SF News Saturday Links: Oakland School Board Votes Against Delaying School Closures At least one local rally will be held this weekend in support of Ukraine, the Outer Richmond could see a new non-alcoholic bar open soon, and the Oakland Unified School District board voted against delaying school closures during a virtual meeting Friday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Don't Forget That Muni Is Offering Free Rides for Lunar New Year Weekend McDonald's recently launched its "McPlant" burger in the Bay Area, an estimated 73% of all Americans now have some immune protection against Omicron, and Muni is offering free rides for the Lunar New Year weekend.
SF News Disgraced DBI Inspector Bernard Curran Surrenders to Arrest, Charged With Perjury Former Department of Building Inspection “Employee of the Quarter” Bernard Curran was arrested Friday, and charged with perjury and violating conflict of interest laws, in the latest batch of tentacles spawned by the Mohammed Nuru scandal.
SF News BART to San Jose ‘Likely’ Delayed Until 2034, If We Should Even Live That Long An internal document from the Federal Transit Administration says the BART to San Jose project will take four years longer — and cost twice as much to complete — as Bay Area transit authorities had once estimated.
SF Politics California Lawmakers Try Super-Wealthy Tax Once Again California is home to the largest share of the United States’ billionaires. Soon, lawmakers say they could have to pay up.
SF News Next Small Chance for a Whisper of Rain Comes Tuesday After a very dry January and a crazily dry February, chances of rain coming to the Bay Area remain slim going into the last week of the month.
SF Politics All Three Recalled School Board Members Speak Out, Collins Insists She’s ‘Not Done’ The three school board members all have their say over being ousted in Tuesday’s recall vote, and soon-to-be-former board president Gabriela Lopez is saying the recall targeted “people of color, primarily women of color.”
SF News Some Last-Minute Courtroom Drama Delays Wrongful Death Settlement for Hillsborough Heiress Apparently the lawyer who negotiated a settlement in a wrongful death suit brought by the mother of Keith Green might not have been officially representing Chinese real estate heiress Tiffany Li, and now that settlement is being delayed and possibly renegotiated.
SF News Final Unsent Text Message Recovered From Couple Who Died On August Mariposa County Hike The Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office managed to access the text messages on the phone of the pair who died mysteriously with their infant and dog on a hike, texts that never went through, and show the couple knew they were in deep trouble.
SF Politics Pence Spoke at Stanford, Got F-U'd a Bit, and Of Course He Talked About SF's School Board Recall Mike Pence's appearance on the Stanford University campus on Thursday evening was not as raucously protested as, say, Ann Coulter's late 2019 appearance at UC Berkeley. But it was protested!
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland City Council Gives Another OK to A's Stadium Plan Pleasanton police fatally shot a domestic violence suspect holding a kitchen knife on Thursday, the search continues for a missing Oakley woman, and Oakland's city council just signed off on the EIR for the A's Howard Terminal stadium development.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sonoma Sheriff's Office Cracks 1996 Cold Case Murder, But the Killer’s Already Dead The MLB lockout is now cutting into Spring Training, the recalled school board members are getting all manner of racist trolling online, and Sonoma County just solved a 1996 murder, albeit too late to deliver justice.
SF News A Ball Python Is On the Loose in Castro Valley, and Officials Are Worried — For the Health of the Snake Someone apparently dumped an adult ball python in Chabot Regional Park in Castro Valley, and park officials are scrambling to find it, because the cold-blooded critter is unlikely to survive the chilly nighttime temperatures.
Arts & Entertainment The Fight Over 'Managed Retreat' From Sea-Level Rise In CA Coastal Towns Makes It to 'This American Life' If you don't live in a low-lying beach town in California or know anyone who does, you'd be forgiven for never having heard the term "managed retreat." 'This American Life' tackles the term in a new episode about "apocalypse creep."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A ‘Zero Proof,’ Mocktails-Only Liquor Store Has Opened in Los Gatos Faux Real is a new high-end mocktails shop with no booze, as the alcohol-free, mocktail trend spawns ever more ways to recreate the spirit of drinking without the spirits.
SF News Shooting In Castro Safeway Parking Lot Injured 85-Year-Old Woman Sitting In Nearby Restaurant A Tuesday afternoon fight, reportedly among a group of juveniles, in the parking lot of the Castro Safeway, led to shots fired and two minor injuries — including one bullet that went through the glass of a restaurant window across the street.
SF News A Few NorCal School Districts Are Now Just Flat-Out Defying the Mask Mandate Kids walked out of class in one school district near Sacramento to protest the mask mandate, while other districts are just refusing to enforce mask-wearing, as tension grows over California dropping mask mandates in general — but not for schools.
SF Politics Mike Pence Is In the Bay Area, Invited By Stanford Republican Club; Student Protest Planned Former Vice President Mike Pence, who would have gone down in history as one of the most complicit patsies ever to hold high office were it not for a very last-minute act of defiance, is visiting the Bay Area today.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: One Recalled School Board Member Just Resigned Ousted school board member Faauuga Moliga has just abruptly resigned, Marin County has lifted its water-use restrictions, and Assemblymember Phil Ting has introduced legislation to decriminalize jaywalking.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Off the Grid Fort Mason Returns In April SF DA Chesa Boudin is dismissing charges against a woman who was ID'd using DNA from an old rape kit, London Breed says she'll start interviewing school board candidates soon, and Off the Grid Fort Mason returns in April.
SF News Fatal Truck Accident After Semi Flips Due to Dangerous Wind Conditions In Sierra Nevada Wind advisories in effect left the Sierra's often already dangerous roads even more treacherous, as a trucker was killed due to high winds on a Sierra Nevada highway on Tuesday.
SF News SF Cannabis Dispensary Smoking Lounges Get the Green Light to Start Blazing Up Again The SF Department of Public Health gave pot dispensary lounges the “smoke ‘em if you got ‘em” signal on Tuesday, and you’d better believe that some of those lounges were firing up come Wednesday morning.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soleil Ho Asks 'Who Is Michael Mina and Why Is His Name Treated Like Gold In This Town'? It's got to be hard when you move to a new town and get tasked with critiquing its sacred cows. And this week finds Chronicle food critic Soleil Ho getting back to that business with a review of Michael Mina's whole local empire.
SF News San Jose Man Charged With 20 Counts Of Burglary for Stealing Entire ATMs Filled With Cash Stealing whole ATMs full of cash may sound like a deviously brazen scheme, but when the suspect also steals an American Legion Hall’s donation box of eyeglasses for veterans, well, that’s where we draw the line.
SF Politics San Francisco Officially Acquires Real Estate to Make 'Monster In the Mission' Project 100% Affordable Mayor London Breed’s office and the SF Board of Supervisors recently announced the completion of a deal between housing developer Crescent Heights and Maximus Real Estate Partners that will lead to an affordable housing project of 330 low-income units at 1979 Mission Street.
