SF News SF Police Chief Releases Statement In Support of Officers' Decision to Not Arrest Alleged Catalytic Converter Thief After catching an enormous amount of flak for releasing an alleged catalytic converter villain, SF Police Chief William Scott released a statement just before the weekend in support of the officers who didn't arrest the man.
SF News New Millennium Tower Fix Approved by San Francisco Will (Hopefully) Stop and Reverse Tilt Scaled down from the original plan, the revised fix relies on 18 piles — instead of the initially proposed 52 — to anchor the 645-foot high-rise to bedrock on the two sides where it's leaned and tilted the most, helping both prevent future tilt and straighten the building.
SF News Sunday Links: Moon Festival Brings an Estimated 40,000 Visitors to SF's Chinatown A small earthquake rattled an area near San Jose, there's a Bay Area air quality advisory in effect for Sunday, and small businesses in Chinatown saw a boom in sales Saturday when tens of thousands of visitors attended SF’s Moon Festival.
SF News West Oakland Shooting and Traffic Collision Incident Leaves Three Dead According to the Oakland Police Department (OPD), three people were killed after a car crash, which involved multiple vehicles, and a shooting occurred on the 2800 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Way Friday night.
SF News Saturday Links: SFDPH Will Host Drop-In Monkeypox Vaccine Clinic This Weekend Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital is holding a monkeypox vaccine clinic Sunday, new businesses have helped SF’s Ferry Building attract more traffic lately, and the New York Times wants to remind us San Franciscans we shouldn’t apologize for our cool summers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Judge Requests Musk and Twitter to Present Additional Documents A shooting on a BART train near the Lake Merritt station injured one person, the Silicon Valley Pride parade is expected to draw some 20,000 people this weekend, and a Delaware judge has ordered both Twitter and Musk to turn over more documentation in the ongoing legal battle between them.
SF Politics Supervisor Candidate Leanna Louie Booted Off the Ballot Over Residency Issues City Attorney David Chiu has removed District 4 supervisor candidate Leanna Louie from the November ballot, saying she “failed to meet her burden to prove she changed her legal 'domicile' from her long-time District 10 family home.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Bar Piccino Debuts, an NFT Restaurant Breaks Ground, and More It's about time we revived this weekly roundup of food and restaurant news from SF and around the Bay — now that there's a real, steady flow of restaurant news coming down the pike once again.
SF Politics More Nuru Fallout: Prominent Landlord Victor Makras Found Guilty of Bank Fraud As we learn more about the terms of Mohammed Nuru’s prison sentencing, another big shoe drops — SF real estate magnate Victor Makras has been found guilty in a bank fraud scheme involving former PUC chief Harlan Kelly.
SF News GPS Trackers Are Turning SF Petty Crime Victims Into Vigilantes The prevalence of GPS-tracking devices on cars, in cellphones, and attached to various objects including car keys and wallets, means that victims of petty crime don't have to rely on the police to find out where a thief has gone off to with their belongings. But that's not necessarily a good thing.
SF News CHP Makes Arrests In Two Separate East Bay Freeway Shootings From Earlier This Summer Some progress in the troubling rash of freeway shootings in recent years, as the California Highway Patrol feels they’ve solved the cases of two separate freeway shootings, one near Lake Merritt, the other near Mount Diablo.
SF News It Will Always Be More Profitable/Clickable to Shit On San Francisco, So People Will Always Do It Being a San Francisco-basher gets you a lot of cred on Twitter (and Fox News) these days, as an Examiner columnist points out. But lots of people have been at this game for many years.
SF News SF Man Killed In Piedmont Avenue Hit-and-Run Thursday Afternoon A 35-year-old San Francisco man was killed in a hit-and-run at about 4 p.m. Thursday afternoon, and an Oakland woman is in custody on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.
SF News Outer Sunset Meth Dealer Busted, Seven Pounds of Drugs Seized Officers from the SFPD's Taraval Station raided the home of a suspected meth dealer this week, arresting two individuals and seizing seven pounds of assorted narcotics and pills.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Moderna Now Suing Pfizer and BioNTech For Copying Vaccine Technology New and updated COVID vaccine boosters are coming in September, Moderna is now suing Pfizer for stealing its mRNA vaccine technology, and protesters continue to fight a plan to cull 100 geese from a flock in Foster City.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 24,000 East Bay PG&E Customers Lost Power for a Couple Hours Today Paul Pelosi’s DUI Porsche is up for auction, the Castro Theatre's conversion into a concert hall took another hit, and 24,000 PG&E customers in the East Bay lost power in the late morning and early afternoon Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment Joyful 'Goddess' at Berkeley Rep Looks and Sounds Very Likely Broadway-Bound Berkeley Rep likely has another hit on its hands with a world-premiere musical that it has helped nurture since the pre-pandemic times, and Goddess seems assured to be another Broadway-bound show the theater can take credit for launching on its way.
SF News Mohammed Nuru Sentenced to Seven Years for Fraud, Bribery Disgraced former SF Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday afternoon, with prosecutors saying, “Mr. Nuru can still be Mr. Clean on the outside” but “deeply corrupt on the inside.”
SF News Former Hemlock Tavern Site, Now 54 Units of Empty Housing, Finally Moving Forward After Condo Conversion Compromise More than 50 units of housing have sat empty for two years on property that used to be the home of Hemlock Tavern, but they can now be occupied, as the Board of Appeals rules on a developer who said they were building apartments and then switched to condos.
SF News Sausalito Cleared Homeless Out Of Marinship Park — By Paying Them Each $18,000 to Leave Sausalito managed to clear a sprawling encampment in Marinship Park this month that had been growing more unsanitary and problematic over the last two years, but they did it via a court settlement that included cash payments.
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.
