SF News Final Tab on $22 Million Tenderloin Center: 300 Overdoses Reversed, 600 Enrolled In Government Benefits The initially much-ballyhooed Tenderloin Center will be closing almost a month earlier than planned, and the first rigorous study on its effects found it did some good, but maybe not $22 million worth of good.
Business & Tech As Deadline Passes For Twitter Employees to Commit to Being 'Hardcore,' Some Wonder If It's All a Trap Elon Musk's erratic behavior and flippant comments since taking the helm as Chief Twit two weeks ago have some Twitter employees worried that he might be setting them up to fail — or that he might not follow through on his severance offer.
SF Politics Ann Hsu Has Lost School Board Race, as Challenger Alida Fisher Takes ‘Insurmountable’ Lead London Breed-appointed school board member Ann Hsu will be the only Breed appointee not reelected in last week’s election, as anti-recall candidate Alida Fisher has sealed the win with a more than 3,500-vote advantage.
SF News Former Alameda County Deputy Seen Beating Suspect In Mission District Alley Has Charges Against Him Dismissed A former Alameda County sheriff's deputy, one of two officers seen on video in San Francisco brutally beating a suspect with their batons in a widely publicized 2015 incident, saw the charges against him dismissed Thursday morning.
SF Politics SF Examiner Apologizes For (Literally) Placing a Bullseye On Dean Preston’s Face in Print Edition In what’s being criticized as a “deeply irresponsible and contemptible” publishing decision, the SF Examiner Wednesday front page depicted Supervisor Dean Preston with a bullseye target over his face, and the paper is now apologizing.
SF Politics Joel Engardio Becomes New SF Supervisor for District 4 as Gordon Mar Concedes Close Race With only 479 more votes as of Wednesday's tabulation, District 4 supervisor candidate Joel Engardio has defeated incumbent Gordon Mar in an upset— signaling a potential shift in the balance of power on the SF Board of Supervisors.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi Announces She Will Not Seek Reelection to House Leadership, Will Remain a Rank-and File Member In relatively brief remarks, but with some fanfare, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday to announce her retirement from leadership — but not from the House.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Early Morning Crash Near Pittsburg Claims Five Lives A wrong-way crash on Highway 4 in Pittsburg killed all five people involved, the Berkeley police union president is now on leave over a text scandal, and Nancy Pelosi is announcing "future plans" today in the House.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Seven Injured When Two Muni Metro Trains Collide On Embarcadero Seven people were injured when two Muni Metro trains collided in South Beach Wednesday, Matt Mahan is officially the new mayor of San Jose, and Kara Swisher says Elon Musk is... complicated.
SF Politics Supervisors Spend Five Hours Haranguing Over Mandated 82,000 New Housing Units, But We Might Actually Hit That Goal? It’s not surprising that the SF Board of Supervisors spent nearly five hours debating a state-mandated housing requirement that the city build 82,000 new housing units by 2031. What is surprising is that we might actually achieve the goal.
SF News Mayor Breed Launches Guaranteed-Income Program for Low-Income Trans People On Tuesday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed officially launched a first-of-its-kind program offering guaranteed monthly income to low-income trans residents of the city.
Bay Area Sports Now Someone’s Suing Steph Curry and the Warriors Over Promotions of Bankrupt Crypto Fund FTX Did you lose money in the collapse of cryptocurrency firm FTX? Maybe you can get some of it back by suing Steph Curry and the Warriors, because there’s a class action lawsuit against them and other sports stars like Tom Brady who endorsed the now-worthless digital currency exchange.
SF News Weinstein Lawyer Asked Jennifer Siebel Newsom to Fake an Orgasm On Witness Stand You've got to be a special sort of cynic to want to represent Harvey Weinstein in court, and one shining gem of an attorney asked the wife of California's governor to fake an orgasm on the stand on Tuesday.
SF News Alleged Gunman In Oakland Dentist Lili Xu Murder-For-Hire Case Pleads Not Guilty The suspected hitman who stands accused of pulling the trigger on Oakland dentist Lili Xu pleaded not guilty Wednesday, but prosecutors appear to be seeking a life sentence with no parole for the 33-year-old alleged killer Hasheem Bason.
SF News Vallejo Squatters Whom Neighbors Referred to as 'The Cult' Implicated In Crazy Sword Incident and Shooting An elderly property owner in Vallejo who was close to evicting some squatters got into an altercation with those squatters early Sunday morning in which he ended up with a sword through his chest and one of the squatters was fatally shot.
SF News DMV Lot On Fell Street Floated As Affordable Housing Development Site The state's property at the tip of the Panhandle in SF, currently home to the city's busy DMV field office, is a prime development site that's been discussed before — and Supervisor Dean Preston says the state should step up and "partner" with the city to allow it to become affordable housing.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Musk Gives Twitter Employees New Ultimatum Elon Musk has given all Twitter employees until 5 p.m. tomorrow to commit to being "hardcore" or leave, a beloved community activist and urban farmer was brutally beaten in the Tenderloin, and Matt Mahan's lead grew in the San Jose mayor's race.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Engardio Inches to Victory, Ann Hsu Falls Further Behind in Vote-Count Update Accused serial sex offender Bill Gene Hobbs was denied release, Netflix is rolling out a way to kick freeloaders off your account, and the latest vote count is great news for D4 candidate Joel Engardio and bad news for school board member Ann Hsu.
Arts & Entertainment ‘All Over Coffee’ Artist Paul Madonna Severely Injured in Horrifying Hit-And-Run Accident A brutal hit-and-run has left legendary SF muralist and “All Over Coffee” illustrator Paul Madonna with displaced organs, a collapsed lung, and shoulder and leg injuries that will have him in a wheelchair — and unable to create artwork — for a while.
SF News Five Hells Angels Members Charged In Murder That Happened During Chris Stapleton Concert at Shoreline An assault that turned deadly at a Shoreline Amphitheater concert in June has led today to arrests and charges facing five alleged members of the notorious Hells Angels Motorcycle Club — including FBI raids on homes in SF.
SF Politics Accused Pelosi Attacker David DePape Enters Plea In Federal Court; LA Times Tries to Explain His Radicalization The 42-year-old Canadian citizen and longtime resident of the Bay Area accused of a brutal attack on Paul Pelosi three weeks ago, David DePape, made his scheduled appearance in federal court on Tuesday where he faces separate charges from those filed in state court.
Business & Tech Google Agrees To Pay Nearly $400 Million Settlement Over Basically Lying About Letting You Turn Off Location Tracking Google was tracking people even who turned off location tracking, which is kind of a problem in the era of abortion bounty hunter laws, so they’ve agreed to pay a $392 million settlement and they pinky-finger swear they’ll let you turn it off (eventually).
SF News San Francisco Sees Homicides In Civic Center, Western Addition The SFPD has just released a few details in a pair of weekend homicides that left two men dead, one near the San Francisco Public Library main branch, and the other at Fulton and Webster streets.
SF Politics Ann Hsu Falls Behind In SF School Board Race, Might Not Win Seat Mayor London Breed’s clean sweep of appointees getting elected last week is now in serious jeopardy, as school board appointee Ann Hsu fell 1,700 votes behind progressive Alida Fisher in the latest vote-count batch.
SF News Board of Supervisors Set to Acknowledge Construction Cost Boom In New Deal For 98 Franklin Tower A planned residential tower that will house San Francisco's International High School in Hayes Valley is getting both a density bonus and permission not to include on-site affordable units in new proposed legislation from Supervisor Dean Preston.
