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.
SF News Day Around the Bay: R.J. Reynolds Sues State of California Over Flavored Tobacco, Menthol Ban Joel Engardio remains ahead in the latest ballot counting drop, NY Times-famous Boichik Bagels just added a new location, and Big Tobacco is suing California for banning flavored tobacco.
Arts & Entertainment Already?!? Union Square Macy’s Tree Was Quietly Lit Wednesday Night for the Holidays A day-after-Thanksgiving tradition returned about two-and-a-half weeks early this year, as the Macy’s Great Tree was unexpectedly lit up Wednesday night, and organizers insist there is “no official tree lighting ceremony this year.”
Business & Tech Throwback Thursday: Remembering the Last Big Tech Layoff Bloodbath, the Dot-Com Bust of 2000-2001 As hundreds or even thousands of tech layoffs again become everyday news this week, we look back to the dot-bomb implosion of 22 years ago, when the Bay Area became a graveyard of f*cked companies.
Business & Tech The Musk Era of Whack-a-Mole With Fake 'Verified' Accounts at Twitter Has Begun, and More Execs Are Resigning If a verified, blue-checkmarked LeBron James account is tweeting at you, don't be alarmed. It's probably not LeBron James. Also, several key Twitter executives in charge of safety and privacy just resigned. WHAT COULD GO WRONG.
SF News Hayes Valley Retailer Who Closed Store In a Huff and Bemoaned a 'City of Chaos' Has Reopened Said Store It seems like only yesterday — actually three weeks ago — that the owner of trendy outerwear company Cotopaxi was proclaiming, as so many have, that San Francisco was unsalvageable and he was closing his Hayes Valley store for good due to rampant crime and "chaos."
SF News Power NIMBY Move: Marin Residents Give Selves Hefty Tax Hike to Block Housing Development Would you pay $335 a year, every year for 30 years, to block 43 lots of single-family homes? Some Marin County residents just did that by a decisive margin, rejecting a proposed large-scale development and instead voting make it a 110-acre public park.
Business & Tech Flywheel Taxicabs Are Now on the Uber App in San Francisco Uber’s long war on the taxicab industry has ended with a whimper and a merger, as Flywheel cabs are now incorporated into the Uber fleet, in a pilot that’s starting here in SF and hopes to fly nationwide.
SF News Vallejo Settles Lawsuit With Family of Angel Ramos, Who Was Killed By Police One of five men fatally shot by Vallejo police in recent years, Angel Ramos, will be getting some kind of justice after the city has agreed to pay his family $2.8 million to settle a wrongful death case.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Loren Taylor Extends Lead In Oakland Mayor's Race Oakland City Councilmember Loren Taylor remains poised to be the city's new mayor, Musk makes it clear that remote work is over at Twitter, and all this rain has meant that fire season is probably over.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Biden Says He'll Decide Next Year If He's Running In 2024 Twitter has filed paperwork to become a payment processor like WeChat, Windsor has a new Latina mayor, and the National Weather Service has issued a frost advisory for much of the Bay Area tonight.
