SF News Governor's Office Wades Into Noe Valley Toilet Controversy, Says Funds Will Be Withheld Once again, Gavin Newsom's administration is admonishing San Francisco and its slow-moving, needlessly costly bureaucracy, and holding funds hostage for a planned public toilet in Noe Valley until the city can figure out how to make it less stupidly expensive.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: No Remains Found In Buried Car In Atherton Police found nothing suspicious and no human remains in that buried Mercedes in Atherton, Gavin Newsom again vowed to complete his next term as governor, and there are apparently 300 COVID variants now circling the globe.
SF News Buried '90s Mercedes Fully Removed From Bay Area Estate After landscapers found an old Mercedes-Benz convertible buried at an Atherton estate this past Thursday, a media frenzy grew around why it was hidden. Police Saturday completely excavated the car and sent it to a crime lab to help offer more details about the situation.
SF News Sunday Links: Small Earthquake Shakes Up South Bay This Morning A preliminary 2.7-magnitude tremor rattled off near Morgan Hill this morning, PG&E shutoffs are expected to continue in the Bay Area until Monday afternoon, and Santa Rosa's first gun buyback event Saturday saw hundreds of firearms traded for cash.
SF News Homelessness Among Latinx Residents in SF Has Skyrocketed Since COVID-19 Pandemic Estimates put that as many as 20,000 people in SF will experience homelessness in 2022. Although members of the Latinx community make up 16% of the city's total residents, the demographic now makes up more than 30% of SF's unhoused population — a huge increase since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink At Long Last, Bob's Donuts Is Expanding Outside of San Francisco There's no better way to end a successful night of bar hopping than taking a trip to Bob's Donuts — the 62-year-old fried dough institution that holds a special place in any San Franciscan's heart. For the first time, the celebrated donut shop is now opening two new locations outside of SF.
SF News Saturday Links: Presidio Heights Jeweler Robbed, $6K Worth of Merchandise Stolen PG&E shutoffs around the Bay Area are still possible Saturday, a wayward sea lion decided to climb atop a CA State Parks car this week, and a thief made off with thousands of dollars in jewelry at Mabel Chong Jewelry in SF Wednesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mission-Bernal Heights Favorite Old Devil Moon Is Permanently Closing Next Month Snap Inc. is closing its massive 33,000-square-foot office in San Francisco, a man was fatally struck Thursday afternoon by a freight train near Berkeley’s Aquatic Park, and Old Devil Moon will shutter for good in November.
Business & Tech Instacart Calls Off Its Planned IPO, as Tech Stocks Are Tanking Across the Board A much-ballyhooed Instacart IPO has been put on the shelf, as tech companies that boomed during the pandemic are now suffering a cruel correction.
SF News Car Found Buried Next to Atherton Mansion Was Stolen In 1992 The Mercedes-Benz that was found buried on the property of the late Johnny Lew, an ex-felon whom neighbors knew as "a crook" when he lived there in the 1990s, was apparently reported stolen in Palo Alto exactly 30 years ago.
San Francisco Is Home to Dozens of Corner Store Cats — Who's Your Favorite? It must be almost Meowvember, because it's apparently time for another round of media attention to one of San Francisco's most beloved subspecies of pet: the corner store cat.
Business & Tech Now Elon Musk’s Proposed Twitter Takeover May Be Subject to a National Security Review Musk’s Twitter takeover is largely financed by Saudi and Qatari money, and given Musk’s curious pro-Putin turn, national security officials are wondering what these international oligarchs might be getting in return here.
SF News PG&E Warning of Public Safety Power Shut-Offs Due to Wind Forecast In North Bay PG&E on Friday issued a heads-up that the power may be going out in parts of northern Napa and Sonoma counties, as well as nine other counties, due to some high winds in the forecast this weekend.
SF News Santa Rosa Man Busted With 73 Pounds of Meth, Plus Firearms Some meth binges in the North Bay are going to have to be cut short because authorities just arrested a guy and seized a massive stash of crystal that was surely headed for the street.
SF News Area Woman Charged With Cashing Unemployment Checks Using Identities of Scott Peterson and the ‘Yosemite Killer’ A former contractor at San Quentin Prison used the personal information of multiple inmates to pull in $145,000 worth of fraudulent EDD benefits over a two-year period, and one of the identities she used was that of Scott Peterson.
SF News Mystery Unfolding In Atherton As Mercedes Is Found Buried In Yard, Likely From 30 Years Ago Some serious intrigue began Thursday when some landscapers working at a property in Atherton unearthed a car buried four to five feet deep in the yard — and it's not yet clear whether there may be a body in it.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Stockton Serial Killer Used Ghost Gun A school bus in San Jose struck and killed a man on an electric scooter, SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins walked out of a debate last night amid a protest, and Stockton serial killer Wesley Brownlee allegedly used a ghost gun in his killings.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Boba Guys at Valencia and 19th Street Closes Amidst Very Bizarre Staff-Management Dispute Elon Musk is claiming he’s going to lay off 75% of Twitter staff, Stow Lake might get renamed, and the flagship Boba Guys shop fired nearly all of its employees over some apparent interpersonal drama.
Arts & Entertainment 13 Best Bay Area Haunted Houses, Pumpkin Patches, and Halloween Whatnot For 2022 Submitted for your approval… 13 spooky Halloween weekend attractions in SF and the grave beyond for haunted houses, fiendish drag queens, spooky nights out, and family-friendly pumpkin patch spirits.
SF News Man Fatally Shot on Market Street Near Powell A man was fatally shot Monday night near Powell Street Station and Union Square, in a rare incident for the popular area.
SF News Depressingly, There Are Enough Vacant Housing Units In SF to House the Homeless Population Eight Times Over Did you know that there are actually tens of thousands of housing units, rentals included, that are sitting empty on any given day for one of a variety of reasons, and that putting even a fraction of these into service as supportive housing could solve the homeless problem overnight?
SF Politics Wealthy SF Recall Backer Pumping Millions to DeSantis and J.D. Vance, Hyping That Ukraine Needs to Surrender One of the most prominent funders of all three big recall campaigns is now the MAGA movement’s San Francisco money man, and David Sacks is also on a curious kick preaching that Ukraine needs to surrender to Putin.
SF News With Monkeypox All But Disappeared Locally, SF Will End the Public Health Emergency Next Week MPX (monkeypox) cases are still being recorded in the city of San Francisco, but the rate is down to less than one per day — and the Department of Public Health seems pleased.
Business & Tech Prince Harry and Kevin Hart Were Both In SF Wednesday Talking About Their Business Ventures This has been a big week for tech conferences and celebrity sightings in San Francisco, and Wednesday brought both comedian-turned-venture-capitalist Kevin Hart and royal-turned-entrepreneur Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.
SF News Big Ol’ Earthquake Drill ‘The Great ShakeOut’ Happening Thursday Morning Your Thursday morning BART commute may have been disrupted for a noble cause, as the biggest earthquake drill of the year, the Great ShakeOut, is happening across California and the whole world.
