SF News Sunday Links: Mountain Lion Takes Stroll Through San Mateo Neighborhood in Broad Daylight Valencia Street is getting a new Korean snack bar, a mountain lion was spotted roaming around a San Mateo neighborhood Friday morning, and... have you checked out Menlo Park's floating "yellow brick road” yet?
SF News California's Dungeness Crab Season Is Postponed (Again) to Protect Migrating Whales For what's now the fourth year in a row, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is delaying the start of the 2022 commercial Dungeness crab season to safeguard migrating whales from accidental entanglements with fishing gear.
SF News Saturday Links: 'Major Medical Emergency' Causes System-Wide Delays on BART A BART train was evacuated Friday due to a “major medical emergency" that led to a 20-minute delay across the network, San Jose police are investigating a hit-and-run involving a grandmother and her grandson, and there’s a pumpkin carving event today at the Mission Arts Center.
SF News Day Around the Bay: People Are Already Testing Misinformation, Hate Speech Limits on Twitter After Musk Takeover The man accused of attacking Pelosi’s husband is set to be charged with attempted homicide, Twitter users are testing the company’s community guidelines with Musk as owner, and FYI: The Anza Vista Target store was built on a former graveyard.
SF News Supervisor Ahsha Safai Has Home Broken Into, Thieves Steal Stove and Microwave Oven District 11 Supervisor Ahsha Safai’s house suffered a break-in Thursday night, and some appliances were stolen from the supervisor who’s one of the most outspoken about property crime.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Promises Facebook-Style 'Moderation Council' to Make Content and Ban Decisions at Twitter New Chief Twit Elon Musk announced Friday that he will be allowing some content moderation to happen at Twitter after all — but it won't be staff doing it, it will be an independent "content moderation council" like Facebook has.
SF News Reactions and Condemnations Flow In From National, State, and Local Leaders Following Attack at Pelosi Home The toxic and vitriolic energy of our body politic erupted into the city of San Francisco once again Friday morning with an attack by a conspiracy-obsessed loon on the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that left her husband seriously injured.
SF Politics Ann Hsu Way Ahead of the Pack in School Board Race Donations, Despite (Or Because Of?) Racist Comment Scandal Despite a summer backlash and furor over SF school board member Ann Hsu’s comments that Black and brown students had “unstable family environments," Hsu has racked up nearly twice the campaign contributions of any other school board candidate in the November election.
SF News Pelosi Attacker Is COVID Denier, Anti-Vaxxer, My Pillow Guy Fan, Nudist, Pro-Insurrectionist As condolences pour in from around the spectrum over the Paul Pelosi hammer attack that has placed him in surgery, we learn that suspect David DePape was a QAnon anti-vaxxer and election denier with a conspiracy-tinged streak.
SF News Rain Is Coming Next Week, But When Will Be the First Atmospheric River? Rain is in the forecast for the Bay Area next week, likely Tuesday and Wednesday, but this won't be much of a storm.
SF News Will Trump Be Allowed to Mouth Off on Twitter Again Before the Midterms? We're counting down the minutes or days before Donald Trump is welcomed back on Twitter by new Chief Twit Elon Musk. Because what's a 246-year-old democracy worth when you'd rather be "saving humanity" through unfettered dialogue and free speech.
SF News Two Arrested In Slaying of Oakland Dentist; One Is Victim's Longtime Boyfriend Two men were arrested Thursday in connection with the August murder of Lili Xu in Oakland's Little Saigon neighborhood, and one of the suspects is Xu's longtime boyfriend who was with her at the time of the killing.
SF News Paul Pelosi Attacked With Hammer In Home Invasion, Suspect Was Reportedly Looking for Nancy The hammer-wielding suspect was reportedly shouting “Where is Nancy, where is Nancy?” when he broke into the House Speaker’s Pac Heights home early Friday morning, and spouse Paul Pelosi is hospitalized with blunt force trauma wounds.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Top Twitter Execs Fired as Musk Takes the Helm The Elon Musk Era at Twitter has officially begun, a second fatal pedestrian crash happened in the Sunset, and 41 of the 47 Alameda County sheriff's deputies put on leave over their psych evaluations are now back on active duty.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mark Zuckerberg Lost $11 Billion Today Berkeley is having another housing battle over ADUs in fire-risk zones, the Bayview just got itself a new Lucky supermarket, and Mark Zuckerberg lost $11 billion in net worth just today alone.
SF Politics [Update] Jane Fonda Is Speaking About Climate Change at Manny's and Oasis On Wednesday The legendary Jane Fonda will be in San Francisco on Wednesday, six days ahead of the election, to talk about her life, career, and her Jane Fonda Climate PAC — as well, presumably, as her support for Prop 30.
SF Politics Prop 30 Oddly Pits Lyft Against Silicon Valley VC Billionaires in Electric Car Battle There’s a rift between Lyft and the money men who power Silicon Valley over Prop. 30, the tax proposal to fund electric vehicles, as venture capital billionaires are dropping millions and enlisting Gavin Newsom to defeat the tax hike.
SF News Third Employee of Dublin Federal Women's Prison Pleads Guilty to Sex Abuse Crimes The third of five officers and employees of the federal women's correctional facility in Dublin to be charged with sex abuse crimes, former prison cook Enrique Chavez, pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of groping an inmate.
Arts & Entertainment HBO Drops Trailer for Willie Mays Documentary, Premiering November 8 San Francisco Giants legend Willie Mays gets the HBO documentary treatment in the upcoming ‘Say Hey, Willie Mays,’ exploring the slugger’s astonishing 25 years playing pro baseball, and his legacy off the field afterward.
Business & Tech Have You Had a Lot of Uber Drivers Cancel Trips On You Recently, Or Refuse to Take You Somewhere? Are You a Driver? We'd Like to Hear From You Rideshare services, while still private companies with their own profit motives and foibles, have become like utilities we take for granted. But the days of quick and easy Uber rides seem to be gone since the pandemic.
Arts & Entertainment Adam Sandler's Sold-Out Tour Extends Seven Dates; Includes Chase Center on Dec. 6 Likely the case wherever Adam Sandler goes, the comedian is no stranger to the spotlight here in San Francisco. From his Do Over tour at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium to that time he and Rob Schneider joked about buying the 49ers, Adam Sandler has made it a point to show love for the Bay Area.
Business & Tech Aww, Elon Musk Says He Bought Twitter For the Good of Humanity, Doesn't Want It to Become a 'Free-For-All Hellscape' Elon Musk says his intentions are really pure and selfless in deciding to buy Twitter for $44 billion and take it private, and he's doing this "to help humanity, whom I love."
SF News Three Arrests Made in Early October Berkeley Dormitory Shooting That Killed Religion Student After an October 8 fatal shooting at a Berkeley dorm left 29-year-old Isamaeli Eli Mataafa dead and three of his relatives injured, Berkeley police have arrested and detained three suspects in the case.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Oakland City Council Candidate Under Fire For Tweet Supporting Ye Oakland City Council candidate Nenna Joiner tweeted some troubling support for Kanye West, a Solano County high school student was caught with a gun at school, and an Alameda community theater has been going through some tensions over diversity and race that have bubbled up to the Chronicle.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bloomberg Dumping Money Into Yes on 31 Campaign A woman was arrested in SF in connection with the killing of a boy found in a suitcase in Indiana, a federal judge rules partly against the SF's "lifetime lease" law, and Michael Bloomberg just put $29M into Yes on 31.
