SF News Report: SF Fire Department Has Sedated 4,000 People In Less Than Five Years A recent lawsuit highlighted the seemingly outrageous non-consensual use of sedatives on a protester. Turns out this is an everyday practice, and the SF Fire Department apparently does it two or three times a day.
SF News Castro Merchants Threaten Tax Strike Over Vandalism, Crime, Lack of Mental Health Response From City After more than two years in which problems of vagrancy, vandalism, and petty crime have gotten only worse, Castro merchants say they're going to withhold taxes from the City of San Francisco if it doesn't address their concerns.
SF News Dietary Supplement Blamed In Death of Sacramento Valley Rep. Tom McClintock’s Wife Longtime California statehouse and now Congressional figure Tom McClintock’s wife Lori died in December, and newly acquired coroner’s report findings suggest an odd mulberry leaf remedy was likely to blame, bringing scrutiny on the highly unregulated dietary supplement industry.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 4AM Last Call Bill Voted Down Once Again, This Time In the Assembly Say what you will about state Senator Senator Scott Wiener, he has been indisputably steadfast in his commitment to passing a bill extending last call at bars and nightclubs to 4 a.m. — even if it's just in SF and a couple of other cities.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Crazy Police Chase Tears Through Western Addition Walkways A police chase tore through several parking lots and pedestrian walkways in the Western Addition yesterday afternoon, a paving patch on a Presidio Heights Slow Street is a hazard to cyclists, and another study has found SF's downtown recovery is the slowest in the country.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFFD Investigates String of Five Dumpster Fires The SF Fire Department is investigating a string of dumpster fire arsons in SoMa and the Western Addition, Dreamforce is kicking off in a month and might be large-ish, and Senor Sisig's Ferry Building outpost opens Friday.
SF News Former Warden at Dublin Women’s Prison Indicted on More Sexual Abuse Charges, Victim List Continues to Grow Five officers have already been charged with lurid sexual misconduct charges for exploiting incarcerated women at the Dublin federal correctional facility, and the ex-warden was just indicted on charges involving two more victims.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurants, Including Rooftop Venue, Announced for Mid-Market's LINE Hotel There's finally some movement over at The LINE hotel, in the condo-hotel building known also as Serif, and 950-974 Market Street — and we have some vague details about the rooftop bar/restaurant going in about a block away from Charmaine's.
SF News Monkeypox Infections On the Decline In SF the Last Three Weeks The number of new monkeypox infections has been steadily declining for three weeks in San Francisco, leading the city's health officer to say she's "cautiously optimistic" that the city has turned a corner on the outbreak.
SF Politics D4 Supervisor Candidate Leanna Louie Calls Jewish Jounalist a ‘NAZI,’ As Her Candidacy Gets Fringier Some investigative reporting into District 4 supervisor candidate Leanna Louie prompted her to call a Jewish reporter “NAZI” on social media, which her opponent Gordon Mar says is “shockingly anti-Semitic.”
SF News California Set to Become the First Government In the World to Ban New Gas-Powered Cars (In 2035) California is set to become the first state in the nation, and the first jurisdiction on the planet, to officially ban the sale of new gas-powered cars, starting in 2035 — thanks to a new rule from the California Air Resources Board.
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Announces More of the 2022 Lineup, Night Shows For the first time in three years, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass will return to the western meadows of Golden Gate Park the weekend of September 30, and we now have the full lineup of artists and "Out of the Park" night shows.
SF News Petaluma Woman Kept Her Mother’s Corpse In Her House for More Than a Year, Police Say A routine wellness check produced a grisly discovery in Petaluma Tuesday, as police found a woman had been living with her mother’s dead body in the house for more than a year.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Five Arrested In North Bay Beauty Store Heists Five suspects including to teens from San Francisco were arrested following alleged robberies and a pursuit in Petaluma, a VTA driver who threatened "shooting" is being forced to retire, and Biden is forgiving $10K in student loans!
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland PD Investigating Alleged Sex Act in Stands at A’s Game SFUSD is building a new $95 million elementary school despite declining enrollment, authorities have confirmed the body found in a lake is Kiely Rodni, and two people apparently getting busy in the stands at an A’s game have prompted a police investigation.
SF Politics Paul Pelosi Sentenced to Five Days for DUI, TMZ Posts His Sobriety Test Video Twin indignities have befallen Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi, as he gets sentenced to five days in jail (though he won’t serve them), and gossip site TMZ posted video of his highly unsuccessful attempt at a field sobriety test.
SF News UC Berkeley Prof Led Way On Delivering Spectacular New Telescope Images of Jupiter The best pictures ever of the biggest planet in the solar system have been unveiled, and it turns out an astronomer at UC Berkeley played a major role in making them happen.
SF News One of the Four 'Grizzly Scout' Boogaloo Militia Men Who Conspired to Obstruct Carrillo Case Gets 10 Years In Prison One of the four men who participated in on- and off-line anti-government conspiracy and military-style drills with convicted Boogaloo murderer Steven Carrillo has now been sentenced.
Arts & Entertainment Club Deluxe Is Staying Open After All, and Will Remain at Its Same Haight Street Location A “marathon mediation at City Hall” Monday resulted in a deal where Haight Street swing music nightclub Club Deluxe will indeed stay open and in business, at the same Haight and Ashbury Street location where it’s operated for 33 years.
SF News Poop Complaints Are Down 30% In the Tenderloin! In the name of fecal data journalism and clicks, the Chronicle is back on the poop beat this week — and there's some good news for the chronically poopy streets of the Tenderloin!
SF News [Updates] Three-Alarm Apartment Fire Injures Three, Displaces 13 at McAllister and Divisadero The news copters were out and traffic was being diverted around busy Divisadero Street in San Francisco's NoPa neighborhood due to a two-alarm apartment fire on McAllister Street.
SF News San Rafael Police Officer Seen Dropping Off Homeless, Mentally Ill Man In San Francisco A San Rafael police officer was caught on camera dropping off a homeless man and handing him his belongings in the area of Lake Street and 14th Avenue — clearly having just come across the Golden Gate Bridge to offload the man and make him San Francisco's problem.
Business & Tech Twitter’s Ex Head of Security Blows Whistle On ‘Egregious’ Security Flaws, Possible Spies on Company Payroll Twitter has much bigger problems than bots, according to its former head of security, who just dropped a bomb in claims to the federal government that the site’s security is so lax it’s a risk to national security, and the company allegedly has foreign intelligence agents on the payroll.
SF News SF Likely to Move Ahead With Safe-Consumption Sites Run By Non-Profits, Despite Newsom Veto San Francisco would have neither the cover of the state nor federal governments, but city leaders are likely going to take Newsom's cue to go ahead with a model pioneered by New York City to have safe drug-consumption sites that are run by non-profits.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Vigil Held For Dentist and Mother Killed In Oakland There was a vigil Monday for Dr. Lili Xu, the dentist and mother killed in Oakland's Little Saigon on Sunday; a car explosion in Fremont was said to be caused by a "criminal" who blew himself up accidentally; and the SF police union backs Newsom's veto of safe-consumption sites.
