SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Sideshow Law Helped San Jose Police Make Huge Bust The UC academic worker strike moves into its second day, an equipment problem on BART led to smoke and delays in SF, and San Jose police deployed a new tactic and the city's newish sideshow law to issue over 700 citations over the weekend.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Jennifer Siebel Newsom Takes Stand In Weinstein Trial Jennifer Siebel Newsom gave some emotional testimony in the Harvey Weinstein trial, the Oakland mayor's race remains tight, and Twitter could be in trouble with EU regulators soon.
Business & Tech Scooter Company Bird May Go Bankrupt, or Even Out of Business, After an ‘Overstatement’ of Revenue The scooter startup Bird, which also does business in San Francisco as Scoot, is getting its wings clipped after reportedly overstating revenue for two years, and is now mulling bankruptcy, or discontinuing business altogether.
SF Politics Final Local Ballot Measures Called: Prop M Vacancy Tax Wins, Prop E Affordable Housing Measure Falls The dust appears settled on the final two undetermined SF ballot measures, and the vacant homes tax has passed, while both of the dueling affordable housing ballot measures are shot down.
Arts & Entertainment NorCal Represent! Oakland's Amy Schneider Leads All-NorCal Tournament of Champions Finale Of the major-streak winners in the last season of Jeopardy!, only Amy Schneider emerged victorious after the initial rounds of the latest Tournament of Champions. And on Monday night, she competes against San Francisco's own Andrew He, and Professors Tournament winner Sam Buttrey of Pacific Grove.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Fall Tasting Menu at Nisei Chef David Yoshimura's thoughtful, soulful spins on Japanese home cooking, elevated as a series of finely composed and richly flavored dishes at his one-year-old Russian Hill restaurant Nisei, make for a memorable dining experience.
Bay Area Sports The 49ers Pound Their Way Past the Chargers for a Primetime Win The Niners have won two in a row, and their prospects for the rest of the season are anyone's guess.
SF News Stockton Serial Killer Suspect Appears In Court, Will Remain Jailed Without Bail 43-year-old Wesley Brownlee, the suspect in a string of killings in Stockton this past summer as well as another last year in Oakland, made another court appearance Monday morning but did not enter a plea.
SF News T-Minus Five Days! Central Subway Trains Set To Start Rolling This Saturday It’s only a soft opening that will run weekends only for a bit, but the nearly $2 billion Central Subway starts service Saturday, four years behind schedule — a pretty exciting transit development nonetheless.
Business & Tech In Dueling Sentencing Memos, Prosecutors Push For Elizabeth Holmes to Get 15 Years, While Defense Brings Up Recently Deceased Dog After a federal judge last week denied Elizabeth Holmes a new trial, quashing a last-ditch — and highly aggressive — effort by her defense team to keep her out of prison longer, it all comes down to her sentence.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: San Jose Mayor's Race Still Too Close to Call The race between Cindy Chavez and Matt Mahan for San Jose mayor is still close with Mahan in the lead, some contractors at Twitter were let go over the weekend, and the US Postal Service is investigating some ballots found by the side of a road in the South Bay.
SF News Of Course Trump Wanted to Dissolve the SF-Based Ninth Circuit Court During His Presidency Released earlier this year, "The Divider" — a book co-authored by Susan Glasser of the New Yorker and Peter Baker of the New York Times — includes a revelation from former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen that Trump said "let’s just cancel” SF's Ninth Circuit court in 2018.
SF News Two Photographers Attacked at SF's Palace of Fine Arts — on Same Day In separate incidents, two photographers — one of them visiting San Francisco from Dallas — were subjected to violent robberies on November 9 near the Palace of Fine Arts; no arrests have been made in either robbery.
SF News Sunday Links: Looks Like SF Will Have a Rain-Free Week Ahead Dozens of completed ballots were found near Highway 17 in Santa Clara, mostly clear skies are in the forecast for SF next week, and it looks like Democrats will hold control of the Senate — with the House majority still on a knife edge.
SF News Meta's Mass Layoff Includes 362 Employees Based at San Francisco Office A recent notice about the layoffs by Meta was tweeted by District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey, showing 362 of the 11,000 employees laid off worked at the company's Howard Street office in SF.
SF News Saturday Links: New Count Shows LA Has Comparably More Unhoused Individuals Than Bay Area A small earthquake shook the East Bay, a massive strike of 50,000 UC employees is expected Monday, and one recent count shows Los Angeles has proportionally more people suffering from homelessness than the Bay Area.
SF News Day Around the Bay: There's a Mistake on Rose Pak's Plaque at New Chinatown Central Subway Station Named After Her The SF Zoo recently became home to a second Komodo dragon, Disney announced it's putting a freeze on new staff hires amid "dismal" earnings, and, of course, there's an error on the namesake's memorial plaque at the new Chinatown-Rose Pak Station.
Bay Area Sports Crypto Giant FTX’s Massive Implosion Likely Means Curtains for Cal’s $17.5 million Stadium Naming Rights Deal Cryptocurrency brand FTX went from $32 billion to bankrupt in just nine days, and the Cal football stadium’s $17.5 million naming rights deal is likely to go down the drain with it.
SF News Families of VTA Workers Killed In Mass Shooting Settle Wrongful Death Case For Just $8 Million Apparently the hands of attorneys representing families of eight of the victims in the May 2021 mass shooting at a VTA rail facility in San Jose were somewhat tied by the legal system, and the families are now settling their wrongful death suit with the VTA for $8 million.
Bay Area Sports Patience or Panic? A Golden Warriors Early Season Check-in Is it time to panic, Warriors fans? The narrative out there is that we might be witnessing the unraveling of a dynasty and the inevitable, age-induced "decline" of great players.
SF News Experts Cautiously Optimistic About Weak Winter COVID Wave As Hospitalizations Begin to Tick Up It may be too soon to tell what the holiday season has in store when it comes to the tail end of this three-year pandemic. But there is reason to hope that we won't have a very severe winter surge of new COVID infections, especially if more people get their updated boosters.
SF News BART Wants to Know If You Want More Lines and Late-Night Service, So They’re Running A Survey Though BART is only at 40% of pre-pandemic ridership, they’re looking toward the next phase of expanded service, and you can win a $100 Clipper Card by helping them figure out what riders want.
SF News Someone Posed as an ICE Agent and Tried to Visit Paul Pelosi Attacker In County Jail Three days after David DePape's arrest, someone apparently posing as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent tried to get in to see him in SF County Jail, wielding little more than a bogus business card.
Business & Tech Twitter Has Already Paused Those $8 Checkmark Subscriptions Amid Fakes Once again proving that Musk et al have not thought any of this through, they've paused the $8 Twitter Blue subscription thing two days after launching it, because, yes, there are a lot of nitwits and bad actors out there who want to pose as celebrities.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Elizabeth Holmes Now Asking for 18 Months of Home Confinement A two-vehicle crash in Visitacion Valley caused injuries and damage to homes, Elizabeth Holmes's attorneys are now making a plea for leniency in her sentencing, and Lauren Boebert has gained a small lead in her congressional race.
