SF News Day Around the Bay: City Administrator Steps Down Amid Corruption Probe Naomi Kelly is now the fifth city department head in SF City Hall to resign amid a federal probe, a new lawsuit has been filed challenging Prop 22, and Joe Biden is returning a donation from Barbara Boxer because she's lobbying for the Chinese.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Now Allowing Users To Out Businesses and Restaurants for Violating COVID-19 Guidelines The San Francisco-based company synonymous with publishing crowd-sourced reviews on local businesses will now allow users to post complaints about businesses violating COVID-19 safety protocols.
SF News Mayor Breed Offers Up $62 Million More in Small Business Grants and Loans London Breed shook the tree at City Hall, and produced $50 million in loans and $12 million in grants for a very substantial small business COVID-19 economic relief package.
SF Politics Sacramento Braces for Pro-Trump, Anti-Government Mobs At the State Capitol Building in Sacramento, security is being beefed up this week as it is at capitols around the nation as governors and law enforcement brace for a possible replay of what happened last week in Washington.
SF News McMansion Plans Unveiled for Wildly Expensive Dolores Heights Teardown A long-vacant Dolores Heights fixer-upper two blocks from Zuckerberg’s house, and one block from the celebrated Tom and Jerry House, has submitted plans to tear the place down and erect an ultramodern mansion.
SF Politics As Possible Outbreak Grows, Bay Area House Reps Call Out Republicans Who Refused to Wear Masks During Capitol Siege The gathering in close quarters of members of Congress on January 6 — in an undisclosed safe room while a pro-Trump mob invaded the Capitol Building — could potentially have been a super-spreader event.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Oakland Standoff Ends Peacefully A 30-year-old SF man was found fatally shot in a car in Contra Costa County, someone projected #TrumpPenceOutNow on the Twitter building last night, and Facebook is finally (!) cracking down on all 'Stop the Steal' content.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Local ICU Capacity Dips to 0.7% Members of Congress may have been exposed to COVID-19 while in tight quarters last week, South Lake Tahoe is dealing with a surge, and Dungeness crab is finally coming to local stores.
SF News Alameda County DA Won't Be Charging BART Cop in Oscar Grant Shooting Three months after Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announced that her office was reopening an investigation into former BART police officer Anthony Pirone and his role in the shooting of Oscar Grant, O'Malley announced there would be no new charges.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Semi-NSFW: SoMa’s X-Rated Cake Gallery Has Reopened in Dogpatch They're taking cake glory to a whole new level again, as the sexually explicit cake art experts at Cake Gallery, who shut down in September, have reopened in Dogpatch with the whole staff back on the payroll.
Arts & Entertainment Fort Mason Drive-In to Become Satellite Screening Venue for Sundance Film Festival Later This Month In-person screenings, including world premieres, are coming to San Francisco starting January 28 thanks to a partnership between Sundance and the Roxie — and the city's good graces allowing the drive-in to be used.
SF News San Francisco Settles Lawsuit Over Dementia Patient at SF General Found Dead In Stairwell In a case all too similar to one five years earlier, the city and Zuckerberg SF General Hospital have agreed to settle with the family that brought a lawsuit over the death of a woman who got accidentally locked in a stairwell on the hospital grounds and was later found dead.
SF News Video Captures Moment That Helicopter Drops Enormous A/C Unit On Downtown Oakland Street A construction crew had a bit of a bad morning on Saturday when in the process of lifting a cooling unit the approximate size of a box truck, a helicopter accidentally dropped the thing about 40 feet onto a downtown Oakland Street.
Bay Area Sports NBA Considers Pausing Season as COVID Cases Rise Among Players Yet another sport may see yet another inconvenient but prudent safety measure get in the way of gameplay, as we're hearing a report that the NBA is considering a one- to two-week pause in the season due to COVID-19 infections.
Business & Tech Pro-Trump Protest at Twitter HQ Fails to Materialize There was much ado about nothing Monday morning outside Twitter headquarters, where police and journalists waited for a deluge of pro-Trump protest chaos that never came.
SF News Suspect Crashes Stolen Car at Van Ness and Market, Gets Arrested One person was arrested Monday morning after a dramatic hit-and-run crash on mid-Market in San Francisco in which, apparently, no one was hurt.
SF Politics Pelosi Restates the Case On '60 Minutes' That Republicans Need to Push Trump to Resign "I remember when Republicans in the Senate went to see Richard Nixon and said, 'It's over,'" Pelosi said. "That's what has to happen now."
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Two People Missing In High Surf Incidents A San Jose man and a San Mateo County woman are both missing in separate incidents in which high surf caught them on coastal rocks, the House is moving forward with an article of impeachment, and Stanford is telling all freshman and sophomores to remain at home.
SF Politics Arnold Schwarzenegger Makes Viral Video Denouncing Attack on the Capitol, Implicitly Compares Trump to Hitler Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a frequent critic of President Trump since prior to the 2016 election, gave a speech on a video posted to Twitter Sunday that has quickly gone viral.
SF News SF Police Preparing for Possible Pro-Trump Protest Monday Outside of Twitter Headquarters After Trump’s personal Twitter account was suspended Friday, conservatives across social media were up in arms — posting their usual formation of oddly capitalized reactions. In the wake of that aftermath, SF police are planning for a possible pro-Trump demonstration at Twitter headquarters Monday.
SF News Zuckerberg SF General Hospital Implements COVID-19 Surge Plan To Contend With Growing Cases Saturday, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) recorded over 2.6 million cases of COVID-19 in the state. Now, the Zuckerberg SF General Hospital has put in place its "COVID-19 surge plan" in response to a deluge of new hospitalizations.
SF News Sunday Links: Hundreds Donate To Repair Vandalized Cherry Blossom Trees in Japantown A 28-year-old man died in a motorcycle crash Saturday morning, next week's forecast is showing to be a dry (but cold) one, and over 250 individuals have donated more than $14,000 toward repairing the damaged cherry blossom trees in Japantown after they were found vandalized Tuesday morning.
SF News Rapid COVID-19 Testing Effort Beginning Sunday at 24th Street BART Plaza Among the hardest hit in San Francisco from COVID-19 continues to be Latinx community members. A new testing effort starting Sunday morning at the 24th Street BART Plaza aims to get a better grasp on the situation and gather people's sentiments around vaccination.
Bay Area Sports Curry Cooks in Clippers Collapse, Warriors 5th in Western Conference at 5-4 A Steph Curry-led Golden State Warriors rallied late Friday night to erase a 22-point deficit on their way to upset the Los Angeles Clippers, splitting the two-game series in a fitting tribute to statistician Fred Kast, who retires after 58 years with the Warriors.
SF News Bay Area Adds 100,000 New COVID Cases In 25 Days It took over six months for the Bay Area to reach its first 100,000 COVID cases, and almost three months to reach 200,000 cases. But the cumulative case total is expected to reach 300,000 on Saturday, 25 days after hitting 200,000 on December 15.
