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.
SF Politics Meet Kevin Mullin, Who Just Won Jackie Speier’s Longtime Congressional Seat As Rep. Jackie Speier leaves Congress after 15 years, her peninsula and South Bay seat has been won by her endorsed candidate and former state Senate staffer Kevin Mullin.
Business & Tech During Wild Disinformation Election Day, Twitter Rolls Out (Then Quickly Cancels) New ‘Official’ Check Marks The twin traps of election disinformation and Elon Musk’s own impulsiveness both bit Twitter’s rear end over the last 24 hours, and unsurprisingly, advertisers are not exactly clamoring to buy ads on the platform.
SF Politics Two of Breed’s Appointed School Board Members Cruise To Wins, Ann Hsu Ahead In Race for Third Seat It could be a clean sweep for the three school board members Mayor Breed appointed after the February recall, with only Ann Hsu’s election somewhat in doubt.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ahead of New Michelin Guide Release, We Know That Cyrus, Osito, and Itria Made the Cut We're now getting a second list of "New Discoveries" for 2022 that includes the formerly Michelin two-starred Cyrus, which took a decade-long break and has just reopened in a new town.
SF Politics Both Sports Betting Props Go Down In Flames Despite Huge Spending; Prop 30 Also Fails Our long, statewide nightmare of sports-betting campaign commercials for dueling propositions is over, and for now California voters have roundly rejected all expansion of sports gambling — at casinos or otherwise.
SF Politics SF Props Roundup: Car-Free JFK Wins, Mayoral Election Years Moved, Dueling Affordable Housing Props Still Dueling Big victories in local SF propositions for car-free JFK Drive, moving the mayoral election year, and a vacant homes tax, but the affordable housing propositions D and E are still locked in battle.
SF Politics Mayoral Appointees Brooke Jenkins and Matt Dorsey Hold Leads as Ranked-Choice Results Are Tabulated Two closely watched city races, the District 6 supervisor race and the district attorney's race, do not yet have final results — but both Brooke Jenkins and Matt Dorsey appear to hold solid leads.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Rob Bonta Keeps AG's Job; Malia Cohen Is CA Controller All the Dems won the big state races in CA including Sen. Alex Padilla, AG Rob Bonta, and obviously Gov. Gavin Newsom; Loren Taylor appears poised to be Oakland's new mayor; and overall the "red wave" predicted by Republicans did not come to pass and things don't look so grim for Democrats.
Business & Tech Meta/Facebook Lets Go Of 11,000 Workers; Zuckerberg: 'I Got This Wrong' Mark it: Today, November 9, 2022, is the day that the seemingly unstoppable rise of Mark Zuckerberg's social media empire was stopped.
SF News Day Around the Bay: First Tahoe Ski Resort Slated to Open This Weekend, Everybody Live election results are already pouring in, Dr. Peter Chin-Hong says go ahead and have Thanksgiving with your vaccinated family, and the Lake Tahoe ski resorts will indeed open for your shredding pleasure this weekend.
Business & Tech Report: Salesforce Set To Lay Off ‘As Many As 2,500’ Employees The latest San Francisco layoff-palooza shoe to drop is a big one, as towering software company Salesforce is reportedly set to lay off thousands, in job cuts that actually already started Monday.
SF News Street-Racing Teen May Be Responsible For Crash That Killed Two Peninsula Parents A teenage driver allegedly going at a high rate of speed, possibly street-racing with another car, was likely responsible for the dramatic crash that took the lives of the parents of twin girls in Redwood City on Friday.
SF News The US Department of Justice Has Dispatched Poll Watchers to Sonoma County Sonoma County was selected to be one of 64 voting jurisdictions around the country in which federal election monitors are being deployed today, in an effort to protect voting rights and ensure people have access to the polls.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liholiho Yacht Club Readies For Reopening at Long Last On Tuesday, November 22, Liholiho Yacht Club will make its debut for the third time — after originally opening on Lower Nob Hill in early 2015, pivoting in the pandemic to take over the 18th Street space that had housed a defunct sister restaurant, and now finally returning to its original home.
SF Politics Elon Musk Says Vote GOP, Right As GOP Vows Boycotts Of Advertisers Who Leave Twitter It’s not surprising that Elon Musk continues his right-wing turn by tweeting that people should vote Republican in the midterms. What’s surprising is that people think he’s doing so out of principle rather than self-interest.
SF News Winning $2B Powerball Ticket Sold In SoCal; Million-Dollar Winner In San Francisco This is sure to piss off the people in the 44 other states who bought up Powerball tickets and who think that everyone in California is already rich. But the winning $2 billion ticket was sold in the Los Angeles area, we are now learning, and there is one $1 million winner in San Francisco.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Judge In Elizabeth Holmes Case Denies New Trial Elizabeth Holmes has been denied her new trial and will be sentenced next week, a 37-year-old Brisbane man has been charged in death of a man he allegedly punched and knocked to the ground in North Beach, and the morning rain caused some minor flooding around the Bay.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Massive 'League of Legends' Esports Tournament Took Over Chase Center The family of Alexis Gabe gave an emotional press conference, BART was experiencing weather-related delays, and a massive esports tournament took over Chase Center for the first time and was completely sold out on Saturday.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi Gives First Interview Since Hammer Attack on Husband, Gets Choked Up Speaker Pelosi gave some hints about her future in her first interview since the attack on her husband, particularly on running for leadership again, saying, “I have to say my decision will be affected [by] what happened the last week or two.”
Arts & Entertainment Most SF Museums Will Be Free the First Weekend In December, Thanks to Anonymous Donors 21 museums across San Francisco will be open to the public free of charge on the weekend of December 3, thanks to some generous, anonymous patrons of the arts who are underwriting the weekend.
SF News Big Rig Full of Shrimp Catches Fire on Dumbarton Bridge, Shuts Down Traffic For Eight Hours A Monday morning truck fire on the South Bay’s Dumbarton Bridge stopped westbound traffic for about eight hours Monday, and the fire was on a truck full of shrimp that somehow managed to ignite.
SF News Water Main Break Floods Big Intersection In Cow Hollow Residents of San Francisco were being advised to avoid the area of Fillmore and Union streets Monday afternoon following a water main break that flooded the intersection — and there was also a report of gas smell in the air.
SF News Man's Partially Clothed Body Pulled From Bay Near Port of Oakland, Investigation Begins An investigation into a suspicious death has begun after a man's body was pulled out of the water near the Port of Oakland on Monday morning.
Business & Tech Reports: Facebook Parent Company Meta Planning Mega-Layoffs, ‘Many Thousands’ May Get the Ax This Week The long-feared Big Kahuna of tech-boom layoffs, massive cuts at Meta companies Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, could arrive as soon as Wednesday, and it’s beginning to feel a lot like 2001.
