SF News [Update] Supes Approve Permanent Car-Free JFK Drive, After 12 Hours of High-Drama Debate After debating the issue for 12 hours — including nine non-stop hours of public comment — the SF Board of Supervisors just gave permanent car-free status to a 1.5-mile span of JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park.
SF News Abducted Infant Found, Three Suspects In Custody In San Jose After 20-Hour Manhunt A three-month-old boy has been reunited with his family after a frantic search by law enforcement and surveillance video showing his abduction in a carseat on Monday.
SF Politics Kamala Has COVID, For Real This Time Vice President Kamala Harris has, like a slew of D.C. denizens, tested positive for COVID and is isolating. The positive test comes about a month after Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff contracted the virus.
SF News Oakland Police Department Wants Out of Their 20-Year-Long Federal Oversight, Will Get Their Day in Court The Oakland police have been under the oversight of a federal monitor for nearly 20 years after the long-ago “Riders” scandal, but on Wednesday will make their case to end this arrangement.
SF News A Huge Number of SF's Supportive Housing Units Are In Run-Down, Vermin-Infested SROs, and It's Barely Better Than Being Homeless The Chronicle has crunched some numbers and gone inside a handful of the SROs dotting the Tenderloin and SOMA to show just how terrible the situation really is for SF's supportive housing stock.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: 92 Pounds of Fentanyl Seized in East Bay Bust The FBI and police in San Jose are frantically searching for an abducted infant, the Chronicle's Editorial Board took an unexpected against the recall of Chesa Boudin, and 92 pounds of fentanyl likely bound for SF was seized in a big bust in the East Bay.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Facebook Is Opening a VR Headset Store In Burlingame Twitter employees are a wee bit concerned what their stock options are worth, COVID cases have jumped 50% in California since March, and Facebook/Meta is opening its first VR headset store in Burlingame.
SF News Warren Buffett Auctioning Off Lunch With Him in Benefit for Glide, One Last Time 2022 will offer your final opportunity to pay millions of dollars for a steakhouse luncheon with Warren Buffett, as the billionaire investor says he’s doing this Glide fundraiser for the final time.
Business & Tech Will Elon Musk Move Twitter to Texas? Will He Give Trump His Account Back? Questions Abound. Elon Musk fanboys on Twitter are all elated that their King of Twitter may soon be the full Owner of Twitter. But employees are probably worried.
SF News SF Teacher Uses Cotton Plant in Slavery Lesson, Outrage Ensues A charter school teacher found herself in hot water for using a cotton plant in a lesson about slavery, as San Francisco has its own mini-scandal amidst the national Critical Race Theory frenzy.
SF News Four Shootings and Two Stabbings Over the Weekend In Tenderloin and SoMa There were four separate shooting incidents over the weekend in San Francisco's Tenderloin and SoMa neighborhoods, though none of them were fatal.
Arts & Entertainment SF Drag Queen Lady Camden Comes In Second on 'Rupaul's Drag Race,' Releases New Video With Dozens of SF Queens The official first runner up for America's Next Drag Superstar, as of Friday's Season 14 finale, is San Francisco's own Lady Camden.
SF Politics Watch: Trumper Trucker ‘Convoy’ Gets Pelted With Eggs in East Bay, Tries But Fails to Find Pelosi’s House A weekend appearance in the Bay Area by the trucker “People’s Convoy” was greeted by a pelting of eggs in Rockridge, they unsuccessfully tried to find Pelosi’s house in SF, and ultimately dragged their tails back to Sacramento.
Business & Tech [Update] Elon Musk-Twitter Deal Is Done; Twitter to Be Taken Private Twitter's board has accepted billionaire Elon Musk's offer to take the company private, after two weeks of intrigue and the creation of a "poison pill" meant to kill the deal.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Fall Just Short of Perfection, Lose Game 4 to the Nuggets The Nuggets won 126-121, avoided the sweep, and forced a Game 5 in San Francisco on Wednesday. Dub Nation was suddenly confronted with the notion that the climb to the NBA mountaintop wouldn't be without a little adversity.
SF News Climate Activists Chain Themselves to Wells Fargo Wagon in Downtown SF to Protest Fossil Fuel Investment Holding signs saying things like "Tell Wells Fargo: Stop Funding Climate Change," a group of climate activists has revived the era of downtown climate protests in San Francisco Monday morning.
SF News Man Punched By Mike Tyson on Video at SFO Has Extensive Rap Sheet In Florida, Isn't Pressing Charges So Far The man seen in cellphone video first harassing Mike Tyson onboard a JetBlue flight on the night of 4/20 and then getting repeatedly punched by Tyson over the seat between them reportedly has a bunch of criminal charges and convictions in his past.
Arts & Entertainment Leaked Stern Grove Schedule (On Muni!) Shows Liz Phair, Cat Power, Phil Lesh Playing This Summer’s Festival This summer’s Stern Grove lineup apparently gushed out a little early, on Muni ads of all places, with Tower of Power and Too $hort resuming where they left off, plus Liz Phair, Cat Power, Phil Lesh and Friends, and Old Crow Medicine Show.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Oakland Teachers Plan Strike That District Says Is Illegal Thousands of nurses are on strike at Stanford Hospital today, Oakland teachers are planning a strike to protest school closures on Friday, and a Lassen County woman has a harrowing story of surviving on yogurt while stuck in the snow.
SF News Remember the COVID-Stricken Cruise Ship That Docked In SF Last Month? It Just Reported Another Outbreak The Ruby Princess cruise ship docked at the Port of San Francisco in late March with a slew of positive COVID-19 cases in tow. Well, the superspreader vessel recently arrived in Hawaii... with 143 COVID-19 cases on board, according to a new report.
SF News SF Police Investigating Attack on Young Woman in North Beach Friday An Asian woman was assaulted (in broad daylight) this past Friday by a man near the new location of The Stinking Rose on Columbus Avenue. The suspect of the assault was found a block from where the attack happened — and was taken away on a stretcher.
SF News Sunday Links: Fire at Popular South San Francisco Chinese Eatery Contained Firefighters put out a structural fire Saturday at Root Chinese Restaurant in South SF, “pro-planet" demonstrations are playing out across the Bay Area today, and April's smattering of Bay Area rainstorms didn’t help much in lifting the region out of drought conditions.
SF News SF to Drop Mask Requirement for IRL Public Meetings Inside City Facilities Starting Monday, April 25, individuals who participate in in-person meetings inside City hearing rooms won't need to wear a face mask — though people are still strongly encouraged to do so.
SF News Now at 5%, SF's COVID-19 Positivity Rate Considered 'Too High' by Some Health Experts At this present juncture, San Francisco's positivity rate for COVID-19 sits at 5.1% — sparking concern amongst experts at John Hopkins University. Why? The last time SF saw such a high positivity rate was in January at the start of that season's holiday surge, which later peaked at 18.9%.
SF News Saturday Links: New Report Shows Bay Area Home Prices Have Skyrocketed Over 20% Since January Some homeowners are now paying 20% more on their mortgages than they would’ve just a few months ago, Golden Gate Pediatrics is preparing as the FDA gets closer to authorizing COVID-19 vaccines for children under five years old, and ICYMI: City Hall glowed green last night to honor Earth Day.
