SF News Humpday Headlines: DA Jenkins Vows Crackdown on Tenderloin Drug Sales 229 Bay Area Tesla workers are getting laid off, new SF DA Brooke Jenkins took a walking tour of the Tenderloin and vowed a crackdown, and the Upper Haight is found to be the neighborhood with the highest concentration of Airbnbs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Laguna Honda Hospital Is Slashing 120 Beds Amidst Regulatory Nightmare City Attorney David Chiu has won a $58 million settlement from opioid manufacturers, Gavin Newsom is off to Washington, D.C. to build his national profile, and regulatory trouble is forcing Laguna Honda to cut more than 100 beds.
SF News As SF Monkeypox Cases Hit 60, SF AIDS Foundation Plans Virtual Town Hall, Mandelman Demands More Vaccines The monkeypox developments are coming in disturbingly quickly, so the SF AIDS Foundation is holding a virtual town hall tonight to unpack the new landscape, and Supervisor Rafael Mandelman has had it with the CDC foot-dragging.
SF Politics Berkeley Law Professor Expertly Sautées Senator Josh Hawley In Terse Exchange On Trans People Senator Josh Hawley thought he had a gotcha question for Berkeley law professor Khiara Bridges, but he ended up getting got, as her rhetorical savvy left him speechless and embarrassed.
Business & Tech Twitter Files Its Lawsuit Against Musk In Delaware Chancery Court, Accuses Him of Creating Negative 'Public Spectacle' The promised lawsuit has been filed, and among other things, Twitter is accusing would-be buyer Elon Musk of "refus[ing] to honor his obligations to Twitter and its stockholders because the deal he signed no longer serves his personal interests."
Arts & Entertainment Bernal Hill Rock Goes Hard In Support of Abortion Rights After Roe v. Wade Overturned The latest paint job to the beloved boulder at the base of Bernal Heights Park is a message of abortion rights determination and resistance, as women’s liberties feel like they’re hitting rock-bottom in the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision.
SF News Defunct West Marin Golf Course Being 'Rewilded' Into Nature Preserve In a positive story of ecosystem restoration and climate resilience in Marin County, a former golf course was purchased by the nonprofit Trust for Public Land and is in the process of being devolved into its former state as a floodplain and wildlife habitat.
SF Politics New SF DA Brooke Jenkins Meets With Boudin's Staff, Asks to Review All Unclosed Plea Offers It's the first week of District Attorney Brooke Jenkins's tenure in the SF DA's Office, and she has told the staff she wants to review all still-unclosed plea offers — and she says she may reconsider drug cases in particular, regardless of a defendant's immigration status.
SF News SFPD Offering $100,000 for Information In 21-Year-Old SoMa Cold Case Homicide Paula Brien was last seen alive outside a SoMa bar in June 2001. Now SFPD is reopening the cold case of her killing, and offering $100,000 for information leading to the arrest of her killer.
SF News Bay Area Tech CEO Arrested for 1992 Cold Case Murder In Mountain View A 1992 cold case in which a 25-year-old woman, Laurie Houts, was strangled to death in Mountain View has now led to a re-arrest of a prime suspect who was already tried twice for the crime, and the suspect is a Bay Area tech CEO who has been living abroad.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Santa Clara ER Shut Down Briefly By Threatening Person The emergency room at the Kaiser hospital in Santa Clara was the scene of a tense situation this morning, containment of the Washburn Fire has gone down slightly, and the White House has reaffirmed legal protection for emergency abortions.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fatal Shooting Claims One Life In Potrero Hill A fatal shooting in Potrero Hill on Saturday was SF's 26th homicide of 2022, kids have been vandalizing schools in Richmond on their summer break, and SF Supervisor Matt Dorsey has COVID.
SF News Dolores Hill Bomb Returns, Self-Driving Waymo Car Gets Given the Business by Skate Punks Things really went downhill at the notorious annual Dolores Hill Bomb skater celebration Saturday, and while it appears there were no human injuries, a passing Waymo self-driving car got mobbed, jumped on, and tagged.
SF Politics Breed and New DA Jenkins Pushing Hard to Expand Police Access to Private Security Cameras All Over Town The SFPD could get the power to live-monitor private security cameras all over town, including residential Ring and Nest doorbells, under a contentious new surveillance policy working its way through the Board of Supervisors.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soleil Ho Has No Patience For Peet's Version of Boba Peet's Coffee & Tea has decided to join the bubble tea game, and Chronicle critic Soleil Ho would like to know why.
SF News Man Jailed for Not Wearing a Mask Dies in Custody, Family Sues Alameda County Another abuse-of-an-incarcerated-person scandal at the beleaguered Santa Rita jail brings a new lawsuit against Alameda County, after they jailed a man for not wearing a mask on AC Transit, then allegedly denied him his medication and he died behind bars.
SF News Eerie Handwritten Letter May Detail Where Alleged Killer Planned to Dispose of Oakley Woman Alexis Gabe’s Body A chilling new development in the case of missing 24-year-old Oakley woman Alexis Gabe, as police have found a handwritten letter from her suspected killer detailing where he planned to hide her body.
SF News Two Stabbed In Livermore In Chaotic Scene In Residential Neighborhood, Suspect Arrested After Standoff A 22-year-old woman was stabbed by a man or relative with whom she lives in Livermore on Sunday night, and the suspect reportedly tried to harm himself before being peacefully arrested by police.
SF News Umpteenth Fire At Oakland's Wood Street Encampment Shuts Down Part of MacArthur Maze Another fire — at least the fourth in the last several months — has broken out at the Wood Street encampment in West Oakland, involving multiple RVs.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Bay Area Doctor Proposes Floating Abortion Clinic In Gulf of Mexico A UCSF doctor is proposing a floating abortion clinic in the Gulf of Mexico to skirt state bans, California is anticipating a surge of abortion patients, and a third person in two weeks has drowned in Lake Berryessa.
SF News Growing Washburn Fire More Than Doubles in Size, Threat to Nearby Giant Sequoias Increases The Washburn Fire in Yosemite National Park measures over 1,800 acres as of Sunday afternoon — more than doubling in size from the day prior — and remains completely uncontained, extending ever so slightly now closer to Mariposa Grove... where some 500 mature giant sequoias are rooted.
SF News Sunday Links: 90% of Armsby Fire Contained; Fire Crews Battling Pittsburg Vegetation Fire The six-acre Armsby Fire is now almost completely contained, Contra Costa fire crews are responding to a vegetation fire burning in Pittsburg, and plans to expand Castilleja School — an all-girls school in Palo Alto — have gotten city approval.
SF News 600 Monkeypox Vaccines Administered in San Francisco So Far, More Units Requested by SFDPH The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) reported it has administered 600 monkeypox vaccines to eligible residents who had close contact with someone who has monkeypox (suspected or confirmed) or working in proximity to the virus in a lab setting.
SF News Upscale SF Restaurants Targeted by Cookie-Cutter Bad Reviews From Online Trolls Several local high-end eateries have noticed an increase in one-star reviews being left online from different, often faceless accounts — which has greatly affected their ratings on Google — and some owners have even been emailed by online trolls, demanding money to stop posting the one-star reviews.
SF News Saturday Links: Missing Pittsburg Woman With Dementia Found Newly appointed SF DA Brooke Jenkins's first meeting with staffers was allegedly quite "icy," Sunday Streets is coming to Valencia Street this weekend, and a 72-year-old Pittsburg woman with dementia and diabetes was safely found by local police.
