The good news is that BART will stop charging you $6.40 for leaving the station that you had just entered. The bad news is that this change likely won’t happen until “sometime in the summer of 2024.”
SF News Lowell Teachers Pulled Mass Sickout Wednesday Over Still-Ongoing Payroll Fiasco As many as 90% of Lowell High School teachers, and perhaps a third of the student body, staged a sickout Wednesday over the still-faulty payroll system that is ironically called “EMPower.”
SF News Rainy Day Will Give Way to Cold and Dry Friday, With Atmospheric River Hitting Saturday A cold front is bringing some moderate rain to San Francisco and all of the Bay Area today, but it will pass, there will be a chilly lull, and then comes the bigger storm.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Brittney Griner Is Free WNBA star Brittney Griner is on a plane back home after a prisoner swap with Russia, Santa Clara County has a new sheriff starting his job early, and the Bold Italic has been handed over to political group GrowSF.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan Faces $19K Ethics Fine Oakland Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan is facing a fine for not disclosing her ownership of some property, an Oakland high school student was stabbed by another student at school, and a motorcyclist died in a Mission District collision.
Arts & Entertainment NYT Mini Crossword Erroneously Refers to BART as SF's 'Metro,' and People Flip Out It's de rigeur in these parts to get very haughty about mistakes that East Coasters make when they write about our fair city. And the NYT Crossword editors have some explaining to do.
SF News SFMTA Makes 16 Slow Streets Permanent, Including the Humongously Controversial Slow Lake Street A full 16 so-called Slow Streets became permanent after a Tuesday night SFMTA board vote, though a dozen others will lose their Slow Street status, and six hours of public comment furor swayed the board to keep the Richmond’s Lake Street a Slow Street.
Business & Tech Sunny Balwani Sentenced to 13 Years In Theranos Fraud — 2 More Years Than Holmes A federal judge has deemed the actions of former Theranos President and COO Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani to be a little bit more egregious than his partner in fraud Elizabeth Holmes — two years' worse, to be exact.
Arts & Entertainment Solano County Home Featured on 'Great Christmas Light Fight' The Bay Area can already claim a couple of wins from previous seasons of ABC's suburban Christmas light fever-dream of a competition show The Great Christmas Light Fight, and now we have another contender up in Suisun City.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Disgraced Belcampo Meat Co. Reportedly Under USDA Investigation for Horribly Unsanitary Conditions Did you ever have that “sustainable” high-end meat from Belcampo Meat Company? Well, some bits of it were found on the bathroom floor covered with ants at their meat-processing plant, according to new documents that have come to light from a USDA investigation.
SF News Sonoma County Mountain Lion Straight Up Walks Into Woman’s Home, Drags Out Her Dog The dog survived, but the mountain lion was tracked down and euthanized, after an incident last weekend where the mountain lion casually walked into a Sonoma County home and picked a fight with the dog.
SF News Great Highway Will Now Remain Car-Free (On Weekends) Through 2025 The current status quo of the Great Highway being car-free on weekends and holidays is now set in stone, or until the end of 2025 at least, as the SF Board of Supervisors voted on a three-year extension of the program.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Gets Fully In Bed With Conservative Media, Lashes Back About Twitter 'Bedroom' Investigation With Tweet About Fentanyl-Exposed Baby It's another day of maturity and gravitas at Musk Twitter, as Elon Musk defends "providing beds for Twitter employees" by turning this back on San Francisco and its other problems, via tweet. Also, ICYMI, this "Twitter Files" thing...
SF News Humpday Headlines: California Is Closing Down Two Prisons California's Correctional Department just announced the closure of two prisons and the shrinking of six others, state Sen. Scott Wiener issued a statement about his latest bomb threat, and former Theranos COO Sunny Balwani faces sentencing today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mosswood Meltdown Names Le Tigre As Its 2023 Headliner The Giants have their first free agent signing (but it’s not Aaron Judge), there are fresh rumors that the Trump family hates Kim Guilfoyle, and the reunited Le Tigre is on tap for Mosswood Meltdown 2023.
SF Politics Supervisors Stunningly Undo Their Own Vote on SFPD Killer Robots, Protesters Disrupt Meeting The SF Board of Supervisors unexpectedly reversed their own vote from seven days ago authorizing SFPD to arm robots with lethal explosives, and for good measure, some rabble-rousers tried to shout down the hearing.
SF News Black Marin County Couple Lowballed by $500K In Home Appraisal Featured In New Documentary The new documentary “Our America: Lowballed” details how Black and Latinx families get far lower appraisals on their homes, and one of the families featured is a notorious case from Marin County.
SF News San Francisco Couple Accused of Trafficking Nanny From Philippines and Enforcing Slave Labor With Little Pay The San Francisco District Attorney's Office on Tuesday announced charges against married SF residents Jose Aguila and Lorraine Lim following a year-long investigation into the alleged labor trafficking of a childcare worker.
Business & Tech Legal Problems Galore at Elon’s Twitter: Janitors Striking, Ex-Employees Suing, DBI Investigation Into Office 'Bedrooms' The world’s richest man is facing the wrath of jilted workers on several fronts, with janitors picketing the Market Street headquarters, and canned employees lawyering up as their promised severances are not being paid out.
SF News Preston Calls for Hearing Into Supportive Housing Evictions Involving Formerly Homeless People SF Supervisor Dean Preston, who worked as an eviction defense attorney before he was elected to the Board of Supervisors, is putting that hat back on and calling for a hearing into the numbers and process of evictions involving formerly homeless people in city-funded supportive housing.
SF News Friday Night Sideshow Has Embarcadero Residents Grumbling Over Lack of Arrests The fallout is still coming down from Friday night's sideshows on the Embarcadero and on the Bay Bridge, as residents complain to local TV stations about a lack of any arrests or citations in these affairs.
Business & Tech Meta Threatens to Pull Journalism Content From Facebook Over Congressional Bill That May Cost Them Meta is putting up a stink in the face of a bill that's working its way through Congress, and is currently folded in to a defense-spending authorization package, which would give journalistic content creators the ability to seek payments from Meta for using their content.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Awards New Stars to Four SF Restaurants Including Osito and Nisei; SPQR and Mourad Lose Theirs The Michelin inspectors giveth and they taketh away in the latest California guide release, which is arriving later in the year than usual. The biggest winners in SF are a handful of new one-star honorees, but the big headline is that SoCal has its first three-star restaurant.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Scott Wiener Once Again Faces Bomb Threat State Senator Scott Wiener once again had bomb-sniffing dogs at his home today, Meta's Oversight Board is urging changes to Facebook's "XCheck" system for celebrities, and Apple is being sued over AirTag stalking.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Santa Clara DA Leaves Twitter, Urges Other DAs to Do So Santa Clara County DA Jeff Rosen is leaving Twitter over hate speech, there was a 3.7M earthquake near San Jose today, and Newsom is proposing a penalty for oil companies' price gouging.
